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Jewish Studies May 5, 2021

The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex

The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution

Lila Corwin Berman

Hosted by Zalman Newfield
For years, American Jewish philanthropy has been celebrated as the proudest product of Jewish endeavors in the United States, its virtues extending from the local to the global, the Jewish …

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Princeton UP Ideas Podcast May 3, 2021

For the Many

American Feminists and the Global Fight for Democratic Equality

Dorothy Sue Cobble

Hosted by Marshall Poe
For the Many: American Feminists and the Global Fight for Democratic Equality (Princeton University Press, 2021) presents an inspiring look at how US women and their global allies pushed the nation and …
History April 26, 2021

Worldmaking After Empire

The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination

Adom Getachew

Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
Adom Getachew, the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, is the author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (Princeton University Press …
Politics & Polemics April 26, 2021

Minds Wide Shut

How the New Fundamentalisms Divide Us

Morton Schapiro and Gary Saul Morson

Hosted by Daniel Peris
Two very thoughtful oddfellows--a labor economist and a Russian literature scholar--take on the world's problems in their newest collaboration, Minds Wide Shut How the New Fundamentalisms Divide Us (Princeton University …
Economics April 21, 2021

Digital Renaissance

What Data and Economics Tell Us about the Future of Popular Culture

Joel Waldfogel

Hosted by Peter Lorentzen
Digitization is reshaping creative industries. Old gatekeepers in music, publishing, television, movies, and other industries no longer play such an important role, and digital piracy makes it easy for consumers …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast April 15, 2021

Can We Fix Social Media?

A Discussion with Christopher A. Bail

Christopher A. Bail

Hosted by Marshall Poe
In an era of increasing social isolation, platforms like Facebook and Twitter are among the most important tools we have to understand each other. We use social media as a …
Academic Life April 8, 2021

A Field Guide to Grad School

A Conversation with Jessica McCrory Calarco

Jessica McCrory Calarco

Hosted by Christina Gessler
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bring you podcasts …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast April 1, 2021

The Water Crisis on the High Plains

A Discussion with Lucas Bessire

Lucas Bessire

Hosted by Marshall Poe
The Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less than a century of unsustainable irrigation farming has taxed much of the aquifer beyond repair …
Law March 24, 2021

The War on the Uyghurs

China's Internal Campaign Against a Muslim Minority

Sean R. Roberts

Hosted by Jane Richards
There are currently eleven million Uyghurs living in China, but more than one million are being held in so-called reeducation camps. A cultural genocide is taking place under the guise of …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast March 15, 2021

Dying from Despair in the USA

A Discussion with Anne Case

Anne Case

Hosted by Marshall Poe
Life expectancy in the United States has recently fallen for three years in a row—a reversal not seen since 1918 or in any other wealthy nation in modern times. In …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast March 1, 2021

The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer

A Discussion with Marion Turner

Marion Turner

Hosted by Marshall Poe
More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life—yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they …
Spiritual Practice and Mindfulness February 18, 2021

How God Becomes Real

Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others

T. M. Luhrmann

Hosted by Jack Petranker
Tanya Luhrmann has spent much of her career as an anthropologist investigating the complex ways that people engage religion and the supernatural. In How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence …
Neuroscience February 17, 2021

On Task

How Our Brain Gets Things Done

David Badre

Hosted by Joseph Fridman
On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done (Princeton UP, 2020) is a look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions—and how this shapes our everyday lives.  …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast February 15, 2021

How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy

A Discussion with Michael Hanchard

Michael G. Hanchard

Hosted by Marshall Poe
As right-wing nationalism and authoritarian populism gain momentum across the world, liberals, and even some conservatives, worry that democratic principles are under threat. In The Spectre of Race: How Discrimination …
Architecture February 11, 2021

Architecture in Global Socialism

Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War

Łukasz Stanek

Hosted by Sharika Crawford
In the course of the Cold War, architects, planners, and construction companies from socialist Eastern Europe engaged in a vibrant collaboration with those in West Africa and the Middle East …
Russian and Eurasian Studies February 10, 2021

Moscow Monumental

Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin's Capital

Katherine Zubovich

Hosted by Jennifer Eremeeva
In Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin’s Capital (Princeton University Press, 2021), Professor Katherine Zubovich of the University of Buffalo of the State University of New York …
Medicine February 5, 2021

Abusive Policies

How the American Child Welfare System Lost Its Way

Mical Raz

Hosted by Claire Clark
In the early 1970s, a new wave of public service announcements urged parents to help end an American tradition of child abuse. The message, relayed repeatedly over television and radio …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast February 1, 2021

The Idea of Freedom and Race

A Discussion with Tyler Stovall

Tyler Stovall

Hosted by Marshall Poe
The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. America, a nation founded on …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast February 1, 2021

White Freedom

The Racial History of an Idea

Tyler Stovall

Hosted by Marshall Poe
The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. America, a nation founded on …
Jewish Studies January 26, 2021

Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism

Sarit Kattan Gribetz

Hosted by Rachel Adelman
The rabbinic corpus begins with a question–“when?”—and is brimming with discussions about time and the relationship between people, God, and the hour. Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism (Princeton UP, 2020) explores …