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David Crystal, "Bookish Words and Their Surprising Stories" (Bodleian Library, 2025)

Jun 20 • 48m

Emmanuel Akyeampong, "Independent Africa: The First Generation of Nation Builders" (Indiana UP, 2023)

Jun 19 • 1h 25m

Frederick Reece, "Forgery in Musical Composition: Aesthetics, History, and the Canon" (Oxford University Press, 2025)

Jun 17 • 1h 4m

Mark Somos, Matthew Cleary, Pablo Dufour, Edward Jones Corredera, and Emanuele Salerno, "The Unseen History of International Law" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Jun 17 • 1h 5m

Brook Ziporyn, "Experiments in Mystical Atheism: Godless Epiphanies from Daoism to Spinoza and Beyond" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Jun 16 • 2h 7m

Introducing The Critical Edition of the Works of C. G. Jung

Jun 16 • 15m

J. McKenzie Alexander, "The Open Society as an Enemy: A Critique of how Free Societies Turned Against Themselves" (LSE Press, 2024)

Jun 14 • 1h 11m

Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab, "Contemporary Arab Thought: Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective" (Columbia UP, 2025)

Jun 11 • 29m

Brando Simeo Starkey, "Their Accomplices Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System" (Doubleday, 2025)

Jun 6 • 1h 2m

Questions: A Discussion with Leslie Butler and Holly Case

Jun 6 • 1h 36m

Christoph Schuringa, "Karl Marx and the Actualization of Philosophy" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Jun 4 • 51m

Jack Ashby, "Nature's Memory: Behind the Scenes at the World’s Natural History Museums" (Penguin, 2025)

Jun 1 • 59m

Catriona M.M. MacDonald, "The Caledoniad: The Making of Scottish History" (John Donald, 2024)

May 31 • 44m

Derek J. Penslar, "Zionism: An Emotional State" (Rutgers UP, 2023)

May 30 • 1h 2m

Yitzhak Conforti, "Zionism and Jewish Culture: A Study in the Origins of a National Movement" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)

May 29 • 55m

Dan Sperrin, "State of Ridicule: A History of Satire in English Literature" (Princeton UP, 2025)

May 28 • 53m

Kirsten Macfarlane, "Lay Learning and the Bible in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World" (Oxford UP, 2024)

May 27 • 45m

Anne C. Klein on Becoming a Buddha & Being Human too

May 26 • 1h 28m

Book Talk 66: Political Hope, with Loren Goldman

May 24 • 1h 29m

Jennifer T. Roberts, "Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture" (Princeton UP, 2024)

May 24 • 1h 38m

Yosie Levine, "Hakham Tsevi Ashkenazi and the Battlegrounds of the Early Modern Rabbinate" (Littman Library, 2024)

May 23 • 41m

Jon Shelton, "The Education Myth: How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy" (Cornell UP, 2023)

May 22 • 1h 11m

David Kraemer, "Embracing Exile: The Case for Jewish Diaspora" (Oxford UP, 2025)

May 21 • 1h 2m

Quentin Skinner, "Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

May 20 • 57m

Richard Calis, "The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter, and Belief in the Mediterranean World of Martin Crusius" (Harvard UP, 2025)

May 19 • 1h 1m

Rasheedah Phillips, "Dismantling the Master's Clock: On Race, Space, and Time" (AK Press, 2025)

May 18 • 58m

Eric Heinze, "Coming Clean: The Rise of Critical Theory and the Future of the Left" (MIT Press, 2025)

May 17 • 1h 14m

Marc Shapiro, "Renewing the Old, Sanctifying the New: The Unique Vision of Rav Kook" (Littman Library, 2025)

May 16 • 49m

Myka Tucker-Abramson, "Cartographies of Empire: The Road Novel and American Hegemony" (Stanford UP, 2025)

May 15 • 59m

Daniel Behar, "Syrian Poets and Vernacular Modernity" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)

May 14 • 29m

Globalization's Backlash: Echoes of the Interwar Era in Today’s World

May 10 • 35m

Nancy M. Rourke, "Ecological Moral Character: A Catholic Model" (Georgetown UP, 2024)

May 9 • 39m

Aaron Robertson, "The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America" (FSG, 2024)

May 8 • 54m

Paul Chrystal, "Miracula: Weird and Wonderful Stories of Ancient Greece and Rome" (Reaktion, 2025)

May 7 • 58m

Matthew Daniel Eddy, "Media and the Mind: Art, Science, and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700-1830" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

May 6 • 56m

Timothy Twining, "The Limits of Erudition: The Old Testament in Post-Reformation Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

May 5 • 1h 10m

Judith Vitale, "The Historical Writing of the Mongol Invasions in Japan" (Harvard UP, 2024)

May 4 • 1h 3m

Tithi Bhattacharya, "Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal" (Duke UP, 2024)

May 3 • 38m

Donald S. Prudlo, "Stimulus Pastorum: A Charge to Pastors" (St. Augustine's Press, 2022)

May 2 • 30m

Nat Dyer, "Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray" (Bristol UP, 2024)

May 1 • 1h 21m

Laura Spinney, "Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Apr 30 • 55m

Jeff Sebo, "The Moral Circle: Who Matters, What Matters, and Why" (Norton, 2025)

Apr 29 • 1h 4m

Russell Blackford, "How We Became Post-Liberal: The Rise and Fall of Toleration" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Apr 28 • 1h 20m

Mehrdad Alipour, "Negotiating Homosexuality in Islam: A Legal-hermeneutical Examination of Modern Shīʿī Discourse" (Brill, 2024)

Apr 27 • 1h 43m

Franck Billé, "Somatic States: On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity" (Duke UP, 2025)

Apr 27 • 51m

Udi Greenberg, "The End of the Schism: Catholics, Protestants, and the Remaking of Christian Life in Europe, 1880s-1970s" (Harvard UP, 2025)

Apr 26 • 1h 13m

Christopher Harding, "The Light of Asia: A History of Western Fascination with the East" (Allen Lane, 2024)

Apr 25 • 1h 10m

Geoffrey Roberts, "Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books" (Yale UP, 2022)

Apr 24 • 1h 21m

Fernanda Gallo, "Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Apr 23 • 48m

Shushma Malik, "The Nero-Antichrist: Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

Apr 22 • 43m

Margherita Zanasi, "Economic Thought in Modern China: Market and Consumption, c.1500–1937" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

