Podcast appearances and mentions of Austin Sarat

Austin Sarat, professor and author of “The Death Penalty in Decline'” and “Lethal Injection and the False Promise of Humane Execution,” talks about how President Biden failed the death penalty abolition test - and takes us inside his course, “The Death of American Democracy” along with other political topics.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tavis-smiley--6286410/support.

12/27/24: Rep Mindy Domb: this week's big legislative victory. MTA Pres Max Page: 2024's top ten Mass. education stories. Amherst Coll Prof Austin Sarat: Biden's death row commutations & democracy (?) under Trump. First Night performers Kalpana Devi & Manou Africa of ReBelle.

11/1/24: Ballot Q 1: Auditor Diana DiZoglio backs her ballot question. Q 2: MTA Pres Max Page & VP Deb McCarthy: YES to eliminate MCAS as.grad reqmt. Donnabelle Casis w/ prof Sarah Stefana Smiith: her amazing exhibit at Hampshire College. Community Action E.D. Clare Higgins: kids are on the ballot. Amherst prof Austin Sarat: the election & democracy.

11/1/24: Ballot Q 1: Auditor Diana DiZoglio backs her ballot question. Q 2: MTA Pres Max Page & VP Deb McCarthy: YES to eliminate MCAS as.grad reqmt. Donnabelle Casis w/ prof Sarah Stefana Smiith: her amazing exhibit at Hampshire College. Community Action E.D. Clare Higgins: kids are on the ballot. Amherst prof Austin Sarat: the election & democracy.

11/1/24: Ballot Q 1: Auditor Diana DiZoglio backs her ballot question. Q 2: MTA Pres Max Page & VP Deb McCarthy: YES to eliminate MCAS as.grad reqmt. Donnabelle Casis w/ prof Sarah Stefana Smiith: her amazing exhibit at Hampshire College. Community Action E.D. Clare Higgins: kids are on the ballot. Amherst prof Austin Sarat: the election & democracy.

11/1/24: Ballot Q 1: Auditor Diana DiZoglio backs her ballot question. Q 2: MTA Pres Max Page & VP Deb McCarthy: YES to eliminate MCAS as.grad reqmt. Donnabelle Casis w/ prof Sarah Stefana Smiith: her amazing exhibit at Hampshire College. Community Action E.D. Clare Higgins: kids are on the ballot. Amherst prof Austin Sarat: the election & democracy.

11/1/24: Ballot Q 1: Auditor Diana DiZoglio backs her ballot question. Q 2: MTA Pres Max Page & VP Deb McCarthy: YES to eliminate MCAS as.grad reqmt. Donnabelle Casis w/ prof Sarah Stefana Smiith: her amazing exhibit at Hampshire College. Community Action E.D. Clare Higgins: kids are on the ballot. Amherst prof Austin Sarat: the election & democracy.

7/22/24:  Amherst College Poli-Sci Prof Austin Sarat, UMass Afro-Am Prof Amilcar Shabazz, & Smith College Prof of Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Carrie Baker: the race for President— Game on!​And then, recommended summer reads with Megan Zinn and Booklink Mgr Peg Duffy.

Part 1:We talk with Elaine Povich, writer who covers education and consumer affairs at Stateline.We discuss proposals to subsidize daycare costs for daycare workers. There are many economic benefits to so this.Part 2:We talk with Austin Sarat, the William Nelson Cromwll Professor at Amhert College.We discuss pardons, as used by the Maryland governor and others What is a pardon? What are the implications for those being pardoned? WNHNFM.ORG   production

5/31/24: Attorney John Pucci: Trump's convictions. Artbeat: Donnabelle Casis & 50 Arrow Gallery's Jason Montgomery: the Low End Theory show. Amherst's new CRESS Director Camille Theriaque: alternatives to an armed police response. Amherst law and poli sci prof Austin Sarat: the politics of Trumps convictions.

5/31/24: Attorney John Pucci: Trump's convictions. Artbeat: Donnabelle Casis & 50 Arrow Gallery's Jason Montgomery: the Low End Theory show. Amherst's new CRESS Director Camille Theriaque: alternatives to an armed police response. Amherst law and poli sci prof Austin Sarat: the politics of Trumps convictions.

