New Books Network
Book of the Day/ History

The Constitution of Knowledge

A Defense of Truth

Jonathan Rauch

Hosted by Mark Klobas
In recent years Americans have experienced a range of assaults upon the truth. In The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth (Brookings Institution Press, 2021), Jonathan Rauch describes the various ways in which our understanding of truth has come under attack, and the mechanisms that exist to fight back. As Rauch explains, the challenge of determining truth is as old as civilization itself, with the system we use today …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel

Friendship

The Evolution, Biology and Extraordinary Power of Life's Fundamental Bond

Lydia Denworth

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
The phenomenon of friendship is universal and elemental. Friends, after all, are the family we choose. But what makes these bonds not just pleasant but essential, and how do they …
Eastern European Studies

The Politics of Memory of the Second World War in Contemporary Serbia

Collaboration, Resistance and Retribution

Jelena Đureinović

Hosted by Jill Massino
Exploring the concepts of collaboration, resistance, and postwar retribution and focusing on the Chetnik movement, Jelena Đureinović's book The Politics of Memory of the Second World War in Contemporary Serbia (Routledge …
Political Science

Discrimination and Delegation

Explaining State Responses to Refugees

Lamis Elmy Abdelaaty

Hosted by Susan Liebell
States face choices when people forced to leave their states due to persecution or violence seek refuge. They may assert their sovereignty by either granting or denying entry or they …
Performing Arts

Deviant Opera

Sex, Power, and Perversion on Stage

Axel Englund

Hosted by Andy Boyd
In Deviant Opera: Sex, Power, and Perversion on Stage (University of California Press, 2020), Axel Englund examines an increasingly common trope in opera direction: the use of imagery associated with the kink …
Economic and Business History

Pirates and Publishers

A Social History of Copyright in Modern China

Fei-Hsien Wang

Hosted by Ghassan Moazzin
Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China (Princeton University Press, 2019) is a detailed historical look at how copyright was negotiated and protected by authors, publishers, and …
History

The Free World

Art and Thought in the Cold War

Louis Menand

Hosted by Ryan Tripp
In his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Metaphysical Club, acclaimed scholar and critic Louis Menand, Professor of English at Harvard University and staff writer at The New Yorker, offers a new intellectual …
Science, Technology, and Society

Objectivity

Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison

Hosted by Sarah Kearns
Turns out "objectivity" has a not-so clear-cut definition across time. In this podcast, Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison to discuss their work, Objectivity (Zone Books, 2010). This work traces the historical and …
Science

Conversations About Biology

Howard Burton

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
This Ideas Roadshow Collection includes five Ideas Roadshow books that have been developed from filmed wide-ranging conversations with the following leading researchers: sleep scientist Matthew Walker (UC Berkeley), biochemist Nick …
Critical Theory

Violent Ignorance

Confronting Racism and Migration Control

Hannah Jones

Hosted by Dave O'Brien
Why does ignorance matter? In Violent Ignorance: Confronting Racism and Migration Control (Zed Books, 2021), Hannah Jones, an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, thinks through …
Animal Studies

Animalia

An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for Our Times

Antoinette Burton and Renisa Mawani

Hosted by Akash Ondaatje
From yaks and vultures to whales and platypuses, animals have played central roles in the history of British imperial control. The contributors to Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for Our Times …
The Future of Higher Education

An interview with Michael Crow

President, Arizona State University

Hosted by David Finegold
Michael Crow describes his 19-year tenure leading ASU’s transformation from a regional, “party school” to what has been recognized as the U.S.’s most innovative research universities for six years in …
Nordic Asia Podcast

The Politics of Chinese Media

A Discussion with Bingchun Meng

Bingchun Meng

Hosted by Joanne Kuai
Feeling betrayed by liberal ideals in the US and UK, how are Chinese international students dealing with rising racism during the pandemic? Bingchun Meng from LSE talks to Joanne Kuai …
Book of the Day/ Entrepreneurship and Leadership

