Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRoss Carroll, "Uncivil Mirth: Ridicule in Enlightenment Britain" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 570
Political Theorist Ross Carroll takes the reader through Enlightenment conversations about the use of ridicule and laughter in politics and political…
4 years, 4 months ago
Martin Conway, "Western Europe’s Democratic Age: 1945-1968" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 31
What happened in the years following World War II to create a democratic revolution in the western half of Europe? In Western Europe’s Democratic Age…
4 years, 4 months ago
Michael Cholbi, "Grief: A Philosophical Guide" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 271
We think of grief as a normal response to the death of a loved one. We’re familiar with the so-called “five stages” of grief. Grief seems as an emoti…
4 years, 4 months ago
Diana S. Kim, "Empires of Vice: The Rise of Opium Prohibition Across Southeast Asia" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 10
In Empires of Vice: The Rise of Opium Prohibition across Southeast Asia (Princeton University Press, 2020) Diana Kim situates the regulation of vice …
4 years, 4 months ago
Noah Weisbord, "The Crime of Aggression: The Quest for Justice in an Age of Drones, Cyberattacks, Insurgents, and Autocrats" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Episode 155
On July 17, 2018, starting an unjust war became a prosecutable international crime alongside genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. Inste…
4 years, 4 months ago
Luke Glanville, "Sharing Responsibility: The History and Future of Protection from Atrocities" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 153
The idea that states share a responsibility to shield people everywhere from atrocities is presently under threat. Despite some early twenty-first ce…
4 years, 4 months ago
Joanne W. Golann, "Scripting the Moves: Culture and Control in a "No-Excuses" Charter School" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 151
Ethnographer and sociologist Joanne Golann spent 18 months observing the day-to-day life of students and teachers in a “no-excuses” charter school. I…
4 years, 4 months ago
"Bambi" isn't about what you think it's about: Jack Zipes explains
Episode 20
Most of us think we know the story of Bambi—but do we? The Original Bambi: The Story of a Life in the Forest (Princeton UP, 2022) is an all-new, illu…
4 years, 4 months ago
Jason Lyall, "Divided Armies: Inequality and Battlefield Performance in Modern War" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 567
Why do some armies fare better than others on the battlefield? In Divided Armies: Inequality and Battlefield Performance in Modern War (Princeton UP,…
4 years, 4 months ago
Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz, "Figures of the Future: Latino Civil Rights and the Politics of Demographic Change" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 561
Figures of the Future: Latino Civil Rights and the Politics of Demographic Change (Princeton UP, 2021) examines the “contemporary population politics…
4 years, 5 months ago