All episodes
Desmond Jagmohan: "Two Concepts of Patriotism: Nationalist and Civic"
New Directions: Green Transitions
Dr. Norma Alarcón: "Forced by Circumstance: Chicana Feminist Essays (1981-2024)"
California Spotlight: Wealth & Poverty
Authors Meet Critics: "Demos: How the People Ruled Athens" by Daniela Cammack
Authors Meet Critics: "Normalizing Inequality: How Californians Make Sense of the Growing Divide"
Benjamin Recht: "The Irrational Decision: How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us"
Incommunicable: Toward Communicative Justice in Health and Medicine
Authors Meet Critics: Trevor Jackson, "The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World"
Matrix on Point: The U.S. Dollar Hegemony in Transition
Julien Migozzi: "Algorithms of Distinction: Class, Credit Scores, and Property in South Africa"
California Spotlight: Higher Education Under Attack
Matrix Teach-In: Ula Taylor, "The Making of Frances M. Beal's Black Feminist House"
Matrix on Point: Corruption in America
"Some College" and the Social Function of Higher Education: An Interview with Sarah Payne
Alexis Madrigal: "To Know A Place"
Maximilian Kasy: "The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)"
Matrix Teach-In: Seth Lunine
Matrix on Point: Financializing Disaster
Matrix on Point: Spaces for Thriving
Matrix on Point: Conspiracy Theories
Engendering Blackness: Slavery and the Ontology of Sexual Violence
Legitimation by (Mis)identification: Credit, Discrimination, and The Racial Epistemology of Algorithmic Expansion
New Directions: Borderlands
Technology and China in the New Political Economy
Governing Giants: Law, Politics, and Antitrust
150 Years of Border Control: The Legacy of the 1875 Page Act
Matrix on Point: The New Gender Gap
Authors Meet Critics: "Native Lands: Culture and Gender in Indigenous Territorial Claims"
Social, Spatial, Ecological, and Racial fixes in New Deal South Carolina: Interview with Morgan Vickers
Consequential Sentences: Computational Analyses of California Parole Hearing Transcripts
Alex Roehrkasse: The New Contours of Mass Incarceration
Matrix on Point: Mainstreaming Psychedelics
The State of Higher Education: Interview with Lorna Finlayson
Los Angeles Wildfires: Risk, Resilience, and Collective Action
Society Despite the State: Reimagining Geographies of Order
Interview with Julia Sizek: Regulating Off-Roading in the California Desert
New Directions in the Study of Fringe Politics
The Future of California Agriculture
Making Sense of the Elections of 2024
Gendered Violence in Insurgencies: Interview with Tara Chandra
New Directions in the Study of Labor
Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States
Authors Meet Critics: "Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in China"
Emotion, Race, and Gender: Interview with Gold Okafor
Matrix on Point: Shifting Alignments in the 2024 Election
The Imperiled Place of Universities and Democracy in the USA: Interview with Todd Wolfson
Matrix on Point: Voices from the Heartland
Partisan Nation: The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era
Matrix on Point: War is Back
Understanding Academic Freedom: Interview with Hank Reichman
Authors Meet Critics - Juana María Rodríguez, "Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex"
Prisoner Labor Legacies: An interview with Elizabeth Hargrett and Xander Lenc
Agricultural Modernization in China: Interview with Ross Doll and Coleman Mahler
The Emotions of Dyadic Relationships: An Interview with Jenna Wells and Felicia Zerwas
Sugar and the Transformation of the American West: An Interview with Bernadette Pérez
Storytelling and the Climate Crisis
New Directions in Greening Infrastructure
Conservatorship: Inside California's System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness
Authors Meet Critics: "Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics," Salar Mameni
Structural Determinants of Police Violence: Interview with Kimberly Cecilia Burke
The Scandal of Access: An Interview with Zahra Hayat
Private Firms and WTO Dispute Escalation: An Interview with Ryan Brutger
Understanding Land-based Psychological Trauma in Light of Epistemic Justice
Authors Meet Critics: "The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall," by Andrew Garrett
Vincent Bevins - "If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution"
Authoritarian Absorption: An Interview with Yan Long
Trevor Jackson, "Impunity and Capitalism: the Afterlives of European Financial Crises, 1690-1830"
Authors Meet Critics: Sharad Chari, "Gramsci at Sea"
Authors Meet Critics: Dylan Penningroth, "Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights"
Matrix on Point: New Directions in Gender and Sexuality
Racial and Ethnic Difference in South Africa and the USSR: An Interview with Hilary Lynd
California Spotlight: From Boom to Doom in San Francisco
Authors Meet Critics: Massimo Mazzotti, "Reactionary Mathematics: A Genealogy of Purity"
Matrix on Point: The Future of College
War, Diaspora, Bureaucracy: An Interview with Sherine Ebadi
Voter Turnout in the United States: An Interview with Emily Rong Zhang
The Binational Politics of Return Migrant Activism: An Interview with Caroline Tracey
Roundtable with Orlando Patterson: The Nature and Invention of Freedom
Orlando Patterson: "Slavery and Genocide: The U.S, Jamaica and the Historical Sociology of Evil"
Training Bourgeois Selves: Magnus Hirschfeld and the Subsumption of Pederasty
The Modern American Industrial Strategy: Building a Clean Energy Economy from the Bottom Up and Middle Out
The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
Matrix on Point: Wealth and Taxes
Jo Guldi: Towards a Practice of Text Mining to Understand Change Over Historical Time
Jo Guldi, "The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights"
Economics and Geopolitics in US International Relations: China, Europe, and the Global South
Matrix on Point: Myths and Misinformation
To Defend This Sunrise: Black Women's Activism and the Authoritarian Turn in Nicaragua
Cooperating with the Colossus: A Social and Political History of US Military Bases in World War II Latin America
Matrix Distinguished Lecture: Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, "Reimagining Global Integration"
Authors Meet Critics: Dylan Riley, "Microverses: Observations from a Shattered Present"
Interview with Adriana Kugler, World Bank Executive Director for the US
Migration and Reform in Early America: An Interview with J.T. Jamieson
Reconsidering the Achievement Gap: An Interview with Monica Ellwood-Lowe
Shifting Inequality and Mass Incarceration
Economic Benefits of Higher Education: Maximilian Müller and Zach Bleemer
A Changing Landscape for Farmers in India: An Interview with Tanya Matthan and Aarti Sethi
Institutionalizing Child Welfare: An Interview with Matty Lichtenstein
Race, Gender, and Political Speech: An Interview with Gabriella Licata