Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Future of Rules: A Discussion with Lorraine Daston
Episode 38
Which rules do we obey and which ones can we find a way around? What distinctions can be drawn between rules, models to be emulated and algorithms. L…
3 years, 6 months ago
Andrew S. Rosenberg, "Undesirable Immigrants: Why Racism Persists in International Migration" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 628
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 officially ended the explicit prejudice in American immigration policy that began with the 1790 restricti…
3 years, 6 months ago
Bruce G. Carruthers, "The Economy of Promises: Trust, Power, and Credit in America" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 43
A comprehensive and illuminating account of the history of credit in America, The Economy of Promises: Trust, Power & Credit in America (Princeton UP…
3 years, 6 months ago
Max H. Bazerman, "Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 50
It is easy to condemn obvious wrongdoers such as Elizabeth Holmes, Adam Neumann, Harvey Weinstein, and the Sackler family. But we rarely think about …
3 years, 6 months ago
Yuhua Wang, "The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 47
How social networks shaped the imperial Chinese state China was the world’s leading superpower for almost two millennia, falling behind only in the l…
3 years, 6 months ago
Mike Owen Benediktsson, "In the Midst of Things: The Social Lives of Objects in the Public Spaces of New York City" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 77
How ordinary urban objects influence our behavior, exacerbate inequality, and encourage social change Assumptions about human behavior lie hidden in …
3 years, 6 months ago
John Stillwell, "The Story of Proof: Logic and the History of Mathematics" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 78
The Story of Proof: Logic and the History of Mathematics (Princeton UP, 2022) investigates the evolution of the concept of proof--one of the most sig…
3 years, 6 months ago
Money or Meaning? A Discussion on Choice and Restlessness with Ben and Jenna Storey
Season 2 Episode 60
What kinds of tools do we need to make big decisions, and why aren't our universities training us to make them? Are universities doing students a dis…
3 years, 6 months ago
Leslie A. Geddes, "Watermarks: Leonardo Da Vinci and the Mastery of Nature" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 122
Formless, mutable, transparent: the element of water posed major challenges for the visual artists of the Renaissance. To the engineers of the era, w…
3 years, 6 months ago
Kimberly Kay Hoang, "Spiderweb Capitalism: How Global Elites Exploit Frontier Markets" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 49
In 2015, the anonymous leak of the Panama Papers brought to light millions of financial and legal documents exposing how the superrich hide their mon…
3 years, 6 months ago