Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCorey Ross, "Liquid Empire: Water and Power in the Colonial World" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 1491
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a handful of powerful European states controlled more than a third of the land surface of the planet. Thes…
1 year, 6 months ago
Marietje Schaake, "The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 107
Over the past decades, under the cover of "innovation," technology companies have successfully resisted regulation and have even begun to seize power…
1 year, 6 months ago
Jeffrey Ding, "Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 107
When scholars and policymakers consider how technological advances affect the rise and fall of great powers, they draw on theories that center the mo…
1 year, 7 months ago
Alexandre Lefebvre, "Liberalism as a Way of Life" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 741
Why liberalism is all you need to lead a good, fun, worthy, and rewarding life—and how you can become a better and happier person by taking your libe…
1 year, 7 months ago
Brianna Nofil, "The Migrant's Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 104
Today, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) detains an average of 37,000 migrants each night. To do so, they rely on, and pay for, the use of…
1 year, 7 months ago
Mary Bridges, "Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers and the Making of a Superpower" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 57
There was nothing inevitable or natural about the rise of US finance capitalism in the early twentieth century.
In Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers a…
1 year, 7 months ago
Leonard Cassuto, "Academic Writing as if Readers Matter" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 197
Academic writing isn’t known for its clarity. While graduate students might see reading and writing turgid academic prose as a badge of honor—a sign …
1 year, 7 months ago
Camilla Nord, "The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 32
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, 7 months ago
Behind the Mic: How Danielle D’Orlando is Transforming Academic Audiobooks at Princeton UP
Episode 193
Princeton University Press publishes some of the best books every year, racking up accolades and launching the careers of thousands of scholars. As a…
1 year, 7 months ago
Karl Marx, "Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 105
Karl Marx (1818-1883) was living in exile in England when he embarked on an ambitious, multivolume critique of the capitalist system of production. T…
1 year, 7 months ago