Princeton UP Ideas Podcast

Ünver Rüstem, "Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul" (Princeton UP, 2019)

27 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Istanbul, there is a mosque on every hill. Cruising along the Bosphorus, either for pleasure, or like the majority of Istanbul’s denizens, for tr...

The Entrepreneurial Scholar: A New Mindset for Success in Academia and Beyond

24 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the increasingly competitive world of academia, simply mastering your discipline is no longer enough to guarantee career success or personal fulfil...

Audrey Truschke, "India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent" (Princeton UP, 2025)

22 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Much of world history is Indian history. Home today to one in four people, the subcontinent has long been densely populated and deeply connected to As...

Ian Stewart, "The Celts: A Modern History" (Princeton UP, 2025)

15 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Before the Greeks and Romans, the Celts ruled the ancient world. They sacked Rome, invaded Greece, and conquered much of Europe, from Ireland to Turke...

Elizabeth Popp Berman, "Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy" (Princeton UP, 2022)

14 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For decades, Democratic politicians have frustrated progressives by tinkering around the margins of policy while shying away from truly ambitious chan...

On Bullshit in Politics

12 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today we’re continuing our series on philosopher Harry Frankfurt’s seminal work, On Bullshit. Our guest is Michael Patrick Lynch, Provost Professo...

Nan Z. Da, "The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear" (Princeton UP, 2025)

08 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At the start of Shakespeare's famous tragedy, King Lear promises to divide his kingdom based on his daughters' professions of love, but portions it ou...

Paul Tucker, "Global Discord: Values and Power in a Fractured World Order" (Princeton UP, 2024)

03 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How to sustain an international system of cooperation in the midst of geopolitical struggle? Can the international economic and legal system survive t...

Michael Cook, "A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity" (Princeton UP, 2024)

02 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity (Princeton UP, 2024) by Michael A. Cook This book describes and explains ...

Jack Snyder, "Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern Times" (Princeton UP, 2024)

30 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Human rights are among our most pressing issues today. But rights promoters have reached an impasse in their effort to achieve rights for all. Human ...

Vali Nasr, "Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History" (Princeton UP, 2025)

25 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Iran presents one of the most significant foreign policy challenges for America and the West, yet very little is known about what the country’s goal...

The Truth About Bullshit: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary Edition of On Bullshit with Pamela Hieronymi

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today I’m thrilled to launch a brand new series for the Princeton UP Ideas Podcast. 20 years ago, Princeton University Press published a short volum...

Amin Ghaziani, "Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution" (Princeton UP, 2024)

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this exhilarating journey into underground parties, pulsating with life and limitless possibility, acclaimed author Amin Ghaziani unveils the unexp...

John H. Cochrane, Klaus Masuch, and Luis Garicano, "Crisis Cycle: Challenges, Evolution, and Future of the Euro" (Princeton UP, 2025)

17 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Crisis Cycle: Challenges, Evolution, and Future of the Euro (Princeton UP, 2025) John Cochrane Luis Garicano Klaus Masuch PRINCETON UNIVER...

Introducing The Critical Edition of the Works of C. G. Jung

16 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Princeton University Press is thrilled to share news of a major new initiative: the publication of The Critical Edition of the Works of C. G. Jung. ...

Elizabeth N. Saunders, "The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace" (Princeton UP, 2024)

09 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One of the most widely held views of democratic leaders is that they are cautious about using military force because voters can hold them accountable,...

Questions: A Discussion with Leslie Butler and Holly Case

06 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

BOOKS UNDER DISCUSSION: Leslie Butler, Consistent Democracy: The "Woman Question" and Self-Government in Nineteenth-Century America (Oxford Univers...

Sheila Fitzpatrick, "Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War" (Princeton UP, 2024)

04 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When World War II ended, about one million people whom the Soviet Union claimed as its citizens were outside the borders of the USSR, mostly in the We...

Robert Garland, "What to Expect When You're Dead: An Ancient Tour of Death and the Afterlife" (Princeton UP, 2025)

03 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A lively story of death, What to Expect When You're Dead: An Ancient Tour of Death and the Afterlife (Princeton University Press, 2025) by Dr. Rober...

