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Book of the Day/ Sports

From Football to Soccer

The Early History of the Beautiful Game in the United States

Brian D. Bunk

Hosted by Bennett Koerber
Across North America, native peoples and colonists alike played a variety of kicking games long before soccer's emergence in the late 1800s. Brian D. Bunk examines the development and social impact of these sports through the rise of professional soccer after World War I. As he shows, the various games called football gave women an outlet as athletes and encouraged men to form social bonds based on educational experience, occupation …
Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis Under Occupation

Practicing Resistance in Palestine

Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi

Hosted by J. J. Mull
On this episode, J.J. Mull interviews co-authors Lara and Stephen Sheehi about their book, Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (Routledge, 2021). As they discuss in the interview, the …
On Religion

On Hope in a Secular Age

A Discussion with David Newheiser

David Newheiser

Hosted by Gregory Soden
David Newheiser is a research fellow in the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at Australian Catholic University. His first book, Hope in a Secular Age (Cambridge UP, 2019), argues …
Political Science

Desertion

Trust and Mistrust in Civil Wars

Theodore McLauchlin

Hosted by Lamis Abdelaaty
Desertion: Trust and Mistrust in Civil Wars (Cornell UP, 2020) examines the personal and political factors behind soldiers' choices to stay in their unit or abandon their cause. Theodore McLauchlin's explores what …
Music

My Old Kentucky Home

The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song

Emily Bingham

Hosted by Kristen Turner
Any song as old and as familiar as “My Old Kentucky Home” is bound to have accrued many different meanings and an interesting history. Emily Bingham’s book, My Old Kentucky …
South Asian Studies

Liberty After Freedom

A History of Article 21, Due Process and the Constitution of India

Rohan J. Alva

Hosted by Alok Prasanna and Sarayu Natarajan
Rohan J. Alva is a counsel practicing in the Supreme Court of India. He earned his LLM from Harvard Law School, where he focused on constitutional law, which he read …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel

Queering Anti-Zionism

Academic Freedom, LGBTQ Intellectuals, and Israel/Palestine Campus Activism

Corinne E. Blackmer

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
Why do some scholars sacrifice truth and logic to political ideology and peer acceptance? With courage and intellectual integrity, queer scholar-activist Corinne Blackmer stages a pointed critique of scholars whose …
Sociology

The Souls of White Jokes

How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy

Raúl Pérez

Hosted by Pete Kunze
Having a "good" sense of humor generally means being able to take a joke without getting offended—laughing even at a taboo thought or at another's expense. The insinuation is that …
Writ Large

On Plato's "Apology"

A Discussion with Steven Smith

Steven Smith

Hosted by Zachary Davis
In 399 BC, the Greek philosopher Socrates was on trial. He believed in free-thought and sought truth by questioning everything, including society. And the Athenian government decided he was dangerous …
Caribbean Studies

Panama in Black

Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century

Kaysha Corinealdi

Hosted by Nicole Ramsey
In Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century (Duke UP, 2022), Kaysha Corinealdi traces the multigenerational activism of Afro-Caribbean Panamanians as they forged diasporic communities in Panama …
East-West Psychology Podcast

Mandala of Individuation: An Integral Jungian Reinterpretation of Art History

A Discussion with Olena Provencher

Olena Provencher

Hosted by Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay
In this podcast, we meet Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness Ph.D. Olena Provencher, who shares her journey from Russia to the USA and eventually being called to CIIS to pursue her …
Architecture

A History of Solar Power Art and Design

Alex Nathanson

Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
Alex Nathanson's book A History of Solar Power Art and Design (Routledge, 2021) examines the history of creative applications of photovoltaic (PV) solar power, including sound art, wearable technology, public art …
Environmental Studies

Sixty Harvests Left

How to Reach a Nature-Friendly Future

Philip Lymbery

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
From the United Kingdom to Italy, from Brazil to the Gambia to the USA, Philip Lymbery, the internationally acclaimed author of Farmageddon, goes behind the scenes of industrial farming and …
Jewish Studies

Demons in the Details

Demonic Discourse and Rabbinic Culture in Late Antique Babylonia

Sara Ronis

Hosted by Zalman Newfield
The Babylonian Talmud is full of stories of demonic encounters, and it also includes many laws that attempt to regulate such encounters. In Demons in the Details: Demonic Discourse and …
Jewish Studies

Sin•a•gogue

Sin and Failure in Jewish Thought

David Bashevkin

Hosted by Matthew Miller
By its very nature, the ideals of religion entail sin and failure. Judaism has its own language and framework for sin that expresses themselves both legally and philosophically. Both legal …
The Vault

Tod Gitlin on the Recovery of American Ideals

Tod Gitlin

Hosted by New York Institute for the Humanities
In this episode from the Institute’s Vault, we hear from Tod Gitlin. Gitlin was president of the Students for a Democratic Society, and went on to become a sociologist, political …
International Horizons

Quo Vadis Britannia? Where is Britain Going?

