Princeton UP Ideas Podcast

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Rural Americans are only 20% of the population, yet once one party consolidates them, electoral institutions give that party a boost.

The segment begins with a survey promotion for the NewBooks Network, then transitions into an interview with Dr.

College looks unavoidable now.

Moulie Vidas discusses his book on the rise of the Talmud, exploring how rabbinic scholars in late antiquity developed distinct reading practices for scripture versus rabbinic teachings, emphasizing individuation, fragmentation, and textualization.

Professor Wendy Brown discusses her 1995 book 'States of Injury', critiquing how identity politics became focused on injury and legal remedies, and explores its relevance today with the rise of right-wing wounded identities.

Access to justice changes political power.

["New Books Network interviews Joshua Clark Davis about Police Against the Movement, his Princeton University Press book on how local police sabotaged civil rights organizing.", "Davis, a University of Baltimore historian and author of From Headshops to Whole Foods, argues that city red squads mattered as much as J.

["Craig Perry tells Rabbi Mark Katz on New Books Network that the Cairo Geniza is probably one of the richest caches for the history of slavery in the 11th to 13th centuries.", "He says the project grew out of years teaching world history in Morocco and at a Jewish day school in Los Angeles, where he was pushed to connect Jewish history to a wider frame.", "Perry uses Geniza letters, bills of sale, court depositions, and responsa to reconstruct Canaanite slavery, domestic service, and local slave resale in medieval Egypt.", "The conversation follows female slave owners, Jewish men's conflict with Jewish law, conversion to Islam, and the ways freed people reentered Jewish life."]

Stuart Jones's Liberal Worlds: James Bryce and the Democratic Intellect follows James Bryce from a Presbyterian Belfast-Glasgow upbringing to Oxford, Manchester, Parliament, and Washington.

New Books Network's interview with Hannah Pickard centers on her Princeton University Press book, What Would You Do Alone in a Cage with Nothing But Cocaine?: A Philosophy of Addiction.

Christina Gessler interviews anthropologist Dr.

Alison Carnegie and Richard Clark's 2026 Princeton University Press book challenges the view that international organizations are passive victims of populist attacks.

Across three drafts, Hughes wrote 'brownness' into Antonio Acevedo Escobedo's 'Fire in the Rain,' a story with no race in the original.

Nasr rejects the 'deranged theocracy' reading, arguing Iran's strategy rests on a national security doctrine, not religious ideology.

Poor Romans ate more variously than expected.

Fabrication becomes the real problem.

13 of 14 studies found an inverse U-shaped link: little terrorism in poor and rich countries, much at middle development levels.

Sociologist Cynthia Miller-Idriss discusses her book on how misogyny fuels violent extremism, citing data linking domestic violence to mass attacks and exploring online radicalization.

Michael Anton's Flight 93 essay told conservatives they had 'conserved nothing,' and Claremont's refrain became 'the hour is late.'

This episode features an interview with Dr.

An interview with political theorist Daniel Bell about his new book on Chinese political thought.

An interview with economic historian Barry Eichengreen about the history and future of the U.S.

An interview with Michael Satlow about his book on the shared religious landscape of Late Antiquity, framed by Charles Taylor's concept of disenchantment.

An interview with a professor about her new book on African literary studies.

An interview with sociologist Nina Bondel about her book on the emotional and financial overinvestment in modern parenting.

An interview with an author about their new book from Princeton University Press, introduced by host Eleonora Mattiaci.

An interview with political scientist Hélène Landemore about democracy, bullshit, and her book Open Democracy.

An interview with Dr.

An interview with a developmental editor about her book on editing scholarly manuscripts for academic writers.