5/31/24: Attorney John Pucci: Trump's convictions. Artbeat: Donnabelle Casis & 50 Arrow Gallery's Jason Montgomery: the Low End Theory show. Amherst's new CRESS Director Camille Theriaque: alternatives to an armed police response. Amherst law and poli sci prof Austin Sarat: the politics of Trumps convictions.

5/31/24: Attorney John Pucci: Trump's convictions. Artbeat: Donnabelle Casis & 50 Arrow Gallery's Jason Montgomery: the Low End Theory show. Amherst's new CRESS Director Camille Theriaque: alternatives to an armed police response. Amherst law and poli sci prof Austin Sarat: the politics of Trumps convictions.

Explore Monday’s headlines with Boyd Matheson. Danielle Pletka joins the show to share what is next after news of the Iranian president’s death surfaced this morning. A hearing from the SBA that involved Rep. Maloy happened this weekend and she recaps what is to come. The internship crisis has hit the nation’s capital. What does that mean for those starting their professional careers? Michael Shaffer sheds a light on the situation. Dig into the crisis of confidence that higher education is facing with Austin Sarat and More!

The crisis of confidence facing higher education institutions across America is a complex and multifaceted issue that demands our attention. As centers of learning and innovation, universities play a vital role in shaping the minds of future leaders and driving societal progress. However, rising costs, concerns over academic freedom, and a perceived disconnect from the needs of students and communities have eroded public trust. Austin Sarat from Amherst College shed a light on the fact that it is more crucial than ever that we engage in discussions and reforms to restore faith in these esteemed institutions, ensuring they continue to serve as places of knowledge and catalysts for positive change.

In today's politics, a troubling trend that we see is an increasingly sore attitude towards losing. The question, “What makes it all worth it, even if you don't win?” seems to be increasingly hostile to people who are only satisfied with our democratic process if the result is what they want. Austin Sarat joins Boyd to talk about this sore loser mentality that is becoming more prevalent. 2024 is going to be a tight race, not only for President, but for elected positions all over the country and we need to be watchful of sore losers in our election process.

Start your week off with Boyd Matheson. Tim Carney joins the show to discuss the lack of societal support towards parents and what we can do about that. A new toolkit that is connected to Governor Cox’s “Disagree Better” campaign is geared towards parents and how to have civil conversations in the whole. Jason Carroll and Dave Schramm were key scholars on the project. J.R. Bird paints an image of what life on the campaign trail looks like and what unique attributes he could bring to the table. We are seeing a sore loser mentality forming in political parties according to Austin Sarat and More!

1/26/24: MTA Pres Max Page: the Newton educators' strike. The Northamptones -- Live! Atty David Hoose: last night's execution. Donnabelle Casis & HCC Prof Raishad J. Glover: his new show. Amherst Prof. Austin Sarat: the history of the death penalty. Live: NHS virtuosos pianist Noah Daube-Valois & CDH's Jacquie Ouellette: music on the psychiatric ward.

1/26/24: MTA Pres Max Page: the Newton educators' strike. The Northamptones -- Live! Atty David Hoose: last night's execution. Donnabelle Casis & HCC Prof Raishad J. Glover: his new show. Amherst Prof. Austin Sarat: the history of the death penalty. Live: NHS virtuosos pianist Noah Daube-Valois & CDH's Jacquie Ouellette: music on the psychiatric ward.

1/26/24: MTA Pres Max Page: the Newton educators' strike. The Northamptones -- Live! Atty David Hoose: last night's execution. Donnabelle Casis & HCC Prof Raishad J. Glover: his new show. Amherst Prof. Austin Sarat: the history of the death penalty. Live: NHS virtuosos pianist Noah Daube-Valois & CDH's Jacquie Ouellette: music on the psychiatric ward.

1/26/24: MTA Pres Max Page: the Newton educators' strike. The Northamptones -- Live! Atty David Hoose: last night's execution. Donnabelle Casis & HCC Prof Raishad J. Glover: his new show. Amherst Prof. Austin Sarat: the history of the death penalty. Live: NHS virtuosos pianist Noah Daube-Valois & CDH's Jacquie Ouellette: music on the psychiatric ward.