Apr 21 • 1h 29m

Talia Mae Bettcher, "Beyond Personhood: An Essay in Trans Philosophy" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)

Apr 20 • 52m

Samuel Ross, "Qur’an Commentary and the Biblical Turn: A History of Muslim Exegetical Engagement with the Biblical Text" (de Gruyter, 2024)

Apr 19 • 1h 26m

Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, "The Idea of the City in Late Antiquity: A Study in Resilience" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Apr 16 • 1h 15m

Henry Jenkins, "Where the Wild Things Were: Boyhood and Permissive Parenting in Postwar America" (NYU Press, 2025)

Apr 14 • 58m

David Wiles, "Democracy, Theatre and Performance: From the Greeks to Gandhi" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Apr 13 • 1h 11m

Stephen J. Campbell, "Leonardo da Vinci: An Untraceable Life" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Apr 12 • 46m

Richard Alfred Muller, "Predestination in Early Modern Reformed Theology" (Reformation Heritage Books, 2024)

Apr 11 • 31m

Matthew D'Auria et al., "The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Apr 10 • 1h 41m

Benjamin M. Studebaker, "Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)

Apr 9 • 1h 4m

Bruno Leipold, "Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Apr 8 • 55m

Eli Rubin, "Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity: An Existential History of Chabad Hasidism" (Stanford UP, 2025)

Apr 7 • 1h 16m

Katherine Hallemeier, "African Literature and US Empire: Postcolonial Optimism in Nigerian and South African Writing" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)

Apr 6 • 41m

Benjamin P. Davis, "Choose Your Bearing: Édouard Glissant, Human Rights, and Decolonial Ethics" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)

Apr 5 • 57m

Julia Jarcho, "Throw Yourself Away: Writing and Masochism" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Apr 4 • 54m

Andrew Canessa and Manuela Lavinas Picq, "Savages and Citizens: How Indigeneity Shapes the State" (U Arizona Press, 2025)

Apr 3 • 1h 1m

Sam Klug, "The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

Apr 2 • 1h 11m

Letizia Osti, "History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate: Writing the Past in Medieval Arabic Literature" (I. B. Tauris, 2024)

Apr 1 • 51m

Sarah Bassett, "Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Mar 31 • 1h 20m

Hannan Hever, "Hasidism, Haskalah, Zionism: Chapters in Literary Politics" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

Mar 30 • 56m

Rune Nyord, "Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

Mar 29 • 52m

William Max Nelson, "Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Mar 28 • 1h 12m

William H. F. Altman, "Ascent to the Beautiful: Plato the Teacher and the Pre-Republic Dialogues from Protagoras to Symposium" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020)

Mar 26 • 2h 21m

Joshua Ehrlich, "The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Mar 24 • 51m

Peter Sloterdijk Knows it All

Mar 23 • 1h 12m

Surekha Davies, "Humans: A Monstrous History" (U California Press, 2025)

Mar 23 • 1h 9m

Andrew Clapham, "War" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Mar 22 • 1h 3m

David D. Grafton, "Muhammad in the Seminary: Protestant Teaching about Islam in the Nineteenth Century" (NYU Press, 2024)

Mar 21 • 1h 21m

Marilyn Nissim-Sabat and Neil Roberts, "Creolizing Hannah Arendt" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)

Mar 20 • 1h 4m

Mick Brown, "The Nirvana Express: How the Search for Enlightenment Went West" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Mar 20 • 1h 43m

Simon Rabinovitch, "Sovereignty and Religious Freedom: A Jewish History" (Yale UP, 2024)

Mar 19 • 1h 21m

Andrew Janiak, "The Enlightenment's Most Dangerous Woman: Émilie Du Châtelet and the Making of Modern Philosophy" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Mar 18 • 47m

Chance E. Bonar, "The Author in Early Christian Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Mar 17 • 50m

Kobi Kabalek, "Rescue and Remembrance: Imagining the German Collective After Nazism" (U Wisconsin Press, 2025)

Mar 16 • 58m

Nima Bassiri, "Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Mar 13 • 1h 12m

Ken Frieden, "Travels in Translation: Sea Tales at the Source of Jewish Fiction" (Syracuse UP, 2016)

Mar 12 • 1h 34m

Gregory Soderberg, "John Brown of Haddington on Frequent Communion" (Wipf & Stock, 2024)

Mar 11 • 34m

Emma Borg and Sarah A. Fisher, "Meaning: a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Mar 9 • 1h 6m

Anthony Grafton, "Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa" (Harvard UP, 2023)

Mar 8 • 31m

Ethan Kleinberg, "Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic Turn: Philosophy and Jewish Thought" (Stanford UP, 2021)

Mar 8 • 1h 21m

Jeffrey A. Lenowitz, "Constitutional Ratification Without Reason" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Mar 4 • 1h 0m

David N. Livingstone, "The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Mar 2 • 51m

Erik Baker, "Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America" (Harvard UP, 2025)

Mar 2 • 58m

Ellen Fenzel Arnold, "Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, C. 300-1100" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Mar 1 • 53m

Wan-Chuan Kao, "White before Whiteness in the Late Middle Ages" (Manchester UP, 2024)

Feb 28 • 1h 11m

Christina Kiaer, "Collective Body: Aleksandr Deineka at the Limit of Socialist Realism" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Feb 26 • 1h 48m

Religious Freedom: A Conversation on the Conservative Tradition with John D. Wilsey

Feb 26 • 44m

Gregory Castle et al., "The Irish Bildungsroman" (Syracuse UP, 2025)

Feb 26 • 1h 11m

Rhiannon Stephens, "Poverty and Wealth in East Africa: A Conceptual History" (Duke UP, 2022)

Feb 22 • 49m

Amit Levy, "A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel" (Brandeis UP, 2024)

Feb 21 • 1h 10m

William M. Paris, "Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Feb 20 • 1h 12m

Asheesh Kapur Siddique, "The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World" (Yale UP, 2024)

Feb 19 • 56m

Peter Wien, "Arab Nationalism: The Politics of History and Culture in the Modern Middle East" (Routledge, 2017)

Feb 19 • 49m

Kathryn Taylor, "Ordering Customs: Ethnographic Thought in Early Modern Venice" (U Delaware Press, 2023)

Feb 18 • 43m

Melinda Cooper, "Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance" (Zone Books, 2024)

