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Max Krahé and Sara Schulte, "Housing Policy At An Expensive Dead End" (Dezernat Zukunft, 2026)

If governments provide financial support for affordable housing, should they provide support for inhabitants directly, or rather for the construction of dwellings? Dr. Max Krahé and Sara Schulte both work for the German economic think tank Dezernat Z... more

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Erica Bornstein, "A Revolution of Rules: The Regulatory Reform of India's Nonprofit Sector" (Stanford UP, 2025)

Erica Bornstein, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oregon (and Divisional Associate Dean), has a new book that delves into the regulatory reforms within the nonprofit sector in India. These reforms transpired over more than a decade, and... more

21 May 2026 • 41 min

Chiara Libiseller, "Reconceptualizing War: The Rise and Fall of Fashionable Concepts in Strategic Studies" (Oxford UP, 2026)

The field of Strategic Studies, which studies the use and threat of force for political purposes, has seen the repeated rise of concepts to dominate discourses and research agendas, only to eventually fall to the margins again. What explains this cyc... more

13 May 2026 • 51 min

Photis Lysandrou, "Dollar Dominance: Why It Rules the Global Economy and How to Challenge It" (Policy Press, 2025)

In a world shaken by crises, why does the dollar continue to dominate? In Dollar Dominance: Why It Rules the Global Economy and How to Challenge It (Policy Press, 2025) Photis Lysandrou explores the interaction between global instability and the endu... more

13 May 2026 • 54 min

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Recent Guests

Erica Bornstein

Author, scholar studying nonprofits and regulation in India

Stanford University (author of A Revolution of Rules)

Episode: Erica Bornstein, "A Revolution of Rules: The Regulatory Reform of India's Nonprofit Sector" (Stanford UP, 2025)

Chiara Libiseller

Author of Reconceptualizing War, The Rise and Fall of Fashionable Concepts in Strategic Studies

Oxford University Press (book publisher)

Episode: Chiara Libiseller, "Reconceptualizing War: The Rise and Fall of Fashionable Concepts in Strategic Studies" (Oxford UP, 2026)

Photis Lysandrou

Professor and author of Dollar Dominance

Bristol University Press (publisher of the book)

Episode: Photis Lysandrou, "Dollar Dominance: Why It Rules the Global Economy and How to Challenge It" (Policy Press, 2025)

Benjamin Siegel

Author of Markets of Pain, Opium, Capitalism, and the Global History of Painkillers

Boston University

Episode: Benjamin Robert Siegel, "Markets of Pain: Opium, Capitalism, and the Global History of Painkillers" (Oxford UP, 2026)

Dr. Rachel Grace Newman

Author; The Future in Their Hands, Making Mexico's Foreign-Educated Elite

University of California Press (publisher)

Episode: Rachel Grace Newman, "The Future in Their Hands: Making Mexico's Foreign-Educated Elite" (U California Press, 2026)

Olivier Sylvain

Professor of Law at Fordham University and Senior Policy Research Fellow at Columbia University's Knight First Amendment Institute

Fordham University; Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University

Episode: Olivier Sylvain, "Recovering the Internet: How Big Tech Took Control-And How We Can Take It Back" (Columbia Global Reports, 2026)

Danielle Jacques

PhD candidate in the Sociology Department at Brandeis University

Brandeis University

Episode: What Waltham Does When the Water Rises: Rachel McKane and Danielle Jacques (JP)

Rachel McKane

Assistant Professor of Sociology and the Jack Meyerhoff Chair in American Environmental Studies at Brandeis University

Brandeis University

Episode: What Waltham Does When the Water Rises: Rachel McKane and Danielle Jacques (JP)

Katie Batza

Author of AIDS in the Heartland, How Unlikely Coalitions Created a Blueprint for LGBTQ Politics

University of Kansas

Episode: Katie Batza, "AIDS in the Heartland: How Unlikely Coalitions Created a Blueprint for LGBTQ Politics" (UNC Press, 2025)

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Erica Bornstein, "A Revolution of Rules: The Regulatory Reform of India's Nonprofit Sector" (Stanford UP, 2025)

Q: What do you mean by 'writing the horizon line' in policy work, and how does that help us understand regulation as a social process?

Writing the horizon line is about envisioning future rules that can enable or constrain action; the process is collaborative, iterative, and political, with workshops producing a unified voice that negotiates with the state and shapes public understanding.

Erica Bornstein, "A Revolution of Rules: The Regulatory Reform of India's Nonprofit Sector" (Stanford UP, 2025)

Q: Can you explain why India became the focus for this project and how that connects to the global trend you describe?

India offers a vivid case of how a vibrant civil society interacts with rapidly changing regulation, illustrating a broader global shift toward governance of philanthropy and a shift from associational freedom to a counter-revolution that tightens oversight.

Olivier Sylvain, "Recovering the Internet: How Big Tech Took Control-And How We Can Take It Back" (Columbia Global Reports, 2026)

Q: To what extent do the themes in this book extend to generative AI chatbots?

The book focuses on consumer-facing services and applications, not all of AI, but it uses chatbots as a case example to illustrate how laissez-faire free-speech models continue to shape technology; it emphasizes accountability and potential regulatory responses rather than sweeping, one-size-fits-all conclusions.

What Waltham Does When the Water Rises: Rachel McKane and Danielle Jacques (JP)

Q: How do oral histories complement FEMA data in your project?

Oral histories provide qualitative, place-based context that helps explain why and how floods happen at the street level, offering a human dimension to data and a check against over-reliance on probabilistic models.

What Waltham Does When the Water Rises: Rachel McKane and Danielle Jacques (JP)

Q: What motivated you to center local voices in flood risk research?

We wanted to address gaps in official risk tools by foregrounding residents' lived experiences and intergenerational knowledge, which reveal vulnerabilities not captured by maps alone.

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This channel features scholars and practitioners discussing recently published work across public policy, economics, law, and social science. Episodes frequently center on regulation, public institutions, and the political economy of policy choices, with deep dives into topics like nonprofit governance, global finance, climate politics, platform regulation, health policy, and race and civil rights. Guests are typically academics, authors, and researchers who bring historical context, methodological rigor, and policy implications, often connecting theory to real-world case studies. A standout pattern is the emphasis on critical, long-form conversations that connect scholarly work to public understanding, with attention to democratic processe... more

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