#1756Michael D. Dwyer, "Tinsel and Rust: How Hollywood Manufactured the Rust Belt" (Oxford UP, 2025)[Tinsel and Rust: How Hollywood Manufactured the Rust Belt] (https://bookshop.org/a/12343/... more10 Dec 20251 HR 11 MINS1:11:4810 Dec 2025
#1755Peace A. Medie, "Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns to End Violence Against Women in Afric...In [Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns to End Violence against Women in Africa]... more08 Dec 20251 HR 02 MINS1:02:0608 Dec 2025
#1754David Silkenat, "Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South" (Oxfo...They worked Virginia's tobacco fields, South Carolina's rice marshes, and the Black Belt's... more08 Dec 20251 HR 04 MINS1:04:4708 Dec 2025
#1753Ali Anooshahr, "Slavery in the Early Mughal World: The Life and Thoughts of Jawhar Aftabachi (1520s–...Jawhar Aftabachi was enslaved as a child by the Ottomans in the Black Sea region in the ea... more05 Dec 202554 MINS54:0505 Dec 2025
#1752Alexander Cooley and Alexander Dukalskis, "Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in Wor...Following the end of the Cold War, the world experienced a remarkable wave of democratizat... more03 Dec 20251 HR 06 MINS1:06:1203 Dec 2025
#1751James Lacey, "Rome: Strategy of Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)From Octavian's victory at Actium (31 B.C.) to its traditional endpoint in the West (476),... more29 Nov 202559 MINS59:3329 Nov 2025
#1750Jake Monaghan, "Just Policing" (Oxford UP, 2023)Policing is a source of perennial conflict and philosophical disagreement. Current politic... more28 Nov 20251 HR 01 MINS1:01:2128 Nov 2025
#1749Nina Wilén, "Securitizing the Sahel: Analyzing External Interventions and Their Consequences" (Oxfor...The Sahel has become a focal point of international security interventions, with external ... more25 Nov 202552 MINS52:0125 Nov 2025
#1748Shatema Threadcraft, "Labors of Resurrection: Black Women, Necromancy, and Morrisonian Democracy" (O...Western democracies are haunted. Michael Hanchard suggests that the specter of race is wha... more22 Nov 202558 MINS58:2422 Nov 2025
#1747Joseph P. Viteritti, "Radical Dreamers: Race, Choice, and the Failure of American Education" (Oxford...Seventy years after Brown v. Board of Education and demands to desegregate public schools,... more11 Nov 202541 MINS41:5411 Nov 2025
#1746Joseph Stiglitz, "The Origins of Inequality" (Oxford UP, 2025)Joseph E. Stiglitz has had a remarkable career. He is a brilliant academic, capped by shar... more10 Nov 202539 MINS39:4710 Nov 2025
#1745Amie Thomasson, "Rethinking Metaphysics" (Oxford UP, 2025)The word “metaphysics” conjures up thoughts of very hard questions about reality and deep,... more10 Nov 20251 HR 03 MINS1:03:1710 Nov 2025
#1744Wolfgang Wagner, "The Democratic Politics of Military Interventions" (Oxford UP, 2020)According to a widely shared notion, foreign affairs are exempted from democratic politics... more10 Nov 202537 MINS37:3210 Nov 2025
#1743Nerina Rustomji, "The Beauty of the Houri: Heavenly Virgins and Feminine Ideals" (Oxford UP, 2021)In her scintillating new book, [The Beauty of the Houri: Heavenly Virgins, Feminine Ideal... more09 Nov 202549 MINS49:2809 Nov 2025
#1742Hugo Méndez, "The Gospel of John: A New History" (Oxford UP, 2025)Throughout the centuries and into the present day, the Gospel of John has indelibly shaped... more04 Nov 20251 HR 31 MINS1:31:0904 Nov 2025
#1741Cynthia Paces, "Prague: The Heart of Europe" (Oxford UP, 2025)In this episode of the CEU Review of Books Podcast, I sat down with Cynthia Paces to talk ... more02 Nov 202546 MINS46:0502 Nov 2025