Feb 18 • 1h 22m

Ruby Lowe on John Milton’s Definition of Free Speech

Feb 17 • 1h 24m

Jacqueline M. Burek, "Literary Variety and the Writing of History in Britain's Long Twelfth Century" (York Medieval Press, 2023)

Feb 16 • 54m

Marcel Elias, "English Literature and the Crusades: Anxieties of Holy War, 1291-1453" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Feb 16 • 26m

Trevor Wilson, "Alexandre Kojève and the Specters of Russian Philosophy" (Northwestern UP, 2024)

Feb 15 • 47m

Peter Burke, "Ignorance: A Global History" (Yale UP, 2024)

Feb 14 • 45m

Marie-France Fortin, "The King Can Do No Wrong: Constitutional Fundamentals, Common Law History, and Crown Liability" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Feb 14 • 1h 12m

Ada Palmer, "Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

Feb 13 • 54m

Patricia Owens, "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Feb 13 • 1h 8m

Randall Fuller, "Bright Circle: Five Remarkable Women in the Age of Transcendentalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Feb 13 • 57m

Frank Gerits, "The Ideological Scramble for Africa: How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity Shaped a Postcolonial Order, 1945-1966" (Cornell UP, 2023)

Feb 12 • 59m

William Sweet, "Before and After Democracy: Philosophy, Religion, and Politics" (Peeters, 2023)

Feb 12 • 1h 15m

Iain D. Thomson, "Rethinking Death in and after Heidegger" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Feb 12 • 1h 33m

Edward Simon, "The Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Heavenly Virtues: A Visual History" (Cernunnos, 2024)

Feb 10 • 46m

Bruce Robbins, "Atrocity: A Literary History" (Stanford UP, 2025)

Feb 9 • 1h 12m

Peter J. Bowler, "Evolution for the People: Shaping Popular Ideas from Darwin to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Feb 9 • 50m

Josef Stern, "Maimonides' "Guide of the Perplexed" in Translation: A History from the Thirteenth Century to the Twentieth" (U Chicago Press, 2019)

Feb 9 • 40m

Richard Rorty, "What Can We Hope For?: Essays on Politics" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Feb 8 • 1h 2m

Our History with AI is (much) Longer than You Think (with Kevin LaGrandeur)

Feb 8 • 1h 5m

Zahi Zalloua, "The Politics of the Wretched: Race, Reason, and Ressentiment" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Feb 7 • 41m

Davide Panagia, "Sentimental Empiricism: Politics, Philosophy, and Criticism in Postwar France" (Fordham UP, 2024)

Feb 6 • 1h 5m

We Are Free to Change the World: A Conversation on Hannah Arendt with Lyndsay Stonebridge

Feb 5 • 47m

Vittorio Bufacchi, "Why Cicero Matters" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Feb 4 • 1h 7m

Ayesha Jalal, "Muslim Enlightened Thought in South Asia" (Routledge, 2025)

Feb 4 • 46m

Cyrus Ali Zargar, "The Ethics of Karbala: Myths, Modernity, and Virtues of Nobility" (Routledge, 2024)

Feb 3 • 1h 4m

Sara Burdorff, "Maternity, Monstrosity, and Heroic (Im)mortality from Homer to Shakespeare" (Amsterdam UP, 2025)

Feb 2 • 38m

Moritz Mihatsch and Michael Mulligan, "Shifting Sovereignties: A Global History of a Concept in Practice" (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025)

Feb 2 • 1h 9m

Amanda Lagji, "Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time: Waiting for Now" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)

Feb 1 • 47m

Ramachandra Guha, "Speaking with Nature: The Origins of Indian Environmentalism" (Yale UP, 2024)

Feb 1 • 1h 5m

Tolkien, Philosopher of War: A Conversation with Graham McAleer

Jan 30 • 50m

Anand Venkatkrishnan, "Love in the Time of Scholarship: The Bhagavata Purana in Indian Intellectual History" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Jan 30 • 38m

Peter Brian Barry, "George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Jan 29 • 1h 8m

Vera Keller, "Curating the Enlightenment: Johann Daniel Major and the Experimental Century" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Jan 27 • 51m

Udo Hock, "The Mysterious Messages of the Other: On the Work of Jean Laplanches" (Psychosozial-Verlag, 2024)

Jan 26 • 1h 12m

Michael Sonenscher, "After Kant: The Romans, the Germans, and the Moderns in the History of Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Jan 26 • 1h 10m

Richard Bourke, "Hegel’s World Revolutions" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Jan 25 • 1h 10m

Alan Bollard, "Economists in the Cold War: How a Handful of Economists Fought the Battle of Ideas" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Jan 25 • 1h 8m

Hélène Tessier, "Laplanche's Vocabulary" (PUF, 2024)

Jan 24 • 1h 27m

Pierre Sokolsky, "The Clock in the Sun: How We Came to Understand Our Nearest Star" (Columbia UP, 2024)

Jan 21 • 54m

Rafael Rachel Neis, "When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species" (U California Press, 2023)

Jan 20 • 1h 36m

Melissa B. Reynolds, "Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Jan 17 • 1h 9m

August H. Nimtz and Kyle A. Edwards, "The Communist and the Revolutionary Liberal in the Second American Revolution" (Brill, 2024)

Jan 17 • 1h 42m

Mariam Motamedi Fraser, "Dog Politics: Species Stories and the Animal Sciences" (Manchester UP, 2024)

Jan 15 • 1h 5m

Arthur Bradley, "Staging Sovereignty: Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy" (Columbia UP, 2024)

Jan 15 • 57m

Nancy Reddy, "The Good Mother Myth: Unlearning Our Bad Ideas About How to Be a Good Mom" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)

Jan 13 • 51m

Bernard J. Dobski, "Mark Twain’s Joan of Arc: Political Wisdom, Divine Justice, and the Origins of Modernity" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024)

Jan 13 • 54m

Nitzan Lebovic, "Homo Temporalis: German Jewish Thinkers on Time" (Cornell UP, 2025)

Jan 13 • 1h 42m

Matthew McManus, "The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism" (Routledge, 2024)

Jan 11 • 1h 27m

Chaya T. Halberstam, "Trial Stories in Jewish Antiquity: Counternarratives of Justice" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Jan 11 • 1h 11m

Victoria Harms, "The Making of Dissidents: Hungary’s Democratic Opposition and its Western Friends, 1973-1998" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2024)

