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The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones
February 4, 2023
The Future of Nuclear Fusion
A Discussion with Sharon Ann Holgate
Sharon Ann Holgate
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Owen Bennett-Jones
How useful will nuclear fusion be? In a major breakthrough last year at the National Ignition Facility in California, 192 lasers achieved fusion – and created energy - for the first time. It was clearly an important moment. But might the development of fusion technology come too late? Owen Bennett Jones speaks with Sharon Ann Holgate, author of Nuclear Fusion: The Race to Build a Mini Sun on Earth (Icon Books, 2022) …
Science, Technology, and Society
February 3, 2023
Should You Believe Wikipedia?
Online Communities and the Construction of Knowledge
Amy S. Bruckman
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Morteza Hajizadeh
As we interact online we are creating new kinds of knowledge and community. How are these communities formed? How do we know whether to trust them as sources of information …
Anthropology
February 2, 2023
Computing Taste
Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation
Nick Seaver
Hosted by
Mathew Gagné
The people who make music recommender systems have lofty goals: they want to broaden listeners’ horizons and help obscure musicians find audiences, taking advantage of the enormous catalogs offered by …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast
February 1, 2023
What Do You Want Out of Life?
A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters
Valerie Tiberius
Hosted by
Mark Klobas
What do you want out of life? To make a lot of money--or work for justice? To run marathons--or sing in a choir? To have children--or travel the world? The …
Secularism
January 31, 2023
The Varieties of Atheism
Connecting Religion and Its Critics
David Newheiser
Hosted by
Carrie Lynn Evans
The Varieties of Atheism: Connecting Religion and Its Critics (University of Chicago Press, 2022), edited by Professor David Newheiser reveals the diverse nonreligious experiences obscured by the combative intellectualism of …
East Asian Studies
January 30, 2023
The Emergence of Global Maoism
China's Red Evangelism and the Cambodian Communist Movement, 1949-1979
Matthew Galway
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Sarah Bramao-Ramos
How do ideas manifest outside of their place of origin, and how do they change once they do? The Emergence of Global Maoism: China’s Red Evangelism and the Cambodian Communist …
Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast
January 29, 2023
This Is Not Who We Are
America’s Struggle Between Vengeance and Virtue
Zachary Shore
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Mark Klobas
What kind of country is America? Zachary Shore tackles this polarizing question by spotlighting some of the most morally muddled matters of WWII. Should Japanese Americans be moved from the …
Law
January 28, 2023
The China Nexus
Thirty Years in and Around the Chinese Communist Party's Tyranny
Benedict Rogers
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Jane Richards
The China Nexus: Thirty Years In and Around the Chinese Communist Party's Tyranny (Optimum Publishing, 2022) brings together Benedict Rogers' 30 years of advocacy, research and work in and around China. Opening …
Medicine
January 27, 2023
Habit Forming
Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914
Elizabeth Kelly Gray
Hosted by
Rachel Pagones
Habitual drug use in the United States is at least as old as the nation itself. Elizabeth Kelly Gray's book Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914 (Oxford UP, 2023) traces the …
Animal Studies
January 26, 2023
If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal
What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity
Justin Gregg
Hosted by
Miranda Melcher
What if human intelligence is actually more of a liability than a gift? After all, the animal kingdom, in all its diversity, gets by just fine without it. At first …
Eastern European Studies
January 25, 2023
In the Shadow of the Holocaust
Poland, the United Nations War Crimes Commission, and the Search for Justice
Michael Fleming
Hosted by
Piotr Kosicki
In the midst of the Second World War, Central and East European governments-in-exile struggled to make their voices heard as they reported back to the Allies and sought to reach …
Popular Culture
January 24, 2023
Finding Jackie
The Second Act of America's First Lady
Oline Eaton
Hosted by
Rebekah Buchanan
In her new book, Finding Jackie: A Life Reinvented (Diversion Books, 2023), scholar and writer Oline Eaton examines the story of an era's biggest "star of life," Jaqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, as …
Intellectual History
January 23, 2023
A New History of the Humanities
The Search for Principles and Patterns from Antiquity to the Present
Rens Bod
Hosted by
Morteza Hajizadeh
Many histories of science have been written, but A New History of the Humanities (Oxford UP, 2014) offers the first overarching history of the humanities from Antiquity to the present …
American Studies
January 22, 2023
Bob Dylan's New York
A Historic Guide
Dick Weissman
Hosted by
Robert Snyder
New York has long been a city where people go to reinvent themselves. And since the dawn of the twentieth century, New York City’s Greenwich Village has been at …
Environmental Studies
January 21, 2023
Endangered Maize
Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction
Helen Anne Curry
Hosted by
Isobel Akerman
In Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction (U California Press, 2022), historian Helen Anne Curry investigates more than a hundred years of agriculture and conservation practices to …
Biography
January 20, 2023
Tough Guy
The Life of Norman Mailer
Richard Bradford
Hosted by
Daniel Moran
Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, firstly in 1969 for The Armies of the Night and again in 1980 for The Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer's life comes as close as …
Media
January 19, 2023
License to Travel
A Cultural History of the Passport
Patrick Bixby
Hosted by
Marci Mazzarotto
This surprising global history of an indispensable document reveals how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience while helping to define the modern world. In License to Travel …
Intellectual History
January 18, 2023
We the Elites
Why the US Constitution Serves the Few
Robert Ovetz
Hosted by
Keith Krueger
We have been ruled long enough. It is time to govern ourselves. If we are to get past the Constitution and all systems based on constitutions, we need to move …
Critical Theory
January 17, 2023
The Coming of the American Behemoth
The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920 -1940
Michael Joseph Roberto
Hosted by
Stephen Dozeman
The election of Donald Trump in 2016 shocked and appalled a number of people, forcing a critical reevaluation of what was possible, and what we ought to be vigilant …
Genocide Studies
January 16, 2023
Invisible Atrocities
The Aesthetic Biases of International Criminal Justice
Randle C. DeFalco
Hosted by
Jeff Bachman
International criminal justice is, at its core, an anti-atrocity project. Yet just what an 'atrocity' is remains undefined and undertheorized. Randle C. DeFalco's book Invisible Atrocities: The Aesthetic Biases of …
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