1/26/24: MTA Pres Max Page: the Newton educators' strike. The Northamptones -- Live! Atty David Hoose: last night's execution. Donnabelle Casis & HCC Prof Raishad J. Glover: his new show. Amherst Prof. Austin Sarat: the history of the death penalty. Live: NHS virtuosos pianist Noah Daube-Valois & CDH's Jacquie Ouellette: music on the psychiatric ward.

1/26/24: MTA Pres Max Page: the Newton educators' strike. The Northamptones -- Live! Atty David Hoose: last night's execution. Donnabelle Casis & HCC Prof Raishad J. Glover: his new show. Amherst Prof. Austin Sarat: the history of the death penalty. Live: NHS virtuosos pianist Noah Daube-Valois & CDH's Jacquie Ouellette: music on the psychiatric ward.

1/12/24: Rep Natalie Blais: on-line abuse & disaster relief. MTA Pres Max Page: book bans & a living wage. Celebrate! Lisa Thompson, Kathy Couch & Kelly Silliman: 33 Hawley. Atty Joe Schneiderman: the SJC & affordable housing. Amherst prof Austin Sarat: Trump & us.

2024 is set to be a pivotal year for the United States as Americans head to the ballot boxes to elect their next President. Will we see a Biden-Trump rematch, and what's at stake? On this episode of Morning Shot, Austin Sarat, Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College unpacks the latest out of the US ahead of the GOP ballot in Iowa. Presented by: Audrey Siek Produced and edited by: Yeo Kai Ting (ykaiting@sph.com.sg)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Good news with Vote.org v Paxton where original signatures are OK on voter registrations.Bad news with Tingley v Ferguson, where Washington state is allowed to continue draconian restrictions on doctors. Also, Austin Sarat demonstrates his utter disregard for intellectual diversity in his Justia opinion piece.Confusing news in the Jack Smith January 6 case against Trump.

11/13/23: Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia on voting, crime & schools. Amilcar Shabazz, Vira Douangmany Cage, & Ellisha Walker on the Dr. Demetria Shabazz Center for the Arts. Amherst prof Austin Sarat on young people losing faith in democracy. Stefan Ward-Wheaton & Ed Malachowski celebrate Valley Free Radio. Megan Zinn with James Jennings on “Wings of Red.”

The death penalty is also a hot topic. Today, we have on Austin Sarat author of Lethal Injection and the False Promise of Humane Execution to discuss the death penalty and more particularly lethal injection. Links from the show:* Lethal Injection and the False Promise of Humane Execution* Subscribe to the newsletterAbout my guest:Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science and Chair of Political Science at Amherst College. He is the author, most recently, of Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America's Death Penalty (Stanford, 2014) and The Death Penalty on the Ballot (2019). Get full access to Dispatches from the War Room at dispatchesfromthewarroom.substack.com/subscribe

