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Environmental Studies
January 25, 2021
Scorched Earth
Environmental Warfare as a Crime Against Humanity and Nature
Emmanuel Kreike
Hosted by Ahmed Almaazmi
In Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime Against Humanity and Nature (Princeton UP, 2021), Emmanuel Kreike offers a global history of environmental warfare and makes the case for why it should be a crime. The environmental infrastructure that sustains human societies has been a target and instrument of war for centuries, resulting in famine and disease, displaced populations, and the devastation of people’s livelihoods and ways of life. Scorched Earth traces …
Biography
January 22, 2021
Poet of Revolution
The Making of John Milton
Nicholas McDowell
Hosted by Mark Klobas
Decades before he wrote his epic work Paradise Lost, John Milton was an active republican and polemicist. How Milton came to espouse such radical views is just one of the …
Political Science
January 21, 2021
Amateur Hour
Presidential Character and the Question of Leadership
Lara M. Brown
Hosted by Lilly Goren
Political scientist Lara Brown’s new book, Amateur Hour, is a complex and important multi-method study of the presidency, starting from the original conception of the office at the constitutional convention …
Performing Arts
January 20, 2021
This Is Not My Memoir
André Gregory and Todd London
Hosted by Andy Boyd
André Gregory's not-memoir This Is Not My Memoir (FSG, 2020) is a fascinating trip through theatre history as seen through the eyes of one of its greatest directors. The André we …
Medicine
January 19, 2021
Science Under Fire
Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America
Andrew Jewett
Hosted by Claire Clark
Americans today are often skeptical of scientific authority. Many conservatives dismiss climate change and Darwinism as liberal fictions, arguing that "tenured radicals" have coopted the sciences and other disciplines. Some …
Systems and Cybernetics
January 18, 2021
Network Origins of the Global Economy
East vs. West in a Complex Systems Perspective
Hilton L. Root
Hosted by Tom Scholte
Twenty-eight years after Francis Fukuyama declared the “end of history” and pronounced Western-style liberalism as the culmination of a Hegelian narrative of progress, pundits and academics of all stripes find …
Critical Theory
January 15, 2021
A Critical Legal Examination of Liberalism and Liberal Rights
Matthew McManus
Hosted by Stephen Dozeman
The tradition of political liberalism has a long and complicated history, filled with twists, turns, critiques and responses that have filled books, essays and lectures for several centuries now. Questions …
Political Science
January 14, 2021
Transforming Prejudice
Identity, Fear, and Transgender Rights
Melissa R. Michelson and Brian F. Harrison
Hosted by Lilly Goren
Melissa Michelson and Brian Harrison, co-authors of the book Listen, We Need to Talk: How to Change Attitudes about LGBT Rights (Oxford University Press, 2017), which focused on how people …
Science
January 13, 2021
A Natural History of Color
The Science Behind What We See and How We See it
Rob DeSalle
Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Is color a phenomenon of science or a thing of art? Over the years, color has dazzled, enhanced, and clarified the world we see, embraced through the experimental palettes of …
Performing Arts
January 12, 2021
Sailor Song
The Shanties and Ballads of the High Seas
Gerry Smyth
Hosted by Andy Boyd
Sailor Song: The Shanties and Ballads of the High Seas (University of Washington Press, 2020) by performer and scholar Gerry Smyth includes lyrics and commentary for dozens of sea shanties, as well …
Philosophy
January 11, 2021
Wild Animal Ethics
The Moral and Political Problem of Wild Animal Suffering
Kyle Johannsen
Hosted by Carrie Figdor
Many sentient (or possibly sentient) wild animals follow a reproductive strategy whereby they have large numbers of offspring, the vast majority of which suffer and die quickly or suffer and …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel
January 8, 2021
The Tyranny of Merit
What's Become of the Common Good?
Michael J. Sandel
Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favor of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and …
Middle Eastern Studies
January 7, 2021
The Sword is Not Enough
Arabs, Israelis, and the Limits of Military Force
Jeremy Pressman
Hosted by Aaron Hagler
Jeremy Pressman is Associate Professor of Political Science and the Director of Middle East Studies at the University of Connecticut. Jeremy is the author of The Sword is Not Enough …
National Security
January 6, 2021
American Zealots
Inside Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism
Arie Perliger
Hosted by Beth Windisch
In an unsettling time in American history, the outbreak of right-wing violence is among the most disturbing developments. In recent years, attacks originating from the far right of American politics …
Science, Technology, and Society
January 5, 2021
The Empire of Depression
A New History
Jonathan Sadowsky
Hosted by Chad Valasek
When is sorrow sickness? That is the question that this book asks, exploring how our understandings of sadness, melancholy, depression, mania and anxiety have changed over time, and how societies …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast
January 4, 2021
Can we Bring Extinct Species Back?
A Conversation with Beth Shapiro
Beth Shapiro
Hosted by Marshall Poe
Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? The science says yes. In How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction (Princeton UP, 2020), Beth Shapiro …
Political Science
December 31, 2020
Queer Alliances
How Power Shapes Political Movement Formation
Erin Mayo-Adam
Hosted by Lilly Goren
Queer Alliances: How Power Shapes Political Movement Formation (Stanford UP, 2020) examines not only the policies that political movements advocate for, and those that are achieved, but the research pays …
Politics & Polemics
December 30, 2020
Levers of Power
How the 1% Rules and What the 99% Can Do About It
Kevin A. Young, Tarun Banerjee, and Michael Schwartz
Hosted by Stephen Dozeman
It is often assumed that American politics is dominated by financial elites and the 1%, who use their massive wealth to gain power and influence, pushing for legislation that benefits …
German Studies
December 29, 2020
A Demon-Haunted Land
Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post–WWII Germany
Monica Black
Hosted by Steven Seegel
In the aftermath of World War II, a succession of mass supernatural events swept through a war-torn Germany. As millions were afflicted by a host of seemingly incurable maladies (including …
Politics & Polemics
December 28, 2020
War for Eternity
Inside Bannon's Far-right Circle of Global Power Brokers
Benjamin R. Teitelbaum
Hosted by Kirk Meighoo
An explosive and unprecedented inside look at Steve Bannon's entourage of global powerbrokers and the hidden alliances shaping today's geopolitical upheaval. In 2015, Bloomberg News named Steve Bannon “the most …
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