A Discussion with Adrian Favell

Adrian Favell

Hosted by International Horizons
The United Kingdom has experienced a number of epochal transitions of late, starting with its departure from the European Union in early 2020, and more recently, the replacement of the …
Book of the Day/ The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones

The Future of Nuclear Weapons

A Conversation with Fred Kaplan

Fred Kaplan

Hosted by Owen Bennett-Jones
For much of the Cold War the United States had thousands more nuclear weapons than it needed. And it took decades for American political leaders to realise no one had ever asked: ‘how many nuclear weapons is enough?’ As for Ronald Reagan, he went into office a nuclear hawk and came out considering total disarmament. These aspects of the history the US nuclear programme are described in Fred Kaplan’s book The …
American West

You Will Never Be One of Us

A Teacher, a Texas Town, and the Rural Roots of Radical Conservatism

Timothy Paul Bowman

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
As the 1974 school year began, Wayne Woodward was a beloved high school teacher in a rural Texas town. By the following spring, he was embroiled in a local political …
Environmental Studies

Agrotopias

An American Literary History of Sustainability

Abby L. Goode

Hosted by Brian Hamilton
In Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability (UNC Press, 2022), Abby L. Goode reveals the foundations of American environmentalism and its enduring connections to racism, eugenics, and agrarian ideals …
Literature

Three Muses

Martha Anne Toll

Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
In Three Muses (Regal House Publishing, 2022) by Martha Toll, John Curtin survives the Holocaust by singing for the entertainment of the kommendant who murdered his family. He’s sent to …
Music

Unrequited Infatuations

A Memoir

Stevie Van Zandt

Hosted by Bradley Morgan
What story begins in a bedroom in suburban New Jersey in the early '60s, unfolds on some of the country's largest stages, and then ranges across the globe, demonstrating over …
General History

Autumn of Our Discontent

Fall 1949 and the Crises in American National Security

John M. Curatola

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
In the Fall of 1949, a series of international events shattered the notion that the United States would return to its traditional small peacetime military posture following World War II …
Eastern European Studies

Capitalism in Chaos

How the Business Elites of Europe Prospered in the Era of the Great War

Máté Rigó

Hosted by Roland Clark
Capitalism in Chaos: How the Business Elites of Europe Prospered in the Era of the Great War (Cornell UP, 2022) explores an often-overlooked consequence and paradox of the First World …
Psychology

The Complex PTSD Coping Skills Workbook

An Evidence-Based Approach to Manage Fear and Anger, Build Confidence, and Reclaim Your Identity

Tamara McClintock Greenberg

Hosted by Eugenio Duarte
If you've experienced long-term or repeated trauma--such as childhood abuse or neglect, domestic violence, betrayal, or prolonged emotional abuse--you may struggle with intense feelings of sadness, anger, anxiety, shame, and …
On Religion

On the Lives of Objects

A Discussion with Maia Kotrosits

Maia Kotrosits

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Maia Kotrosits is assistant professor of religion at Denison University and is the author of the book The Lives of Objects. …
Religion

Passion Plays

How Religion Shaped Sports in North America

Randall Balmer

Hosted by Jackson Reinhardt
Randall Balmer was a late convert to sports talk radio, but he quickly became addicted, just like millions of other devoted American sports fans. As a historian of religion, the …
Philosophy

Queering Philosophy

Kim Q. Hall

Hosted by Sarah Tyson
Why isn’t there a queer subfield in philosophy? How has institutionalized philosophy continued to develop without a recognized specialization in queer philosophy? What would it mean to care queerly for …
Literary Studies

Literature and Class

From the Peasants’ Revolt to the French Revolution

Andrew Hadfield

Hosted by John Yargo
Andrew Hadfield is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. Andrew has written widely on topics ranging from class struggle in the Forsyte chronicles, Hamlet and Poland, and early …
Environmental Studies

Cannibal Capitalism

How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet and What We Can Do About It

