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
Essay PUP Life: 37 years and nine lives at the Press December 02, 2024 I am often asked how long I have worked at Princeton University Press. When I respond, “37 years,” the reaction is sometimes one of surprise. But in many ways, I have not really worked at the “same place” for all this time as PUP has gone through many evolutions since I first joined in January of 1987. Read More
Interview Camilla Nord on The Balanced Brain December 02, 2024 Camilla Nord discusses what motivated her to write "The Balanced Brain" and why our concept of mental health needs to include both the brain and the wider body. 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’s specially bred, commercially produced birds. Read More
Interview Brianna Nofil on The Migrant’s Jail November 25, 2024 Brianna Nofil examines how a century of political, ideological, and economic exchange between the U.S. immigration bureaucracy and the criminal justice system gave rise to the world’s largest system of migrant incarceration. Read More
Essay How the far right moved from the margins November 25, 2024 Despite the fact the global imaginary seems to be saturated with the image of far-right supporters, we have little knowledge on what makes the far-right offer so attractive to a growing number of people. Read More
Essay Collage beyond modernism November 24, 2024 What happens when we try and trace a history of collage back across time and space? Read More
Podcast Listen in: And Still the Waters Run November 20, 2024 And Still the Waters Run tells the tragic story of the liquidation of the independent Indian republics of the Choctaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees, Creeks, and Seminoles, known as the Five Civilized Tribes. At the turn of the twentieth century, the tribes owned the eastern half of what is now Oklahoma, a territory immensely wealthy in farmland, forests, coal, and oil. Read More
Essay Peter Singer on Consider the Turkey November 19, 2024 In this Q&A, Peter Singer discusses a few things consumers may want to know about factory farmed turkey heading into the holiday season. Read More
Essay How to solve a refugee crisis November 13, 2024 There are always some good people who try to help out when disaster strikes. Tents, blankets, medicine and food enable refugees to survive at a minimal level. But none of this solves the underlying question of what to do with them if they can’t or won’t return to their homelands. Read More
Essay Protecting or punishing women through an ‘empire of purity’? November 13, 2024 Debates over women’s right to bodily autonomy and how the government might best protect women marked the 2024 US presidential race. Read More
Essay StepUP: University Press Week 2024 November 11, 2024 As I write with anticipation for this year’s University Press Week, and the support and superpowers of this community it celebrates, we’ve just closed our seventh grant cycle for Supporting Diverse Voices book proposal grants. Read More
Essay The politics of piety November 07, 2024 Christianity is often viewed as an alternative to Roman religion. But in many ways, Christianity was an expression of Roman religion. Read More
Podcast Listen in: The Power of Hope November 01, 2024 In a society marked by extreme inequality of income and opportunity, why should economists care about how people feel? The truth is that feelings of well-being are critical metrics that predict future life outcomes. Read More
Interview Eric Storm on the rise and evolution of nationalism October 28, 2024 Is nationalism more alive than ever? Eric Storm, author of “Nationalism,” discusses the nature and evolution of nationalism, from the early modern era to the present. Read More
