A series of interview with authors of new books from Princeton University Press
The trolley problem is a staple of contemporary moral philosophy. It centers around two scenarios i
Ellen D. Wu‘s The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority (Princeton
John Ahlquist and Margaret Levi are the authors of In the Interest of Others: Organizations and Soci
[Re-posted with permission from Wild About Math] I’ve admitted before that Physics and I have never
Beautiful Geometry (Princeton UP, 2014), by the mathematician prof. Eli Maor and the noted artist Eu
One of 2013’s most important new books in political science was The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the
From her first book about the Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig, Leora Batnitzky has been heralded
By any measure, David Tod Roy‘s translation The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P’ing Mei, Vol. 1-5
Ken MacLeish offers an ethnographic look at daily lives and the true costs borne by soldiers, their
We’re all familiar with the thought that democracy is merely the rule of the unwise mob. In the hand
Our moral lives are shaped by a deep commitment to the moral equality of all persons. This thought
Tim Maudlin‘s Philosophy of Physics: Space and Time (Princeton University Press, 2012) is a clear, a
I can still remember being an undergraduate student, going from dance class to dance class and worki
Joseph Nye‘s latest book is Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era (Princeton
William G. Howell (with David Brent) is the author of the new book Thinking about the Presidency: Th
Indonesia is often highlighted as having the right kind of Islam, ‘moderate’ and ‘peaceful.’ Whether
The advent of very powerful computers and the Internet have not “changed everything,” but it has cre
Daniel Stedman Jones is the author of Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neo
Today we’ll be discussing Lance Fortnow‘s bookThe Golden Ticket:P, NP, and the Search for the Imposs
Most people who listen to this podcast will have heard of Joseph McCarthy and HUAC (The House Commit
