Episodes
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In The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America (U Chicago Press, 2
Who runs Britain? In Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite (Harvard UP, 2024),
In the twenty-first century, infrastructure has undergone a seismic shift from West to East. Once co
During the heyday of Hollywood’s studio system, stars were carefully cultivated and promoted, but at
After close to three decades of the hegemony of free market ideas, the state has made a big comeback
The achievement of Singapore’s national public housing program is impressive by any standard. Within
Karl Marx (1818-1883) was living in exile in England when he embarked on an ambitious, multivolume c
China today positions itself as a model of state-led environmentalism. On the country’s arid rangela
Unlike a flood or fire, a the Farming Crisis of the 1980s did not have a set beginning of ending. Ra
A masterful account of the global Cold War’s decisive influence on Soviet economic reform, and the n
Behavioral scientist Alison Fragale offers powerful new insights and a practical playbook for women
In 2010, Isabel Wilkerson spoke to the Institute about the fifteen years she spent reporting and wri
After reading David Chaffetz’s newest book, you’d think that the horse–not oil–has been humanity’s m
Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) never crossed the Atlantic himself, but his impact in colonial Latin A
Political Theorist David Lay Williams has a new book that traces the problem of economic inequality
In Unexpected Revolutionaries: How Central Banks Made and Unmade Economic Orthodoxy (Cornell Univers
Barrels – we rarely acknowledge their importance, but without them we would be missing out on some o
Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola (U Chicago Press, 2024) takes readers deep inside
In Building Stalinism: The Moscow Canal and the Creation of Soviet Space (I. B. Tauris, 2018), Cynth
Aleksander Pluskowski of the University of Reading joins Jana Byars to talk about his new book, The