Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKelly McCormick, "The Problem of Blame: Making Sense of Moral Anger" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 293
Blame seems both morally necessary and morally dicey. Necessary, because it appears to be a central part of holding others to account for wrongdoing.…
4 years, 1 month ago
Sarah Neville, "Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 173
Over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, works of botany underwent a radical change in the English book trade. A genre that was on…
4 years, 1 month ago
Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky, "Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2013)
Episode 37
This comprehensive three-volume reference work collects and summarizes the wealth of information available in the field of transitional justice. Tran…
4 years, 1 month ago
Ivan Franceschini and Nicholas Loubere, "Global China as Method" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 145
Is China part of the world? Based on much of the political, media, and popular discourse in the West the answer is seemingly no. Even after four deca…
4 years, 1 month ago
Johan Fourie, "Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom: Lessons from 100,000 Years of Human History" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 40
In Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom: Lessons from 100,000 Years of Human History (Cambridge UP, 2022), Johan Fourie gives a new look to economic his…
4 years, 1 month ago
Simon Truwant, "Cassirer and Heidegger in Davos: The Philosophical Arguments" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 154
The 1929 encounter between Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger in Davos, Switzerland is considered one of the most important intellectual debates of …
4 years, 1 month ago
Hussein Banai, "Hidden Liberalism: Burdened Visions of Progress in Modern Iran" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 190
Compared to rival ideologies, liberalism has fared rather poorly in modern Iran. This is all the more remarkable given the essentially liberal substa…
4 years, 1 month ago
Paolo Squatriti, "Weeds and the Carolingians: Empire, Culture, and Nature in Frankish Europe, AD 750-900" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 8
In Weeds and the Carolingians: Empire, Culture, and Nature in Frankish Europe, AD 750–900 (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Dr. Paolo Squatriti ask…
4 years, 1 month ago
Kristen A. Harkness, "When Soldiers Rebel: Ethnic Armies and Political Instability in Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 138
Military coups are a constant threat in Africa and many former military leaders are now in control of 'civilian states', yet the military remains und…
4 years, 2 months ago
Roselyn Hsueh, "Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 113
Roselyn Hsueh’s Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism (Cambridge, 2022) presents a new framework for understanding how developing countries i…
4 years, 2 months ago