Why Startups Fail

A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success

Tom Eisenmann

Hosted by Richard Lucas and Kimon Fountoukidis
Why do many startups fail? Tom Eisenmann, Professor of Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School realised that even he didn’t really know the answer, despite a lifetime teaching entrepreneurship, and decided to write a book to answer exactly that question. You can hear him go into detail on the NBN Entrepreneurship and Leadership Channel interviewed by experienced entrepreneurs Richard Lucas and Kimon Fountoukidis. Whether you want to start a business one …
Fantasy

The Wolf and the Woodsman

A Novel

Ava Reid

Hosted by Gabrielle Mathieu
Today I talked to Ava Reid about her new book The Wolf and the Woodsman (Harper Voyager, 2021) The wolf, in the title refers to a pagan woman, given to the dreaded …
Psychoanalysis

White Privilege

Psychoanalytic Perspectives

Neil Altman

Hosted by Tracy Morgan
Neil Altman’s White Privilege: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (Routledge, 2020) is a slip (80 pages including references and the index) of a book that reads as both addendum and antidote to some of …
Art

Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe

Mary D. Garrard

Hosted by Allison Leigh
Artemisia Gentileschi is by far the most famous woman artist of the premodern era. Her art addressed issues that resonate today, such as sexual violence and women’s problematic relationship to …
Mobilities and Methods

Working Out Desire

Women, Sport, and Self-Making in Istanbul

Sertaç Sehlikoglu

Hosted by Alize Arıcan
Working Out Desire: Women, Sport, and Self-Making in Istanbul (Syracuse UP, 2020) examines spor merakı as an object of desire shared by a broad and diverse group of Istanbulite women. Sehlikoglu …
Literature

One Kind Favor

A Novel

Kevin McIlvoy

Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
Based loosely on a tragic real-life incident in 2014, One Kind Favor (WTAW Press 2021) explores the consequences of the lynching of a young black man in rural North Carolina. After the lynching …
Literary Studies

Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive

Bethany Hicok

Hosted by Duncan McCargo
What more can we learn about legendary American writer Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79), dubbed by Bethany Hicok “the most stunning poet of the twentieth century”, by exploring the wonderful archives of her …
History

Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives

Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age

Martha Moffitt Peacock

Hosted by Jana Byars
Today we are joined by Martha Moffitt Peacock, Professor of Art History at Brigham Young University about her new book, Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives: Imaging Women of Consequence in the …
Psychology

Smoke Hole

Looking to the Wild in the Time of the Spyglass

Martin Shaw

Hosted by Susan Grelock-Yusem
At a time when we are all confronted by not one, but many crossroads in our modern lives—identity, technology, trust, politics, and a global pandemic—celebrated mythologist and wilderness guide Martin …
Christian Studies

Shaping the Stranger Churches

Migrants in England and the Troubles in the Netherlands, 1547–1585

Silke Muylaert

Hosted by Ryan Shelton
During the mid-sixteenth century, English reformers invited a group of continental Protestant refugees to London and surrounding provinces. The ecclesiastical authorities allowed them liberty to establish their own churches with relatively little …
Scholarly Communication

Understanding the Paragraph and Paragraphing

Iain McGee

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Iain McGee (PhD, Cardiff University) a PhD student in the Department of Religion and Theology at the University of Bristol (UK), and an EAP teacher …
Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work

Rachel Stuart on the Unmet Health Needs of London Sex Workers

An interview with Rachel Stuart

Rachel Stuart

Hosted by Victoria Holt
Doctors of the World, also known as Médecins du Monde, is an international network of more than 400 programmes across 80 different countries, providing emergency and long term medical care …
Politics & Polemics

Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes

Steven B. Smith

Hosted by Jack Petranker
In a time when questions about patriotism, nationalism, multiculturalism, and the like are sure to stir up controversy, Steven Smith offers a careful, balanced defense of what he calls “enlightened …
Poetry

Broken Ballads

A Poetry Collection

Nicole Danielle

Hosted by Athena Dixon
For as often as it may seem to be the case, life doesn’t exist in extremes. Whatever pain, love, desire, or hurt, moving through life is a balancing act. We …
Japanese Studies

Men in Metal

A Topography of Public Bronze Statuary in Modern Japan

Sven Saaler

Hosted by Jingyi Li
In his pioneering study, Men in Metal: A Topography of Public Bronze Statuary in Modern Japan (Brill, 2020), Sven Saaler examines Japanese public statuary as a central site of historical memory from …
Cover Story

Writing Engaged History

An Interview with Matthew Karp

Matthew Karp

Hosted by Agata Popeda
Matthew Karp is a historian of the U.S. Civil War era and its relationship to the nineteenth-century world. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Pennsylvania in …
Book of the Day/ Law

Why Should We Obey the Law?

