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September 13, 2024
When a Dream Dies
Unlike a flood or fire, a the Farming Crisis of the 1980s did not have a set beginning of ending. Rather, it was a rolling, often invisible, disaster …
September 8, 2024
Building a Ruin
A masterful account of the global Cold War’s decisive influence on Soviet economic reform, and the national decay that followed.What brought down the …
September 7, 2024
Likeable Badass
Behavioral scientist Alison Fragale offers powerful new insights and a practical playbook for women to advance in any workplace, full of tips, tricks,…
September 7, 2024
The Epic Story of America's Great Migration: A Talk by Isabel Wilkerson
In 2010, Isabel Wilkerson spoke to the Institute about the fifteen years she spent reporting and writing her book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic …
September 5, 2024
Raiders, Rulers, and Traders
After reading David Chaffetz’s newest book, you’d think that the horse–not oil–has been humanity’s most important strategic commodity. As David writes…
September 3, 2024
Rubens in Repeat
Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) never crossed the Atlantic himself, but his impact in colonial Latin America was profound. Prints made after the Flemish…
September 3, 2024
The Greatest of All Plagues
Political Theorist David Lay Williams has a new book that traces the problem of economic inequality through the thought of many of the canonical think…
September 1, 2024
Unexpected Revolutionaries
In Unexpected Revolutionaries: How Central Banks Made and Unmade Economic Orthodoxy (Cornell University Press, 2024), Dr. Manuela Moschella investiga…
September 1, 2024
Wood, Whiskey and Wine
Barrels – we rarely acknowledge their importance, but without them we would be missing out on some of the world’s finest wines and spirits. For over t…
August 31, 2024
Building Stalinism
In Building Stalinism: The Moscow Canal and the Creation of Soviet Space (I. B. Tauris, 2018), Cynthia Ruder explores how the building of the Moscow c…
August 31, 2024
Soda Science
Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola (U Chicago Press, 2024) takes readers deep inside the secret world of corporate science, where power…
August 30, 2024
The Teutonic Knights
Aleksander Pluskowski of the University of Reading joins Jana Byars to talk about his new book, The Teutonic Knights: Rise and Fall of a Religious Cor…
August 30, 2024
Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires
No animal is so entangled in human history as the horse. The thread starts in prehistory, with a slight, shy animal, hunted for food. Domesticating th…
August 26, 2024
On the Importance of Square (as in NOT COOL) Scientists and Engineers
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Cyrus Mody, Professor in the History of Science, Technology, and Innovation and Director of the STS Progra…
August 25, 2024
Damaging Rationality: Exxon-Funded Legal Research and the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
This is part #3 of a the (ir)Rational Alaskans, a Cited Podcast mini-series that re-examines the legacy of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. In the last e…
August 24, 2024
Answers to the Labour Question
Since the mid-nineteenth century, public officials, reformers, journalists, and other elites have referred to “the labour question.” The labour questi…
August 23, 2024
Freeman's Challenge
In the early nineteenth century, as slavery gradually ended in the North, a village in New York State invented a new form of unfreedom: the profit-dri…
August 22, 2024
The Enslaved and Their Enslavers
In The Enslaved and Their Enslavers: Power, Resistance, and Culture in South Carolina, 1670-1825 (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023), Edward Pearson offers a…
August 21, 2024
The Fruits of Opportunism
An in-depth examination of the regulatory, entrepreneurial, and organizational factors contributing to the expansion and transformation of China’s sup…