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This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: ⁠https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/⁠ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetworkSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/public-policy

Episodes · 25

Why Democracy’s Troubles Should Come as No Surprise

Jun 23, 2026

Jonathon W. Penney, "Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Jun 23, 2026 · 48m

Street Level: HUD at 60

Jun 23, 2026 · 58m

Jeremy J. Holland, "The Political Worldviews of American Social Movements: Partisan Politics and the Future of Democracy" (Routledge, 2026)

Jun 21, 2026 · 33m

Inside the Mississippi Marathon: How Mississippi Dramatically Improved Its Education System with Rachel Canter

Jun 19, 2026 · 55m

AI, Algocracy, and Democracy's Challenging Road Ahead with Andrew Sorota

Jun 12, 2026

Can I Say That: Your Go-To Guide for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Jun 11, 2026 · 39m

Ladan Rahbari and Olga Burlyuk eds., "From the Margins: Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity" (Open Book Publishers, 2026)

Jun 8, 2026 · 1h 0m

Kristian Williams, "Policing the Progressive City: Portland, Oregon, from Settlement to Uprising" (AK Press, 2026)

Jun 7, 2026 · 1h 4m

Michael Brownstein et al., "Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change" (MIT Press, 2025)

Jun 6, 2026 · 1h 11m

Max Krahé and Sara Schulte, "Housing Policy At An Expensive Dead End" (Dezernat Zukunft, 2026)

Jun 3, 2026 · 56m

Erica Bornstein, "A Revolution of Rules: The Regulatory Reform of India's Nonprofit Sector" (Stanford UP, 2025)

May 21, 2026 · 41m

Photis Lysandrou, "Dollar Dominance: Why It Rules the Global Economy and How to Challenge It" (Policy Press, 2025)

May 13, 2026 · 54m

Chiara Libiseller, "Reconceptualizing War: The Rise and Fall of Fashionable Concepts in Strategic Studies" (Oxford UP, 2026)

May 13, 2026 · 51m

Benjamin Robert Siegel, "Markets of Pain: Opium, Capitalism, and the Global History of Painkillers" (Oxford UP, 2026)

May 12, 2026 · 37m

Rachel Grace Newman, "The Future in Their Hands: Making Mexico's Foreign-Educated Elite" (U California Press, 2026)

May 10, 2026 · 59m

Olivier Sylvain, "Recovering the Internet: How Big Tech Took Control-And How We Can Take It Back" (Columbia Global Reports, 2026)

May 9, 2026 · 31m

What Waltham Does When the Water Rises: Rachel McKane and Danielle Jacques (JP)

May 7, 2026 · 37m

Katie Batza, "AIDS in the Heartland: How Unlikely Coalitions Created a Blueprint for LGBTQ Politics" (UNC Press, 2025)

May 2, 2026 · 40m

Radio ReOrient 14:5: Racial Justice, Human Rights and Surveillance, with Alba Kapoor, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Amina Easat-Daas

May 1, 2026 · 55m

Caroline Kuzemko, "Climate Politics: Can't Live with It, Can't Mitigate without It" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

May 1, 2026 · 37m

Miranda Yaver, "Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

Apr 30, 2026 · 57m

A Shakeup Is Coming for the Nation-State: A Conversation with Stephen Sims

Apr 27, 2026 · 40m

The Crisis of American Political Economy: On the New Conservative Policy Agenda with Chris Griswold

Apr 22, 2026

The Coroner’s Silence: Death Records and the Hidden Victims of Police Violence

Apr 9, 2026 · 57m