Beth Linker on Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America

02 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with historian Beth Linker, Samuel H. Preston Endowed Term Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in the...

Agustín Fuentes, "Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary" (Princeton UP, 2025)

02 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Being human entails an astonishingly complex interplay of biology and culture, and while there are important differences between women and men, there ...

Krista N. Dalton, "How Rabbis Became Experts: Social Circles and Donor Networks in Jewish Late Antiquity" (Princeton UP, 2025)

29 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At the turn of the common era, the Jewish communities of Roman Palestine saw the organization of a small group of literate Jewish men who devoted thei...

Jaap de Roode, "Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves" (Princeton UP, 2025)

28 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ages before the dawn of modern medicine, wild animals were harnessing the power of nature's pharmacy to heal themselves. Doctors by Nature: How Ants...

Jennifer T. Roberts, "Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture" (Princeton UP, 2024)

24 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Covering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conquest in 30 BCE, Out of One, ...

Dan Sperrin, "State of Ridicule: A History of Satire in English Literature" (Princeton UP, 2025)

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Satire is a funny, aggressive, and largely oppositional literature which is typically created by people who refuse to participate in a given regime’...

Lizhi Liu, "From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China" (Princeton UP, 2024)

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Alibaba. Tencent. JD. Pinduoduo. Run down the list of China’s most valuable companies and you’ll find, for the most part, that they’re all e-com...

Executive Power and the President Who Would Not Be King: A Conversation with Michael McConnell

21 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Madison’s Notes, Michael McConnell examines the gap between the Founders’ vision of a limited presidency and today’s expansi...

Noel Rubinton, "Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings of John McPhee" (Princeton UP, 2025)

15 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

John McPhee has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1965 and has written more than thirty acclaimed books that began on the magazine's page...

Ruth Braunstein, "My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America" (Princeton UP, 2025)

09 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America (Princeton University Press, 2025), Ruth Braunstein maps the contested moral landscape in w...

Living Right: Far Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe

08 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What is the growing appeal of fascist idealism for young people? Why is radical nationalism on the rise in Europe and throughout the world? In Living...

Eunji Kim, "The American Mirage: How Reality TV Upholds the Myth of Meritocracy" (Princeton UP, 2025)

06 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In an age of growing wealth disparities, politicians on both sides of the aisle are sounding the alarm about the fading American Dream. Yet despite al...

Martin Thomas, "The End of Empires and a World Remade: A Global History of Decolonization" (Princeton UP, 2024)

29 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Empires, until recently, were everywhere. They shaped borders, stirred conflicts, and set the terms of international politics. With the collapse of em...

Lorna Gibb, "Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages" (Princeton UP, 2025)

26 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

An enthralling tour of the world’s rarest and most endangered languages Languages and cultures are becoming increasingly homogenous, with the result...

Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves

24 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ages before the dawn of modern medicine, wild animals were harnessing the power of nature’s pharmacy to heal themselves. In Doctors by Nature (Pri...

Agnieszka Pasieka, "Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe" (Princeton UP, 2024)

17 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Radical nationalism is on the rise in Europe and throughout the world. Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe (Princeton Uni...

Mary Bosworth, "Supply Chain Justice: The Logistics of British Border Control" (Princeton UP, 2024)

16 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the UK’s fully outsourced “immigration detainee escorting system,” private sector security employees detain, circulate and deport foreign nat...

Martha A. Sandweiss, "The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West" (Princeton UP, 2025)

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A haunting image of an unnamed Native child and a recovered story of the American West In 1868, celebrated Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner tr...

Engage and Evade in 2025: Asad L. Asad on Latino Immigrants in America

12 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today I’m speaking with Asad L. Asad, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Stanford University. He is the author of Engage and Evade: How Latino Im...

What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions

10 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Leaders who introduce anti-racist approaches to their organizations often face backlash. In What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Instit...

Stephen J. Campbell, "Leonardo da Vinci: An Untraceable Life" (Princeton UP, 2025)

09 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) never signed a painting, and none of his supposed self-portraits can be securely ascribed to his hand. He revealed nex...

