New Books in Public Policy

Christina Gessler

marshallpoe@newbooksnetwork.com

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Booking Overview

This academic interview podcast focuses on public policy and features scholars, authors, lawyers, and other field experts discussing recently published research and books. Credible pitches include academic book authors, policy researchers, legal scholars, historians, and specialized subject-matter experts with substantial new research; booking difficulty is low because the show regularly features experts promoting scholarly publications.

Metrics

Episodes: 2137

Frequency: Multiple_weekly

Rating: 4.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: <1k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

Contact Information

marshallpoe@newbooksnetwork.com

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Host

Christina Gessler - Academic writing coach and editor, and the creator, producer, and host of the Academic Life podcast.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

low
Typical Credentials:  
Scholars, professors, lawyers, historians, researchers, and other recognized subject-matter experts with a recently published academic or policy-focused book.
Required Achievements:  
Published academic or policy research, Authored or edited a recent book, University professorship or research appointment, Specialized professional or legal expertise

Recent Guest Discussions

Joseph Margulies - Incarceration, Criminal Justice, Legal Representation, Forgiveness, And The Humanity Of Incarcerated People.

Helen Dewar - Ocean Heritage, Historical Context In Ocean Governance, Marine Conservation, And The History Of Sovereignty And Law.

Athena Trakadas - Ocean Heritage, Marine Conservation, Ocean Science, Climate Adaptation, And Equitable Ocean Governance.

Angela Frederick - Disability Policy, Infrastructure Failures, Disaster Response, Resilience, And The Effects Of The 2021 Texas Power Crisis.

Recent Topics

Public Policy, Social Policy, Law, Environmental Policy, Human Rights

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
New Books in Public Policy
:

John E. McDonough, "America's Wrong Turn: US Health Care in the Neoliberal Era" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)

August 11, 2026

How can a nation with unmatched wealth and medical innovation also have the highest health care costs and the poorest health outcomes among its peers? In America's Wrong Turn: US Health Care in the Neoliberal Era (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2026), Dr. John E. McDonough offers a compelling explanation for this troubling puzzle of contemporary US life and shows that this reality did not arise by accident. Beginning in the later twentieth century, a powerful political and economic ...

Beyond Free Speech: Why AI Governance Demands Freedom of Thought

August 09, 2026

Are we driving our technology, or is it starting to drive us? In this thought-provoking conversation, Eli Karetny sits down with researcher and author Eduardo Albrecht to explore the invisible, rapidly encroaching frontier of AI governance and data surveillance.Moving far beyond traditional debates about data privacy, Albrecht warns of a near future where the state and corporate partners bypass human speech entirely, relying instead on "sentiment detection" to ascribe thoughts and make decisi...

Cast Out: A Call For A Forgiving Society in an Age of Incarceration

July 23, 2026

In Cast Out: A Call For A Forgiving Society in an Age of Incarceration (Beacon Press, 2026), civil rights lawyer Joseph Margulies insists that those who commit even the most heinous crimes are one of us and should be judged in a spirit of forgiveness. He explains that American society is too often unforgiving, preferring to cast out those we consider irredeemable by fixating narrowly on the question What did they do? and imagining that those who have done great wrongs hav...

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