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R. Joshua Scannell, "The Carceral Surround" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)

As law enforcement agencies deploy increasingly advanced technologies to suppress dissent, hunt migrants, and target marginalized communities, The Carceral Surround (U Minnesota Press, 2026) offers a powerful new theory of police and prison power in ... more

12 Sep 2026 • 37 min

Billy Fleming, "Building Postcarbon Futures: Land, Justice, and Energy Transitions" (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2026)

What would a postcarbon future look like? What would it take to build and maintain a more just, regenerative world? How would it feel to live—and to thrive—in that world? In Building Postcarbon Futures: Land, Justice, and Energy Transitions (Lincoln ... more

12 Sep 2026 • 1 hr 24 min

Michelle Adams, "The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North " (FSG, 2025)

Winner of the MAAH Stone Book Award Winner of the 2025 Avern Cohn Award A New York Times Notable Book of 2025, A New Yorker Best Book of 2025 selection A Christian Science Monitor 25 Best Books of 2025 The epic story of Detroit’s struggle to integrat... more

9 Sep 2026 • 1 hr 8 min

Leah C. Stokes, "The Carbon Wave: A Story of Democracy, Parenthood, and the Race to Protect Our Planet" (MIT Press, 2026)

They were perhaps an unlikely trio: professor Leah Stokes, the policy wonk Sonia Aggarwal in the White House, and the DC insider Adrian Deveny in the Senate, but together they crafted the boldest climate legislation of our time. In The Carbon Wave: A... more

6 Sep 2026 • 36 min

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John McDonough

Professor of practice at the Harvard TH. Chan School of Public Health

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Episode: John E. McDonough, "America's Wrong Turn: US Health Care in the Neoliberal Era" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)

Eduardo Albrecht

Political Anthropologist; author of Political Automation

Mercy University; former senior fellow at United Nations University Center for Policy Research

Episode: Beyond Free Speech: Why AI Governance Demands Freedom of Thought

Joe Margulies

Professor, author of Cast Out, A Call For A Forgiving Society In An Age Of Incarceration

Cornell University

Episode: Cast Out: A Call For A Forgiving Society in an Age of Incarceration

Athena Trakadas

External Associate Professor of Maritime Archaeology, University of Copenhagen; Senior Researcher, Viking Ship Museum

University of Copenhagen; Viking Ship Museum

Episode: Georgia Holly et al, .eds., "Heritage in the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030) and Beyond" (U Edinburgh Press, 2025)

Angela Frederick

Author, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at El Paso

University of Texas at El Paso

Episode: Angela Frederick, "Disabled Power: A Storm, A Grid, and Embodied Harm in the Age of Disaster" (NYU Press, 2025)

Dr. Niki Elliott

Author of Heart-Centered Connections, Seven Essential Skills for Helping Neurodiverse and Marginalized Children Thrive

University of San Diego

Episode: Heart-Centered Connections: Seven Essential Skills for Helping Neurodiverse and Marginalized Children Thrive

Hope Harvey

Author of Doubled Up, Shared Households and the Precarious Lives of Families

University of Kentucky

Episode: Doubled Up: Shared Households and the Precarious Lives of Families

Nicholas Freudenberg

Distinguished professor emeritus of public health at the CUNY School of Public Health

City University of New York

Episode: Nicholas Freudenberg, "Fighting for New York: Activism for Health and Social Justice Since The 1960s" (Columbia UP, 2026)

Dr. Martina Baradel

Associate Professor of Sociology of Organised Crime, University of Nagoya; Associate Member at University of Oxford

University of Nagoya / Oxford University

Episode: Martina Baradel, "21st Century Yakuza: Death of Japanese Organised Crime" (Oxford UP, 2026)

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Dr. Christina Gessler

Host of Academic Life; frequently contributes scholarly discussions across topics.

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John E. McDonough, "America's Wrong Turn: US Health Care in the Neoliberal Era" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)

Q: What policy changes does your agenda propose to reform the system?

A comprehensive set of reforms including a new patient bill of rights, caps on cost sharing, tighter price regulation at launch for new drugs, aggressive regulation of insurance and hospital markets, stronger antitrust enforcement, and consolidation of fragmented health systems toward a more unified, efficient model.

John E. McDonough, "America's Wrong Turn: US Health Care in the Neoliberal Era" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)

Q: What does neoliberalism mean in the context of U.S. health care, and what are its key manifestations?

Neoliberalism is a belief in aggressive free-market expansion, minimizing government involvement, privatizing services like HMOs, maximizing shareholder value, antitrust relaxation, and deregulatory measures that gradually reduce public health capacity while expanding private, often for-profit, control over health care sectors.

John E. McDonough, "America's Wrong Turn: US Health Care in the Neoliberal Era" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)

Q: Could you start us off please by introducing yourself and tell us why you decided to write this book?

I'm a professor of practice at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and I wrote this book to answer a long-standing question about why U.S. health care spending diverged from other advanced economies beginning in the 1980s, tracing the neoliberal shift and its consequences.

Heart-Centered Connections: Seven Essential Skills for Helping Neurodiverse and Marginalized Children Thrive

Q: Will you tell us a little about yourself and your background?

Dr. Elliott describes her extensive experience as an elementary teacher and educator, her adoption of her son, and how those experiences shaped her mission to support neurodiverse children through the Heart-Centered Connections framework.

Nicholas Freudenberg, "Fighting for New York: Activism for Health and Social Justice Since The 1960s" (Columbia UP, 2026)

Q: What lessons from ACT UP are most applicable today for public health activism?

Insider-outsider strategies—working with scientists while staging public demonstrations—can create urgency, accelerate access to treatments, and unify diverse communities around a shared health goal.

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