Kathleen Thelen, "Attention, Shoppers!: American Retail Capitalism and the Origins of the Amazon Economy" (Princeton UP, 2025)

08 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The United States is widely recognized as the quintessential consumer society, one where huge companies like Walmart and Amazon are famous for enticin...

Adam J. Berinsky, "Political Rumors: Why We Accept Misinformation and How to Fight It" (Princeton UP, 2023)

06 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Political rumors and misinformation pollute the political landscape. This is not a recent phenomenon; before the currently rampant and unfounded rumor...

Bruno Leipold, "Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2024)

06 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought (Princeton UP, 2024), Bruno Leipold argues that, cont...

Patrick Wallis, "The Market for Skill: Apprenticeship and Economic Growth in Early Modern England" (Princeton UP, 2025)

05 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Apprenticeship dominated training and skill formation in early modern Europe. Years spent learning from a skilled master were a nearly universal exper...

Ciara Greene and Gillian Murphy, "Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember" (Princeton UP, 2025)

03 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today I’m speaking with Ciara Greene, co-author with Gillian Murphy of the new book, Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember (Prince...

We Have Never Been Woke: A Conversation with Musa al-Gharbi

02 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Why does occupation reliably predict political leanings? What is social capitalism, and how does it span income classes? If social capitalists are sin...

Mary Anne Hunting and Kevin D. Murphy, "Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism" (Princeton UP, 2025)

24 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the decades preceding World War II, professional architecture schools enrolled increasing numbers of women, but career success did not come easily....

Paul Seabright, "The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People" (Princeton UP, 2024)

20 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Religion in the twenty-first century is alive and well across the world, despite its apparent decline in North America and parts of Europe. Vigorous c...

Managerial Bishops Rule! Peter Brown on Wealth in Early Christianity (JP)

20 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Brown's fascinating Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD (Princeton U...

In Covid’s Wake: How our Politics Failed Us--A Conversation with Stephen Macedo (Part 2)

19 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Madison’s Notes, we continue our discussion with Stephen Macedo, co-author of In COVID’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us (Princeto...

In Covid’s Wake: How our Politics Failed Us: A Conversation with Frances Lee

12 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the first part of our two-part conversation on Madison’s Notes, we speak with Frances Lee, Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton...

"Steadfast Democrats" Five Years Later: A Conversation with Chryl N. Laird

10 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today I’m speaking with Chryl Laird, Associate Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland College Park. We are discussing he...

Anna Lise Seastrand, "Body, History, Myth: Early Modern Murals in South India" (Princeton UP, 2024)

06 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

An astonishing variety of murals greet visitors to the temples and palaces of southern India. Beautiful in execution and extensive in scope, murals pa...

Webb Keane, "Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination" (Princeton UP, 2025)

03 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Revolutions in technology are fundamentally transforming what it means to be human. Or are they? As Webb Keane points out, before humans consulted C...

David N. Livingstone, "The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea" (Princeton UP, 2024)

02 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Scientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest threat facing our planet an...

Kecia Ali, "The Woman Question in Islamic Studies" (Princeton UP, 2024)

21 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In The Woman Question in Islamic Studies (Princeton UP, 2024), the Introduction of which is available at the publisher's website, Kecia Ali delves...

Melinda Cooper, "Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance" (Zone Books, 2024)

18 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At the close of the 1970s, government treasuries and central banks took a vow of perpetual self-restraint. To this day, fiscal authorities fret over s...

Shane Bobrycki, "The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages" (Princeton UP, 2024)

17 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

By the fifth and sixth centuries, the bread and circuses and triumphal processions of the Roman Empire had given way to a quieter world. And yet, as S...

Patricia Owens, "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (Princeton UP, 2025)

13 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The academic field of international relations presents its own history as largely a project of elite white men. And yet women played a prominent role ...

Richard Rorty, "What Can We Hope For?: Essays on Politics" (Princeton UP, 2023)

08 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today I talked to Chris Voparil about What Can We Hope For?: Essays on Politics (Princeton UP, 2023), a book of Richard Rorty's writings he co-edit...

