Public Intellectual

Public Intellectual

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Public Intellectual episodes

  • First Person Singular (with BD McClay)
    Jessa talks with BD McClay, book critic and beloved frequent guest of the podcast, about year end book lists and the dominance of the first person singular narrative.
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    1 hr 22 min
  • Decriminalize Domestic Violence (with Leigh Goodmark)
    Jessa sits down with Leigh Goodmark, Professor of Law and Director of the Gender Violence Clinic at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law and the author of Decriminalizing Domestic Violence, to discuss domestic violence, her experience working with women in the legal system, "trendy domestic violence" as entertainment, and how a system meant to protect women often puts them at greater risk.
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    37 min
  • Daphne Awards 2018 (with Margaret Howie)
    The 2018 Daphne Award presentation is here! The only award show that revisits fiction & non-fiction works published 50 years ago to determine what ACTUALLY should have been celebrated as "the best."
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    48 min
  • The Housing Crisis (with Randy Shaw)
    Jessa speaks with Randy Shaw, Director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic and author of new book Generation Priced Out: Who Will Live In The New Urban America?, about the limited conversations surrounding the housing crisis and the tendency to think about these problems as inevitable. ---SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual
    31 min
  • Bad Sex is a Feminist Issue (with Joseph Fischel)
    Jessa speaks with Joseph Fischel, author of Screw Consent: A Better Politics of Sexual Justice, to talk about the word "consent" and how to think about bad sex in a more complex way.
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    44 min
  • Stop Evictions with Tara Raghuveer
    What can a city and a tenant do in order to prevent a population, neighborhood, or ethnicity from being displaced?
    Jessa speaks with head of the Kansas City Eviction Project, Tara Raghuveer, about why there is a lot of available housing in Kansas City, but for some reason, evictions, rents, and housing prices are going up.---
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    31 min
  • Publishing's Diversity Problems, Or The Paris Review was Started by the CIA (with Alexis Aceves Garcia)
    Jessa speaks with poet Alexis Aceves Garcia about how class, education, and diversity issues in the publishing world create a hostile environment for writers who aren’t of a certain race, educational background, and/or socioeconomic reality.
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    1 hr 3 min
  • Glenn Close and Other Cinematic Wives (with Suzanne Leonard)
    Glenn Close occupies an interesting place in American cinema and the feminist imagination. Jessa speaks with author Suzanne Leonard about her, the role of women in film, and whether this role has gotten better (or not).
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    40 min
  • Long Live the Alt-Weekly (with Brandon Soderberg)
    What does it take to start a new publication in this era, particularly an altweekly? Jessa sits down with Brandon Soderberg, who is helping to revive the Baltimore Beat, about what altweeklies provide that other media outlets don't and how to create a sustainable community in this era of free news, fake news, and all the rest.
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    1 hr 3 min

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Complicated conversations with complicated people about complicated topics. Let's get into the real mess of gender, feminism, punishment, class, politics, and culture and leave easy rhetoric and…