George Klosko

Hosted by Ian Drake
In his new book Why Should We Obey the Law? (Polity Press, 2018), George Klosko, the Henry L. and Grace Doherty Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, has provided an introduction to the competing theories behind why people should obey the law. What Klosko refers to as “political obligations” exist in all societies, but he seeks to reveal the different justifications for such obligations in modern liberal democracies and republics …
Law

Men in White Coats

Treatment Under Coercion

George Szmukler

Hosted by Jane Richards
The laws that govern psychiatric treatment under coercion have remain largely unchanged since the eighteenth century. But this is not because of their effectiveness, rather, these laws cling to outdated …
American West

The Giants and Their City

Major League Baseball in San Francisco, 1976-1992

Lincoln A. Mitchell

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
In 1976, the San Francisco Giants headed north of the border and became the Toronto Giants - or so the sportswriters of the time would have you believe. In The Giants …
Art

Another Aesthetics Is Possible

Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War

Jennifer Ponce de León

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
In Another Aesthetics Is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War (Duke UP, 2021), Jennifer Ponce de León examines the roles that art can play in the collective labour …
Science

Making Art Work

How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture

W. Patrick Mccray

Hosted by Matthew Jordan
Artwork as opposed to experiment? Engineer versus artist? We often see two different cultural realms separated by impervious walls. But some fifty years ago, the borders between technology and art …
Celebration Studies

Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas

Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition

Cécile Fromont

Hosted by Emily Ruth Allen
Edited by Dr. Cécile Fromont, Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition (Penn State University Press, 2019), demonstrates how, from the beginning of the Atlantic …
Anthropology

The Inheritance

Elizabeth A. Povinelli

Hosted by Suvi Rautio
Elizabeth A. Povinelli’s inheritance was passed down not through blood or soil but through a framed map of Trentino, Alto Adige—the region where family's ancestral alpine village is found. Far …
Art

The Empress and I

How an Ancient Empire Collected, Rejected and Rediscovered Modern Art

Donna Stein

Hosted by Kirstin Ellsworth
In the 1970s, American curator Donna Stein served as an art advisor to Empress Farah Diba Pahlavi, the Shahbanu of Iran. Together, Stein and Pahlavi generated an art market in …
Sociology

Tainted Tap

Flint's Journey from Crisis to Recovery

Katrinell M. Davis

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
After a cascade of failures left residents of Flint, Michigan, without a reliable and affordable supply of safe drinking water, citizens spent years demanding action from their city and state …
Sociology

The Puzzle of Prison Order

Why Life Behind Bars Varies Around the World

David Skarbek

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
Many people think prisons are all the same-rows of cells filled with violent men who officials rule with an iron fist. Yet, life behind bars varies in incredible ways. In …
Life Wisdom

Frank Clooney on “The Scholar-Practitioner”

Jesuit Priest, Professor, Harvard Divinity School

Frank Clooney

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
To what extent should scholarship foreground the beliefs and experiences of the scholar producing it? Where does the scholar-practitioners fit at the academy today? Join us as we explore such …
Literature

Lilacs in the Dust Bowl

Diana Stevan

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Author Diana Stevan's sequel to the award-winning Sunflowers Under Fire. Lukia's story continues in Lilacs in the Dust Bowl (Peregrin Publishing, 2021),  an inspirational family saga about love and heartache during …
Geography

Pushed Out

Contested Development and Rural Gentrification in the US West

Ryanne Pilgeram

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
What happens to rural communities when their traditional economic base collapses? When new money comes in, who gets left behind? Pushed Out: Contested Development and Rural Gentrification in the US …
Genocide Studies

