Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKathryn Cramer Brownell, "24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 68
As television began to overtake the political landscape in the 1960s, network broadcast companies, bolstered by powerful lobbying interests, dominate…
2 years, 9 months ago
Richard N. Langlois, "The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 80
The twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States. An organizational transformation, from entrepreneurial to managerial capitalis…
2 years, 9 months ago
Anne Phillips, "Unconditional Equals" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 396
For centuries, ringing declarations about all men being created equal appealed to a shared human nature as the reason to consider ourselves equals. B…
2 years, 9 months ago
Janna Levin, "How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 67
Is the universe infinite or just really big? With this question, cosmologist Janna Levin announces the central theme of this book, which established …
2 years, 9 months ago
Yi-Lin Chiang, "Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 203
We understand very little about how elite individuals and families operate in everyday life to maintain their privileged statuses, as many of these s…
2 years, 10 months ago
The Future of the Sacred Nation: A Discussion with Anna M. Grzymała-Busse
Episode 69
When it comes to the development of Western Europe there was religion and then there was science. That is how the story is generally told but Anna Gr…
2 years, 10 months ago
Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg, "The Closed Book: How the Rabbis Taught the Jews (Not) to Read the Bible" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 415
Early Judaism is often described as the religion of the book par excellence—a movement built around the study of the Bible and steeped in a culture o…
2 years, 10 months ago
John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle, "Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 66
Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living (Princeton UP, 2023) invites readers to rethink how we work today by exploring an aspect of Henry David Tho…
2 years, 10 months ago
Frank Costigliola, "Kennan: A Life Between Worlds" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 1329
The diplomat and historian George F. Kennan (1904-2005) ranks as one of the most important figures in American foreign policy--and one of its most co…
2 years, 10 months ago
Grace Elisabeth Lavery, "Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 65
In Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques (Princeton UP, 2023), Grace Lavery investigates gender transition …
2 years, 10 months ago