
The Big Fix: The Hunt For the Match-Fixers Bringing Down Soccer & Lost Son: An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI's Secret War
Brett Forrest is a national-security reporter for The Wall Street Journal, where his investigative work often focuses on the former Soviet Union. He has covered the war in Ukraine and was the first re...
9 Feb 202357min

Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America
Psyche A. Williams-Forson is Professor and Chair of the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland College Park. Her book illustrates how anti-Black racism operates in the practice...
3 Feb 202351min

Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad.
Matthew Delmont is a Professor of History at Dartmouth. He is also in the Harvard College Class of 2000 (Lowell House). His new book is filled with compelling narratives that outline with nuance, rigo...
27 Jan 202352min

What the Children Told Us: The Untold Story of the Famous "Doll Test" and the Black Psychologists Who Changed the World
Tim Spofford tells the story of the towering intellectual and emotional partnership between two Black scholars who highlighted the psychological effects of racial segregation. The Clarks' story is one...
21 Jan 202359min

A Legacy of Discrimination: The Essential Constitutionality of Affirmative Action
Geoffrey R. Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. His new book (with co-author Lee C. Bollinger) is a timely defense of affirmative action policies ...
12 Jan 202356min

The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the
Clara E. Mattei is an Assistant Professor at the Economics Department of The New School for Social Research (NYC). Her new book explores the intellectual origins of austerity to uncover its originatin...
6 Jan 202355min

Diabetes: History of Race and Disease
Arleen Tuchman is a Professor of History at Vanderbilt University specializing in the cultural history of medicine. Her book traces the radical shift over the course of a century in beliefs about whi...
29 Des 202256min

The “Psychology of Disagreement”
Julia Minson is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She is a decision scientist with research interests in conflict, negotiations and decision making....
14 Des 202259min




















