Disha Karnad Jani interviews Tehila Sasson, Assistant Professor of Britain and the World in the Department of History at Emory University. In this interview, the author discusses her new book The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire (Princeton University Press, 2024). Sasson shows how British nonprofits sought to create an ethical capitalism in the decades immediately after the Second World War and traces how many of the core concepts and practices of neoliberalism grew out of experiments from the left-liberal nonprofit sector in the era of decolonization.

Historian and In Theory editor Disha Karnad Jani interviews Charisse Burden-Stelly about her new book, Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States (University of Chicago Press, 2023). The book explores how related panics about Black political power and communism in the early 20th century drove the US government’s attempts at repression of anti-capitalist and anti-racist movements.

Historian and In Theory editor Disha Karnad Jani interviews Anjali Arondekar, Professor of Feminist Studies at California University of California, Santa Cruz and Founding Director of the Center for South Asian Studies about her recently published book, Abundance: Sexuality’s History (Duke University Press, 2023).

In Theory editor Disha Karnad Jani interviews Ian Merkel, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin, about his first book, Terms of Exchange: Brazilian Intellectuals and the French Social Sciences (The University of Chicago Press, 2022).

In Theory editor Disha Karnad Jani interviews Divya Cherian, Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University about her book, Merchants of Virtue. Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia (University of California University Press, 2022).

In Theory co-host Disha Karnad Jani interviews Judith Surkis, Professor of History at Rutgers School of Art and Sciences, about her book, Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830–1930(Cornell University Press, 2019).

In Theory editor Kristin Engelhardt interviews Dannelle Gutarra Cordero, Lecturer in African American Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University, about her book, She is Weeping: An Intellectual History of Racialized Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World(Cambridge University Press, 2021).

In Theory editor Kristin Engelhardt interviews Professor Edward Tyerman, Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley, about his book, Internationalist Aesthetics: China and Early Soviet Culture (Columbia University Press, 2021).

In Theory co-host Disha Karnad Jani interviews Charly Coleman, Associate Professor of History at Columbia University and award-winning author of the 2016 Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies, about his book, The Spirit of French Capitalism. Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment(Stanford University Press, 2021).

JHI Blog editor Tom Furse interviews Samuel Moyn, Professor of History at Yale University about his book, Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War (Verso, 2022).