Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAdrienne Mayor, "Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws: And Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 43
Adrienne Mayor is renowned for exploring the borders of history, science, archaeology, anthropology, and popular knowledge to find historical realiti…
3 years, 10 months ago
Max Holleran, "Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 139
The exorbitant costs of urban housing and the widening gap in income inequality are fueling a combative new movement in cities around the world. A gr…
3 years, 10 months ago
Edwin Amenta and Neal Caren, "Rough Draft of History: A Century of US Social Movements in the News" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 237
Rough Draft of History: A Century of US Social Movements in the News (Princeton UP, 2022) offers a new view of U.S. social movement history across th…
3 years, 10 months ago
Jerry Z. Muller, "Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 76
Genius or Charlatan?
This is the story of Jacob Taubes, the controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-centu…
3 years, 10 months ago
Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman, "Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 106
Hitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence, fear, and ideology. But in recent decades a new breed of media-savvy strongmen has been redesigning a…
3 years, 10 months ago
Juwen Zhang, "The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 35
The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales (Princeton University Press, 2022) by Dr. Juwen Zhang brings together forty-two magical Chinese tal…
3 years, 10 months ago
Martin Williams, "When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 118
The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, equal in size to China or the United States. Yet, this arid expanse was once a verdant, pleasant l…
3 years, 11 months ago
Evan Lieberman, "Until We Have Won Our Liberty: South Africa After Apartheid" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 42
At a time when many democracies are under strain around the world, Until We Have Won Our Liberty: South Africa After Apartheid (Princeton UP, 2022) s…
3 years, 11 months ago
Akshya Saxena, "Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 149
Against a groundswell of critiques of global English, Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India (Princeton UP, 2022) argues th…
3 years, 11 months ago
Jim Al-Khalili, "The Joy of Science" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 119
Today’s world is unpredictable and full of contradictions, and navigating its complexities while trying to make the best decisions is far from easy. …
3 years, 11 months ago