Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTravis Dumsday, "Dispositionalism and the Metaphysics of Science" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 207
Dispositionalism is the view that there are irreducible causal powers in nature that explain why objects behave as they do. To say salt is soluble in…
6 years, 1 month ago
Daniel Mattingly, "The Art of Political Control in China" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 400
Tocqueville and Putnam insist that civil society helps individuals flourish and resist authority, but Daniel C. Mattingly’s decade of research in rur…
6 years, 1 month ago
Lindsay Mayka, "Building Participatory Institutions in Latin America: Reform Coalitions and Institutional Change" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 394
Lindsay Mayka’s new book examines the idea and implementation of participatory institutions, asking the question about when they actually work, and w…
6 years, 1 month ago
Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger, "Re-Engineering Humanity" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Episode 229
Every day, new warnings emerge about artificial intelligence rebelling against us. All the while, a more immediate dilemma flies under the radar. Hav…
6 years, 1 month ago
Lauren Working, "The Making of an Imperial Polity: Civility and America in the Jacobean Metropolis" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 30
In his Relation of the second voyage to Guiana, published in 1596, George Chapman put the imperial ambitions of England into a telling verse couplet.…
6 years, 2 months ago
Joseph Blocher and Darrell A.H. Miller, "The Positive Second Amendment: Rights, Regulation, and the Future of Heller" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Episode 396
In The Positive Second Amendment: Rights, Regulation, and the Future of Heller (Cambridge University Press, 2018), Joseph Blocher and Darrell A.H. Mi…
6 years, 2 months ago
Keri Leigh Merritt, "Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Episode 14
Keri Leigh Merritt discusses her book, Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and inters…
6 years, 2 months ago
Matt Grossmann, "Red State Blues: How the Conservative Revolution Stalled in the States" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 390
In his book Red State Blues: How the Conservative Revolution Stalled in the States (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Matt Grossmann examines, first…
6 years, 2 months ago
Jane D. Hatter, "Composing Community in Late Medieval Music: Self-Reference, Pedagogy, and Practice" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 92
There are a handful of pieces from the Medieval and Renaissance periods that most music students learn about in their introductory history courses; a…
6 years, 2 months ago
Thomas Kühne, "The Rise and Fall of Comradeship: Hitler’s Soldiers, Male Bonding and Mass Violence in the Twentieth Century" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
In The Rise and Fall of Comradeship: Hitler’s Soldiers, Male Bonding and Mass Violence in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2017), P…
6 years, 3 months ago