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A series of interviews with authors of new books from Princeton University Press
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Interviews with Sociologists about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology
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Interviews with Scholars of the Law about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law
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Podcast featuring the best new music by Female Indie Artists and Female-Fronted Bands in all genres hand-picked by Bree Noble. Women of Substance Radio has provided a platform for female Indie talent since 2007 and was transitioned into a Podcast in 2014. Each show features 10 - 15 songs and provides interesting tidbits about the artists.
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"The Supreme Court: the Last Defense Against Trump’s Military Police State" by Benjamin R. Farley, Claire O. Finkelstein, Brenner M. Fissell and Mitt Regan
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10:26"The Supreme Court: the Last Defense Against Trump’s Military Police State" by Benjamin R. Farley, Claire O. Finkelstein, Brenner M. Fissell and Mitt Regan This article was published by Just Security on October 24, 2025.By Just Security
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Linda Upham-Bornstein, "'Mr. Taxpayer versus Mr. Tax Spender': Taxpayers’ Associations, Pocketbook Politics, and the Law during the Great Depression" (Temple UP, 2023)
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45:45During the Great Depression, the proliferation of local taxpayers’ associations was dramatic and unprecedented. The justly concerned members of these organizations examined the operations of state, city, and county governments, then pressed local officials for operational and fiscal reforms. These associations aimed to reduce the cost of state and …
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Louise Nyholm Kallestrup, "The Construction of Witchcraft in Early Modern Denmark, 1536-1617" (Routledge, 2025)
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45:13Louise Nyholm Kallestrup joins Jana Byars to talk about her new book, The Construction of Witchcraft in Early Modern Denmark, 1536-1617 (Routledge, 2025) This book examines how the experience of witchcraft developed and evolved from the Lutheran Evangelical Reformation of Denmark 1536 to the celebration of the Lutheran centennial of 1617. As well a…
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Rachel Myrick, "Polarization and International Politics: How Extreme Partisanship Threatens Global Stability" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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25:52Polarization is a defining feature of politics in the United States and many other democracies. Yet although there is much research focusing on the effects of polarization on domestic politics, little is known about how polarization influences international cooperation and conflict. Democracies are thought to have advantages over nondemocratic nati…
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The Brewing Egypt-Ethiopia Nile River Conflict is Ripe for “Solving”
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9:31"The Brewing Egypt-Ethiopia Nile River Conflict is Ripe for “Solving”" by Allison Lombardo and Peter J. Quaranto Published on October 31st, 2025 by Just Security.
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Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world. Published October 31st on Just Security. ICYMI: Yesterday on Just Security: Post…
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Tamar Mitts, "Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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45:21Content moderation on social media has become one of the most daunting challenges of our time. Nowhere is the need for action more urgent than in the fight against terrorism and extremism. Yet despite mass content takedowns, account suspensions, and mounting pressure on technology companies to do more, hate thrives online. Safe Havens for Hate: The…
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Claudia Gastrow, "The Aesthetics of Belonging: Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Boom Luanda" (UNC Press Books, 2024)
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58:19After centuries of colonial rule, the end of Angola’s three-decade civil war in 2002 provided an irresistible opportunity for the government to reimagine the Luanda cityscape. Awash with petrodollars cultivated through strategic foreign relationships, President José Eduardo dos Santos rolled out a national reconstruction program that sought to tran…
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Tamar Mitts, "Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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45:21Content moderation on social media has become one of the most daunting challenges of our time. Nowhere is the need for action more urgent than in the fight against terrorism and extremism. Yet despite mass content takedowns, account suspensions, and mounting pressure on technology companies to do more, hate thrives online. Safe Havens for Hate: The…
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Tamar Mitts, "Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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45:21Content moderation on social media has become one of the most daunting challenges of our time. Nowhere is the need for action more urgent than in the fight against terrorism and extremism. Yet despite mass content takedowns, account suspensions, and mounting pressure on technology companies to do more, hate thrives online. Safe Havens for Hate: The…
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Pablo Meninato and Gregory Marinic, "Urban Labyrinths: Informal Settlements, Architecture, and Social Change in Latin America" (Routledge, 2025)
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1:17:22Urban Labyrinths: Informal Settlements, Architecture, and Social Change in Latin America examines intervention initiatives in informal settlements in Latin American cities as social, spatial, architectural, and cultural processes. From the mid-20th century to the present, Latin America and other regions in the Global South have experienced a remark…
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#1787 Music by Annie Riggs, women who work, Katie Yeager, Chloe Tsangaris, Geena Fontanella, Brett lemon, Allen & Kelly, EMMA SEE, One of the Broken, RACHELRACHEL, Caitty, Denise Dimin & Lyia Meta, HattenandOrliss ...