Kristin Henning is the Blume Professor of Law and Director of the Juvenile Justice Clinic and Initiative at Georgetown Law, where she and her law students represent youth accused of delinquency in Washington, DC. Kris was previously the Lead Attorney for the Juvenile Unit of the D.C. Public Defender Service and is currently the Director of the Mid-Atlantic Juvenile Defender Center. She has been representing children accused of a crime for more than 25 years. Kris trains state actors across the country on the impact of racial bias in the juvenile and criminal legal systems. Her workshops help stakeholders recognize their own biases and develop strategies to counter them. Kris also worked closely with the McArthur Foundation's Juvenile Indigent Defense Action Network to create a 41-volume Juvenile Training Immersion Program (JTIP), a national training curriculum for juvenile defenders.She now co-hosts, with the National Juvenile Defender Center (NJDC), an annual week-long JTIP summer academy for defenders. In 2019, Kris partnered with NJDC to launch a Racial Justice Toolkit for youth advocates, and again in 2020, to launch the Ambassadors for Racial Justice program, a year-long program for juvenile defenders committed to challenging racial injustice in the juvenile legal system through litigation and systemic reform.​Kris writes extensively about race, adolescence, and policing. Her new book, The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth, is forthcoming with Pantheon Books (Penguin Random House) on September 28, 2021. Her previous work appears in journals and books such as Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution and Imprisonment (2017, edited by Angela J. Davis) and Punishment in Popular Culture (2015, edited by Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Sarat). The race features prominently in her articles such as The Reasonable Black Child: Race, Adolescence and the Fourth Amendment, 67 Am. U. L. Rev. 1513 (2018), Race, Paternalism and the Right to Counsel, 54 Amer. Crim. L. Rev. 649 (2017), and Criminalizing Normal Adolescent Behavior in Communities of Color: The Role of Prosecutors in Juvenile Justice Reform, 98 Cornell L. Rev. 383 (2013). Professor Henning is also an editor and co-author of the anthology Rights, Race, and Reform: Fifty Years of Child Advocacy in the Juvenile Justice System (2018).​Henning serves on the Board of Directors for the Center for Children's Law and Policy and is the Director of the Mid-Atlantic Juvenile Defender Center. She has served as an expert juvenile justice consultant to several state and federal agencies, including the USDOJ's Civil Rights Division, and was the Reporter for the ABA Task Force on Dual Jurisdiction Youth. She is also a lead contributor to the Juvenile Law and Practice chapter of the District of Columbia Bar Practice Manual and has served as an investigator in eight state assessments of the access to counsel and quality of representation for accused juveniles. ​Professor Henning is the recipient of many honours, including the 2021 Juvenile Leadership Prize, the Robert E. Shepherd, Jr. Award for Excellence in Juvenile Defense from NJDC, and the Shanara Gilbert Award from the American Association of Law Schools for her commitment to justice on behalf of children, selection to the American Law Institute (ALI), an appointment as an Adviser to ALI's Restatement on Children and the Law project. In 2005, Professor Henning was selected as a Fellow in the Emerging Leaders Program of the Duke University Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy and the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Professor Henning travelled to Liberia in 2006 and 2007 to aid the country in juvenile justice reform. She received her B.A. from Duke University, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and an LL.M. from Georgetown Law. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Become at member at: https://plus.acast.com/s/tobyonathursday.

On Tuesday, President Biden exercised his presidential clemency powers for the first time in his presidency, issuing 3 pardons and 75 commutations, all of whom were convicted of drug offenses or other non-violent crimes. Still, there are 18,000 petitions for clemency still pending. We speak with Austin Sarat, professor of jurisprudence and political science at Amherst College, to explore the history of how presidents have used clemency powers in the past, why the process serves so few, and if President Biden might meet his campaign promise of criminal justice reform by using the powers of clemency going forward.  

On Tuesday, President Biden exercised his presidential clemency powers for the first time in his presidency, issuing 3 pardons and 75 commutations, all of whom were convicted of drug offenses or other non-violent crimes. Still, there are 18,000 petitions for clemency still pending. We speak with Austin Sarat, professor of jurisprudence and political science at Amherst College, to explore the history of how presidents have used clemency powers in the past, why the process serves so few, and if President Biden might meet his campaign promise of criminal justice reform by using the powers of clemency going forward.  

Before 70 Over 70 goes on hiatus, Max sits down again with the person who inspired the show, his dad Marty, to talk about what he has learned from these conversations and what he hopes will stick with listeners.  Thank you to the more than 70 people over 70 who helped make this show possible:  Alice Waters, André De Shields, Anna Fisher, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Arlene Heyman, Arthur Russell, Austin Sarat, Barney Frank, Bertha Riley, Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk, Betty Goedhart, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Bob Iger, Carolyn Doelling, Dan Rather, Darryl Cox, David Crosby, Deanna Gobio, Diana Nyad, Diane Meier, Diedre Wolownick, Dionne Warwick, Dolores Huerta, Donalda MacGeachy, Evelyn Griesse, George Pettigrew, Gloria Allen, Greg O'Brien, Sister Helen Prejean, Howard Kakita, Jackie Batson, James Hong, Jim Clyburn, Father Joe Carey, Dr. Joycelyn Elders, Judith Light, Konai Helu Thaman, Krishnamurthy, Dr. Laverene Wimberly, Liliana Weisbek, Lillian Faderman, Lilly Ledbetter, Lucia DeRespinis, Lois Lowry, Lynn Staley, Madeleine Albright, Maira Kalman, Marty Linsky, Mavis Staples, Michio Kaku, Miriam Moss, Nikki Giovanni, Norman Lear, Paul Price, Paula Weinstein, Peter Leighton, Phyllis Irwin, Raffi, Renata Adler, Russell Banks, Sandy Levin, Scott Kalin, Shirley Ross, Sid Moss, Sjanna Leighton, Steven Berman, Susan Lucci, Timothy Fullam, Tom Locke, Travis Mayes, Twiggy, William Locke Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, I talk with the famous political scientist, Austin Sarat. By the way, he was my thesis advisor in college. Learn more about Prof. Sarat on Amherst College's website: https://www.amherst.edu/people/facstaff/adsarat