Nancy Fraser

Hosted by Brian Hamilton
Capital is currently cannibalizing every sphere of life–guzzling wealth from nature and racialized populations, sucking up our ability to care for each other, and gutting the practice of politics. In Cannibal …
Writ Large

On Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe"

A Discussion with Stephanie DeGooyer

Stephanie DeGooyer

Hosted by Zachary Davis
When it was first published in 1719, many people believed Robinson Crusoe was a true story. Crusoe provides readers with a close look at not only the isolated human on …
Public Policy

Retail Inequality

Reframing the Food Desert Debate

Kenneth H. Kolb

Hosted by Stephen Pimpare
Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert Debate (U California Press, 2021) examines the failure of recent efforts to improve Americans' diets by increasing access to healthy food. Based on exhaustive …
Science, Technology, and Society

The Networked Public

How Social Media is Changing Democracy

Amber Sinha

Hosted by Alok Prasanna and Sarayu Natarajan
Amber Sinha works at the intersection law, technology and society, and studies the impact of digital technologies on socio-political processes and structures. His research aims to further the discourse on regulatory …
Children's Literature

Publishing Children's Books

A Chat with Meira Firon

Meira Firon

Hosted by Mel Rosenberg
Meira Firon is an award-winning Israeli children's author, publisher, translator, editor, and most recently, owner of a flagship bookstore on Allenby Street in Tel Aviv. In 2004 she established …
Book of the Day/ Intellectual History

Completely Free

The Moral and Political Vision of John Stuart Mill

John Peter DiIulio

Hosted by Hope J. Leman
As we emerge from a period of government-mandated lockdowns and as threats to free speech multiply, we would be wise to re-engage with the work of a seminal thinker on the subjects of liberty, freedom and nondomination. We can do so most effectively by reading Completely Free: The Moral and Political Vision of John Stuart Mill (Princeton UP, 2022) by John Peter DiIulio. Mill (1806–73), for all his influence on fields …
Sports

Never Say Die

The Hundred-Year Overnight Success of Australian Women's Football

Fiona Crawford and Lee McGowan

Hosted by Keith Rathbone
Today we are joined by two guests: Dr. Fiona Crawford, a writer, editor, and researcher whose work engages with social, environmental, and sports. Dr. Crawford writes for a range of …
Biography

The Man Who Understood Democracy

The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville

Olivier Zunz

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
In 1831, at the age of twenty-five, Alexis de Tocqueville made his fateful journey to America, where he observed the thrilling reality of a functioning democracy. From that moment onward …
World Affairs

The Meddlers

Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance

Jamie Martin

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance (Harvard University Press, 2022) presents a pioneering history that traces the origins of global economic governance—and the political conflicts …
Art

Pilgrimage to the Museum

Man's Search for God Through Art and Time

Stephen F. Auth

Hosted by Daniel Peris
In Pilgrimage to the Museum: Man's Search for God through Art and Time (Sophia Institute Press, 2022), Stephen Auth takes you on a provocative and colorful journey through the history of Western …
Gender Studies

The Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture

A Feminist Critique

Mary J. Magoulick

Hosted by Iqra Shagufta Cheema
Goddess characters are revered as feminist heroes in the popular media of many cultures. However, these goddess characters often prove to be less promising and more regressive than most people …
Film

Ernest Lehman

The Sweet Smell of Success

Jon Krampner

Hosted by Daniel Moran
A Hollywood screenwriting and movie-making icon, Ernest Lehman penned some of the most memorable scenes to ever grace the silver screen. Hailed by Vanity Fair as “perhaps the greatest screenwriter …
Law

Servants of the Damned

Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice

David Enrich

Hosted by William Domnarski
In his acclaimed #1 bestseller Dark Towers, David Enrich presented the never-before-told saga of how Deutsche Bank became the global face of financial recklessness and criminality. Now Enrich turns his …
On Religion

On Literary Persecutions, Sex Scandals, and American Minority Religions

A Discussion with Megan Goodwin

Megan Goodwin

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Megan Goodwin, Ph.D., is Program Director for Sacred Writes, a Luce-funded project promoting public scholarship on religion hosted by Northeastern University. Her first book, Abusing Religion: Literary Persecutions, Sex Scandals …
German Studies

Environing Empire

Nature, Infrastructure and the Making of German Southwest Africa

Martin Kalb

Hosted by Eric Grube
German ambitions to transform Southwest Africa in the early part of the twentieth century were futile and resulted in the widespread death and suffering of indigenous populations. For years colonists …
Writ Large