Jan 10 • 1h 8m

Gabriele Badano and Alasia Nuti, "Politicizing Political Liberalism: On the Containment of Illiberal and Antidemocratic Views" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Jan 9 • 1h 4m

Joel Whitebook, "Freud: An Intellectual Biography" (Cambridge UP, 2017)

Jan 7 • 57m

Christopher Phelps and Robin Vandome, "Marxism and America: New Appraisals" (Manchester UP, 2021)

Jan 7 • 1h 16m

Benjamin Meiches, "The Politics of Annihilation: A Genealogy of Genocide" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)

Jan 7 • 1h 0m

Catherine Hezser, "Rabbinic Scholarship in the Context of Late Antique Scholasticism: The Development of the Talmud Yerushalmi" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Jan 6 • 59m

Theresa Keeley, "Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns: The Catholic Conflict Over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central America" (Cornell UP, 2020)

Jan 6 • 47m

Amy Aronson, "Chrystal Eastman: A Revolutionary Life" (Oxford UP, 2019)

Jan 5 • 1h 2m

Matthew C. Godfrey, ed., "The Joseph Smith Papers: Documents, Volume 7" (Church Historians Press, 2018)

Jan 5 • 1h 26m

Todd McGowan, "Universality and Identity Politics" (Columbia UP, 2020)

Jan 4 • 1h 5m

Stuart Elden, "The Early Foucault" (Polity Press, 2021)

Jan 3 • 53m

The Hyphen Unites: Avi Shlaim on Arab-Jewish Life

Jan 3 • 1h 10m

Camille Robcis, "Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

Jan 2 • 1h 4m

I. Augustus Durham, "Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius" (Duke UP, 2023)

Jan 2 • 1h 12m

Kent Michael Shaw, "Missiology Reimagined: The Missions Theology of the Nineteenth-Century African American Missionary" (Pickwick, 2024)

Jan 1 • 47m

Eric Storm, "Nationalism: A World History" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Jan 1 • 50m

Frederick Crews, "Freud: The Making of an Illusion" (Picador, 2018)

Dec 31, 2024 • 1h 2m

Nicholas R. Jones, "Cervantine Blackness" (Penn State UP, 2024)

Dec 30, 2024 • 56m

Harvey J. Kaye, "The British Marxist Historians" (Zero Book, 2022)

Dec 29, 2024 • 1h 17m

Robert Darnton, "Pirating and Publishing: The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Dec 29, 2024 • 54m

Emily Herring, "Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People" (Basic Books, 2024)

Dec 29, 2024 • 1h 6m

Peter Salmon, "An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida" (Verso, 2020)

Dec 28, 2024 • 1h 19m

Kit Kowol, "Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Dec 28, 2024 • 39m

AI: How We Got Here in Three Powerful Tales

Dec 26, 2024 • 1h 7m

Larry S. Temkin, "Being Good in a World of Need" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Dec 25, 2024 • 1h 39m

Jess A. Goldberg, "Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)

Dec 24, 2024 • 1h 18m

Hartley Lachter, "Kabbalah and Catastrophe: Historical Memory in Premodern Jewish Mysticism" (Stanford UP, 2024)

Dec 21, 2024 • 45m

Kevin D. Pham, "The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Dec 21, 2024 • 1h 11m

Ariel Evan Mayse, "Laws of the Spirit: Ritual, Mysticism, and the Commandments in Early Hasidism" (Stanford UP, 2024)

Dec 19, 2024 • 1h 16m

Stephen Jackson, "The Patchwork of World History in Texas High Schools" (Routledge, 2022)

Dec 18, 2024 • 1h 6m

Kenny Cupers, "The Earth That Modernism Built: Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design" (U Texas Press, 2024)

Dec 17, 2024 • 1h 21m

Zygmunt Bauman, "Theory and Society" (Polity, 2024)

Dec 16, 2024 • 1h 5m

Margaret Ziolkowski, "Mega-Dams in World Literature: Literary Responses to Twentieth-Century Dam Building" (U of Wyoming Press, 2024)

Dec 15, 2024 • 36m

Renée Bergland, "Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Dec 13, 2024 • 1h 6m

David J. Collins, SJ, "Disenchanting Albert the Great: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Magician" (Penn State UP, 2024)

Dec 12, 2024 • 1h 7m

Samuel Hodgkin, "Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Dec 12, 2024 • 1h 2m

Caroline Winterer, "How the New World Became Old: The Deep Time Revolution in America" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Dec 10, 2024 • 1h 5m

Marissa Greenberg and Rachel Trubowitz, "Milton's Moving Bodies" (Northwestern UP, 2024)

Dec 10, 2024 • 1h 26m

Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, "Did It Happen Here?: Perspectives on Fascism and America" (W. W. Norton, 2024)

Dec 8, 2024 • 57m

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Dec 7, 2024 • 17m

Nicola Kristin Karcher and Markus Lundström, "Nordic Fascism: Fragments of an Entangled History" (Routledge, 2022)

Dec 7, 2024 • 33m

Larry Alan Busk, "The Right-Wing Mirror of Critical Theory: Studies of Schmitt, Oakeshott, Hayek, Strauss, and Rand" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)

Dec 6, 2024 • 1h 10m

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, "Women and the Reformations: A Global History" (Yale UP, 2024)

Dec 6, 2024 • 1h 14m

George Steinmetz, "The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Dec 6, 2024 • 1h 57m

Simin Fadaee, "Global Marxism: Decolonisation and Revolutionary Politics" (Manchester UP, 2024)

Dec 5, 2024 • 49m

Geneviève Rousselière, "Sharing Freedom: Republicanism and Exclusion in Revolutionary France" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Dec 4, 2024 • 52m

Ibn al-Muqaffaʿs "Kalīlah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice"

Dec 2, 2024 • 1h 13m

Theara Thun, "Epistemology of the Past: Texts, History, and Intellectuals of Cambodia, 1855–1970" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)

Dec 2, 2024 • 48m

Andrew Hui, "The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Dec 1, 2024 • 30m

Sidney A. Shapiro and Joseph P. Tomain, "How Government Built America" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Dec 1, 2024 • 1h 28m

Elliot R. Wolfson, "Nocturnal Seeing: Hopelessness of Hope and Philosophical Gnosis in Susan Taubes, Gillian Rose, and Edith Wyschogrod" (Stanford UP, 2024)

