Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDorothy Cobble, "For the Many: American Feminists and the Global Fight for Democratic Equality" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 15
For the Many: American Feminists and the Global Fight for Democratic Equality (Princeton University Press, 2021) presents an inspiring look at how US…
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Adom Getachew, "Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 967
Adom Getachew, the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, is the author of Worldmaking after Empire: …
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Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro, "Minds Wide Shut How the New Fundamentalisms Divide Us" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 114
Two very thoughtful oddfellows--a labor economist and a Russian literature scholar--take on the world's problems in their newest collaboration, Minds…
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Joel Waldfogel, "Digital Renaissance: What Data and Economics Tell Us about the Future of Popular Culture" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 63
Digitization is reshaping creative industries. Old gatekeepers in music, publishing, television, movies, and other industries no longer play such an …
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Can We Fix Social Media?: A Discussion with Christopher A. Bail
Episode 14
In an era of increasing social isolation, platforms like Facebook and Twitter are among the most important tools we have to understand each other. We…
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John Garth, "The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-Earth" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 31
John Garth's The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-Earth (Princeton University Press, 2020) takes you to the places that insp…
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A Field Guide to Grad School: A Conversation with Jessica McCrory Calarco
Episode 36
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bri…
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The Water Crisis on the High Plains: A Discussion with Lucas Bessire
Episode 13
The Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less than a century of unsustainable irrigation farming has t…
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Sean R. Roberts, "The War on the Uyghurs: China's Internal Campaign Against a Muslim Minority" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 124
There are currently eleven million Uyghurs living in China, but more than one million are being held in so-called reeducation camps. A cultural genoc…
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Dying from Despair in the USA: A Discussion with Anne Case
Episode 12
Life expectancy in the United States has recently fallen for three years in a row—a reversal not seen since 1918 or in any other wealthy nation in mo…
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