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On The Gist, this weekend’s mass shooters had different motives. It won’t do to draw lessons from just one of them. In the interview, Amherst College professor Austin Sarat wants to enlist gun owners themselves in the fight for firearm regulation. “48 percent of gun owners favor a ban on assault weapons,” he says, citing the Pew Research Center. The problem is convincing them that gun control advocates aren’t pushing for full-on confiscation. Sarat is the co-editor of The Lives of Guns. In the Spiel, the one clear factor in America’s growing mass shooting problem? Rifles. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On The Gist, this weekend’s mass shooters had different motives. It won’t do to draw lessons from just one of them. In the interview, Amherst College professor Austin Sarat wants to enlist gun owners themselves in the fight for firearm regulation. “48 percent of gun owners favor a ban on assault weapons,” he says, citing the Pew Research Center. The problem is convincing them that gun control advocates aren’t pushing for full-on confiscation. Sarat is the co-editor of The Lives of Guns. In the Spiel, the one clear factor in America’s growing mass shooting problem? Rifles. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

*CONTENT WARNING*This episode contains graphic language depicting instances of rape and verbal imagery illustrating acts of sexual violence.On today's episode, Calvin and Ryan sit down with Dr. Stephanie Larson, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at Carnegie Mellon, to discuss her recent publication in the Quarterly Journal of Speech (QJS), “‘Everything inside me was silenced': (Re)defining rape through visceral counterpublicity.”This article is part of Professor Larson's larger body of work on contemporary rhetorics of rape culture. We discuss two of her case studies: a publicly delivered letter by Emily Doe and a multimodal art piece employed by Emma Sulkowicz, both crafted to call attention to the actions of the men who raped them. In her analysis, Stephanie aims to answer questions such as: How do women discuss acts of sexual violence committed against them after legal discourse fails to recognize these acts as criminal? She theorizes that victims use visceral language to call attention to their physical bodies, specifically their points of violation, thus inciting empathetic and emotional responses from the audience. She goes on to argue that this type of public performativity has the potential to shift public standards of judgment in cases of sexual violence.The episode closes with Stephanie's thoughts on feminist magnitude and how it has shaped the #MeToo movement in online discourse. She also offers her take on why Christine Blasey-Ford's testimony in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Brett Kavanaugh did not capture audiences in the same way, suggesting that the use of online platforms and collective sharing of personal testimonies facilitates more affective and effective engagement with audiences.Works & Concepts Referenced in this Episode:Emily Doe's publicly-read letter to Brock TurnerEmma Sulkowicz's Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight) OverviewWikipedia page for Emma Sulkowicz's Ceci N'est Pas Un Viol (“This is not a rape”) performance *Content Warning*: This performance contains an explicit, performative depiction of a rape.Ahmed, S. (2013). The cultural politics of emotion. Routledge.Aristotle. (1898). Poetics. Trans. S.H. Butcher. Macmillan. (discussion of megethos or “magnitude” can be found in Sec. 1, Part VII)Berlant, L. (1999). “The Subject of True Feeling: Pain, Privacy, and Politics,” in Cultural Pluralism, Identity Politics, and the Law, eds. Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns. University of Michigan Press.Butler, J. (2006). Precarious life: The powers of mourning and violence. Verso.Gilmore, L. (2017). Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say about Their Lives. Columbia University Press.Hawhee, D. (2015). Rhetoric's Sensorium. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 101(1), 2–17.Johnson, J. (2016). “A man's mouth is his castle”: The midcentury fluoridation controversy and the visceral public. The Quarterly Journal of Speech, 102(1), 1–20.Larson, S. R. (2018). “Everything inside me was silenced”:(Re) defining rape through visceral counterpublicity. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 104(2), 123-144.Larson, S. R. (2018). Survivors, Liars, and Unfit Minds: Rhetorical Impossibility and Rape Trauma Disclosure. Hypatia.Scarry, E. (1987). The body in pain : the making and unmaking of the world (Oxford University Press pbk.). New York: Oxford University Press.Weheliye, A. (2014). Habeas Viscus : Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human. Durham: Duke University Press.