Nov 30, 2024 • 45m

Johanna Drucker, "Iliazd: A Meta-Biography of a Modernist" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)

Nov 29, 2024 • 1h 7m

Anne B. Rodrick, "Lecturing the Victorians: Knowledge-Based Culture and Participatory Citizenship" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Nov 28, 2024 • 57m

Yii-Jan Lin, "Immigration and Apocalypse: How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration" (Yale UP, 2024)

Nov 28, 2024 • 48m

Denys Turner, "Dante the Theologian" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Nov 27, 2024 • 1h 23m

Sandipto Dasgupta, "Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Nov 26, 2024 • 1h 39m

Steve J. Shone, "Dangerous Anarchist Strikers" (Brill, 2023)

Nov 25, 2024 • 47m

Julia Kelto Lillis, "Virgin Territory: Configuring Female Virginity in Early Christianity" (U California Press, 2022)

Nov 25, 2024 • 1h 4m

Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay, "Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction" (Northwestern UP, 2024)

Nov 23, 2024 • 58m

Liliana M. Naydan, "Flat-World Fiction: Digital Humanity in Early Twenty-First-Century America" (U Georgia Press, 2021)

Nov 23, 2024 • 52m

Ken Krimstein, "Einstein in Kafkaland: How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up with the Universe" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Nov 23, 2024 • 31m

Jordan S. Carroll, "Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)

Nov 22, 2024 • 47m

Erica Benner, "Adventures in Democracy: The Turbulent World of People Power" (Penguin, 2024)

Nov 21, 2024 • 52m

Julian Hanna, "Island" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Nov 21, 2024 • 31m

Joan L. Bryant, "Reluctant Race Men: Black Challenges to the Practice of Race in Nineteenth-century America" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Nov 21, 2024 • 37m

Owen Ware, "Indian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany" (Routledge, 2023)

Nov 20, 2024 • 1h 1m

Masha Kirasirova, "The Eastern International: Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union's Anticolonial Empire" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Nov 19, 2024 • 1h 0m

Ian Miller, "Self-Esteem: An American History" (Polity Press, 2024)

Nov 17, 2024 • 42m

Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, "In Search of Jonathan: Jonathan Between the Bible and Modern Fiction" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Nov 17, 2024 • 1h 4m

J. Arch Getty and Lewis H. Siegelbaum, "Reflections on Stalinism" (Northern Illinois UP, 2024)

Nov 16, 2024 • 46m

Erin Lee Mock, "Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II" (U Virginia Press, 2024)

Nov 16, 2024 • 1h 8m

Nicholas Baer, "Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism" (U California Press, 2024)

Nov 16, 2024 • 38m

Adam Bobbette, "The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java" (Duke UP, 2023)

Nov 15, 2024 • 43m

Adam Bobbette, "The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java" (Duke UP, 2023)

Nov 15, 2024 • 43m

Laure Astourian, "The Ethnographic Optic: Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and the Turn Inward in 1960s French Cinema" (Indiana UP, 2024)

Nov 14, 2024 • 29m

Vaughn Scribner, "Merpeople: A Human History" (Reaktion Books, 2020)

Nov 13, 2024 • 50m

The Disappearance and Return of Inequality Studies in Economics

Nov 13, 2024 • 1h 10m

Janusz Korczak, "How to Love a Child and Other Selected Works" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2018)

Nov 12, 2024 • 1h 28m

Alison Stone, "Women on Philosophy of Art: Britain 1770-1900" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Nov 12, 2024 • 59m

Matthew Elia, "The Problem of the Christian Master: Augustine in the Afterlife of Slavery" (Yale UP, 2024)

Nov 11, 2024 • 1h 18m

Anthony Grasso, "Dual Justice: America's Divergent Approaches to Street and Corporate Crime" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Nov 11, 2024 • 58m

Conor McCabe, "The Lost and Early Writings of James Connolly, 1889-1898" (Iskra Books, 2024)

Nov 11, 2024 • 54m

Mary Lindemann and Deanna Shemek, "Redreaming the Renaissance: Essays on History and Literature in Honor of Guido Ruggiero" (U Delaware Press, 2024)

Nov 10, 2024 • 41m

Amín Pérez, "Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle" (Polity Press, 2023)

Nov 9, 2024 • 38m

Roberto Morales-Harley, "The Embassy, the Ambush, and the Ogre: Greco-Roman Influence in Sanskrit Theater” (Open Book, 2024)

Nov 7, 2024 • 38m

Roni Henig, "On Revival: Hebrew Literature Between Life and Death" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

Nov 7, 2024 • 53m

Doyle D. Calhoun, "The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire" (Duke UP, 2024)

Nov 6, 2024 • 1h 13m

Jerry Brotton, "Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2024)

Nov 5, 2024 • 53m

Simeon Koole, "Intimate Subjects: Touch and Tangibility in Britain's Cerebral Age" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Nov 4, 2024 • 31m

Salem Elzway and Jason Resnikoff on Automation

Nov 4, 2024 • 1h 21m

Hannah Weaver, "Experimental Histories: Interpolation and the Medieval British Past" (Cornell UP, 2024)

Nov 4, 2024 • 53m

Avi Shlaim, "Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew" (Oneworld, 2024)

Nov 3, 2024 • 1h 1m

Robert A. Schneider, "The Return of Resentment: The Rise and Decline and Rise Again of a Political Emotion" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

Nov 2, 2024 • 57m

Thinking Machines: The First AI Takeover Story

Nov 2, 2024 • 33m

Georgia Henley, "Reimagining the Past in the Borderlands of Medieval England and Wales" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Nov 1, 2024 • 45m

Nicholas Spencer, "Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion" (Oneworld, 2024)

Nov 1, 2024 • 55m

Dariusz Wojcik et al., "Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money" (Yale UP, 2024)

Oct 31, 2024 • 1h 17m

The Wisdom of Our Ancestors

Oct 30, 2024 • 1h 1m

Bihani Sarkar, "Classical Sanskrit Tragedy: The Concept of Suffering and Pathos in Medieval India" (I. B. Tauris, 2021)

Oct 30, 2024 • 1h 24m

Lennard J. Davis, "Poor Things: How Those with Money Depict Those Without It" (Duke UP, 2024)

Oct 30, 2024 • 32m

Sarah Dimick, "Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures" (Columbia UP, 2024)

Oct 29, 2024 • 55m

Peter Harrison, "Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Oct 29, 2024 • 1h 0m

