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American Studies
Islamic Studies December 3, 2021

Suspect Communities

Anti-Muslim Racism and the Domestic War on Terror

Nicole Nguyen

Hosted by Kristian Petersen
Suspect Communities: Anti-Muslim Racism and the Domestic War on Terror (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) is a powerful reassessment of the U.S. government’s “countering violent extremism” (CVE) program that has …

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Political Science December 6, 2021

Figures of the Future

Latino Civil Rights and the Politics of Demographic Change

Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

Hosted by Susan Liebell
Figures of the Future: Latino Civil Rights and the Politics of Demographic Change (Princeton UP, 2021) examines the “contemporary population politics of national Latino civil rights advocacy.” The book …
Public Policy December 6, 2021

Not Up for Grabs

How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back

Donald Cohen and Allen Mikaelian

Hosted by Stephen Pimpare
As people reach for social justice and better lives, they create public goods--free education, public health, open parks, clean water, and many others--that must be kept out of the market …
Genocide Studies December 6, 2021

Humane

How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War

Samuel Moyn

Hosted by Kelly McFall
Is it possible that efforts to make war more humane can actually make it more common and thus more destructive?   This tension at the heart of this query lies at the …
Film December 6, 2021

The Stuff of Spectatorship

Material Cultures of Film and Television

Caetlin Benson-Allott

Hosted by Annie Berke
“Made of light and later sound, the film experience cannot be touched, but that does not mean it is immaterial.” So writes Dr. Caetlin Benson-Allott in her third academic monograph …
Art December 6, 2021

Art of the Northwest Coast

Second Edition

Aldona Jonaitis

Hosted by Kirstin Ellsworth
Originally published in 2006, Art of the Northwest Coast offers an expansive history of this great tradition, from the earliest known works to those made at the beginning of the twenty-first …
General History December 3, 2021

When France Fell

The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance

Michael S. Neiberg

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
According to US Secretary of War Henry Stimson, the "most shocking single event" of World War II was not the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but rather the fall of …
Political Science December 2, 2021

At War with Government

How Conservatives Weaponized Distrust from Goldwater to Trump

Amy Fried and Douglas B. Harris

Hosted by Lilly Goren
Political Scientists Amy Fried (University of Maine) and Douglas B. Harris (Loyola University Maryland) have a new book, At War with Government: How Conservatives Weaponized Distrust from Goldwater to Trump …
Education December 2, 2021

Pain and Shock in America

Politics, Advocacy, and the Controversial Treatment of People with Disabilities

Jan Nisbet and Nancy Weiss

Hosted by Christina Bosch
Amid a string of fall 2021 news reports about past-due exonerations and (white) self-defense that document the limits of racial justice within the U.S. legal system, Pain and Shock in …
Recall This Book December 2, 2021

Daniel Souleles on Private Equity (JP, EF)

Recall this Buck 4

Daniel Souleles

Hosted by Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz
In this installment of our Recall this Buck series (check out our earlier conversations with Thomas Piketty, Peter Brown and Christine Desan), John and Elizabeth talk with Daniel Souleles, anthropologist …
General History December 1, 2021

The Last King of America

The Misunderstood Reign of George III

Andrew Roberts

Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Following upon the success of his magisterial account of Winston Churchill, Andrew Roberts returns with an outstanding biography of George III: The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III …
Politics & Polemics December 1, 2021

Phantoms of a Beleaguered Republic:

The Deep State and the Unitary Executive

Stephen Skowronek et al

Hosted by Kirk Meighoo
Phantoms of a Beleaguered Republic: The Deep State and the Unitary Executive (Oxford University Press, 2021) powerfully dissects one of the fundamental problems in American governance today: the clash between …
Catholic Studies December 1, 2021

The Priest Who Put Europe Back Together

The Life of Rev. Fabian Flynn, CP

Sean Brennan

Hosted by Carlos Ruiz Martinez
Philp Fabian Flynn led a remarkable life, bearing witness to some of the most pivotal events of the twentieth century. Flynn took part in the invasions of Sicily and Normandy …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast December 1, 2021

Billy Wilder on Assignment

Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna

Noah Isenberg and Shelley Frisch

Hosted by Marshall Poe
Before Billy Wilder became the screenwriter and director of iconic films like Sunset Boulevard and Some Like It Hot, he worked as a freelance reporter, first in Vienna and then …
Geography November 30, 2021

The Sixteen-Dollar Taco

Contested Geographies of Food, Ethnicity, and Gentrification

Pascale Joassart-Marcelli

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
White middle-class eaters are increasingly venturing into historically segregated urban neighborhoods in search of "authentic" eating in restaurants run by-and originally catering to-immigrants and people of color. What does a …
African American Studies November 30, 2021

Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood

African American Children in the Antebellum North

Crystal Webster

Hosted by Adam McNeil
For all that is known about the depth and breadth of African American history, we still understand surprisingly little about the lives of African American children, particularly those affected by …
African American Studies November 30, 2021

Ben Fletcher

The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly

Peter Cole

Hosted by Adam McNeil
In the early twentieth century, when many US unions disgracefully excluded black and Asian workers, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) warmly welcomed people of color, in keeping with …
Law November 29, 2021

Dangerous Ideas

A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News

Eric Berkowitz

Hosted by Ian Drake
Eric Berkowitz has written a short history of a censorship, a large topic that has been a phenomenon since the advent of recorded history. In Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History …
Environmental Studies November 29, 2021

After One Hundred Winters

In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands

Margaret D. Jacobs

Hosted by Brady McCartney
After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands (Princeton UP, 2021) confronts the harsh truth that the United States was founded on the violent dispossession of …
Native American Studies November 29, 2021

Settler Memory

The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race in the United States

Kevin Bruyneel

Hosted by John Cable
Kevin Bruyneel confronts the chronic displacement of Indigeneity in the politics and discourse around race in American political theory and culture, arguing that the ongoing influence of settler-colonialism has undermined …