Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAnthony Abraham Jack, "Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 103
Elite colleges are boasting unprecedented numbers with respect to diversity, with some schools admitting their first majority-minority classes. But w…
1 year, 8 months ago
Tehila Sasson, "The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 107
After India gained independence in 1947, Britain reinvented its role in the global economy through nongovernmental aid organisations. Utilising exist…
1 year, 8 months ago
Noah Heringman, "Deep Time: A Literary History" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 27
In Deep Time: A Literary History (Princeton UP, 2023), Noah Heringman, Curators’ Professor of English at the University of Missouri, presents a “coun…
1 year, 8 months ago
Anna Bonnell Freidin, "Birthing Romans: Childbearing and Its Risks in Imperial Rome" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 30
Across the vast expanse of the Roman Empire, anxieties about childbirth tied individuals to one another, to the highest levels of imperial politics, …
1 year, 9 months ago
Julia Sonnevend, "Charm: How Magnetic Personalities Shape Global Politics" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 102
Politics is a site of performance, and contemporary politicians often perform the role of a regular person--perhaps someone we would like to have a b…
1 year, 9 months ago
Shaul Magid on the Jewish Radicalism of Meir Kahane (JP, Eugene Sheppard)
Episode 131
For Kahane, the greatest enemy of the Jews was not the black nationalist, the greatest enemy of the Jews was not the Arabs. The greatest enemy of the…
1 year, 9 months ago
Benjamin Nathans, "To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 275
A gripping history of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR--and still provides a model of opposition in Putin's Russia.
B…
1 year, 9 months ago
Jan Eeckhout, "The Profit Paradox: How Thriving Firms Threaten the Future of Work" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 154
It is a truth universally acknowledged that as a society we want successful, profitable companies because, as Jan Eeckhout says in The Profit Paradox…
1 year, 9 months ago
Musa al-Gharbi, "We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 374
How a new "woke" elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status--without helping the marginalized and disadvantaged.
Society …
1 year, 9 months ago
Anton Howes, "Arts and Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 35
Over the past 300 years, The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce has tried to improve British life in every way im…
1 year, 9 months ago