Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSwethaa S. Ballakrishnen, "Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility Among India’s Professional Elite" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 123
In India, elite law firms offer a surprising oasis for women within a hostile, predominantly male industry. Less than 10 percent of the country's law…
4 years, 10 months ago
What Do the Ancients Have to Teach Us?: A Discussion with Rob Tempio
Episode 19
Today I talked to Rob Tempio, the editor of a wonderful collection of books from Princeton University Press called "Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers…
4 years, 10 months ago
B. Storey and J. Silber Storey, "Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 108
What makes us happy? What keeps us from being happy? Is restlessness the same thing as unhappiness? Is happiness something we should value or assume …
4 years, 10 months ago
Hélène Landemore, "Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 118
Students of American history know that the framers of the Constitution were deeply concerned that the United States would founder on the shoals of mo…
4 years, 10 months ago
Michael W. McConnell, "The President Who Would Not Be King: Executive Power under the Constitution" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 529
Michael McConnell, the Richard and Frances Mallery Professor and director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford University Law School and seni…
4 years, 10 months ago
Adeeb Khalid, "Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 23
In Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present (Princeton University Press, 2021), Adeeb Khalid presents a comprehensive n…
4 years, 10 months ago
Eviatar Zerubavel, "Taken for Granted: The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable" (Princeton UP, 2018)
Episode 18
Why is the term "openly gay" so widely used but "openly straight" is not? What are the unspoken assumptions behind terms like "male nurse," "working …
4 years, 10 months ago
Manon Garcia, "We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women's Lives" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 165
We are here today with Manon Garcia, the author of We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women’s Lives, published this year, 2021, by Pri…
4 years, 11 months ago
Fei-Hsien Wang, "Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Episode 5
Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China (Princeton University Press, 2019) is a detailed historical look at how copyrig…
4 years, 11 months ago
Suzanne L. Marchand, "Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 1003
Suzanne L. Marchand's new book Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe (Princeton University Press, 2020) balances several histories at once th…
4 years, 11 months ago