Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDavid Badre, "On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 8
On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done (Princeton UP, 2020) is a look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions—and how this s…
1 year, 9 months ago
Mark R. Beissinger, "The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 726
Examining the changing character of revolution around the world, The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion (Pri…
1 year, 9 months ago
Paula Bialski on Middletech, Software Work, and the Culture of Good Enough
Episode 76
Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks with Paula Bialski, an Associate Professor for Digital Sociology at the University of St. Gallen in St. Gallen…
1 year, 9 months ago
Jonathan Marc Gribetz, "Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 101
How the Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center informed the PLO's relationship to Zionism and Israel
In September 1982, the Israeli militar…
1 year, 9 months ago
Mark Peterson, "The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Episode 519
In the vaunted annals of America’s founding, Boston has long been held up as an exemplary “city upon a hill” and the “cradle of liberty” for an indep…
1 year, 9 months ago
David J. Hand, "Dark Data: Why What You Don't Know Matters" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 52
There is no shortage of books on the growing impact of data collection and analysis on our societies, our cultures, and our everyday lives. David Han…
1 year, 10 months ago
Meaghan Stiman, "Privileging Place: How Second Homeowners Transform Communities and Themselves" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 100
In recent decades, Americans have purchased second homes at unprecedented rates. In Privileging Place: How Second Homeowners Transform Communities an…
1 year, 10 months ago
Alexandre Lefebvre, "Liberalism as a Way of Life" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 346
In political philosophy, “liberalism” is not the name of a particular social platform. Rather, it refers to a framework for thinking about politics. …
1 year, 10 months ago
Michael Sonenscher, "Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 217
What exactly is capitalism? How has the meaning of capitalism changed over time? And what’s at stake in our understanding or misunderstanding of it? …
1 year, 10 months ago
Erin Lin, "When the Bombs Stopped: The Legacy of War in Rural Cambodia" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 724
Over the course of the Vietnam War, the United States dropped 500,000 tons of bombs over Cambodia—more than the combined weight of every man, woman, …
1 year, 10 months ago