Podcast Attention, Shoppers! April 24, 2025 Attention, Shoppers! traces the origins and evolution of American retail capitalism from the late nineteenth century to today, uncovering the roots of a bitter equilibrium where large low-cost retailers dominate and vast numbers of low-income families now rely on them to make ends meet. Read More
Podcast In Covid鈥檚 Wake, Part II April 22, 2025 With In Covid鈥檚 Wake, Macedo and Lee offer the first comprehensive鈥攁nd candid鈥攑olitical assessment of how our institutions fared during the pandemic. They describe how, influenced by Wuhan鈥檚 lockdown, governments departed from their existing pandemic plans. Read More
Podcast In Covid鈥檚 Wake, Part I April 17, 2025 The Covid pandemic quickly led to the greatest mobilization of emergency powers in human history. By early April 2020, half the world鈥檚 population鈥�3.9 billion people鈥攚ere living under quarantine. Read More
Podcast Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men March 11, 2025 In Erased, Patricia Owens shows that, since its beginnings in the early twentieth century, international relations relied on the intellectual labour of women and their expertise on such subjects as empire and colonial administration, anticolonial organising, non-Western powers, and international organisations. Read More
Podcast After 1177 B.C. March 05, 2025 In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened after the Bronze Age collapsed鈥攚hy some civilizations endured, why some gave way to new ones, and why some disappeared forever. Read More
Podcast The Age of Choice March 03, 2025 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 believe. But the option to choose in such matters was not something we always possessed or even aspired to. The Age of Choice tells the long history of the invention of choice as the defining feature of modern freedom. Read More
Podcast We Have Never Been Woke February 22, 2025 Society has never been more egalitarian鈥攊n theory. Prejudice is taboo, and diversity is strongly valued. At the same time, social and economic inequality have exploded. In We Have Never Been Woke, Musa al-Gharbi argues that these trends are closely related, each tied to the rise of a new elite鈥攖he symbolic capitalists. Read More
Podcast The Balanced Brain January 06, 2025 There are many routes to mental well-being. In this groundbreaking book, neuroscientist Camilla Nord offers a fascinating tour of the scientific developments that are revolutionising the way we think about mental health, showing why and how events鈥攁nd treatments鈥攃an affect people in such different ways. Read More
Podcast Our Money January 06, 2025 In Our Money, Leah Downey makes a principled case against central bank independence (CBI) by both challenging the economic theory behind it and developing a democratic rationale for sustaining the power of the legislature to determine who can create money and on what terms. Read More
Podcast Fragmentary Forms December 10, 2024 While the emergence of collage is frequently placed in the twentieth century when it was a favored medium of modern artists, its earliest beginnings are tied to the invention of paper in China around 200 BCE. Read More
Podcast The Impeachment Power December 04, 2024 In this week鈥檚 episode we step into conversation with Keith Whittington about his new book, The Impeachment Power, as we explore the historical and constitutional dimensions of impeachment in American politics. Read More
Podcast Raised to Obey December 03, 2024 Nearly every country today has universal primary education. But why did governments in the West decide to provide education to all children in the first place? Read More
Podcast Consider the Turkey November 26, 2024 A turkey is the centerpiece of countless Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. Yet most of us know almost nothing about today鈥檚 specially bred, commercially produced birds. Read More
Podcast The Tech Coup October 24, 2024 Over the past decades, under the cover of 鈥渋nnovation,鈥� technology companies have successfully resisted regulation and have even begun to seize power from governments themselves. Facial recognition firms track citizens for police surveillance. Read More
Podcast The Migrant鈥檚 Jail October 23, 2024 Today, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) detains an average of 37,000 migrants each night. To do so, they rely on, and pay for, the use of hundreds of local jails. Read More
