Podcasts

There’s a lot of noise created by our constant news cycle, but few ways to grasp what’s really going on in politics today. Understand the political science beyond the headlines with Harris School of Public Policy Dean Ethan Bueno de Mesquita and Professors Anthony Fowler, and Wioletta Dziuda.

The Inequality Podcast brings together scholars across disciplines to discuss the causes and consequences of inequality and strategies to promote economic mobility. Hosted by Steven Durlauf, Damon Jones, Ariel Kalil, and Geoff Wodtke.

Each year state and local governments spend $4 trillion dollars. Where does that money come from? Where does it go? Who manages it? And what do citizens and taxpayers have to show for it? In The Public Money Pod we explore the budgets, bonds, and bureaucrats at the heart of state and local public finance.

The “Battle of the Branches” series, is a joint project of the Law School, Harris School of Public Policy and the Social Sciences Division, driven by the expertise of faculty members in those schools. Each episode features Prof. Will Baude, a leading constitutional law expert, speaking with UChicago scholars about issues such as free speech, foreign policy, judicial decrees and executive orders.

UC3P is a Harris Student Organization (HSO) and Registered Student Organization (RSO) at the University of Chicago. The mission of UC3P is to promote public discourse by creating a series of podcasts that relate to public policy. No topic is too small or too big to be discussed. All of our podcasts are entirely written, researched, produced, hosted, edited, and published by UChicago students.

Award-winning Axios journalist and Institute Journalism Fellow Amy Harder and Institute Director Michael Greenstone share new ways of thinking about the challenge from people on the frontlines as well as cutting-edge solutions—like changing the earth’s atmosphere, making batteries out of sodium and using artificial intelligence to predict the weather.