On Jorge Luis Borges' "Fictions"

A Discussion with Mariano Siskind

Mariano Siskind

Hosted by Zachary Davis
Fictions is a collection of short stories by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. In the mid-20th century, Latin American literature gained a worldwide audience, in part thanks to Borges. His …
American Studies

Degrade and Destroy

The Inside Story of the War Against the Islamic State, from Barack Obama to Donald Trump

Michael R. Gordon

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
In Degrade and Destroy: The Inside Story of the War Against the Islamic State, from Barack Obama to Donald Trump (FSG, 2022), Wall Street Journal national security correspondent Michael R. Gordon …
Medicine

Tik Merauke

An Epidemic Like No Other

John Richens

Hosted by Rachel Pagones
A medical doctor with an inquisitive mind and a traveling spirit, John Richens thought he had hit upon an exemplary public health case study – the story of donovanosis among …
Lies Agreed Upon

It’s The End Of The World As We Know It

On On the Beach (1959), The Day After (1983), and Threads (1984)

Hosted by Lia Paradis and Brian Crim
Last episode we discussed films about how a nuclear war would start, particularly the insane logic of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD). In this episode we explore how American, British, and …
East Asian Studies

The Concrete Plateau

Urban Tibetans and the Chinese Civilizing Machine

Andrew Grant

Hosted by Palden Gyal
In The Concrete Plateau: Urban Tibetans and the Chinese Civilizing Machine (Cornell UP, 2022), Grant examines how China’s urban development policies of frontier cities like Xining (Tib. zi ling) accompanied …
Arguing History

How Should We Remember Winston Churchill?

Jeremy Black

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
How should we remember the complicated figure of Winston Churchill? Was he (in the words of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan) "The greatest Englishman in history?" Or was Churchill at base (as a …
Sociology

Global Agenda for Social Justice 2

Glenn W. Muschert et al.

Hosted by Michael Johnston
Global Agenda for Social Justice 2 (Policy Press, 2022) provides accessible insights into some of the world’s most pressing social problems and proposes practicable international public policy responses to those …
High Theory

Echo

A Discussion with Amit Pinchevski

Amit Pinchevski

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode of High Theory, Amit Pinchevski tells us about echoes. An echo is a sonic reflection of an emission bouncing back to its origin, which if delayed long …
Book of the Day/ Critical Theory

Against Decolonization

Taking African Agency Seriously

Olúfemi Táíwò

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
Decolonisation has lost its way. Originally a struggle to escape the West’s direct political and economic control, it has become a catch-all idea, often for performing ‘morality’ or ‘authenticity’. In Against Decolonization: Taking African Agency Seriously (Hurst, 2022), Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò fiercely rejects the indiscriminate application of ‘decolonisation’ to everything from literature, language and philosophy to sociology, psychology and medicine. Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò speaks to Pierre d’Alancaisez about the project of ‘decolonisation’ as …
Russian and Eurasian Studies

A Spiritual Revolution

The Impact of Reformation and Enlightenment in Orthodox Russia, 1700–1825

Andrey V. Ivanov

Hosted by Erika Monahan
The ideas of the Protestant Reformation, followed by the European Enlightenment, had a profound and long-lasting impact on Russia’s church and society in the long eighteenth century. Though the Orthodox …
Economic and Business History

Beyond Patriotic Phobias

Connections, Cooperation, and Solidarity in the Peruvian-Chilean Pacific World

Joshua Savala

Hosted by Luka Haeberle
The War of the Pacific (1879–1883) looms large in the history of Peru and Chile. Upending the prevailing historiographical focus on the history of conflict, Beyond Patriotic Phobias: Connections, Cooperation …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight

Futsal

The Indoor Game That Is Revolutionizing World Soccer

Jamie Fahey

Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked to Jamie Fahey about his book Futsal: The Indoor Game That Is Revolutionizing World Soccer (Melville House, 2021). Some 60 million people player futsal worldwide, as this five-a-side version …
Asian Review of Books

Water, Wood, and Wild Things

Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town

Hannah Kirshner

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
A young sake bar owner, Yusuke Shimoki, arrives on the doorstep of Hannah Kirshner’s Brooklyn apartment “with a suitcase full of Ishikawa sake,” in Hannah’s words. That visit sparked a …
African American Studies

The Silent Shore

The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State

Charles L. Chavis Jr.

