Best Remapping Debate Podcasts (2024)

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Robert Townsend on "History's Babel" 33:53

10y ago33:53

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Robert Townsend, a former deputy director of the American Historical Association and the current director of the Washington office of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is the author of History’s Babel: Scholarship, Professionalization, and the Historical Enterprise in the United States, 1880-1940. Townsend demonstrates that, a hundred year…

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Summer in the city 46:34

10y ago46:34

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June 4, 2014 — Joseph Viteritti, a professor of public policy in the department of urban affairs and policy at Hunter College in New York City, is the editor of a new collection of essays entitled, “Summer in the City: John Lindsay, New York, and the American Dream.” Viteritti and the volume’s other authors reassess Lindsay’s mayorship and the city…

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Sacrificing safety on the altar of nuclear preparedness 38:43

10y ago38:43

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May 7, 2014 — Kate Brown is an associate professor of history at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and the author of the new, prize-winning book, “Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters.” Her study focuses on the cities, people, and (increasingly toxic) environments surrounding th…

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Lobbying America 37:25

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March 26, 2014 — Benjamin Waterhouse is an assistant professor of History at the University of North Carolina and the author of the new book, “Lobbying America: The Politics of Business from Nixon to NAFTA.” Waterhouse follows the role that business associations — particularly the Business Roundtable, the US Chamber of Commerce, and the National As…

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Death knell for the middle class 41:25

10y ago41:25

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Feb. 12, 2014 — Jake Rosenfeld, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Washington, is the author of “What Unions No Longer Do.” The book traces the consequences of the decline of the labor movement in the United States — for union members and non-members alike. In the interview, we talk with Rosenfeld about some of the deep change…

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City of ambition 54:18

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Jan. 29, 2014 — Mason Williams, a historian and postdoctoral fellow at the New-York Historical Society and The New School, is the author of “City of Ambition:FDR, La Guardia, and the Making of Modern New York.” In this interview, Williams discusses La Guardia’s critical role in implementing the New Deal in the New York City context and his vision o…

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All in the neighborhood 56:45

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Dec. 11, 2013 — Robert J. Sampson, the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University, discusses his book, “Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect.” Sampson’s work argues for the importance of the “neighborhood effect” — the notion that neighborhood contexts are in and of themselves important determi…

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Are there no limits? 34:38

10+ y ago34:38

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Are climate change politics still stuck in the rut created by a famous 1970s bet about the consequences of ever-increasing population growth and resource use? Is "quality of life" a better focus than "survivability"? Paul Sabin, author of "The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon and Our Gamble Over Earth's Future," discusses these and other questions r…

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Markets not really forces of nature? 42:28

10+ y ago42:28

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That's what Julia Ott, assistant professor in the history of capitalism at The New School, says. In a wide ranging discussion, she describes the not-at-all inevitable path to a broad-based securities market in the United States of the early 20th century. She comments on the tendency of financial reporting to ignore the fact that the development of …

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"Invisible Hands," with historian Kim Phillips-Fein 42:17

10+ y ago42:17

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A discussion with Kim Phillips-Fein, historian and author of a book that traces the conservative movement in the U.S. as it slowly regrouped in the aftermath of the passage of the New Deal.