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An audio book club. Our geeks read and discuss new and classic works in the policy field – fictional and non. Social justice, tech, politics, policy … we cover it all and more. Let's think a...
This is the last episode of the Bedrosian Bookclub in this incarnation, it's been a blast. We discuss the importance of The 1619 Project , t...
Three votes for Carribean Fragoza's Eat the Mouth that Feeds You to be something every high school senior is exposed to. This debut collecti...
Now, in the tail end of 2021, discourse about restorative justice and public safety lack imagination. We tend to "do what we've always done....
Ostensibly, House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, is about a young man who finds a manuscript in a dead man's apartment. This experimental...
In Not a Nation of Immigrants , Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz strives to look at the ever morphing population of the United States, to uncover the wh...
An interview with author of Unconventional Combat , Michael A. Messner. Messner's latest book is an intimate look at 6 historically excluded...
A "canceled" influencer. A lonely man looking for attention. White men adrift in hoards, no memory of the violence or good they've done. Ent...
The Brutish Museums by Dan Hicks is a necrography wherein each stolen item from Benin City is an ongoing event: each event a story of coloni...
This month we're thinking about history, collections, and stories. How do stories evolve over time, how do stories shape history, how do the...
The Fact of a Body by *Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is a true crime memoir. After encountering the child murderer Ricky Langley, Alexandria'...
Polarization is at a high point, political violence surrounds us, joblessness, homelessness, the country's need to face the great wrongs of...
Activists, scientists, most of us ... we know that the truth of the climate crisis is monumental. It's overwhelming the size, scope, interco...
Ostensibly, editor Gary Paul Nabhan's collection of friends' essays, The Nature of Desert Nature is about the desert. Rather ... it's human...
Twilight of Democracy is a memoir. It is also a condemnation of the many intellectuals and opportunists who have not only given up on democr...
In direct contrast to the myth of the "American Dream," we live in a society in which factors outside of our control determine our fates. Fr...
What does it mean to belong? What does it mean to be an individual, to have an identity? How does one become normal? Who gets to decide what...
"The first time I can remember feeling truly powerless, I was three, and I was trapped sideways in a bucket in the garage." The first line o...
Reading A Promised Land by Barack Obama in January 2021 is a bit of a trip. In some places, the reader feels the swell of nostalgia, the rem...
In our new series on Community Impact we speak with Victoria Ciudad-Real, John Roberson III, Gary Painter, and Jeffery Wallace about finding...
Octavia Butler's 1993 novel, Parable of the Sower , was listed as a New York Times bestseller for the first time in September 2020. Parable...
For this bonus episode, we're talking with Daniel Flaming & Anthony Orlando on the new report on homelessness in the time of COVID (and afte...
In today's bonus episode, we speak with Elizabeth Dragga (Founder of The Book Truck) and Julie Sandor about the work they do to support youn...
What better way to end a hard year than to visit Grafton, New Hampshire as author Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling as he reports on the people who l...
This episode is a bit different but we decided this was too good to pass up. We aren't discussing a book today, rather we're going to cover...
In Citizen , Claudia Rankine wrote: "Because white men can't / police their imagination / black people are dying." In her follow-up book, Ju...
The Auctioneer was released in 1976 with a campaign that likened it to "The Lottery." That the novel reflects an ongoing fascination with th...
This episode is a bit different but we decided this was too good to pass up. We aren't discussing a book today, rather we're going to cover...
The Ghost Map, by Steven Johnson, focuses on an outbreak of cholera in central London in 1854. John Snow, a doctor who theorized that choler...
An interview with author of The Affordable City by Shane Phillips. (Follow Phillips on Twitter: @ShaneDPhillips ) Shane Phillips believes th...
An interview with author of The Address Book, Deirdre Mask. The Address Book is a broad look at the invention and proliferation of the addre...
The Address Book is a dive into the deep waters of the meaning of addresses, often with tangents into the weird and interesting lives of peo...
Hey! It's our 100th episode! Thanks so much for listening! Today we're discussing award winning novelist N.K. Jemisin 's The City We Became...
An interview with author of Care: Stories , Christopher Records. (Follow Records on Twitter: @cdrecords001 ) Care: Stories is the fiction de...
Our host, Dr. Lisa Schweitzer, chose Sofía Segovia's The Murmur of Bees (translated by Simon Bruni) in August of 2019. It seemed like it wou...
An 18 year old Mohammad Darwish cries out, "We want freedom!" A revolution begins in the city of Rastan, Syria. April 1st, 2011. For many ye...
Another bonus episode! Host Lisa discusses the book Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968 by Center Director, Jeffery...
We spent #EarthDay2020 talking about environmental justice. We spoke about an intriguing new book by UCDavis Prof. Julie Sze. Through the CO...
Can a groundswell of feminist activism threaten an authoritarian patriarchal regime? Author, Leta Hong Fincher looks at this question throug...
Tamim Ansary brings 1500 years of history to life in Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes . Destiny Disrupted give...
Does your favorite conspiracy come with evidence and theory of governance, or is it just a meme? Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, au...
In today's episode we're briefly gorgeous, or possibly briefly monstrous. We're pretty sure both are true. What we are sure of is that Ocean...
In today's episode we're thinking about racism, sexism, misogynoir, and the journalism. We're reading Trailblazer, a memoir by journalist gi...
An interview with author of Children of the Dream: Why School Integration Works , Rucker C. Johnson. (Follow Rucker on Twitter: @ProfRucker...
In today's episode we're thinking about the patriarchy, and Mona Eltahawy's tools for women and girls. Tools to take down the premise by whi...
For today's episode, we're thinking about the many books we've discussed over the years. After 70+ book discussions, we thought it was about...
Host Lisa Schweitzer is joined by Aubrey L. Hicks , Susan Lindau , and Joan Miller to discuss Victor LaValle's The Devil in Silver . Pepper...
Another bonus episode! Host Lisa discusses Professor Liz Falletta 's book, By-Right, By-Design: Housing Development Versus Housing Design in...
The Undercommons is a series of essays exploring contemporary political thought from an inside/outside the commons perspective. Our guest to...
You've heard that gerrymandering can be bad for representation. Jonathan A. Rodden wants to take you further back in time to the beginnings...
Today's book: The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantú. The southern border between Mexico and the U.S. can be a violent place. Yet isn't...