Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchIn Covid’s Wake: How our Politics Failed Us: A Conversation with Frances Lee
Episode 141
In the first part of our two-part conversation on Madison’s Notes, we speak with Frances Lee, Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton U…
1 year, 1 month ago
"Steadfast Democrats" Five Years Later: A Conversation with Chryl N. Laird
Episode 115
Today I’m speaking with Chryl Laird, Associate Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland College Park. We are discussing her…
1 year, 2 months ago
Anna Lise Seastrand, "Body, History, Myth: Early Modern Murals in South India" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 579
An astonishing variety of murals greet visitors to the temples and palaces of southern India. Beautiful in execution and extensive in scope, murals p…
1 year, 2 months ago
Webb Keane, "Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 349
Revolutions in technology are fundamentally transforming what it means to be human. Or are they? As Webb Keane points out, before humans consulted Ch…
1 year, 2 months ago
David N. Livingstone, "The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 203
Scientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest threat facing our planet a…
1 year, 2 months ago
Kecia Ali, "The Woman Question in Islamic Studies" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 350
In The Woman Question in Islamic Studies (Princeton UP, 2024), the Introduction of which is available at the publisher's website, Kecia Ali delves in…
1 year, 2 months ago
Melinda Cooper, "Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance" (Zone Books, 2024)
Episode 60
At the close of the 1970s, government treasuries and central banks took a vow of perpetual self-restraint. To this day, fiscal authorities fret over …
1 year, 2 months ago
Shane Bobrycki, "The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 85
By the fifth and sixth centuries, the bread and circuses and triumphal processions of the Roman Empire had given way to a quieter world. And yet, as …
1 year, 2 months ago
Patricia Owens, "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 239
The academic field of international relations presents its own history as largely a project of elite white men. And yet women played a prominent role…
1 year, 2 months ago
Richard Rorty, "What Can We Hope For?: Essays on Politics" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 510
Today I talked to Chris Voparil about What Can We Hope For?: Essays on Politics (Princeton UP, 2023), a book of Richard Rorty's writings he co-edited…
1 year, 3 months ago