Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCamilla Nord, "The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 113
There are many routes to mental well-being. In this groundbreaking book, neuroscientist Camilla Nord offers a fascinating tour of the scientific deve…
1 year, 3 months ago
Isaac Stanley-Becker, "Europe Without Borders: A History" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 39
Forty years ago, Schengen - a wine-making village at the tripoint border of Luxembourg, France, and Germany - made European history when diplomats fr…
1 year, 3 months ago
Benjamin H. Bradlow, "Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 400
Why some cities are more effective than others at reducing inequalities in the built environment.
For the first time in history, most people live in c…
1 year, 3 months ago
Richard H. Davis, "Religions of Early India: A Cultural History" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 374
From its earliest recorded history, India was a place of remarkable and varied religious activity, ranging from elaborate sacrificial rituals and rig…
1 year, 4 months ago
Fionna S. Cunningham, "Under the Nuclear Shadow: China's Information-Age Weapons in International Security" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 116
How can states use military force to achieve their political aims without triggering a catastrophic nuclear war? Among the states facing this dilemma…
1 year, 4 months ago
Shannon Mattern, "A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 38
Computational models of urbanism—smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration—promise to deliver new urban efficiencies …
1 year, 4 months ago
Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen, "Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility Among India’s Professional Elite" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 123
In India, elite law firms offer a surprising oasis for women within a hostile, predominantly male industry. Less than 10 percent of the country's law…
1 year, 4 months ago
Eric Storm, "Nationalism: A World History" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 112
The current rise of nationalism across the globe is a reminder that we are not, after all, living in a borderless world of virtual connectivity. In N…
1 year, 4 months ago
Peter Singer, "Consider the Turkey" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 199
A turkey is the centerpiece of countless Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. Yet most of us know almost nothing about today’s specially bred, commerc…
1 year, 4 months ago
Leah Downey, "Our Money: Monetary Policy as If Democracy Matters" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 111
How the creation of money and monetary policy can be more democratic.
The power to create money is foundational to the state. In the United States, th…
1 year, 4 months ago