Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAdam Goodman, “The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Many of us know that immigrants have been deported from the United States for well over a century, but has anyone ever asked how? In The Deportation …
5 years, 10 months ago
Zena Hitz, “Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Do you have an active intellectual life? That is a question you may feel uncomfortable answering these days given that the very phrase “intellectual …
5 years, 10 months ago
Daniel Q. Gillion, “The Loud Minority: Why Protests Matter in American Democracy” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Political Scientist Daniel Q. Gillion’s new book, The Loud Minority: Why Protests Matter in American Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2020) is …
5 years, 11 months ago
Ashley Mears, “Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Ashley Mears’ new book Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit (Princeton University Press, 2020) provides readers with …
5 years, 11 months ago
Forrest Stuart, “Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy” (Princeton UP, 2020)
How do young men use drill music and social media to gain power? In his new book, Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online I…
5 years, 11 months ago
Ayala Fader, “Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age” (Princeton UP, 2020)
What would you do if you questioned your religious faith, but revealing that would cause you to lose your family and the only way of life you had eve…
6 years ago
Yael Tamir, “Why Nationalism?” (Princeton UP, 2019)
Around the world today, nationalism is back—and it’s often deeply troubling. Populist politicians exploit nationalism for authoritarian, chauvinistic…
6 years ago
Ünver Rüstem, “Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul” (Princeton UP, 2019)
In Istanbul, there is a mosque on every hill. Cruising along the Bosphorus, either for pleasure, or like the majority of Istanbul’s denizens, for tra…
6 years ago
Abraham Newman and Henry Farrell, “Of Privacy and Power: The Transatlantic Struggle over Freedom and Security” (Princeton UP, 2019)
We live in an interconnected world. People, goods, and services leap across borders like never before. Terrorist organizations, like al-Qaida, and di…
6 years ago
Christopher Tomlins, “In the Matter of Nat Turner: A Speculative History” (Princeton UP, 2020)
In 1831, Nat Turner led a band of Southampton County slaves in a rebellion that killed fifty-five whites, mostly women and children. After more than …
6 years ago