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Jon Shelton on "The Education Myth"

Posted June 12, 202300:52:05

The US education system has been sold as the solution for individual success and economic security. Should that still be the model?


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Writer John West On Paradox, Redemption, And Playing Bach

Posted June 5, 202300:53:40

In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Andrew Thomas speaks with John West about his genre-bending memoir, 

Mark Borthwick, "A Brave and Lovely Woman: Mamah Borthwick and Frank Lloyd Wright"

Posted May 29, 202301:16:05

Stu Levitan welcomes Mark Borthwick, here to talk about his new biography of his second cousin thrice removed, A Brave and Lovely Woman: Mamah...

Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington

Posted May 22, 202300:51:00

How should reporters consider their ethical responsibilities to the public? That's a question studied through a historical lens in a new book by UW-Madison...

Scholar Sami Schalk On Black Disability Politics from the Black Panthers to the 2020 Uprising

Posted May 1, 2023

In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Andrew Thomas speaks with Sami Schalk about her book, Black Disability Politics (2022, Duke University Press).