New Books Network Podcast

Literature November 29, 2022

We Are All Together

Richard Fulco

Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb

Today I talked to Richard Fulco about his novel We Are All Together (Wampus Multimedia, 2022). Stephen Cane is a guitarist – he’s already walked out on one band to join another one that subsequently falls apart. He gets himself to New York City to try to rejoin his first band, the one headed by his best friend and former bandmate, Dylan John. It’s 1967, drugs and girls are everywhere …

National Security February 10, 2022

Military Alliances in the Twenty-First Century

Alexander Lanoszka

Hosted by Kyle Beadle

Alliance politics is a regular headline grabber. When a possible military crisis involving Russia, North Korea, or China rears its head, leaders and citizens alike raise concerns over the willingness …

Sociology April 12, 2022

Patchwork Leviathan

Pockets of Bureaucratic Effectiveness in Developing States

Erin Metz McDonnell

Hosted by Sebastián Rojas Cabal

Corruption and ineffectiveness are often expected of public servants in developing countries. However, some groups within these states are distinctly more effective and public oriented than the rest. Why? Patchwork …

Sports March 11, 2023

Black Ball

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA

Theresa Runstedtler

Hosted by Paul Knepper

Against a backdrop of ongoing resistance to racial desegregation and strident calls for Black Power, the NBA in the 1970s embodied the nation’s imagined descent into disorder. A new generation …

Environmental Studies May 23, 2023

Sea Change

An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean

Christina Gerhardt

Hosted by Brian Hamilton

Atlases are being redrawn as islands are disappearing. What does an island see when the sea rises? Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean (U California Press …

Political Science August 15, 2022

The Revenge of Power

How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century

Moisés Naím

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

Moisés Naím's The Revenge of Power: How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century (St. Martin's Press, 2022) is an urgent, thrilling, and original look at the future of democracy. It …

Indian Religions June 3, 2021

Shared Devotion, Shared Food

Equality and the Bhakti-Caste Question in Western India

Jon Keune

Hosted by Raj Balkaran

Jon Keune's book Shared Devotion, Shared Food: Equality and the Bhakti-Caste Question in Western India (Oxford UP, 2021) is about the deceptively simple question: when Hindu devotional or bhakti traditions …

Princeton UP Ideas Podcast June 1, 2021

Things Fall Together

A Guide to the New Materials Revolution

Skylar Tibbits

Hosted by Marshall Poe

Things in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Personal items deteriorate. Yet today’s researchers are exploiting newly understood properties of matter to program materials …

Scholarly Communication August 5, 2021

The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge

Peter B. Kaufman

Hosted by Daniel Shea

Listen to this interview of Peter Kaufman, Program Manager in Strategic Initiatives and Resource Development at MIT Open Learning and author of The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge …

Scholarly Communication January 14, 2023

Digital Codicology

Medieval Books and Modern Labor

Bridget Whearty

Hosted by Jen Hoyer

Medieval manuscripts are our shared inheritance, and today they are more accessible than ever—thanks to digital copies online. Yet for all that widespread digitization has fundamentally transformed how we connect …

Medicine June 29, 2022

Partial Stories

Maternal Death from Six Angles

Claire L. Wendland

Hosted by Rachel Pagones

A close look at stories of maternal death in Malawi that considers their implications in the broader arena of medical knowledge. By the early twenty-first century, about one woman in …

Philosophy November 1, 2014

Shared Agency

A Planning Theory of Acting Together

Michael E. Bratman

Hosted by Robert Talisse

One striking feature of humans is that fact that we sometimes act together. We garden, paint, sing, and dance together. Moreover, we intuitively recognize the difference between our simply walking …

Psychology April 1, 2022

Whole Brain Living

The Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters That Drive Our Life

Jill Bolte Taylor

Hosted by Mel Rosenberg

For half a century we have been trained to believe that our right brain hemisphere is our emotional brain, while our left brain houses our rational thinking. Now neuroscience shows …

German Studies March 2, 2022

The First Days of Berlin

The Sound of Change

Ulrich Gutmair

Hosted by Craig Sorvillo

Today I talked to Ulrich Gutmair about his book The First Days of Berlin: The Sound of Change (Polity Press, 2021). Berlin in the early 1990s, right after the fall of the …

Psychology December 15, 2022

Between Us

How Cultures Create Emotions

Batja Mesquita

Hosted by Jolie Ho

A pioneer of cultural psychology argues that emotions are not innate, but made as we live our lives together. We may think of emotions as universal responses, felt inside, but …

South Asian Studies July 6, 2021

Accidental Feminism

Gender Parity and Selective Mobility Among India’s Professional Elite

Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen

Hosted by Noopur Raval

In India, elite law firms offer a surprising oasis for women within a hostile, predominantly male industry. Less than 10 percent of the country's lawyers are female, but women in …

Middle Eastern Studies November 30, 2022

Protesting Jordan

Geographies of Power and Dissent

Jillian Schwedler

Hosted by Ronay Bakan

Protest has been a key method of political claim-making in Jordan from the late Ottoman period to the present day. More than moments of rupture within normal-time politics, protests have …

Public Policy May 14, 2021

What We Mean by the American Dream

Stories We Tell about Meritocracy

Doron Taussig

Hosted by Stephen Pimpare

Doron Taussig invites us to question the American Dream. Did you earn what you have? Did everyone else? The American Dream is built on the idea that Americans end up …

Princeton UP Ideas Podcast July 1, 2022

The Secret Body

How the New Science of the Human Body Is Changing the Way We Live

Daniel M. Davis

Hosted by Mark Klobas

Imagine knowing years in advance whether you are likely to get cancer or having a personalized understanding of your individual genes, organs, and cells. Imagine being able to monitor your …

Disability Studies June 16, 2022

All Our Families

Disability Lineage and the Future of Kinship

Jennifer Natalya Fink

Hosted by Galina Limorenko

Disability is often described as a tragedy, a crisis, or an aberration, though 1 in 5 people worldwide have a disability. Why is this common human experience rendered exceptional? In …

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