Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchConspiracy Theories are More Dangerous Than Ever: A Discussion with Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum
Episode 3
Conspiracy theories are as old as politics. But conspiracists today have introduced something new—conspiracy without theory. And the new conspiracism…
5 years, 5 months ago
Jimena Canales, "Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 100
Science may be known for banishing the demons of superstition from the modern world. Yet just as the demon-haunted world was being exorcized by the e…
5 years, 5 months ago
Ronald Grigor Suny, "Stalin: Passage to Revolution" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 65
Ronald Suny’s recent biography of the young Stalin, Stalin: Passage to Revolution (Princeton UP, 2020) covers “Soso” Jughashvili’s life up to the 191…
5 years, 6 months ago
Conservatism is Always Evolving: A Discussion with Edmund Fawcett
Episode 2
For two hundred years, conservatism has defied its reputation as a backward-looking creed by confronting and adapting to liberal modernity. By doing …
5 years, 6 months ago
Why are Blacks Democrats?: An Interview with Ismail K. White and Chryl N. Laird
Episode 1
Black Americans are by far the most unified racial group in American electoral politics, with 80 to 90 percent identifying as Democrats—a surprising …
5 years, 6 months ago
W. Germano and K. Nicholls, "Syllabus: The Remarkable, Unremarkable Document that Changes Everything" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 117
Do you teach, or do you care about education? Then you have to read this book. At turns radical in the interventions it proposes in educational pract…
5 years, 7 months ago
Alan L. Mittleman, "Does Judaism Condone Violence?: Holiness and Ethics in the Jewish Tradition" (Princeton UP, 2018)
Episode 200
What exactly does the word “holy” mean in various religious traditions? What is the opposite of it in translations from the Hebrew? Is the antonym of…
5 years, 7 months ago
Despina Stratigakos, "Hitler’s Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 96
In her new book Hitler’s Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway (Princeton University Press, 2020), Despina Stratigakos investiga…
5 years, 7 months ago
Angèle Christin, “Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms” (Princeton UP, 2020)
How are algorithms changing journalism? In Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms (Princeton University Press), Angèle C…
5 years, 7 months ago
Sean Roberts, “The War on the Uyghurs: China’s Internal Campaign against a Muslim Minority” (Princeton UP, 2020)
In today’s new episode, we speak with Sean Roberts about his brand new book The War on the Uyghurs: China’s Internal Campaign against a Muslim Minori…
5 years, 8 months ago