A Sad Fiasco

Colonial Concentration Camps in Southern Africa, 1900–1908

Jonas Kreienbaum

Hosted by Kelly McFall
Holocaust and Genocide historians have spent much time and effort recently considering the connections between the experiences and ideas of colonialism and subsequent mass atrocity violence.  Jonas Kreienbaum's recent book …
Book of the Day/ Genocide Studies

Drunk on Genocide

Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany

Edward B. Westermann

Hosted by Kelly McFall
The title of Edward Westermann's new book, Drunk on Genocide: Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany (Cornell University Press, published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2021), suggests that it is about the use of alcohol by perpetrators of the Holocaust.  And it is.  Westermann documents extensively how alcohol served to bind perpetrators together and to help them celebrate, conduct and perhaps forget mass murder. The amount …
Law

Overcoming Challenges in the Mental Capacity Act 2005

Practical Guidance for Working with Complex Issues

Camillia Kong and Alex Ruck Keene

Hosted by Jane Richards
Overcoming Challenges in the Mental Capacity Act 2005: Practical Guidance for Working with Complex Issues (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2019) both delivers on what promises and more: it gives practical and ethical guidance for …
Education

Black Appetite. White Food.

Issues of Race, Voice, and Justice Within and Beyond the Classroom

Jamila Lyiscott

Hosted by Christina Bosch
One year to the day after George Flloyd’s murder, Dr. Jamila Lyiscott discusses her book on racial justice in education: Black Appetite. White Food. Issues of Race, Voice, and Justice …
Political Science

Against Demagogues

What Aristophanes Can Teach Us about the Perils of Populism and the Fate of Democracy

Robert C. Bartlett

Hosted by Lilly Goren
Political Theorist Robert Bartlett spoke with the New Books in Political Science podcast about two of his recent publications, which take on translating the work of two distinct classical thinkers …
Entrepreneurship and Leadership

Conscious Leadership

Elevating Humanity Through Business

John Mackey, Steve McIntosh and Carter Phipps

Hosted by Mark McKergow
In 2013, Whole Foods CEO John Mackey started a movement with Conscious Capitalism, a New York Times bestseller that taught the power of the heroic spirit of business. Since then …
Science Fiction

Project Hail Mary

A Novel

Andy Weir

Hosted by Rob Wolf
A story about an alien invasion typically revolves around diplomacy, military strategy, technological one-upmanship, and brinksmanship. But the invaders in Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary: A Novel (Ballantine Books, 2021) …
Philosophy

Shifty Speech and Independent Thought

Epistemic Normativity in Context

Mona Simion

Hosted by Carrie Figdor
At the intersection of epistemology and philosophy of language is a puzzle. First, it seems we don’t need less evidence for a claim that we know something if the practical …
Academic Life

Pandemic Perspectives from The Chronicle of Higher Education

A Discussion with Karin Fischer

Karin FIscher

Hosted by Christina Gessler
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bring you podcasts …
Christian Studies

Defending the Faith

Global Histories of Apologetics and Politics in the Twentieth Century

Hugh McLeod and Todd Weir

Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Todd H. Weir and Hugh McLeod, two leading historians of religion, have teamed up to edit a volume in the Proceedings of the British Academy that explores how conflicts between secular worldviews …
Indian Religions

The Reluctant Family Man

Shiva in Everyday Life

Chitgopekar Nilima

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
He's the destroyer of evil, the pervasive one in whom all things lie. He is brilliant, terrifying, wild and beneficent. He is both an ascetic and a householder, both a …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight

Beating Burnout at Work

Why Teams Hold the Secret to Well-Being and Resilience

Paula Davis

Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked to Paul Davis about her new book Beating Burnout at Work: Why Teams Hold the Secret to Well-Being and Resilience (Wharton School, 2021) What if companies held executives …
Intellectual History

Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought

Tae-Yeoun Keum

Hosted by Tejas Parasher
Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought (Harvard UP, 2020) is an ambitious reinterpretation and defense of Plato’s basic enterprise and influence, arguing that the power of his myths …
Ethnographic Marginalia

Talking Ethnographic Fiction

A Discussion with Alexandros Plasatis

Alexandros Plasatis

Hosted by Alexander Diamond
What does ethnography look like when presented as fiction? In this episode, we talk with Alexandros Plasatis, author of the new book Made by Sea and Wood, in Darkness (Spuyten Duyvil …
Asian Review of Books

