Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLizhi Liu, "From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 163
How do states build vital institutions for market development? Too often, governments confront technical or political barriers to providing the rule …
1 year, 5 months ago
Vishaan Chakrabarti, "The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 92
From one of today's most inspired architects and urban advocates, a manifesto for architecture as a force for addressing our biggest social challenge…
1 year, 5 months ago
Agustina Paglayan, "Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 109
How the expansion of primary education in the West emerged not from democratic ideals but from the state's desire to control its citizens.
Nearly ever…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Impeachment Power: A Conversation with Keith Whittington
Episode 126
In this week’s episode we step into conversation with Keith Whittington about his new book, The Impeachment Power: The Law, Politics, and Purpose of …
1 year, 6 months ago
Melissa Teixeira, "A Third Path: Corporatism in Brazil and Portugal" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 116
Following the Great Depression, as the world searched for new economic models, Brazil and Portugal experimented with corporatism as a “third path” be…
1 year, 6 months ago
Freya Gowrley, "Fragmentary Forms: A New History of Collage" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 160
Fragmentary Forms: A New History of Collage (Princeton UP, 2024) is a beautifully illustrated global history of collage from the origins of paper to …
1 year, 6 months ago
Ben Yagoda, "Gobsmacked!: The British Invasion of American English" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 108
The British love to complain that words and phrases imported from America--from French fries to Awesome, man!--are destroying the English language. B…
1 year, 6 months ago
When We Prioritize Data and Metrics, What Happens to Human Connections?
Episode 238
Today’s book is: The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World (Princeton University Press, 2024), by Dr. Allison Pugh, which ex…
1 year, 6 months ago
David Peña-Guzmán: Animals Dream and that Makes Them Morally Considerable (JP)
Episode 137
In his marvelous new book, When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness (Princeton UP, 2023), David Peña-Guzmán (SF State as well as …
1 year, 6 months ago
Toni Alimi, "Slaves of God: Augustine and Other Romans on Religion and Politics" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 276
Augustine believed that slavery is permissible, but to understand why, we must situate him in his late antique Roman intellectual context. Slaves of …
1 year, 6 months ago