What if guns “are not merely carriers of action, but also actors themselves?” That’s the question that animates and unites Jonathan Obert‘s and Andrew Poe‘s, and Austin Sarat‘s unique collection of essays, The Lives of Guns (Oxford University Press, 2018). In it, contributors discuss the political, social and personal “lives” of guns from a variety of perspectives. Join us to hear editors Obert and Poe help us consider new ways of thinking about American narratives of ballistic weapons. Stephen Pimpare is Senior Lecturer in the Politics & Society Program and Faculty Fellow at the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of The New Victorians(New Press, 2004), A People’s History of Poverty in America (New Press, 2008), winner of the Michael Harrington Award, and Ghettos, Tramps and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Screen (Oxford University Press, 2017). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What if guns “are not merely carriers of action, but also actors themselves?” That’s the question that animates and unites Jonathan Obert‘s and Andrew Poe‘s, and Austin Sarat‘s unique collection of essays, The Lives of Guns (Oxford University Press, 2018). In it, contributors discuss the political, social and personal “lives” of guns from a variety of perspectives. Join us to hear editors Obert and Poe help us consider new ways of thinking about American narratives of ballistic weapons. Stephen Pimpare is Senior Lecturer in the Politics & Society Program and Faculty Fellow at the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of The New Victorians(New Press, 2004), A People’s History of Poverty in America (New Press, 2008), winner of the Michael Harrington Award, and Ghettos, Tramps and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Screen (Oxford University Press, 2017). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What if guns “are not merely carriers of action, but also actors themselves?” That’s the question that animates and unites Jonathan Obert‘s and Andrew Poe‘s, and Austin Sarat‘s unique collection of essays, The Lives of Guns (Oxford University Press, 2018). In it, contributors discuss the political, social and personal “lives” of guns from a variety of perspectives. Join us to hear editors Obert and Poe help us consider new ways of thinking about American narratives of ballistic weapons. Stephen Pimpare is Senior Lecturer in the Politics & Society Program and Faculty Fellow at the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of The New Victorians(New Press, 2004), A People’s History of Poverty in America (New Press, 2008), winner of the Michael Harrington Award, and Ghettos, Tramps and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Screen (Oxford University Press, 2017). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What if guns “are not merely carriers of action, but also actors themselves?” That’s the question that animates and unites Jonathan Obert‘s and Andrew Poe‘s, and Austin Sarat‘s unique collection of essays, The Lives of Guns (Oxford University Press, 2018). In it, contributors discuss the political, social and personal “lives” of guns from a variety of perspectives. Join us to hear editors Obert and Poe help us consider new ways of thinking about American narratives of ballistic weapons. Stephen Pimpare is Senior Lecturer in the Politics & Society Program and Faculty Fellow at the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of The New Victorians(New Press, 2004), A People’s History of Poverty in America (New Press, 2008), winner of the Michael Harrington Award, and Ghettos, Tramps and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Screen (Oxford University Press, 2017). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What if guns “are not merely carriers of action, but also actors themselves?” That’s the question that animates and unites Jonathan Obert‘s and Andrew Poe‘s, and Austin Sarat‘s unique collection of essays, The Lives of Guns (Oxford University Press, 2018). In it, contributors discuss the political, social and personal “lives” of guns from a variety of perspectives. Join us to hear editors Obert and Poe help us consider new ways of thinking about American narratives of ballistic weapons. Stephen Pimpare is Senior Lecturer in the Politics & Society Program and Faculty Fellow at the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of The New Victorians(New Press, 2004), A People’s History of Poverty in America (New Press, 2008), winner of the Michael Harrington Award, and Ghettos, Tramps and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Screen (Oxford University Press, 2017). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What if guns “are not merely carriers of action, but also actors themselves?” That’s the question that animates and unites Jonathan Obert‘s and Andrew Poe‘s, and Austin Sarat‘s unique collection of essays, The Lives of Guns (Oxford University Press, 2018). In it, contributors discuss the political, social and personal “lives” of guns from a variety of perspectives. Join us to hear editors Obert and Poe help us consider new ways of thinking about American narratives of ballistic weapons. Stephen Pimpare is Senior Lecturer in the Politics & Society Program and Faculty Fellow at the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of The New Victorians(New Press, 2004), A People’s History of Poverty in America (New Press, 2008), winner of the Michael Harrington Award, and Ghettos, Tramps and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Screen (Oxford University Press, 2017). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What if guns “are not merely carriers of action, but also actors themselves?” That's the question that animates and unites Jonathan Obert‘s and Andrew Poe‘s, and Austin Sarat‘s unique collection of essays, The Lives of Guns (Oxford University Press, 2018). In it, contributors discuss the political, social and personal “lives” of guns from a variety of perspectives. Join us to hear editors Obert and Poe help us consider new ways of thinking about American narratives of ballistic weapons. Stephen Pimpare is Senior Lecturer in the Politics & Society Program and Faculty Fellow at the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of The New Victorians(New Press, 2004), A People's History of Poverty in America (New Press, 2008), winner of the Michael Harrington Award, and Ghettos, Tramps and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Screen (Oxford University Press, 2017).

