Today we launch The Arts Salon Off-Topic, with cohost Andrés Caro! To get to know Andrés better, please listen to Episode 45 of the podcast. This new series within The Arts Salon will focus on many topics that intersect with the arts and sometimes don't.

Our first guest is political scientist Joshua Simon. We discuss his book The Ideology of Creole Revolution: Imperialism and Independence in American and Latin American Political Thought.