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August 28, 2026
An Honest Death
A fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at non-religious funerals in contemporary London, An Honest Death: Life's End and Humanist Funerals (Princeton U…
August 27, 2026
China's Aristocratic Age
The Springs-and-Autumns period is a strange period in Chinese history. Coming after the decline of the Zhou, and before the famous Warring States Peri…
August 26, 2026
Challenging Inequalities
There is a widespread sense throughout the developed world that progress towards a better society has stalled. Many countries, including the UK, have …
August 26, 2026
How to Write a Book Proposal and Make Your Manuscript Work
Are you a scholar sitting on a manuscript that you think could be a book — but you have no idea where to start? In this episode of The Publishing Play…
August 26, 2026
Forest of the Sea
In a matter of decades, a spectacular cold-water paradise thirty million years in the making is succumbing to warming oceans. Kelp forests are lar…
August 20, 2026
A New World of Revolutions
In A New World of Revolutions: Popular Imaginations and Movements Across the Americas (Princeton UP, 2026), Arturo Chang reconstructs the histories, p…
August 13, 2026
Bordering On Indifference
Immigration agents have a frontline view of the racial, economic, and legal inequalities that undocumented migration reflects—and yet most agents do n…
August 12, 2026
James Joyce
The young James Joyce (1882–1941) was forged in the smithy of Irish political controversies, and he took into his European exile a depth of political …
August 10, 2026
What's So Great About the Great Books?
Writer Naomi Kanakia has spent her adult life reading the so-called “great books,” those classic works of literature which are–depending who you ask–e…
August 7, 2026
The Environmental Republic
Republicanism is arguably the most powerful political idea in history, an extraordinary feat of human imagination that balances individual liberty wit…
August 6, 2026
In the Scholar’s Workshop
For centuries, many of the world’s most influential thinkers relied on helpers who performed tasks such as taking dictation, correcting, indexing, com…
July 30, 2026
The Science of Memory with Steve Ramirez
Today I’m speaking with neuroscientist Stave Ramirez about bullshit and memory. Steve is an associate professor at Boston University, where he runs a …
July 29, 2026
The Woman Question in Jewish Studies
The Woman Question in Jewish Studies (Princeton UP, 2025) is a critical look at the difficulties women face in the field of Jewish studies, drawing on…
July 28, 2026
Fintech Capital
How is finance changing in the contemporary world? In FinTech Capital: The Digital Transformation of Everyday Money and Finance (Princeton University …
July 24, 2026
Negotiation
The world has changed dramatically in just the past few years and so has negotiation. Traditional negotiating tactics, while still effective, need to …
July 23, 2026
Backlash Presidents
Julia Azari, Professor of Political Science at Marquette University, has a new, award-winning[*] book centering on the connection between race and th…
July 18, 2026
Middlemen
In this interview, we speak with Laura B. McGrath, an Assistant Professor of English at Temple University and the author of Middlemen: Literary Agents…
July 13, 2026
Life in Sync
All of life is profoundly shaped by the daily, monthly, and yearly cycles of our planet, and all creatures have internal timekeeping systems that rely…
July 9, 2026
The Land Where Nothing Works
What has happened to Britain? As drivers on its roads can attest, it is the pothole capital of Europe. Once-beautiful towns now feature peeling paint,…
July 9, 2026
Doubled Up
More than eleven million children in the US live in doubled-up households, sharing space with extended family or friends. These households are even mo…