Karachi Vice

Life and Death in a Contested City

Samira Shackle

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
A young man who turns his desire to join the army into a long stint as a volunteer ambulance driver. A teacher living in an old slum who is the …
SSEAC Stories

Connectivity and Displacement in Laos

Exploring Intersectional Infrastructure Violence with Dr Kearrin Sims

Kearrin Sims

Hosted by Natali Pearson
More than anywhere else in the world, Asia is experiencing an infrastructure boom. Although it is driven by both internal and external factors, this boom has accelerated noticeably as a …
Book of the Day/ Gender Studies

We Are Not Born Submissive

How Patriarchy Shapes Women's Lives

Manon Garcia

Hosted by Jana Byars
We are here today with Manon Garcia, the author of We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women’s Lives, published this year, 2021, by Princeton University Press. The book was originally published in 2018 by Climats as On ne naît pas soumise, on le devient. This book was a phenomenon and a runaway bestseller when released in France. We are lucky to have outstanding translation from the author herself in …
Architecture

Entering Architectural Practice

James Tait

Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
Featuring exclusive interviews with the internationally renowned architects: Kengo Kuma; Alberto Campo Baeza; Špela Videcnik (OFIS); Fernanda Canales; Jonathan Sergison (Sergison Bates); and Jane Hall (Assemble) Entering Architectural Practice (Routledge, 2020) is …
American Studies

A History of American Puritan Literature

Kristina Bross and Abram Van Engen

Hosted by Ryan Shelton
A new approach to puritan studies has been emerging in recent decades, but until now, no single volume has tried to gather in a comprehensive way the new histories of this literature …
Music

Antonín Dvořák's New World Symphony

Douglas W. Shadle

Hosted by Kristen Turner
Most music students have been taught that the New World Symphony was the first piece of classical music written in an American national style which Antonín Dvorák invented when he …
Literature

The Scapegoat

A Novel

Sara Davis

Hosted by Duncan McCargo
David Lodge meets Franz Kafka meets Stephen King? All attempts to classify The Scapegoat, let alone to summarize what happens in this compelling and terribly troubling first novel by Sara …
Mobilities and Methods

The Outside

Migration As Life in Morocco

Alice Elliot

Hosted by Alize Arıcan
The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco (Indiana UP, 2021) traces how migration has come to occupy a striking place in the lives of many Moroccans. A full 10 percent of …
Medicine

American Health Crisis

One Hundred Years of Panic, Planning, and Politics

Martin Halliwell

Hosted by Claire Clark
Despite enormous advances in medical science and public health education over the last century, access to health care remains a dominant issue in American life. U.S. health care is often …
Sociology

To Fulfill These Rights

Political Struggle Over Affirmative Action and Open Admissions

Amaka Okechukwu

Hosted by Zalman Newfield
In 2014 and 2015, students at dozens of colleges and universities held protests demanding increased representation of Black and Latino students and calling for a campus climate that was less …
History

Hawaiian by Birth

Missionary Children, Bicultural Identity, and U. S. Colonialism in the Pacific

Joy Schulz

Hosted by Holger Droessler
Twelve companies of American missionaries were sent to the Hawaiian Islands between 1819 and 1848 with the goal of spreading American Christianity and New England values. By the 1850s American …
Nordic Asia Podcast

Photography and Human Rights in Thailand

A Discussion with Karin Zackari

Karin Zackari

Hosted by Duncan McCargo
What do startling photographic images of state violence from events such as the 6 October 1976 massacre at Thammasat University tell us about the nature of human rights in Thailand …
Economics

Playing by the Informal Rules

Why the Chinese Regime Remains Stable despite Rising Protests

Yao Li

Hosted by Peter Lorentzen
In the developing world, political turmoil often brings an end to promising economic growth stories. During its period of rapid economic growth in the 1990s and 2000s, China experienced a …
Literary Studies

Keats's Odes

A Lover's Discourse

Anahid Nersessian

Hosted by Britton Edelen
In this episode, I interview Anahid Nersessian, professor of English at UCLA, about her book, Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse (University of Chicago Press, 2021). In 1819, the poet John Keats …
Islamic Studies

