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November 15, 2024
The Architecture of Urbanity
From one of today's most inspired architects and urban advocates, a manifesto for architecture as a force for addressing our biggest social challenges…
November 12, 2024
What Are Children For?
Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman's book What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice (St. Martin's Press, 2024) presents a modern argument, grou…
November 11, 2024
Dual Justice
The United States incarcerates its citizens for property crime, drug use, and violent crime at a rate that exceeds any other developed nation – and di…
November 10, 2024
The Life and Death of Ryan White
In the 1980s, as HIV/AIDS ravaged queer communities and communities of color in the United States and beyond, a straight white teenager named Ryan Whi…
November 8, 2024
Landing the Paris Climate Agreement
From the U.S. lead negotiator on climate change, an inside account of the seven-year negotiation that culminated in the Paris Climate Agreement in 201…
November 7, 2024
Care Activism
Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building, and Communities of Care (U Illinois Press, 2023) challenges the stereotype of downtrodden …
November 5, 2024
Let's Change the World
So many talented young people receive a great education and set out to make a difference in the world. Yet, they often find the global institutions on…
November 5, 2024
Sick Note
Sick Note: A History of the British Welfare State (Oxford UP, 2022) is a history of how the British state asked, 'who is really sick?' Tracing medical…
November 3, 2024
Carceral Recovery
Carceral Recovery: Prisons, Drug Markets, and the New Pharmaceutical Self (Lexington Books, 2023) explores the interrelation between carceral conditio…
November 3, 2024
Living Off the Government?
Who deserves public assistance from the government? This age-old question has been revived by policymakers, pundits, and activists following the massi…
November 1, 2024
Beginning to End the Climate Crisis
"Climate change is the biggest crisis of humankind. We can’t watch other people drive our future right against the wall.” This is a quote by Luisa Ne…
November 1, 2024
From Rubinomics to Bidenomics
This is episode two Cited Podcast’s new season, the Use & Abuse of Economic Expertise. This season tells stories of the political and scholarly battle…
October 31, 2024
Atlas of Finance
From the emergence of money in the ancient world to today’s interconnected landscape of high-frequency trading and cryptocurrency, the story of financ…
October 30, 2024
Poor Things
For generations most of the canonical works that detail the lives of poor people have been created by rich or middle-class writers like Charles Dicken…
October 27, 2024
Simon Kuznets and the Invention of the Economy
Economics sometimes feels like a physics–so sturdy, so objective, and so immutable. Yet, behind every clean number or eye-popping graph, there is usua…
October 27, 2024
How to Tell When We Will Die
The long-awaited essay collection from one of the most influential voices in disability activism that detonates a bomb in our collective understanding…
October 26, 2024
Little Book of Restorative Teaching Tools for Online Learning
Teaching, training, and gathering online has become a global norm since 2020. Restorative practitioners have risen to the challenge to shift restorati…
October 22, 2024
Smooth City
In cities across the world, a new urban condition is spreading rapidly: an ever-increasing push toward efficiency, sanitization, surveillance and the …
October 22, 2024
Behavioural Public Policy in Australia
Max Weber once remarked that bureaucracy’s power comes from its massing of expert and factual knowledges. It amasses this power, in part, by keeping m…
October 22, 2024
Lifehouse
In Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire (Verso, 2024), Adam Greenfield presents a compelling vision for collective resilience in an …