Best Pierson Marks Podcasts (2025)

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Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson, "Why America Didn't Become Great Again" (Routledge, 2025) 40:04

17h ago40:04

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Examining the conditions that not only blocked attempts to make America great again, but actively made the country worse, Why America Didn't Become Great Again (Routledge, 2025) identifies those organizations, institutions, politicians and prominent characters in the forefront of the economic and social policies - ultimately asking who is responsib…

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Episode 205: Long Beach Oral Histories 38:54

3d ago38:54

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We continue our tour of Long Island-based oral history collections. This time out, Robert Anen (LILRC Project Archivist) and I sat down with the Long Beach Historical & Preservation Society. Robert helped digitize their extensive oral history collection. The recordings cover a wide range of memories and experiences from residents of the City by The…

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KINSELLACAST 368: Canada hit again by Typhoon Trump - with Lilley, Kheiriddin, Mraz, Belanger, Mulroney and more! Plus all-Canadian punk rock 1:29:50

3d ago1:29:50

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Ross A. Kennedy, "The United States and the Origins of World War II in Europe" (Taylor & Francis, 2025) 1:27:00

5d ago1:27:00

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The United States and the Origins of World War II in Europe (Taylor & Francis, 2025), spans 1914–1939 to provide a concise interpretation of the role the United States played in the origins of the Second World War. It synthesizes recent scholarship about interwar international politics while also presenting an original interpretation of the sources…

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Mark Blyth and Nicolò Fraccaroli, "Inflation: A Guide for Users and Losers" (W. W. Norton & Co, 2025) 55:18

5d ago55:18

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Inflation is back, and its impact can be felt everywhere, from the grocery store to the mortgage market to the results of elections around the world. What's more, tariffs and trade wars threaten to accelerate inflation again. Yet the conventional wisdom about inflation is stuck in the past. Since the 1970s, there has only really been one playbook f…

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Michael Grunwald, "We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate" (Simon & Schuster, 2025) 49:39

5d ago49:39

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Michael Grunwald is a well renown journalist, who over the last thirty years has focused on public policy and national politics, with the last fifteen years having him zeroing in or climate-related issues. His current book, which he wrote this after six years of research. It was a passionate journey to understand, not to advocate for any position. …

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Anthropic's Legal Victory, Interactive Media, Generative Workflows 53:36

5d ago53:36

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In this episode of Creative Flux, Bilal Tahir (@deepwhitman) and Pierson Marks (@piersonmarks) discuss the recent Anthropic copyright ruling on fair use, a step-by-step workflow to generate high-quality AI videos in <30 minutes, and how collaborative and interactivity are huge opportunities in the creative space. Chapters 00:00 Introduction 09:35 L…

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Elena Jackson Albarran, "Good Neighbor Empires: Children and Cultural Capital in the Americas" (Brill, 2024) 42:42

6d ago42:42

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A class of child artists in Mexico, a ship full of child refugees from Spain, classrooms of child pageant actors, and a pair of boy ambassadors revealed facets of hemispheric politics in the Good Neighbor era. Good Neighbor Empires: Children and Cultural Capital in the Americas (Brill, 2024) by Dr. Elena Jackson Albarran explores how and why cultur…

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Milton E. Clarke, "The Community College Reform Movement: Contentions and Ideological Origins" (Routledge, 2025) 1:23:00

9d ago1:23:00

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In his new book, The Community College Reform Movement: Contentions and Ideological Origins (Routledge, 2025), political scientist Milton Clarke critically examines the rise of the higher education reform movement, often referred to as the “completion agenda,” which, since the early 2000s, has sought to restructure core aspects of the community col…

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KINSELLACAST 367: Life in Wartime with Iran with Mark Berlin, Lilley, Mraz, Kheiriddin, Belanger - plus Dirty Epics, Grandma's House, Claire, Sea Lemon 1:21:51

11d ago1:21:51

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Claire Pierson, "Women's Troubles: Gender and Feminist Politics in Post-Agreement Northern Ireland" (Manchester University Press, 2025) 55:28

11d ago55:28

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How do feminist movements develop and organise in ethno-nationally divided societies? How does this challenge our understandings of contemporary fourth wave feminism? Women's Troubles: Gender and Feminist Politics in Post-Agreement Northern Ireland (Manchester University Press, 2025) by Dr. Claire Pierson sets out to answer these questions using ri…

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ElevenLabs V3 and the Future of Text to Speech 46:33

12d ago46:33

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In Episode 2 of Creative Flux, Pierson Marks (@piersonmarks) and Bilal Tahir (@deepwhitman) explore recent text-to-speech advancements from model providers like ElevenLabs V3 and OpenAI. They highlight where generative voice is today, where it is going, and how the industry is adopting this new technology. Chapters 00:00 Introduction to Creative Fl…

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Laura Frances Goffman, "Disorder and Diagnosis: Health and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Arabia" (Stanford UP, 2024) 53:05

13d ago53:05

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Disorder and Diagnosis: Health and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Arabia (Stanford UP, 2024) offers a social and political history of medicine, disease, and public health in the Persian Gulf from the late nineteenth century until the 1973 oil boom. Foregrounding the everyday practices of Gulf residents--hospital patients, quarantined passe…

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Atinuke O. Adediran, "Disclosureland: How Corporate Words Constrain Racial Progress" (Cambridge UP, 2025) 33:46

14d ago33:46

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The 2020 murder of George Floyd sparked mass protests that challenged many institutions, including large for-profit companies, to reflect on how to address racial inequality. Large corporations began making systematic public statements to show alignment with causes that impact people of color. These statements were also used to protect corporate re…

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Howard A. Husock, "The Projects: A New History of Public Housing" (NYU Press, 2025) 39:35

