40 Global Policing 1: Hayal Akarsu on Turkish Community Policing (EF, JP)
The Black Lives Matter movement and the policing-related deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and others have struck a nerve worldwide. Our “Global Policing” series aims to capture th...
17 Jul 202028min
39 RTB Books in Dark Times 12: Carlo Rotella (JP)
Carlo Rotella of Boston College is author of six books, among them the amazing Good With Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust Belt (University of California Press, 2002) a...
9 Jul 202021min
38 Beth Blum on Self-Help from Carnegie to Today (JP)
Beth Blum, Assistant Professor of English at Harvard, is the author of The Self-Help Compulsion (Columbia University Press 2019). Learn how self-help went from its Victorian roots (worship greatness!)...
6 Jul 202025min
37 RTB Books In Dark Times 11: Elizabeth Bradfield (JP)
Elizabeth Bradfied is editor of Broadsided Press, professor of creative writing at Brandeis, naturalist, photographer–and most of all an amazing poet (“Touchy” for example just appeared in The Atlanti...
26 Jun 202027min
36 Policing and White Power: (EF, JP) Global Policing Series
Black lives matter. Yet for decades or centuries in America that basic truth has been ignored, denied, violently suppressed. Many of the mechanisms that create an oppressed and subordinated American c...
17 Jun 202033min
35 RTB Books In Dark Times 10: Martin Puchner
RTB listeners already know the inimitable Martin Puchner from that fabulous RTB episode about his “deep history” of literature and literacy, The Written World. You may even know he has a family memoir...
11 Jun 202018min
34 The Caribbean and Vectors of Warfare: Vincent Brown (EF, JP)
The largest slave uprising in the 18th century British Caribbean was also a node of the global conflict called the Seven Year’s War, though it isn’t usually thought of that way. In the first few days ...
4 Jun 202041min
33 RTB Books in Dark Times 9: Ben Fountain (JP)
Ben Fountain is far more than just the author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, which won RTB hearts and minds (and the National Book Award) long before it became a weird Ang Lee movie. What is cons...
28 Mai 202023min
