Princeton UP Ideas Podcast

A series of interview with authors of new books from Princeton University Press

Episodes

Total: 671

In Deep Time: A Literary History (Princeton UP, 2023), Noah Heringman, Curators’ Professor of Englis

Across the vast expanse of the Roman Empire, anxieties about childbirth tied individuals to one anot

Politics is a site of performance, and contemporary politicians often perform the role of a regular

For Kahane, the greatest enemy of the Jews was not the black nationalist, the greatest enemy of the

A gripping history of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR--and still p

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as a society we want successful, profitable companies be

How a new "woke" elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status--without he

Over the past 300 years, The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce

On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done (Princeton UP, 2020) is a look at the extraordinary ways the

Examining the changing character of revolution around the world, The Revolutionary City: Urbanizatio

How the Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center informed the PLO's relationship to Zionism

Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks with Paula Bialski, an Associate Professor for Digital So

In the vaunted annals of America’s founding, Boston has long been held up as an exemplary “city upon

There is no shortage of books on the growing impact of data collection and analysis on our societies

In political philosophy, “liberalism” is not the name of a particular social platform. Rather, it re

In recent decades, Americans have purchased second homes at unprecedented rates. In Privileging Plac

What exactly is capitalism? How has the meaning of capitalism changed over time? And what’s at stake

Over the course of the Vietnam War, the United States dropped 500,000 tons of bombs over Cambodia—mo

In Denmark Vesey's Bible: The Thwarted Revolt that Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial (Princeton UP,

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and labor-saving technologies like self-checko