Show overview
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast has been publishing since 2009, and across the 17 years since has built a catalogue of 852 episodes. That works out to roughly 770 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence, with the show now in its 2nd season.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 44 min and 1h 4m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. It is catalogued as a EN-language Arts show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 3 days ago, with 63 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2025, with 137 episodes published. Published by Marshall Poe.
Episodes
852
Running
2009–2026 · 17y
Median length
53 min
Cadence
Weekly
From the publisher
A series of interviews with authors of new books from Princeton University Press
Latest Episodes
View all 852 episodesCleo Nisse, "Venetian Canvas and the Transformation of Painting" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jun 26, 202647 min
Valerie Tiberius, "What Do You Want Out of Life? A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jun 24, 20261h 7m
Valerie Tiberius, "What Do You Want Out of Life? A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jun 24, 20261h 7m
Catherine Fletcher, "The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jun 23, 202646 min
Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age
Jun 20, 2026
Robert Suits, "The Hobo: A History of America's First Climate Migrants" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jun 16, 202658 min
Cristina Florea, "Bukovina: The Life and Death of an East European Borderland" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Jun 16, 20261h 31m
Lawrence Douglas, "The Criminal State: War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jun 3, 202652 min
Steven Nadler, "Spinoza, Atheist" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jun 2, 202640 min
Annette Gordon-Reed ed., "Jefferson on Race: A Reader" (Princeton UP, 2026)
May 30, 20261h 6m
Hugo Drochon, "Elites and Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2026)
May 20, 20261h 4m
Kira Ganga Kieffer, "Unvaccinated Under God: Religion and Vaccine Hesitancy in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2026)
May 13, 202643 min
Mark Peterson, "The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution: A Thousand-Year History" (Princeton UP, 2026)
May 9, 20261h 5m
Julia Bowes, "Every Man's Home a Castle: Parental Rights and the Makings of Modern Conservatism" (Princeton UP, 2026)
May 8, 202638 min
Julia Stephens, "Worldly Afterlives: Tracing Family Trails Between India and Empire" (Princeton UP, 2025)
May 7, 202645 min
Kim Haines-Eitzen, "The Gospel of John: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2026)
May 6, 202650 min
William Stell, "Born Again Queer: A History of Evangelical Gay Activism and the Making of Antigay Christianity" (Princeton UP, 2026)
May 5, 202647 min
Mostafa Hussein, "Hebrew Orientalism: Jewish Engagement with Arabo-Islamic Culture in Late Ottoman and British Palestine" (Princeton UP, 2025)
May 1, 20261h 32m
David Womersley, "Thinking Through Shakespeare" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Apr 28, 20261h 1m
Roland Betancourt, "Disneyland and the Rise of Automation: How Technology Created the Happiest Place on Earth" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Apr 23, 202655 min
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