Eric Helleiner, "The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History" (Cornell UP, 2021)

Oct 29, 2024 • 52m

Toni Alimi, "Slaves of God: Augustine and Other Romans on Religion and Politics" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Oct 28, 2024 • 1h 6m

Eve Dunbar, "Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction: Black Women Writing Under Segregation" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)

Oct 27, 2024 • 46m

Simon Kuznets and the Invention of the Economy

Oct 27, 2024 • 1h 5m

Himanshu Upadhyaya, "Critical Insights on Colonial Modes of Seeing Cattle in India (1850–1980)" (Springer, 2024)

Oct 25, 2024 • 58m

Derek Hook, “Six Moments in Lacan: Communication and Identification in Psychology and Psychoanalysis” (Routledge, 2018)

Oct 25, 2024 • 59m

Deborah Valenze, "The Invention of Scarcity: Malthus and the Margins of History" (Yale UP, 2023)

Oct 24, 2024 • 1h 11m

Seth Kimmel, "The Librarian's Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Oct 23, 2024 • 47m

Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, "Sea Level: A History" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Oct 21, 2024 • 52m

Benjamin Bergholtz, "Swallowing a World: Globalization and the Maximalist Novel" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)

Oct 21, 2024 • 52m

Vanessa Christina Wills, "Marx's Ethical Vision" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Oct 21, 2024 • 1h 0m

Sonja Stojanovic, "Mind the Ghost: Thinking Memory and the Untimely Through Contemporary Fiction in French" (Liverpool UP, 2023)

Oct 20, 2024 • 1h 6m

Lois Peters Agnew, "Fitter, Happier: The Eugenic Strain in Twentieth-Century Cancer Rhetoric" (U Alabama Press, 2024)

Oct 19, 2024 • 25m

Anne Higonnet, "Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution" (Norton, 2024)

Oct 18, 2024 • 47m

Christopher Smith, "Samurai with Telephones: Anachronism in Japanese Literature" (U Michigan Press, 2024)

Oct 18, 2024 • 42m

Beth Blum on Self-Help, Dale Carnegie to Today (JP)

Oct 17, 2024 • 29m

Oumelbanine Nina Zhiri, "Beyond Orientalism: Ahmad Ibn Qasim Al-Hajari Between Europe and North Africa" (U California Press, 2023)

Oct 16, 2024 • 1h 6m

The Social Contract in the Ruins: A Conversation with Dr. Paul DeHart

Oct 16, 2024 • 58m

Jacques Bertrand, "Winning by Process: The State and Neutralization of Ethnic Minorities in Myanmar" (Cornell UP, 2022)

Oct 15, 2024 • 51m

Jane Lydon, "Anti-Slavery and Australia: No Slavery in a Free Land?" (Routledge, 2021)

Oct 15, 2024 • 1h 30m

Rochelle Gurstein, "Written in Water: The Ephemeral Life of the Classic in Art" (Yale UP, 2024)

Oct 13, 2024 • 1h 5m

Theo Williams, "Making the Revolution Global: Black Radicalism and the British Socialist Movement before Decolonisation" (Verso, 2022)

Oct 13, 2024 • 1h 6m

Helena Taylor, "Women Writing Antiquity: Gender and Learning in Early Modern France" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Oct 13, 2024 • 1h 1m

Chris Cutrone, "Marxism and Politics: Essays on Critical Theory 2006-2024" (Sublation Media, 2024)

Oct 12, 2024 • 44m

Satoru Hashimoto, "Afterlives of Letters: The Transnational Origins of Modern Literature in China, Japan, and Korea" (Columbia UP, 2023)

Oct 11, 2024 • 1h 13m

Michael Tilton Williams, "Existence and Perception in Medieval Vedānta: Vyāsatīrtha's Defence of Realism in the Nyāyāmṛta" (de Gruyter, 2024)

Oct 10, 2024 • 32m

Roberta L. Millstein, "The Land Is Our Community: Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Oct 10, 2024 • 1h 7m

Luke Clossey, "Jesus and the Making of the Modern Mind, 1380-1520" (Open Book, 2024)

Oct 9, 2024 • 34m

The Ideology of Democratic Athens

Oct 8, 2024 • 1h 16m

Critique, Wonder, and Chinese Anatomy, with Lan A. Li

Oct 8, 2024 • 1h 1m

A Deep Dive on Karl Marx's "Capital"

Oct 7, 2024 • 2h 41m

Kyle Falcon, "Haunted Britain: Spiritualism, Psychical Research and the Great War" (Manchester UP, 2023)

Oct 6, 2024 • 41m

Iris Jamahl Dunkle, "Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb" (U California Press, 2024)

Oct 6, 2024 • 52m

Michael J. Thompson, "Descent of the Dialectic: Phronetic Criticism in an Age of Nihilism" (Routledge, 2024)

Oct 5, 2024 • 1h 0m

Faisal Devji, "Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea" (Harvard UP, 2013)

Oct 4, 2024 • 1h 37m

Alexandre Lefebvre, "Liberalism as a Way of Life" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Oct 4, 2024 • 1h 15m

Sean McMeekin, "To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism" (Basic Books, 2024)

Oct 4, 2024 • 55m

William Cook Miller, "The Enthusiast: Anatomy of the Fanatic in Seventeenth-Century British Culture" (Cornell UP, 2023)

Oct 3, 2024 • 59m

Camille Owens, "Like Children: Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America" (NYU Press, 2024)

Oct 3, 2024 • 42m

Julia Caterina Hartley, "Iran and French Orientalism: Persia in the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-Century France" (Bloomsbury. 2023)

Oct 2, 2024 • 44m

Naomi Seidman, "In the Freud Closet: Psychoanalysis and Jewish Languages" (Stanford UP, 2024)

Oct 2, 2024 • 1h 13m

From Tribalism to Common Humanity: A Conversation with Dr. John Ellis

Oct 2, 2024 • 56m

Paola Bertucci, "In the Land of Marvels: Science, Fabricated Realities, and Industrial Espionage in the Age of the Grand Tour" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

Oct 1, 2024 • 1h 10m

Jerome E. Copulsky, "American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order" (Yale UP, 2024)

Oct 1, 2024 • 1h 14m

Samuel Ely Bagg, "The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Oct 1, 2024 • 1h 7m

Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav, "Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas of Nationhood" (India Viking, 2024)