Hosted by Omari Averette-Phillips
On December 4, 1931, a mob of white men in Salisbury, Maryland, lynched and set ablaze a twenty-three-year-old Black man named Matthew Williams. His gruesome murder was part of a …
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery

Corrections in Ink

A Memoir

Keri Blakinger

Hosted by Joel Tscherne
Corrections in Ink (St. Martin's Press, 2022) is an electric and unforgettable memoir about a young woman's journey-from the ice rink, to addiction and a prison sentence, to the newsroom-emerging …
Novel Dialogue

Light and Sound: Boubacar Boris Diop with Sarah Quesada

Boubacar Boris Diop and Sarah Quesada

Hosted by Novel Dialogue
Boubacar Boris Diop is the author of Murambi: The Book of Bones, (Indiana UP, 2016; translated by Fiona McLaughlin), an unforgettable novel of the Rwandan genocide that blends journalistic research with finely …
On Religion

On Affect Theory and Religion

An Discussion with Donovan Schaefer and Brian Carwana

Donovan Schaefer and Brian Carwana

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Donovan Schaefer is an assistant professor in the Religious Studies Department at the University of Pennsylvania. Schaefer is the author of Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power. Brian Carwana is the …
Anthropology

A Future History of Water

Andrea Ballestero

Hosted by Gustavo Gutiérrez Suárez
Based on fieldwork among state officials, NGOs, politicians, and activists in Costa Rica and Brazil, A Future History of Water (Duke UP, 2019) traces the unspectacular work necessary to make …
Middle Eastern Studies

A Sephardi Sea

Jewish Memories Across the Modern Mediterranean

Dario Miccoli

Hosted by Roberto Mazza
A Sephardi Sea: Jewish Memories Across the Modern Mediterranean (Indiana UP, 2022) tells the story of Jews from the southern shore of the Mediterranean who, between the late 1940s and …
Writ Large

On "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights"

A Discussion with Mathias Risse

Mathias Risse

Hosted by Zachary Davis
In 1948, the United Nations presented a document outlining human rights for every person in the world. This document was called the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This document has …
Academic Life

College Baseball in the Offseason

Meet the Savannah Bananas

Kyle Luigs

Hosted by Christina Gessler
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: The hard work of balancing academics and sports when you attend college on an athletic scholarship.Kyle’s original dream for …
Indian Religions

Phiroz Mehta

A Zoroastrian Teacher of Indian Philosophy of Religion in 1970s-80s Britain

Karen O'Brien-Kop

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Phiroz Mehta, was a self-taught philosopher of religion who became the revered core figure of a universal religion and philosophy centred on concepts of existential freedom. Less well known than …
Critical Theory

Creating Worlds Otherwise

Art, Collective Action, And (Post)Extractivism

Paula Serafini

Hosted by Dave O'Brien
How are art and social justice intertwined? In Creating Worlds Otherwise: Art, Collective Action, and (Post)Extractivism Paula Serafini, a Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries at Queen Mary University of …
Environmental Studies

How the Biosphere Works

Fresh Views Discovered While Growing Peppers

Fred Spier

Hosted by Nathan Moore
How the Biosphere Works: Fresh Views Discovered While Growing Peppers (CRC Press, 2022) offers a simple and novel theoretical approach to understanding the history of the biosphere, including humanity’s place …
Diplomatic History

The New Atlantic Order

The Transformation of International Politics, 1860-1933

Patrick O. Cohrs

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
The New Atlantic Order: The Transformation of International Politics, 1860-1933 (Cambridge UP, 2022) elucidates a momentous transformation process that changed the world: the struggle to create, for the first time …
Native American Studies

Lincoln and Native Americans

Michael S. Green

Hosted by Nathan Moore
President Abraham Lincoln ordered the largest mass execution of Indigenous people in American history, following the 1862 uprising of hungry Dakota in Minnesota and suspiciously speedy trials. He also issued …
Book of the Day/ Russian and Eurasian Studies

Knowledge and the Ends of Empire

Kazak Intermediaries and Russian Rule on the Steppe, 1731-1917

Ian W. Campbell

Hosted by Maggie Freeman
In Knowledge and the Ends of Empire: Kazak Intermediaries and Russian Rule on the Steppe, 1731-1917 (Cornell University Press, 2017), Ian W. Campbell investigates the connections between knowledge production and policy formation on the Kazak steppes of the Russian Empire. Hoping to better govern the region, tsarist officials were desperate to obtain reliable information about an unfamiliar environment and population. This thirst for knowledge created opportunities for Kazak intermediaries to …
Japanese Studies