America's founding political commitments were to democracy and the rule of law. Some have described them as the soul and spirit of our nation. But their meanings are contested and open to interpretation. Professor Sarat discusses how the've evolved in American history and assesses the health of the United States today. Does America face an erosion of public faith in long taken-for-granted aspects of our political life? Do we even understand what they really mean? Some believe that the rule of law and democracy are under attack, but could it be this is be a symptom rather than a cause of what some see as our current crisis?  Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He has written, co-written, or edited more than ninety books in the fields of law and political science. Professor Sarat has received the the Stan Wheeler Award for his excellence as a teacher and mentor, awarded by the Law and Society Association.

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Welcome and Introduction

Real data about police shootings from Ben Montgomery, Tampa Bay Times, "Men Without Work" by Nicolas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute, The Smithsonian's Melinda Zeder says human impact on the environment is nothing new, Graham Peaslee of Notre Dame on the dangerous chemicals in fast-food wrappers, Amherst's Austin Sarat explains what's behind botched executions

(Bloomberg) -- Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty information center and Austin Sarat, a professor or Jurisprudence and political science at Amherst College, discuss a judge's decision to block Arkansas' attempts to carry out a series of executions in a matter of days. They speak with June Grasso and Michael Best on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg Law."

(Bloomberg) -- Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty information center and Austin Sarat, a professor or Jurisprudence and political science at Amherst College, discuss a judge's decision to block Arkansas' attempts to carry out a series of executions in a matter of days. They speak with June Grasso and Michael Best on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg Law." Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

(Bloomberg) -- David Muhlhausen, a Research Fellow in Empirical Policy Analysis at The Heritage Foundation, and Austin Sarat, a professor at Amherst College, discuss Arkansas' plans to execute eight death row occupants within the span of ten days as the state's supply of life-ending drugs expires. They speak with Greg Stohr Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg Law." Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

(Bloomberg) -- David Muhlhausen, a Research Fellow in Empirical Policy Analysis at The Heritage Foundation, and Austin Sarat, a professor at Amherst College, discuss Arkansas' plans to execute eight death row occupants within the span of ten days as the state's supply of life-ending drugs expires. They speak with Greg Stohr Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg Law."

In this wide-ranging interview with capital punishment expert Austin Sarat, we discuss the new abolitionist movement's arguments against the death penalty as well as Professor Sarat's own study of botched executions.