Islamophobia and the Novel

Peter Morey

Hosted by Kristian Petersen
In an era of rampant Islamophobia, literary representations of Muslims and anti Muslim bigotry tell us a lot about changing concepts of cultural difference. In Islamophobia and the Novel (Columbia …
Book of the Day/ Japanese Studies

The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami

Matthew Carl Strecher

Hosted by Takeshi Morisato
In an “other world” composed of language—it could be a fathomless Martian well, a labyrinthine hotel, or forest—a narrative unfolds, and with it the experiences, memories, and dreams that constitute reality for Haruki Murakami’s characters and readers. Memories and dreams in turn conjure their magical counterparts—people without names or pasts, fantastic animals, half-animals, and talking machines that traverse the dark psychic underworld of this writer’s extraordinary fiction. Fervently acclaimed worldwide …
Science

Brainscapes

The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain--And How They Guide You

Rebecca Schwarzlose

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
A path-breaking journey into the brain, showing how perception, thought, and action are products of maps etched into your gray matter—and how technology can use them to read your mind …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel

Dedicated

The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing

Pete Davis

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
Most of us have had this experience: browsing through countless options on Netflix, unable to commit to watching any given movie—and losing so much time skimming reviews and considering trailers …
Science

Conversations About Neuroscience

Howard Burton

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
This Ideas Roadshow Collection includes five Ideas Roadshow books that have been developed from filmed wide-ranging conversations with the following leading neuroscientists: Lisa Feldman Barrett (Northeastern University), Jennifer Groh (Duke …
Entrepreneurship and Leadership

Entrepreneurship and Leadership Season One Wrap Up

A Discussion with Richard Lucas and Kimon Fountoukidis

Richard Lucas and Kimon Fountoukidis

Hosted by Richard Lucas and Kimon Fountoukidis
The NBN Entrepreneurship and Leadership podcast aims to educate and entertain, sharing insights based on the personal story of our carefully selected guests aiming for the atmosphere of an informal …
American Studies

The Trials of Thomas Morton

An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England

Peter C. Mancall

Hosted by Ryan Shelton
Every good story needs a villain, and some of the early chroniclers of the pilgrim and puritan settlements found all they needed for this type of character in Thomas Morton. Peter …
Russian and Eurasian Studies

Russia and America

The Asymmetric Rivalry

Andrei P. Tsygankov

Hosted by Daniel Peris
In recent times, US-Russia relations have deteriorated to what both sides acknowledge is an “all time low.” Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election and Putin’s continued support for …
Art

Fierce Poise

Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York

Alexander Nemerov

Hosted by Allison Leigh
At the dawn of the 1950s, a promising and dedicated young painter named Helen Frankenthaler, fresh out of college, moved back home to New York City to make her name …
The Future of Higher Education

An interview with David Galas

Founding Chief Academic Officer and Chancellor of the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Science and Principal Scientist, Pacific Northwest Labs

Hosted by David Finegold
David Galas describes his unusual journey from Air Force brat to theoretical physicist to Systems Biologist in charge of the Human Genome Project for the U.S. Department of Energy. He …
History

Religion and the American Revolution

An Imperial History

Katherine Carté

Hosted by Lane Davis
For most of the eighteenth century, British protestantism was driven neither by the primacy of denominations nor by fundamental discord between them. Instead, it thrived as part of a complex …
Sports

Shake and Bake

The Life and Times of NBA Great Archie Clark

Bob Kuska and Archie Clark

Hosted by Paul Knepper
Shake and Bake is the story of Archie Clark, one of the top playmaking guards in the 1970s pre-merger NBA. While not one of the game’s most recognized superstars, Clark …
The Future of Higher Education

An Interview with Gayle Riggs

Gayle Riggs

Hosted by David Finegold
This episode is a companion to the interview with David Galas on the founding of the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, the newest of the Claremont Colleges. Gayle …
Nordic Asia Podcast

Sensible Politics

Visualizing International Relations

William A. Callahan

Hosted by Duncan McCargo
How can we theorize international relations by looking at how nose sizes are depicted in Asian art and literature? Why are Vietnamese immigration officials furious about the maps that appear …