The Japanese Buddhist World Map

Religious Vision and the Cartographic Imagination

David Max Moerman

Hosted by Shatrunjay Mall
From the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries Japanese monks created hundreds of maps to construct and locate their place in a Buddhist world. Expansively illustrated with multiple maps and illustrations …
Japanese Studies

Yuming's The 14th Moon

Lasse Lehtonen

Hosted by Ran Zwigenberg
Today I will be talking to Lasse Lehtonen about his book The 14th Moon, which came out with Bloomsbury this year (2022). With me today is Dr. Brooke McCorkle, who …
General History

The World the Plague Made

The Black Death and the Rise of Europe

James Belich

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
In 1346, a catastrophic plague beset Europe and its neighbours. The Black Death was a human tragedy that abruptly halved entire populations and caused untold suffering, but it also brought …
Religion

Stories, Senses and the Charismatic Relation

A Reflexive Ethnography of Christian Experience

Jamie Barnes

Hosted by Tiatemsu Longkumer
Stories, Senses and the Charismatic Relation: A Reflexive Ethnography of Christian Experience (Routledge, 2020) offers a uniquely intimate and auto-ethnographic exploration of Christian experience, rendering a deep, phenomenological account of …
General History

Long Days, Short Years

A Cultural History of Modern Parenting

Andrew Bomback

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
When did "parenting" become a verb? Why is it so hard to parent, and so rife with the possibility of failure? Sitcom families of the past--the Cleavers, the Bradys, the …
On Religion

On Ripples in the Universe, QANON, and the January 6 Insurrection

A Discussion with Susannah Crockford

Susannah Crockford

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Dr. Susannah Crockford is an anthropologist with interests in spirituality, politics, ecology, economics, and survivalism. She's the author of Ripples of the Universe: Spirituality in Sedona, Arizona. …
Anthropology

Trouillot Remixed

The Michel-Rolph Trouillot Reader

Yarimar Bonilla, Greg Beckett, and Mayanthi L. Fernando

Hosted by Adam Bobeck
Throughout his career, the internationally renowned Haitian anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot unsettled key concepts in anthropology, history, postcolonial studies, Black studies, Caribbean studies, and beyond. From his early critique of the …
Secularism

Positive Atheism

Bayle, Meslier, D'Holbach, Diderot

Charles Devellenes

Hosted by Carrie Lynn Evans
In Positive Atheism: Bayle, Meslier, d’Holbach, Diderot (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), Dr. Charles Devellennes looks at the religious, social, and political thought of the first four thinkers of the French …
Writ Large

On Karl Marx's "The Communist Manifesto"

A Discussion with Louis Menand

Louis Menand

Hosted by Zachary Davis
1848 was the Year of Revolutions in Europe. It was also the year that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published The Communist Manifesto, proposing a new, classless society. As revolutions …
Critical Theory

Failure of Vision

Michael Harrington and the Limits of Democratic Socialism

Doug Greene

Hosted by Stephen Dozeman
The Democratic Socialists of America have exploded in the last few years, going from just a couple thousand members to close to a hundred thousand. This was from a …
Literary Studies

Ship Life

Seven Months of Voluntary Slavery

Olga Melnyk

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Ship Life: Seven Months of Voluntary Slavery (2022) is written in the form of a diary of a Ukrainian girl who worked as a bar server on an American cruise ship …
Film

Horror Films for Children

Fear and Pleasure in American Cinema

Catherine Lester

Hosted by Pete Kunze
Children and horror are often thought to be an incompatible meeting of audience and genre, beset by concerns that children will be corrupted or harmed through exposure to horror media …
Performing Arts

The Choreography of Everyday Life

Annie-B Parson

Hosted by Andy Boyd
Renowned choreographer Annie-B Parson's new book The Choreography of Everyday Life (Verso, 2022) is many things: a pandemic diary, a discourse of Greek tragedy, and a tribute to Parson's many inspirations …
Intellectual History

The Death of Transcendence

Reflections on Jean Améry's 'At the Mind's Limits'

Yoav Ashkenazy

Hosted by Yakir Englander
The Death of Transcendence (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022) presents a clear and compelling close reading and interpretation of the five essays included in Jean Améry’s At the Mind’s limit, describing them …
Scholarly Communication

