Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRichard Ned Lebow, "Why Nations Still Fight" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 1279
Drawing on an original data set of interventions and wars from 1945 to the current day, as well as numerous short case studies, Richard Ned Lebow off…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Encore - Shai Lavi, "Bioethics and Biopolitics in Israel: Socio-legal, Political and Empirical Analysis" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 4
Once upon a time, or so we’ve been told, medical ethics were confined to the patient-doctor relationship. As long as doctors were true to their Hippo…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Speech and the City
Episode 1277
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Ingrid Piller speaks with Yaron Matras about his new book Speech and the City.
In this timely bo…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Sabrina Inowlocki, "Ancient Apologetics and the Bibliographic Imagination" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 1276
Ancient apologetics is usually treated as a literary genre or a branch of early theology. This Element offers a different account. It argues that man…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Robin Whelan, "Serving the Christian State in Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 1275
How did the state become Christian in late antiquity? Many scholars have traced the Christianization of the Roman world in the centuries following …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Tatiana Seijas, "American Metropolis: The Making of Mexico City" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 1274
Mexico City was America's largest city in the seventeenth century – a genuine metropolis. In American Metropolis: The Making of Mexico City (Cambridg…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Seth Masket, "The Elephants in the Room: How Trump Voters Seized the Party from Republican Leaders" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 1273
Political Scientist Seth Masket’s new book, The Elephants in the Room: How Trump Voters Seized the Party from Republican Leaders (Cambridge UP, 2026…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Deborah Mayersen, "Genocide Prevention: An Evidence-Based Approach" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 1272
There has never been a more promising time for genocide prevention. More resources and research are being focused on prevention than ever before. Yet…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Jacob Hagstrom, "Asymmetric Warfare: Politics and Cultures of Violence in the Modern Era" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 1271
Asymmetric Warfare: Politics and Cultures of Violence in the Modern Era (Cambridge University Press, 2025).
The forces that fight asymmetric wars are…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Xiaofan Amy Li, "The Aesthetics of Risk in Franco-East Asian Literatures" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 1270
The Aesthetics of Risk in Franco-East Asian Literatures (Cambridge UP, 2026) is the first book that examines the concept of risk in non-anglophone wo…
1 month, 4 weeks ago