Sep 29, 2024 • 1h 2m

Estelle Tarica, "Holocaust Consciousness and Cold War Violence in Latin America" (SUNY Press, 2022)

Sep 29, 2024 • 1h 5m

J. C. D. Clark, "The Enlightenment: An Idea and Its History" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Sep 28, 2024 • 31m

Jack A. Goldstone, "Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Sep 27, 2024 • 1h 5m

David L. Swartz, "The Academic Trumpists: Radicals Against Liberal Diversity" (Routledge, 2024)

Sep 26, 2024 • 1h 3m

Alessandra Russo, "A New Antiquity: Art and Humanity as Universal, 1400-1600" (Penn State UP, 2024)

Sep 26, 2024 • 1h 3m

Rafal K. Stepien, "Buddhism Between Religion and Philosophy: Nāgārjuna and the Ethics of Emptiness" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Sep 24, 2024 • 1h 20m

William H. F. Altman, "Plato the Teacher: The Crisis of the Republic" (Lexington, 2012)

Sep 24, 2024 • 1h 39m

Jason A. Josephson Storm, "The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences" (U Chicago Press, 2017)

Sep 23, 2024 • 1h 10m

Jack Palmer, "Zygmunt Bauman and the West: A Sociology of Intellectual Exile" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)

Sep 22, 2024 • 1h 20m

Gergely Gosztonyi, "Censorship from Plato to Social Media: The Complexity of Social Media’s Content Regulation and Moderation Practices" (Springer, 2023)

Sep 22, 2024 • 50m

Ilias Alami and Adam D. Dixon, "The Spectre of State Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Sep 22, 2024 • 1h 9m

Sarah Lewis, "The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America" (Harvard UP, 2024)

Sep 21, 2024 • 45m

Amir Alexander, "Liberty's Grid: A Founding Father, a Mathematical Dreamland, and the Shaping of America" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Sep 21, 2024 • 1h 0m

Tom Navon, "Radical Assimilation in the Face of the Holocaust: Otto Heller (1897–1945)" (SUNY Press, 2024)

Sep 21, 2024 • 1h 3m

Alexis Pauline Gumbs, "Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde" (FSG, 2024)

Sep 19, 2024 • 55m

William H. F. Altman, "The German Stranger: Leo Strauss and National Socialism" (Lexington Books, 2010)

Sep 18, 2024 • 2h 12m

Zrinka Stahuljak, "Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Sep 18, 2024 • 1h 10m

Kevin J. McMahon, "A Supreme Court Unlike Any Other: The Deepening Divide Between the Justices and the People" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Sep 16, 2024 • 59m

Karl Marx, "Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Sep 16, 2024 • 34m

Michael D. Hattem, "The Memory of '76: The Revolution in American History" (Yale UP, 2024)

Sep 15, 2024 • 1h 0m

Theodore Papakostas, "How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator" (William Collins, 2024)

Sep 14, 2024 • 28m

Lynn M. Tesser, "Rethinking the End of Empire: Nationalism, State Formation, and Great Power Politics" (Stanford UP, 2024)

Sep 13, 2024 • 55m

Whitney Barlow Robles, "Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History" (Yale UP, 2023)

Sep 13, 2024 • 54m

Isaac Nakhimovsky, "The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Sep 12, 2024 • 1h 8m

Geoffrey D. Claussen, "Modern Musar: Contested Virtues in Jewish Thought" (Jewish Publication Society, 2022)

Sep 11, 2024 • 38m

Morgane Cadieu, "On Both Sides of the Tracks: Social Mobility in Contemporary French Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Sep 10, 2024 • 55m

Anthony Michael Kreis, "Rot and Revival: The History of Constitutional Law in American Political Development" (U California Press, 2024)

Sep 9, 2024 • 1h 5m

Ana Stevenson, "The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth-Century American Social Movements" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)

Sep 8, 2024 • 54m

Yaacob Dweck, "Dissident Rabbi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas" (Princeton UP, 2019)

Sep 8, 2024 • 54m

Sara E. Johnson, "Encyclopédie Noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World" (Omohundro Institute and UNC Press, 2023)

Sep 7, 2024 • 44m

Magdalena J. Zaborowska, "Me and My House: James Baldwin's Last Decade in France" (Duke UP, 2018)

Sep 6, 2024 • 1h 0m

Beri Marusic on Grief and other Expiring Emotions (Katie Elliott, JP)

Sep 5, 2024 • 1h 5m

S4E4 In Defense of Bad Science and the Philosophy of Being

Sep 4, 2024 • 42m

Julia Kindt, "The Trojan Horse and Other Stories: Ten Ancient Creatures That Make Us Human" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Sep 4, 2024 • 46m

E. J. Fagan, "The Thinkers: The Rise of Partisan Think Tanks and the Polarization of American Politics" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Sep 4, 2024 • 52m

Kostas Kampourakis, "Darwin Mythology: Debunking Myths, Correcting Falsehoods" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Sep 3, 2024 • 44m

David Lay Williams, "The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Sep 3, 2024 • 1h 10m

Jonathan Gienapp, "Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique" (Yale UP, 2024)

Sep 3, 2024 • 1h 21m

Andrea Moudarres, "The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic: Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso" (U Virginia Press, 2019)

Sep 3, 2024 • 1h 1m

Violet Moller, "The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found" (Doubleday, 2019)

Sep 2, 2024 • 1h 6m

Sanjay Lal, "Gandhi's Thought and Liberal Democracy" (Lexington Books, 2019)

Sep 2, 2024 • 53m

Elizabeth A. Williams, "Appetite and Its Discontents: Science, Medicine, and the Urge to Eat, 1750-1950" (U Chicago Press, 2020)

Sep 2, 2024 • 50m

Lise Butler, "Michael Young, Social Science, and the British Left, 1945-1970" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Aug 30, 2024 • 1h 14m

Ronnie Grinberg, "Write like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Aug 30, 2024 • 56m

Mark Valeri, "The Opening of the Protestant Mind: How Anglo-American Protestants Embraced Religious Liberty" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Aug 29, 2024 • 49m

Laura Robson and Arie Dubnov, "Partitions: A Transnational History of Twentieth-Century Territorial Separatism" (Stanford UP, 2019)

Aug 29, 2024 • 52m

Ludovico Silva, "Marx's Literary Style" (Verso, 2023)

Aug 28, 2024 • 1h 8m

Sumana Roy, "Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries" (Yale UP, 2024)