Preparing to Publish

Sarah Huffman, Elena Cotos, and Kimberly Becker

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Sarah Huffman (Assistant Director of the Center for Communication Excellence) and Elena Cotos (Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics in the English Department and Director of …
Nordic Asia Podcast

"Riding the Wild Horse in Chinese Literature”: Translation and Research on "Jin Ping Mei"

A Conversation with Vibeke Børdahl

Vibeke Børdahl

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
What is the oral tradition of Chinese storytelling about and what is the connection to the great Chinese novels? How to translate a Chinese classic such as the famed and …
Book of the Day/ Critical Theory

The Quantified Scholar

How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences

Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra

Hosted by Dave O'Brien
How do metrics and quantification shape social science? In The Quantified Scholar: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences (Columbia UP, 2022), Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, an Associate Professor in sociology at the University of California, San Diego, explores this question using a case study of British academia. The book combines a rich array of quantitative and qualitative analysis, demonstrating the transformation of working conditions, institutional contexts, and research areas …
Latino Studies

Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies

A Reader

Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas and Mérida M. Rúa

Hosted by Jonathan Cortez
Latinx Studies has long been overdue for a revamp – a different orientation to the questions with which we concern ourselves. Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies: A Reader (New York …
Political Science

Governing Abroad

Coalition Politics and Foreign Policy in Europe

Sibel Oktay

Hosted by Lamis Abdelaaty
From Austria to New Zealand, coalition governments often pave the road to foreign policy. In Western Europe, nearly 90 percent of postwar governments include two or more political parties. Israel …
General History

Death By Shakespeare

Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts

Kathryn Harkup

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
William Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to kill off his characters, and audiences today still enjoy the same reactions – shock, sadness, fear – that they did more than …
History of Science

Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona

Incarnations and Contestations

Kirsti Niskanen and Michael J. Barany

Hosted by Victor Monnin
In Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona. Incarnations and Contestations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), Professors Kirsti Niskanen and Michael J. Barany present a rich collection of essays on …
South Asian Studies

India After World History

Literature, Comparison, and Approaches to Globalization

Neilesh Bose

Hosted by Gargi Binju
In the twenty-first century, terms such as globalization, global, and world function as key words at the cusp of new frontiers in both historical writing and literary criticism. Practitioners of …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast

The Aesthetic Cold War

Decolonization and Global Literature

Peter J. Kalliney

Hosted by Mark Klobas
How did superpower competition and the cold war affect writers in the decolonizing world? In The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature (Princeton UP, 2022), Peter Kalliney explores the …
Entrepreneurship and Leadership

The Path to Empowering Iconic Brands

A Conversation with Sören Stamer

Sören Stamer

Hosted by Richard Lucas and Kimon Fountoukidis
Head ninja. Top strategist. Main innovation engine. Chief optimist. Sören Stamer wears a lot of hats, and it’s one of the main reasons he wears the CEO hat at CoreMedia …
On Religion

On a Life in Buddhism

A Discussion with Gary Gach

Gary Gach

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Gary Gach is the author of Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Buddhism. …
General History

Nomads

The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World

Anthony Sattin

Hosted by Maggie Freeman
Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World (W. W. Norton & Company, 2022) by Anthony Sattin tells the remarkable story of how nomads have fostered and refreshed civilization throughout history …
Writ Large

On F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"

A Discussion with David Alworth

David Alworth

Hosted by Zachary Davis
“America” means something different to everyone. American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby, his account of the roaring twenties, the decade of economic growth and social change that …
Christian Studies

The Epistle of Barnabas

A Commentary

Jonathon Lookadoo

Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Although the Epistle of Barnabas may be best known for its Two Ways Tradition or its anti-Jewish use of Scripture, its contents reveal much that will be of interest to …
Animal Studies

Wilderness, Morality, and Value

Joshua Duclos

Hosted by Kyle Johannsen
What if wilderness is bad for wildlife? This question motivates the philosophical investigation in Wilderness, Morality, and Value (Lexington Books, 2022). Environmentalists aim to protect wilderness, and for good reasons …
Canadian Studies

Canadian History through the Eyes of the Canadian Canoe Museum

A Discussion with Jeremy Ward

Jeremy Ward

Hosted by Greg Marchildon
Greg Marchildon interviews Jeremy Ward, the curator of the Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough, Ontario, about the role of the canoe in the history of the portion of North America …