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About Caleb Zakarin

Caleb Zakarin is the Assistant Editor of the New Books Network (Twitter: @caleb_zakarin).

NBN Episodes hosted by Caleb:

Scholarly Communication May 12, 2022

The American Association of Geographers

Scholarly Societies Series

Emily Yeh

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
The American Association of Geographers (AAG) is a non-profit scientific and educational society aimed at advancing the understanding, study, and importance of geography and related fields. Its headquarters is located …
Environmental Studies May 10, 2022

Partial Hegemony

Oil Politics and International Order

Jeff D. Colgan

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
When and why does international order change? The largest peaceful transfer of wealth across borders in all of human history began with the oil crisis of 1973. OPEC countries turned …
General History May 3, 2022

The Presidency of Donald J. Trump

A First Historical Assessment

Julian E. Zelizer

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: A First Historical Assessment (Princeton University Press, 2022) presents a first draft of history by offering needed perspective on one of the nation's most divisive …
Environmental Studies April 19, 2022

No Standard Oil

Managing Abundant Petroleum in a Warming World

Deborah Gordon

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
In No Standard Oil: Managing Abundant Petroleum in a Warming World (Oxford University Press, 2021), Deborah Gordon shows that no two oils or gases are environmentally alike. Each has a …
Scholarly Communication April 18, 2022

The University Network for Human Rights

Scholarly Societies Series

Jim Cavallaro

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
The University Network for Human Rights facilitates supervised undergraduate engagement in the practice of human rights at colleges and universities in the United States and across the globe. The University …
Business, Management, and Marketing April 14, 2022

Subprime Attention Crisis

Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet

Tim Hwang

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
In Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet (FSG Originals, 2020), Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the process …
Political Science April 5, 2022

Politics and Expertise

How to Use Science in a Democratic Society

Zeynep Pamuk

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
Our ability to act on some of the most pressing issues of our time, from pandemics and climate change to artificial intelligence and nuclear weapons, depends on knowledge provided by …
General History April 5, 2022

The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order

America and the World in the Free Market Era

Gary Gerstle

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
The epochal shift toward neoliberalism–– a web of related policies that, broadly speaking, reduced the footprint of government in society and reassigned economic power to private market forces-that began in …
Political Science March 25, 2022

Democracy Rules

Jan-Werner Müller

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
Everyone knows that democracy is in trouble, but do we know what democracy actually is? Jan-Werner Müller, author of the widely translated and acclaimed What Is Populism?, takes us back …
Animal Studies March 23, 2022

The Meat Paradox

Eating, Empathy, and the Future of Meat

Rob Percival

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
Our future diet will be shaped by diverse forces. It will be shaped by novel technologies, by geopolitical tensions, and the evolution of cultural preferences, by shocks to the status …
Politics & Polemics March 11, 2022

Davos Man

How the Billionaire Class Devoured Democracy

Peter S. Goodman

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
Drawing on decades of experience covering the global economy, New York Times' journalist Peter S. Goodman profiles five representative Davos Men-members of the billionaire class-chronicling how their shocking exploitation of the …
General History March 7, 2022

You Say You Want a Revolution?

Radical Idealism and Its Tragic Consequences

Daniel Chirot

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
Why have so many of the iconic revolutions of modern times ended in bloody tragedies? And what lessons can be drawn from these failures today, in a world where political …
Intellectual History February 28, 2022

Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin

Freedom, Politics and Humanity

Kei Hiruta

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
Two of the most iconic thinkers of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) and Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) fundamentally disagreed on central issues in politics, history and philosophy. In spite of …