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Back to SearchJulian Jackson, "De Gaulle" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Episode 470
Charles de Gaulle is one of the greatest figures of twentieth century history. If Sir Winston Churchill was (in the words of Harold Macmillan) the "g…
11 months ago
Peter Apps, "Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO" (Hachette UK, 2024)
The history of the world’s most successful military alliance, from the wrecked Europe of 1945 to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
As they signed…
11 months, 1 week ago
Carl Rhodes, "Stinking Rich: The Four Myths of the Good Billionaire" (Policy Press, 2025)
Episode 543
Billionaires are an ultra-elite social class whose numbers are growing alongside their obscene wealth while others struggle, suffer or even die.
They…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
J. McKenzie Alexander, "The Open Society as an Enemy: A Critique of how Free Societies Turned Against Themselves" (LSE Press, 2024)
The Open Society as an Enemy: A critique of how free societies turned against themselves by J. McKenzie Alexander
Nearly 80 years ago, Karl Popper ga…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Timothy Stacey, "Saving Liberalism from Itself: The Spirit of Political Participation" (Bristol UP, 2022)
Saving Liberalism from Itself: The Spirit of Political Participation Bristol UP, 2022) By Timothy Stacey
In the wake of populism, Timothy Stacey’s …
11 months, 4 weeks ago
Malaysian-Nordic Relations
In the latest episode of the Nordic Asia Podcast, Professor Julie Yu-Wen Chen of the University of Helsinki speaks with Mr. Mohamed Ariff Bin Mohamed…
1 year ago
Yaroslav Hrytsak, "Ukraine: The Forging of a Nation" (PublicAffairs, 2024)
When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the world witnessed the “creative, freewheeling, darkly humorous, and deeply resilient society” that is contempo…
1 year ago
Danielle Leavitt, "By the Second Spring: Seven Lives and One Year of the War in Ukraine" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025)
An intimate, affecting account of life during wartime, told through the lives that have been shattered. Even as scores of Americans rally to the Ukra…
1 year ago
John H. Cochrane, Klaus Masuch, and Luis Garicano, "Crisis Cycle: Challenges, Evolution, and Future of the Euro" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Crisis Cycle: Challenges, Evolution, and Future of the Euro (Princeton UP, 2025)
John Cochrane
Luis Garicano
Klaus Masuch
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRES…
1 year ago
Johannes Karremans, "Between Voters and Eurocrats: How Do Governments Justify their Budgets?" (Oxford UP, 2024)
How do governments in Europe justify their budgets towards the national parliament? Are their socioeconomic policies shaped more by electoral pressur…
1 year ago