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1:02:22To get live links to the music we play and resources we offer, visit www.WOSPodcast.com This show includes the following songs: Annie Riggs - Inconvenient FOLLOW ON SPOTIFY women who work - Hot Secrets FOLLOW ON SPOTIFY Katie Yeager - Revolution, Baby! FOLLOW ON SPOTIFY Chloe Tsangaris - Who You Are FOLLOW ON SPOTIFY Geena Fontanella - Best Friend'…
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Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world. Published October 30th on Just Security. ICYMI: Yesterday on Just Security: How …
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"Post-Conflict Election in the Southern Philippines Postponed for Third Time: Is Peace Unraveling?" by Rob Jenkins and Anne Marie Goetz
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23:05"Post-Conflict Election in the Southern Philippines Postponed for Third Time: Is Peace Unraveling?" by Rob Jenkins and Anne Marie GoetzBy Just Security
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John Blair, "Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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51:29Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World (Princeton UP, 2025) by Professor John Blair provides the first in-depth, global account of one of the world’s most widespread yet misunderstood forms of mass hysteria—the vampire epidemic. In a spellbinding narrative, Dr. Blair takes readers from ancient Mesopotamia to present-d…
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"How Tech Platforms Allowed Russia Into Moldova: Lessons for the EU and Others" by Austin Akers
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8:42"How Tech Platforms Allowed Russia Into Moldova: Lessons for the EU and Others" by Austin Akers Published on October 29, 2025, on Just Security.By Just Security
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Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world. Published October 29th on Just Security. ICYMI: Yesterday on Just Security: The …
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#1786 Music by Kylee Higgins, Robyn Smith, Jess, Cara Lianne McLeod, Aria Knight, Mollie Rainwater, Happy Sometimes, Addison Rose, Jamie Ballan, Tiffany Dennis, Anabeth, Hannah Nicolaisen, Shelita, Chelsea ...
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1:01:51To get live links to the music we play and resources we offer, visit www.WOSPodcast.com This show includes the following songs: Kylee Higgins - I'm Home FOLLOW ON SPOTIFY Robyn Smith - Wildflower Jess - We’ll talk Cara Lianne McLeod - The Dream FOLLOW ON SPOTIFY Aria Knight - Mercury FOLLOW ON SPOTIFY Mollie Rainwater - Frostline FOLLOW ON SPOTIFY …
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Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world. Published October 28th on Just Security. ICYMI: Yesterday on Just Security: Memo…
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Joshua Clark Davis, "Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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1:25:36Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back (Princeton UP, 2025) shatters one of the most pernicious myths about the 1960s: thast the civil rights movement endured police violence without fighting it. Instead, as Joshua Clark Davis shows, activists from the Congress of Racial Equality and…
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Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world. Published October 27th on Just Security. ICYMI: Yesterday on Just Security: The …
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Amanda Laury Kleintop, "Counting the Cost of Freedom: The Fight Over Compensated Emancipation After the Civil War" (UNC Press, 2025)
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1:00:00During the Civil War, the U.S. federal government abolished slavery without reimbursing enslavers, diminishing the white South’s wealth by nearly 50 percent. After the Confederacy’s defeat, white Southerners demanded federal compensation for the financial value of formerly enslaved people and fought for other policies that would recognize abolition…
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#1785 Music by Christina Andrew, Anisha, Mili & Bertie, Sophie West, MENCARI, Riley Way, Shea Givens, Andrea Dielle, Dahlia Fernandes, Avalynn Ly, Mona Grytøyr, Susie Mills, I Want Poetry, Frances Darling ...
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1:02:33To get live links to the music we play and resources we offer, visit www.WOSPodcast.com This show includes the following songs: Christina Andrew - This Is My Life FOLLOW ON SPOTIFY Anisha - Without You, Before You FOLLOW ON SPOTIFY Mili & Bertie - Hey, I'm Fine FOLLOW ON SPOTIFY Sophie West - Note To Self FOLLOW ON SPOTIFY MENCARI - Got Me Thinking…
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#1784 Music by Cindy Clark, Dawn Rix, Leah R.G., Julia Loveless, Estella Kirk, Natalie Mejia, Emma Grant, AmandaSuzanne, Rachael Mann, Carlene Thissen, Brendi, Rooted Worship, Law x Kanetta Medford x Deborah ...
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1:06:16To get live links to the music we play and resources we offer, visit www.WOSPodcast.com This show includes the following songs: Cindy Clark - Consecrated Radio Edit Version FOLLOW ON SPOTIFY Dawn Rix - To Know Him Is To Love Him FOLLOW ON YOUTUBE Leah R.G. - That Is All You Ask of Me (Micah 6_8) FOLLOW ON SPOTIFY Julia Loveless - Let The Lamb FOLLO…
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R. Jisung Park, "Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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44:24R. Jisung Park is assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he holds appointments in the School of Social Policy and Practice and the Wharton School of Business. It’s hard not to feel anxious about the problem of climate change, especially if we think of it as an impending planetary catastrophe. In Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of …
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Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world. Published October 24th on Just Security. ICYMI: Yesterday on Just Security: The …
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#1783 Music by ABFAB, Jess Corbin, Butter Wouldn’t Melt, Fellowship of Earthlings, The Hushdown, Michelle Lee-Klaassen, Linda Maze, Denise Dimin, BarDe, Lake & Sea, Lacey Bortvit, Audren, Ana November ...
