New Books in Public Policy
Interviews with Scholars of Public Policy about their New Books
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5 episodes available.
New Books in Public Policy
Irvin Weathersby Jr., "In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space" (Viking, 2025)
How monuments hide history — hear one author's urgent, personal reckoning.
1:08:53
Aug 8, 2025New Books in Public Policy
Kit W. Myers, "The Violence of Love: Race, Family, and Adoption in the United States"(U California Press, 2025)
Discover how 'love' hides adoption's harms—rethink family, kinship, and care.
1:17:50
Aug 7, 2025New Books in Public Policy
Melody Glenn, "Mother of Methadone: A Doctor's Quest, a Forgotten History, and a Modern-Day Crisis" (Beacon Press, 2025)
A forgotten pioneer and a modern clinician reclaim methadone’s human story.
43:35
Aug 6, 2025New Books in Public Policy
Timothy W. Kneeland, "Declaring Disaster: Buffalo's Blizzard of '77 and the Creation of FEMA" (Syracuse UP, 2021)
Discover how Buffalo’s 1977 blizzard reshaped FEMA and modern disaster policy.
1:15:17
Aug 5, 2025New Books in Public Policy
On Bullshit in AI
Expose AI snake oil: learn to spot hype, bias, and the real limits of chatbots.
20:40
Jul 31, 2025