When we discuss the death penalty we usually ask two questions: 1) should the state be in the business of killing criminals?; and 2) if so, how should the state put their lives to an end? As Austin Sarat shows in his fascinating book Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty (Stanford University Press, 2014), these two questions are intimately related. The reason is pretty simple: if the state can’t find a legally and morally acceptable way to execute malefactors, then perhaps we need to ask seriously whether the state should be killing criminals at all. If the means cannot be found, then the end may well be unachievable. In Gruesome Spectacles, Sarat analyses hundreds of executions in an attempt to assess the degree to which we can kill criminals in legally and morally acceptable ways. What he discovers is that about three in a hundred American executions over the past century or so have gone badly wrong. Criminals who were supposed to have been put to death in a humane way were strangled, decapitated, set on fire, suffocated, and slowly poisoned. Apparently American authorities—however laudable their intentions—have found it quite difficult, practically speaking, to avoid “cruel and unusual punishment” when executing wrongdoers. It’s important to note that Gruesome Spectacles is not an anti-death penalty book. Sarat’s presentation of botched executions is balanced by consideration of the horrible crimes for which the ultimate penalty was imposed. What Sarat does–and we should thank him for it–is provide hard evidence on a crucial question: can we, realistically speaking, put criminals to death humanely? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When we discuss the death penalty we usually ask two questions: 1) should the state be in the business of killing criminals?; and 2) if so, how should the state put their lives to an end? As Austin Sarat shows in his fascinating book Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty (Stanford University Press, 2014), these two questions are intimately related. The reason is pretty simple: if the state can’t find a legally and morally acceptable way to execute malefactors, then perhaps we need to ask seriously whether the state should be killing criminals at all. If the means cannot be found, then the end may well be unachievable. In Gruesome Spectacles, Sarat analyses hundreds of executions in an attempt to assess the degree to which we can kill criminals in legally and morally acceptable ways. What he discovers is that about three in a hundred American executions over the past century or so have gone badly wrong. Criminals who were supposed to have been put to death in a humane way were strangled, decapitated, set on fire, suffocated, and slowly poisoned. Apparently American authorities—however laudable their intentions—have found it quite difficult, practically speaking, to avoid “cruel and unusual punishment” when executing wrongdoers. It’s important to note that Gruesome Spectacles is not an anti-death penalty book. Sarat’s presentation of botched executions is balanced by consideration of the horrible crimes for which the ultimate penalty was imposed. What Sarat does–and we should thank him for it–is provide hard evidence on a crucial question: can we, realistically speaking, put criminals to death humanely? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When we discuss the death penalty we usually ask two questions: 1) should the state be in the business of killing criminals?; and 2) if so, how should the state put their lives to an end? As Austin Sarat shows in his fascinating book Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty (Stanford University Press, 2014), these two questions are intimately related. The reason is pretty simple: if the state can’t find a legally and morally acceptable way to execute malefactors, then perhaps we need to ask seriously whether the state should be killing criminals at all. If the means cannot be found, then the end may well be unachievable. In Gruesome Spectacles, Sarat analyses hundreds of executions in an attempt to assess the degree to which we can kill criminals in legally and morally acceptable ways. What he discovers is that about three in a hundred American executions over the past century or so have gone badly wrong. Criminals who were supposed to have been put to death in a humane way were strangled, decapitated, set on fire, suffocated, and slowly poisoned. Apparently American authorities—however laudable their intentions—have found it quite difficult, practically speaking, to avoid “cruel and unusual punishment” when executing wrongdoers. It’s important to note that Gruesome Spectacles is not an anti-death penalty book. Sarat’s presentation of botched executions is balanced by consideration of the horrible crimes for which the ultimate penalty was imposed. What Sarat does–and we should thank him for it–is provide hard evidence on a crucial question: can we, realistically speaking, put criminals to death humanely? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When we discuss the death penalty we usually ask two questions: 1) should the state be in the business of killing criminals?; and 2) if so, how should the state put their lives to an end? As Austin Sarat shows in his fascinating book Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty (Stanford University Press, 2014), these two questions are intimately related. The reason is pretty simple: if the state can’t find a legally and morally acceptable way to execute malefactors, then perhaps we need to ask seriously whether the state should be killing criminals at all. If the means cannot be found, then the end may well be unachievable. In Gruesome Spectacles, Sarat analyses hundreds of executions in an attempt to assess the degree to which we can kill criminals in legally and morally acceptable ways. What he discovers is that about three in a hundred American executions over the past century or so have gone badly wrong. Criminals who were supposed to have been put to death in a humane way were strangled, decapitated, set on fire, suffocated, and slowly poisoned. Apparently American authorities—however laudable their intentions—have found it quite difficult, practically speaking, to avoid “cruel and unusual punishment” when executing wrongdoers. It’s important to note that Gruesome Spectacles is not an anti-death penalty book. Sarat’s presentation of botched executions is balanced by consideration of the horrible crimes for which the ultimate penalty was imposed. What Sarat does–and we should thank him for it–is provide hard evidence on a crucial question: can we, realistically speaking, put criminals to death humanely? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices