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May 13, 2024
The Price of Humanity
Amy Schiller's The Price of Humanity: How Philanthropy Went Wrong—And How to Fix It (Melville House, 2023) makes an attempt to rescue philanthropy fro…
May 12, 2024
State of Disaster
Natural disasters and the dire effects of climate change cause massive population displacements and lead to some of the most intractable political and…
May 11, 2024
Cash, Clothes, and Construction
How do alternative economic ideas and practices develop? In Cash, Clothes, and Construction: Rethinking Value in Bolivia’s Pluri-economy (U Minnesota …
May 11, 2024
Bootstrapped
The promise that you can "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" is central to the story of the American Dream. It's the belief that if you work hard an…
May 10, 2024
Algorithms of Resistance
What are the tactics needed for a world of platforms and algorithms? In Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power (MIT Press…
May 9, 2024
Book Banning
Book bans and book challenges are both on the rise. And they are increasing at unprecedented rates. But why is this happening? Dr. Christine Emeran of…
May 8, 2024
Battlefield to Big Sky: A Conversation with Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy
Veteran and entrepreneur Tim Sheehy has led an action-packed life: a 2008 graduate of the Naval Academy, as a Navy SEAL he completed deployments in Ir…
May 7, 2024
My Brother, My Land
My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine (Redwood Press, 2024) is a riveting and unapologetic account of Palestinian resistance, the story of one f…
May 5, 2024
Why America Loses Wars
In this provocative challenge to United States policy and strategy, former Professor of Strategy & Policy at the US Naval War College, and author or e…
May 3, 2024
The Contagion of Covid Policy
After a storied career as a health policy expert, Stanford Medicine's Dr. Jay Bhattacharya's work became a political focal point during the COVID-19 p…
May 1, 2024
Nietzsche Now!
What would Nietzsche say… about today’s divisive issues and debates? I spoke with Glenn Wallis, author of the new book, Nietzsche Now!, on how the Gre…
May 1, 2024
Culture is Not an Industry
According to Dr. Justin O’Connor, culture is at the heart of what it means to be human. But twenty-five years ago, the British government rebranded ar…
April 30, 2024
Gray Areas
Labor and race have shared a complex, interconnected history in America. For decades, key aspects of work—from getting a job to workplace norms to adv…
April 28, 2024
Potential History
Ariella Aisha Azoulay argues that the institutions that make our world, from archives and museums to ideas of sovereignty and human rights to history …
April 28, 2024
Barbie and the Great American Identity Crisis
Barbie and the Great American Identity Crisis (Pi Press, 2024) is not merely a book but a call to action-a rallying cry for societal introspection and…
April 27, 2024
The #MeToo Effect
The #MeToo movement inspired millions to testify to the widespread experience of sexual violence. More broadly, it shifted the deeply ingrained respo…
April 23, 2024
The Power to Destroy
The anti-tax movement is "the most important overlooked social and political movement of the last half century", according to our guest Michael J. Gra…
April 11, 2024
The Loom of Time
The Middle East remains one of the world’s most complicated, thorny—and, uncharitably, unstable—parts of the world, as countless headlines make clear.…
April 11, 2024
A Blackqueer Sexual Ethics
In A Blackqueer Sexual Ethics: Embodiment, Possibility, and Living Archive (T&T Clark, 2024), Elyse Ambrose looks to an archive of blackqueerness as a…
April 3, 2024
Fair Shake
A stirring, comprehensive look at the state of women in the workforce--why women's progress has stalled, how our economy fosters unproductive competit…