Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation Society
Victor Pickard, a Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, talks about his new book and the “news and information deserts...
7 Dec 202259min
Rhymes in the Flow: How Rappers Flip the Beat
Macklin Smith and Aurko Joshi discovered their mutual love of rap music at the University of Michigan, where Macklin Smith taught a popular course in rap poetry… and Aurko Joshi was a student.
26 Nov 202255min
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis
Our Harvard’63 classmate Adam Hochschild talks about his new book
17 Nov 202258min
Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color and Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective
Lorgia Garcia Pena talks about her two new books. She is a first generation Latinx Studies scholar and the Mellon Associate Professor of Race, Colonialism and Diaspora Studies at Tufts University. She...
4 Nov 202255min
The Death of Democracy by Benjamin Carter Hett
Professor Benjamin Carter Hett is a leading scholar of twentieth-century Germany and a gifted storyteller whose portraits of these feckless politicians show how fragile democracy can be when those in ...
27 Okt 202258min
American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
Journalist, TV writer and former paramedic, Kevin Hazzard talks about his new book.
22 Okt 202250min
Ted Rall... talks about cartoons & politics
Ted Rall is a political cartoonist, opinion columnist, graphic novelist and occasional war correspondent whose work has appeared in hundreds of publications, including the New York Times, Washington P...
2 Okt 202257min
Trash Talk: Anti-Obama Lore and Race in the Twenty-First Century
Patricia A. Turner talks about her new book. She is Professor of African American Studies and of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on rac...
22 Sep 202257min