Eric Cline, "After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations" (Princeton UP, 2025)

07 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At the end of Eric Cline's bestselling history 1177 B.C., many of the Late Bronze Age civilizations of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean lay in rui...

Sophia Rosenfeld, "The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life" (Princeton UP, 2025)

05 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Choice touches virtually every aspect of our lives, from what to buy and where to live to whom to love, what profession to practice, and even what to ...

Sheila Fitzpatrick, "Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War" (Princeton UP, 2024)

05 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When World War II ended, about one million people whom the Soviet Union claimed as its citizens were outside the borders of the USSR, mostly in the We...

Kim Pernell, "Visions of Financial Order: National Institutions and the Development of Banking Regulation" (Princeton UP, 2024)

31 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The global financial crisis of the late 2000s was marked by the failure of regulators to rein in risk-taking by banks. And yet regulatory issues varie...

A. G. Hopkins, "Capitalism in the Colonies: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851–1931" (Princeton UP, 2024)

30 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Capitalism in the Colonies: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851–1931 (Princeton UP, 2024), A. G. Hopkins provides the first substantial assessment...

Yanni Kotsonis, "The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism" (Princeton UP, 2025)

29 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Yanni Kotsonis, Professor of History and Russian & Slavic Studies at New York University, is the author of The Greek Revolution and the Violent B...

Michael Sonenscher, "After Kant: The Romans, the Germans, and the Moderns in the History of Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2023)

26 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this wide-ranging work, Michael Sonenscher traces the origins of modern political thought and ideologies to a question, raised by Immanuel Kant, ab...

Richard Bourke, "Hegel’s World Revolutions" (Princeton UP, 2023)

25 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

G.W.F. Hegel was widely seen as the greatest philosopher of his age. Ever since, his work has shaped debates about issues as varied as religion, aesth...

Eva Payne, "Empire of Purity: The History of Americans' Global War on Prostitution" (Princeton UP, 2024)

18 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Between the 1870s and 1930s, American social reformers, working closely with the US government, transformed sexual vice into an international politica...

Christina L. Davis, "Discriminatory Clubs: The Geopolitics of International Organizations" (Princeton UP, 2023)

17 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Member selection is one of the defining elements of social organization, imposing categories on who we are and what we do. Discriminatory Clubs: The ...

Camilla Nord, "The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health" (Princeton UP, 2024)

15 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

There are many routes to mental well-being. In this groundbreaking book, neuroscientist Camilla Nord offers a fascinating tour of the scientific devel...

Isaac Stanley-Becker, "Europe Without Borders: A History" (Princeton UP, 2025)

14 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Forty years ago, Schengen - a wine-making village at the tripoint border of Luxembourg, France, and Germany - made European history when diplomats fro...

Benjamin H. Bradlow, "Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg" (Princeton UP, 2024)

13 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Why some cities are more effective than others at reducing inequalities in the built environment. For the first time in history, most people live in c...

Richard H. Davis, "Religions of Early India: A Cultural History" (Princeton UP, 2024)

09 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From its earliest recorded history, India was a place of remarkable and varied religious activity, ranging from elaborate sacrificial rituals and rigo...

Fionna S. Cunningham, "Under the Nuclear Shadow: China's Information-Age Weapons in International Security" (Princeton UP, 2024)

09 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How can states use military force to achieve their political aims without triggering a catastrophic nuclear war? Among the states facing this dilemma ...

Shannon Mattern, "A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences" (Princeton UP, 2021)

03 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Computational models of urbanism—smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration—promise to deliver new urban efficienci...

Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen, "Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility Among India’s Professional Elite" (Princeton UP, 2021)

03 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 lawy...

Eric Storm, "Nationalism: A World History" (Princeton UP, 2024)

01 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The current rise of nationalism across the globe is a reminder that we are not, after all, living in a borderless world of virtual connectivity. In N...

Peter Singer, "Consider the Turkey" (Princeton UP, 2024)

26 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A turkey is the centerpiece of countless Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. Yet most of us know almost nothing about today’s specially bred, commer...

