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July 22, 2024
Arts and Minds
Over the past 300 years, The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce has tried to improve British life in every way ima…
July 21, 2024
On Task
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 sh…
July 17, 2024
The Revolutionary City
Examining the changing character of revolution around the world, The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion (Prin…
July 15, 2024
Middle Tech, Software Work and the Culture of Good Enough
Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks with Paula Bialski, an Associate Professor for Digital Sociology at the University of St. Gallen in St. Gallen,…
July 15, 2024
Reading Herzl in Beirut
How the Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center informed the PLO's relationship to Zionism and Israel In September 1982, the Israeli milita…
July 14, 2024
The City-State of Boston
In the vaunted annals of America’s founding, Boston has long been held up as an exemplary “city upon a hill” and the “cradle of liberty” for an indepe…
July 8, 2024
Dark Data
There is no shortage of books on the growing impact of data collection and analysis on our societies, our cultures, and our everyday lives. David Hand…
July 1, 2024
Liberalism as a Way of Life
In political philosophy, “liberalism” is not the name of a particular social platform. Rather, it refers to a framework for thinking about politics. …
July 1, 2024
Privileging Place
In recent decades, Americans have purchased second homes at unprecedented rates. In Privileging Place: How Second Homeowners Transform Communities and…
June 30, 2024
Capitalism
What exactly is capitalism? How has the meaning of capitalism changed over time? And what’s at stake in our understanding or misunderstanding of it? I…
June 28, 2024
When the Bombs Stopped
Over the course of the Vietnam War, the United States dropped 500,000 tons of bombs over Cambodia—more than the combined weight of every man, woman, a…
June 27, 2024
Denmark Vesey's Bible
In Denmark Vesey's Bible: The Thwarted Revolt that Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial (Princeton UP, 2022), Dr. Jeremy Schipper tells the story of a f…
June 15, 2024
The Last Human Job
With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and labor-saving technologies like self-checkouts and automated factories, the future of work ha…
June 10, 2024
How the Heartland Went Red
Over the past several decades, predominantly White, postindustrial cities in America’s agriculture and manufacturing centre have flipped from blue to …
June 2, 2024
The Deportation Machine
Many of us know that immigrants have been deported from the United States for well over a century, but has anyone ever asked how? In The Deportation M…
June 2, 2024
Sixty Miles Upriver
Newburgh is a small postindustrial city of some twenty-eight thousand people located sixty miles north of New York City in the Hudson River Valley. Li…
June 2, 2024
How to Be Queer
The idea of sexual fluidity may seem new, but it is at least as old as the ancient Greeks, who wrote about queer experiences with remarkable frankness…
May 28, 2024
Tales of Impossibility
David S. Richeson's book Tales of Impossibility: The 2000-Year Quest to Solve the Mathematical Problems of Antiquity (Princeton University Press, 2019…
May 20, 2024
The Hollow Parties
The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics (Princeton UP, 2024) traces the political history of American pol…
May 15, 2024
Breaking the Mold
The whole world has a stake in India's future, and that future hinges on whether India can develop its economy and deliver for its population--now the…