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Neal Baer and John Maa on Taxing Soda
In 2017, the journal Perspectives in Biology and Medicine published a pair of articles arguing in favor of a tax on soda. The two authors - Dr. Neal Baer, a television writer and producer and a pediatrician, and Dr. John Maa, a San Francisco-based surgeon - provide a concise history of the obesity epidemic and its connection to the consumption of soda in their articles. They joined us for separate interviews about the issue and why they feel tackling the problem of soda is important to the health of Americans.
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Hopkins Press Podcast 3.10: Barrett Taylor on Tenure Ban Legislation
On today’s episode, we talk with Barrett Taylor, professor and coordinator of the higher education program at the University of North Texas. He studies the ways in which higher education interfaces with society, investigating topics including state politics...
Hopkins Press Podcast 3.9: Koritha Mitchell
Koritha Mitchell is is a public intellectual, a professor of English, a literary historian, an award-winning author and cultural critic, and as of last year she is also a member of the Hopkins Press Advisory Board. Her work has already had quite an impact both...
Hopkins Press Podcast 3.8: Poe Studies on The Poe/tics of Reception
Last January, at the MLA conference in New Orleans, the journal Poe Studies hosted a panel discussion about the influence of Eliza Richards’ book Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle. This is a book that has played an important role on the study...
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