Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchIsaac Nakhimovsky, "The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 44
The Holy Alliance is now most familiar as a label for conspiratorial reaction. In The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation (Princ…
1 year, 7 months ago
Yaacob Dweck, "Dissident Rabbi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Episode 12
In 1665, Sabbetai Zevi, a self-proclaimed Messiah with a mass following throughout the Ottoman Empire and Europe, announced that the redemption of th…
1 year, 8 months ago
David Lay Williams, "The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 734
Political Theorist David Lay Williams has a new book that traces the problem of economic inequality through the thought of many of the canonical thin…
1 year, 8 months ago
Sarah Miller-Davenport, "Gateway State: Hawai’i and the Cultural Transformation of American Empire" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Episode 506
One of my talking points when hanging out with my fellow diplomatic historians is the painful absence of scholarship on Hawaii. Too many political hi…
1 year, 8 months ago
Christine Folch, "The Book of Yerba Mate: A Stimulating History" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 104
Brewed from the dried leaves and tender shoots of an evergreen tree native to South America, yerba mate gives its drinkers the jolt of liquid efferve…
1 year, 8 months ago
Ronnie Grinberg, "Write like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 314
In the years following World War II, the New York intellectuals became some of the most renowned critics and writers in the country. Although mostly …
1 year, 8 months ago
Nick Haddad, "The Last Butterflies: A Scientist's Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Episode 62
Butterflies have long captivated the imagination of humans, from naturalists to children to poets. Indeed it would be hard to imagine a world without…
1 year, 8 months ago
Victoria Smolkin, "A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism" (Princeton UP, 2018)
Episode 80
The specter of the “Godless” Soviet Union haunted the United States and continental Western Europe throughout the Cold War, but what did atheism mean…
1 year, 8 months ago
Lauren Benton, "They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 222
A sweeping account of how small wars shaped global order in the age of empires.
Imperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, slav…
1 year, 8 months ago
Shaul Magid, "Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 540
Rabbi Meir Kahane came of age amid the radical politics of the counterculture, becoming a militant voice of protest against Jewish liberalism. Kahane…
1 year, 8 months ago