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General History October 25, 2021

Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe

Emily Greble

Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
Dr. Emily Greble, Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, is the author of Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe (Oxford University Press, 2021). Focusing on the Muslim inhabitants of the Austro-Hungarian Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, and later Yugoslavia, as they repeatedly adjusted to shifting borders and modern state building projects between the 1870s and the 1940s, Dr. Greble shows how Ottoman political, legal, economic, and social legacies shaped …
British Studies October 22, 2021

Shakespearean

On Life and Language in Times of Disruption

Robert McCrum

Hosted by Joseph Krulder
When inspiration struck Robert McCrum to write a book about the Bard, it came while watching one of the playwright’s plays in Central Park, New York. Here, McCrum realized that …
Political Science October 21, 2021

Hot Pants and Spandex Suits

Gender Representation in American Superhero Comic

Esther De Dauw

Hosted by Lilly Goren
Superman, Batman, Captain America, and Iron Man are names that are often connected to the expansive superhero genre, including the multi-billion-dollar film and television franchises. But these characters are older …
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery October 20, 2021

The Opioid Epidemic in the United States

Missed Opportunities and Policy Failures

Kant Patel and Mark E. Rushefsky

Hosted by Geert Slabbekoorn
The current opioid epidemic in the United States began in the mid-1990s with the introduction of a new drug, OxyContin, viewed as a safer and more effective opiate for chronic …
General History October 19, 2021

The Darker Angels of Our Nature

Refuting the Pinker Theory of History & Violence

Philip Dwyer and Mark Micale

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
In The Better Angels of Our Nature Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argued that modern history has witnessed a dramatic decline in human violence of every kind, and that in the …
Politics & Polemics October 18, 2021

Outgrowing Capitalism

Rethinking Money to Reshape Society and Pursue Purpose

Marco Dondi

Hosted by Kirk Meighoo
In Outgrowing Capitalism: Rethinking Money to Reshape Society and Pursue Purpose (Fast Company Press, 2021), Marco Dondi sheds light on the fact that most people do not have the economic security to …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast October 15, 2021

Career and Family

Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity

Claudia Goldin

Hosted by Marshall Poe
A century ago, it was a given that a woman with a college degree had to choose between having a career and a family. Today, there are more female college …
Psychoanalysis October 14, 2021

The Distance Cure

A History of Teletherapy

Hannah Zeavin

Hosted by J. J. Mull
On this episode, J.J. Mull interviews author Hannah Zeavin about her new book, The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy (MIT Press, 2021). Among Zeavin’s central interventions in the book …
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery October 13, 2021

Smokescreen

What the Marijuana Industry Doesn't Want You to Know

Kevin A. Sabet

Hosted by Emily Dufton
Called the “quarterback of the new anti-drug movement,” Kevin Sabet received his Ph.D. in social policy from the University of Oxford and has worked in drug policy for over two …
Russian and Eurasian Studies October 12, 2021

Navalny

Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future?

Jan Matti Dollbaum, Morvan Lallouet and Ben Noble

Hosted by Daniel Peris
Everyone has heard of Alexei Navalny, the leader of Russia's opposition to Putin's rule. But what do we really know of him? Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future? (Oxford, 2021) provides the first detailed …
Medicine October 11, 2021

Sickening

Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States

Anne Pollock

Hosted by Claire Clark
An event-by-event look at how institutionalized racism harms the health of African Americans in the twenty-first century A crucial component of anti-Black racism is the unconscionable disparity in health outcomes …
History of Science October 8, 2021

Race Unmasked

Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century

Michael Yudell

Hosted by Hussein Mohsen
Race, while drawn from the visual cues of human diversity, is an idea with a measurable past, an identifiable present, and an uncertain future. The concept of race has been …
Historical Materialism October 7, 2021

Becoming Marxist

Studies in Philosophy, Struggle, and Endurance

Ted Stolze

Hosted by Stephen Dozeman
Marxism is having a moment; higher workloads, stagnating wages, rising costs of living, a new economic crisis every few years, a warming climate and now almost two years of …
General History October 6, 2021

The End of Ambition

The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era

Mark Atwood Lawrence

Hosted by Zeb Larson
Histories of the Vietnam War are not in short supply. In U.S. history, it ranks alongside the Civil War and World War Two in terms of author coverage. The aftermath of the war …
Economics October 5, 2021

Who Gets What -- and Why

The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design

Alvin E. Roth

Hosted by Peter Lorentzen
In Who Gets What — and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design (Mariner Books, 2015), Nobel Memorial Prize Winner Alvin Roth explains his pioneering work in the …
Critical Theory October 4, 2021

Metamodernism

The Future of Theory

Jason Ananda Josephson Storm

Hosted by Tiatemsu Longkumer
For decades, scholars have been calling into question the universality of disciplinary objects and categories. The coherence of defined autonomous categories—such as religion, science, and art—has collapsed under the weight …
General History October 1, 2021

Deconstruction

An American Institution

Gregory Jones-Katz

Hosted by Ryan Tripp
The basic story of the rise, reign, and fall of deconstruction as a literary and philosophical groundswell is well known among scholars. In this intellectual history, Gregory Jones-Katz aims to …
Medicine September 30, 2021

The Contagion Next Time

Sandro Galea

Hosted by Claire Clark
How can we create a healthier world and prevent the crisis next time? In a few short months, COVID-19 devastated the world and, in particular, the United States. It infected …
Film September 29, 2021

Screen Captures

Film in the Age of Emergency

Stephen Lee Naish

Hosted by Joel Tscherne
Movies open a window into our collective soul. In Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency (New Star Books, 2021), Stephen Lee Naish guides us through recent cinematic phenomena that …
Popular Culture September 28, 2021

Politics as Sound

The Washington, DC, Hardcore Scene, 1978-1983

Shayna Maskell

Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
Washington, DC is known as the birthplace of hardcore punk. The raw, innovative, new sound coming out of the nation’s capital in the late 1970s is examined in Shayna Maskell’s …