Leah Downey, "Our Money: Monetary Policy as If Democracy Matters" (Princeton UP, 2024)

25 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How the creation of money and monetary policy can be more democratic. The power to create money is foundational to the state. In the United States, th...

Christine M. Larson, "Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success" (Princeton UP, 2024)

24 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As writers, musicians, online content creators, and other independent workers fight for better labor terms, romance authors offer a powerful example—...

Paula Fredriksen, "Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years" (Princeton UP, 2024)

23 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The ancient Mediterranean teemed with gods. For centuries, a practical religious pluralism prevailed. How, then, did one particular god come to domina...

Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, "Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire" (Princeton UP, 2024)

23 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire (Princeton UP, 2024), Priyasha Mukhopadhyay offers a new and provocative hist...

Renée Bergland, "Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science" (Princeton UP, 2024)

13 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known as natural philosophy, a pastime for p...

Caroline Winterer, "How the New World Became Old: The Deep Time Revolution in America" (Princeton UP, 2024)

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In How the New World Became Old: The Deep Time Revolution in America (Princeton UP, 2024), Caroline Winterer, William Robertson Coe Professor of His...

George Steinmetz, "The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire" (Princeton UP, 2024)

06 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It is only in recent years that sociologists and historians of the social sciences have given empire the attention it deserves in histories of the dis...

Andrew Hui, "The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries" (Princeton UP, 2024)

01 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe's cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics. An...

Required Reading

23 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Priyasha Mukhopadhyay develops the concept of the functional archive of empire, consisting of texts ranging from licenses and other bureaucratic docum...

Peter Singer, "Consider the Turkey" (Princeton UP, 2024)

21 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A turkey is the centerpiece of countless Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. Yet most of us know almost nothing about today’s specially bred, commer...

S4E15 To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: A Conversation with Dr. Benjamin Nathans

20 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Madison’s Notes, host Laura Laurent sits down with historian Benjamin Nathans to explore his groundbreaking new book, To the Succ...

Lizhi Liu, "From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China" (Princeton UP, 2024)

16 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do states build vital institutions for market development? Too often, governments confront technical or political barriers to providing the rule o...

Vishaan Chakrabarti, "The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy" (Princeton UP, 2024)

15 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

From one of today's most inspired architects and urban advocates, a manifesto for architecture as a force for addressing our biggest social challenges...

Agustina Paglayan, "Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education" (Princeton UP, 2024)

15 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How the expansion of primary education in the West emerged not from democratic ideals but from the state's desire to control its citizens. Nearly ever...

The Impeachment Power: A Conversation with Keith Whittington

06 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode we step into conversation with Keith Whittington about his new book, The Impeachment Power: The Law, Politics, and Purpose ...

Melissa Teixeira, "A Third Path: Corporatism in Brazil and Portugal" (Princeton UP, 2024)

05 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Following the Great Depression, as the world searched for new economic models, Brazil and Portugal experimented with corporatism as a “third path”...

Freya Gowrley, "Fragmentary Forms: A New History of Collage" (Princeton UP, 2024)

02 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Fragmentary Forms: A New History of Collage (Princeton UP, 2024) is a beautifully illustrated global history of collage from the origins of paper to...

Ben Yagoda, "Gobsmacked!: The British Invasion of American English" (Princeton UP, 2024)

01 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The British love to complain that words and phrases imported from America--from French fries to Awesome, man!--are destroying the English language....

When We Prioritize Data and Metrics, What Happens to Human Connections?

31 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s book is: The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World (Princeton University Press, 2024), by Dr. Allison Pugh, whic...

David Peña-Guzmán: Animals Dream and that Makes Them Morally Considerable (JP)

31 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In his marvelous new book, When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness (Princeton UP, 2023), David Peña-Guzmán (SF State as well...

Toni Alimi, "Slaves of God: Augustine and Other Romans on Religion and Politics" (Princeton UP, 2024)

28 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Augustine believed that slavery is permissible, but to understand why, we must situate him in his late antique Roman intellectual context. Slaves of ...