15d ago39:35

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How housing policy failed the people it was designed to help -- and how to fix it As the US struggles to provide affordable housing, millions of Americans live in deteriorating public housing projects, enduring the mistakes of past housing policy. In The Projects: A New History of Public Housing (NYU Press, 2025), Howard A. Husock explains how we g…

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KINSELLACAST 366: Fathers here, fathers gone. Plus Mraz, Mulroney and more. And the right songs. 43:29

18d ago43:29

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Google's VEO3, NBA Finals Ad made with AI, Creating Video Consistency 49:31

19d ago49:31

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In this inaugural episode of the Creative Flux Podcast, hosts Pierson Marks and Bilal Tahir dive into the transformative impact of AI on media creation, focusing on Google's VEO3 and the evolving landscape of text-to-video models, the NBA Finals Ad made entirely with AI, and practical tips and cost-effective strategies for producing high-quality co…

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Maraam A. Dwidar, "Power to the Partners: Organizational Coalitions in Social Justice Advocacy" (University of Chicago Press, 2025) 30:00

20d ago30:00

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A vital examination of how social and economic justice organizations overcome resource disadvantages and build political power. Why do some coalitions triumph while others fall short? In Power to the Partners: Organizational Coalitions in Social Justice Advocacy, Maraam A. Dwidar documents the vital role of social and economic justice organizations…

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Episode 204: Robert Beattie, Long Island Architect w Richard Beattie 33:49

24d ago33:49

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Robert Beattie was many things: an architect, a designer of iconic public buildings on Long Island, and a decorated World War II veteran. But most importantly, he was the father of today’s guest, Richard Beattie. So we’re celebrating Father’s Day by celebrating the life and work of Robert Beattie. As an architect, Beattie’s specialty was mid-centur…

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Jonathan Tarleton, "Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons" (Beacon Press, 2025) 1:27:05

24d ago1:27:05

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In Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons (Beacon Press, 2025), urban planner and oral historian Jonathan Tarleton introduces readers to 2 social housing co-ops in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Longtime residents of St. James Towers and Southbridge Towers lock horns over whether to maintain the rules that have kept thei…

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KINSELLACAST 365: Carney a closet conservative? With Lilley, Mraz, Belanger, Kheiriddin, Mulroney - plus Brit-ish bands with guitars and accents 1:26:50

24d ago1:26:50

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Robert Chernomas, Gregory Chernomas, and Ian Hudson, "The American Gene: Unnatural Selection Along Class, Race, and Gender Lines" (Routledge, 2025) 26:31

1M ago26:31

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Biological justification for all forms of inequality has a long history, with the claim that particular groups suffer disproportionately from inherited flaws of ability and character used to explain a remarkably wide variety of inequalities. Providing an important critique of that biodeterminist history and how the Human Genome Project has inspired…

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KINSELLACAST 364: Ottawa's secret BFFs with Lilley, Kheiriddin, Mraz, Belanger, Mulroney plus guitar songs I like 1:25:08

1M ago1:25:08

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Jaime Lee Kucinskas, "The Loyalty Trap: Conflicting Loyalties of Civil Servants Under Increasing Autocracy" (Columbia UP, 2025) 26:48

1M ago26:48

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The Loyalty Trap: Conflicting Loyalties of Civil Servants Under Increasing Autocracy (Columbia University Press, 2025) explores how civil servants navigated competing pressures and duties amid the chaos of the first Trump administration, drawing on in-depth interviews with senior officials in the most contested agencies over the course of a tumultu…

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Nicholas Chesterley, "Future-Generation Government: How to Legislate for the Long Term" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025) 36:28

1M ago36:28

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Our impact on future generations has never been greater, and the challenges we face are increasingly long-term. Future-Generation Government proposes ways that we can reward our governments for making durable policy decisions that anticipate future crises. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a…

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Catriona M.M. MacDonald, "The Caledoniad: The Making of Scottish History" (John Donald, 2024) 44:50

1M ago44:50

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Why did Scots in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries know so little about their past and even less about those who controlled their history? Is the historical narrative the only legitimate medium through which the past can be made known? Are novelists and historians as far apart as convention has it? In an age when history grounds any claims to …

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KINSELLACAST 363: Whither thou goest, Murky Mark? Lilley, Pierson, Mulroney, Lavigne, Harrison - plus Horsegirl, This Is Loralei, Soft Play, Bowie and more! 1:11:29

1M ago1:11:29

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Hali Lee, "The Big We" (Zando - Sweet July Books, 2025) 43:08

1M ago43:08

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Hali Lee's The Big We (Zando, 2025) offers a compelling counterpoint to traditional billionaire-driven philanthropy (which she dubs "Big Phil"). Instead of logic models and donor-centric metrics, Lee champions giving circles—groups of everyday people who pool resources to support causes they value while building genuine community connections. Drawi…

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Episode 203: Madeleine Bessell‑Koprek and the Paleoecology of Long Island, Australia 30:24

1M ago30:24

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There’s a rough stretch of water between Australia and Tasmania called the Bass Strait. Within the strait there’s a group of islands called the Furneaux Group. Within the group lies Long Island, a small, mostly-uninhabited stretch of grass and trees that attracted the attention of Madeleine Bessel-Koprek and her colleagues. We’re traveling far afie…

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Postcript: Calibrating the Outrage-Democratic Erosion, Legality, and Politics 44:25

1M ago44:25

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We’ve been focusing on the dynamics of democratic backsliding in the United States and beyond. In this episode of Postscript: Conversations on Politics and Political Science, Susan talks the co-founder and co-director of the Democratic Erosion Consortium, Dr. Robert Blair about how the Consortium offers FREE resources to teachers, students, journal…

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