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1:01:15To get live links to the music we play and resources we offer, visit www.WOSPodcast.com This show includes the following songs: ABFAB - Wake Up FOLLOW ON SPOTIFY Jess Corbin - Shame FOLLOW ON SPOTIFY Butter Wouldn't Melt - Woman of Fire FOLLOW ON SPOTIFY Fellowship of Earthlings - Cruel FOLLOW ON SPOTIFY The Hushdown - Good For You FOLLOW ON SPOTIF…
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Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world. Published October 23rd on Just Security. ICYMI: Yesterday on Just Security: Shou…
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What Do You Want Out of Life? A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters
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1:04:41What do you want out of life? To make a lot of money, work for justice, run marathons, sing in a choir, have children, travel the world? The things we care about in life—family, friendship, leisure activities, work, our moral ideals—often conflict, preventing us from doing what matters most to us. Even worse, we don’t always know what we really wan…
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Robert C. Bird, "Legal Knowledge in Organizations: A Source of Strategic and Competitive Advantage" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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59:26Legal Knowledge in Organizations: A Source of Strategic and Competitive Advantage (Cambridge UP, 2025) offers a step-by-step guide on how to utilize the law as a source of value in organizations. Robert C. Bird demonstrates how legal knowledge can be a valuable asset for firms, providing them with a sustainable competitive advantage that is difficu…
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Nathan E. Sanders and Bruce Schneier, "Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship" (MIT Press, 2025)
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43:32AI is changing democracy. We still get to decide how. AI’s impact on democracy will go far beyond headline-grabbing political deepfakes and automated misinformation. Everywhere it will be used, it will create risks and opportunities to shake up long-standing power structures. In this highly readable and advisedly optimistic book, Rewiring Democracy…
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Roosevelt’s Weak Hand and Trump’s Strong One in Eastern and Central Europe: Will Trump Play His Good Cards?
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9:25"Roosevelt’s Weak Hand and Trump’s Strong One in Eastern and Central Europe: Will Trump Play His Good Cards?" by Ambassador Daniel Fried Published on October 22nd, 2025 by Just Security.
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Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world. Published October 22nd on Just Security. ICYMI: Yesterday on Just Security Crisi…
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#1782 Music by Scarlet Tantrum, Avery Raquel, Lizzy Hilliard, Alexis Barotelli, Kelli Baker, CoCo Tay, Rox Anne, DUPLEXITY, Lisa Mitts, Dana Dufour, Cela Harper, Nadia Faye, Emily Baird, GILANA, Dionya ...
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1:00:35To get live links to the music we play and resources we offer, visit www.WOSPodcast.com This show includes the following songs: Scarlet Tantrum - Mannequin FOLLOW ON SPOTIFY Avery Raquel - Like The Rain FOLLOW ON SPOTIFY Lizzy Hilliard - Oregon FOLLOW ON SPOTIFY Alexis Barotelli - Second Chance FOLLOW ON SPOTIFY Kelli Baker - Silk Flowers FOLLOW ON…
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Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world. Published October 21st on Just Security. ICYMI: Yesterday on Just Security Will …
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Will Victims of Cyber Attacks Soon Get Their Day in Court? Options for Accountability for Cyber Attacks
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22:02"Will Victims of Cyber Attacks Soon Get Their Day in Court? Options for Accountability for Cyber Attacks" by Harriet Moynihan, Amal Clooney and Philippa Webb Published on October 20th, 2025 by Just Security.
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Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world. Published October 20th, 2025 on Just Security. ICYMI: last week on Just Security…
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Massimo Modonesi, "The Antagonistic Principle: Marxism and Political Action" (Haymarket, 2019)
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43:07What does it mean to be a political subject? This is one of the key questions asked by Massimo Modonesi in The Antagonistic Principle: Marxism and Political Action (2019), published as part of the Historical Materialism book series from Brill and Haymarket books. The book takes on the theories of Marx and Gramsci to develop a philosophical triad …
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#1781 Music by Lucy Gray, The Sirens, Alexandra James, Jazzmin Gray, Sara Diana, Maggie Kane, Chandler Juliet, Gaby DeSpain, Kel Adore, Alex Krawczyk, Bella Masone, Fiona Maura, Matteson Gregory, Faye ...
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57:12To get live links to the music we play and resources we offer, visit www.WOSPodcast.com This show includes the following songs: Lucy Gray - Purple Skies FOLLOW ON YOUTUBE The Sirens - Satisfied FOLLOW ON YOUTUBE Alexandra James - Bitter Then Better FOLLOW ON SPOTIFY Jazzmin Gray - Prelude FOLLOW ON SPOTIFY Sara Diana - Body Ache FOLLOW ON SPOTIFY M…
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Elisabeth R. Anker, "Ugly Freedoms" (Duke UP, 2022)
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1:00:09Freedom is often considered the cornerstone of the American political project. The 1776 revolutionaries declared it an inalienable right that could neither be taken nor granted, a sacred concept upon which the nation was established. The concept and actualization of freedom are also to be defended by the state. However, when such a concept has been…
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