Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMark Stout, "World War I and the Foundations of American Intelligence" (UP of Kansas, 2023)
Episode 815
Ask an American intelligence officer to tell you when the country started doing modern intelligence and you will probably hear something about the Of…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Daniela Stockmann and Ting Luo, "Governing Digital China" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 816
China's approach to digital governance has gained global influence, often evoking Orwellian 'Big Brother' comparisons. Governing Digital China (Cambr…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Caillan Davenport, "Behind Caesar's Back: Rumor, Gossip, and the Making of the Roman Emperors" (Yale UP, 2026)
Episode 814
In Behind Caesar's Back: Rumor, Gossip, and the Making of the Roman Emperors (Yale UP, 2026), Professor Caillan Davenport presents a thrilling explor…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Peter S. Goodman, "Davos Man: How the Billionaire Class Devoured Democracy" (Custom House, 2022)
Episode 138
Drawing on decades of experience covering the global economy, New York Times' journalist Peter S. Goodman profiles five representative Davos Men-memb…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
Alex Prichard, "Anarchism: a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 381
If you asked a passerby on the street what anarchism is, they may answer that it is an ideology based on chaos, disorder, and violence. But is this t…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
Jon R. Lindsay "Age of Deception: Cybersecurity as Secret Statecraft" (Cornell UP, 2025)
Episode 182
At the heart of cybersecurity lies a paradox: Cooperation makes conflict possible. In Age of Deception (Cornell University Press 2025), Jon R. Lindsa…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
Dianna N. Watkins-Dickerson, "A Black Woman for President: Shirley Chisholm, Carol Moseley Braun, and Kamala Harris" (UP of Mississippi)
Episode 809
Throughout US history, only three Black women—Shirley Chisholm, Carol Moseley Braun, and Kamala Harris—have given successfully recognized bids for th…
9 months ago
Ning Leng, "Politicizing Business: How Firms Are Made to Serve the Party-State in China" (Cambridge, 2025)
Episode 810
In her new book, Politicizing Business: How Firms Are Made to Serve the Party-State in China (Cambridge, 2025), Ning Leng shows how Chinese officials…
9 months ago
Lisa Min et al. eds., "Redacted: Writing in the Negative Space of the State" (punctum books, 2024)
Episode 808
When it comes to the political, acts of redaction, erasure, and blacking out sit in awkward tension with the myth of transparent governance, borderle…
9 months ago
Jens Ludwig, "Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Episode 807
Disproving the popular narrative that shootings are the calculated acts of malicious or desperate people, Ludwig shows how most shootings actually gr…
9 months ago