Aug 24, 2024 • 1h 4m

Nazmul Sultan, "Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought" (Harvard UP, 2024)

Aug 24, 2024 • 1h 48m

Joachim C. Häberlen, "Beauty Is in the Street: Protest and Counterculture in Post-War Europe" (Penguin, 2023)

Aug 21, 2024 • 1h 19m

Lost in Ideology: A Conversation with Jason Blakely

Aug 21, 2024 • 59m

Devonya N. Havis, "Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy" (Lexington Books, 2022)

Aug 20, 2024 • 51m

Rama Sundari Mantena, "Provincial Democracy: Political Imaginaries at the End of Empire in Twentieth-century South India" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Aug 20, 2024 • 1h 15m

Maria Dimova-Cookson, "Rethinking Positive and Negative Liberty" (Routledge, 2019)

Aug 19, 2024 • 43m

Ahreum Kim, "The Countercultural Victory of 1 John in Greco-Roman Context: Conquering the World" (T&T Clark, 2023)

Aug 18, 2024 • 34m

Maria Taroutina and Allison Leigh, "Russian Orientalism in a Global Context: Hybridity, Encounter, and Representation, 1740-1940" (Manchester UP, 2023)

Aug 17, 2024 • 42m

Stuart Elden, "The Birth of Territory" (U Chicago Press, 2013)

Aug 17, 2024 • 1h 2m

Sudhir Kakar, "The Indian Jungle: Psychoanalysis and Non-Western Civilizations" (Karnac, 2024)

Aug 17, 2024 • 55m

Lesley Smith, "Fragments of a World: William of Auvergne and His Medieval Life" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

Aug 16, 2024 • 41m

Lauren Benton, "They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Aug 16, 2024 • 51m

Decoloniality

Aug 15, 2024 • 41m

Shaul Magid, "Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical" (Princeton UP, 2021)

Aug 15, 2024 • 1h 4m

Noah Heringman, "Deep Time: A Literary History" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Aug 14, 2024 • 53m

James Madison and the Spirit of Self-Government: A Conversation with Colleen Sheehan

Aug 14, 2024 • 55m

Heather Murray, "Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

Aug 13, 2024 • 43m

Sara J. Charles, "The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages" (Reaktion Books, 2024)

Aug 12, 2024 • 50m

Peter Charles Hoffer, "The Supreme Court Footnote: A Surprising History" (NYU Press, 2024)

Aug 12, 2024 • 1h 4m

Marissa Nicosia, "Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Aug 11, 2024 • 46m

Marc Redfield, "Shibboleth: Judges, Derrida, Celan" (Fordham UP, 2020)

Aug 10, 2024 • 1h 6m

Cordelia Heß, "The Medieval Archive of Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century Sweden" (de Gruyter, 2021)

Aug 10, 2024 • 1h 24m

Gavin Steingo, "Interspecies Communication: Sound and Music Beyond Humanity" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Aug 10, 2024 • 58m

Dora Osborne, "What Remains: The Post-Holocaust Archive in German Memory Culture" (Camden House, 2020)

Aug 9, 2024 • 1h 2m

Daniel Kahneman’s Forgotten Legacy: Investigating Exxon-Funded Psychological Research

Aug 9, 2024 • 1h 5m

Jacob Soll, "Free Market: The History of an Idea" (Basic Books, 2022)

Aug 8, 2024 • 1h 29m

Samuel Ely Bagg, "The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Aug 7, 2024 • 1h 21m

Alexandra Popoff, "Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success" (Yale UP, 2024)

Aug 6, 2024 • 1h 0m

Jason Blakely, "Lost in Ideology: Interpreting Modern Political Life" (Agenda Publishing, 2023)

Aug 6, 2024 • 40m

Edward Shanks, "The People of the Ruins" (MIT Press, 2024)

Aug 6, 2024 • 1h 1m

Emily Cousens, "Trans Feminist Epistemologies in the US Second Wave" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

Aug 6, 2024 • 46m

Douglas Greene, "The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky: The Renegade's Revenge" (Routledge, 2024)

Aug 4, 2024 • 1h 26m

Laura Beers. "Orwell’s Ghosts Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century" (Norton, 2024)

Aug 3, 2024 • 46m

Edward Kaplan, "The End of Victory: Prevailing in the Thermonuclear Age" (Cornell UP, 2022)

Aug 2, 2024 • 1h 6m

Shaul Magid on the Jewish Radicalism of Meir Kahane (JP, Eugene Sheppard)

Aug 1, 2024 • 55m

Pawel Armada, "Humanism As Realism: Three Essays Concerning the Thought of Paul Elmer More and Irving Babbitt" (St. Augustine's Press, 2023)

Jul 31, 2024 • 54m

Steven E. Lindquist, "The Literary Life of Yājñavalkya" (SUNY Press, 2024)

Jul 30, 2024 • 1h 4m

Tim Cooper, "When Christians Disagree: Lessons from the Fractured Relationship of John Owen and Richard Baxter" (Crossway, 2024)

Jul 30, 2024 • 35m

Robin Darling Young et al, "Evagrius of Pontus: The Gnostic Trilogy" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Jul 28, 2024 • 1h 35m

Gilad Sharvit, "Dynamic Repetition: History and Messianism in Modern Jewish Thought" (Brandeis UP, 2022)

Jul 27, 2024 • 1h 3m

Hannah Freed-Thall, "Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons" (Columbia UP, 2023)

Jul 25, 2024 • 1h 4m

Ebony Nilsson, "Displaced Comrades: Politics and Surveillance in the Lives of Soviet Refugees in the West" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Jul 24, 2024 • 40m

Quantifying the American Mind: George Gallup, and the Promise of Political Polling

Jul 24, 2024 • 1h 15m

Nancy M. Bradbury, "Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales" (Penn State UP, 2024)

Jul 23, 2024 • 1h 4m

Mark Letteney, "The Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity: Intellectual and Material Transformations" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Jul 22, 2024 • 1h 15m

Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Janet Ward, "Fascism in America: Past and Present" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Jul 22, 2024 • 38m

Breanne Fahs, "Burn It Down: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution" (Verso, 2020)

Jul 21, 2024 • 58m

Francine Banner, "Beyond Complicity: Why We Blame Each Other Instead of Systems" (U California Press, 2024)

Jul 21, 2024 • 55m

Stephen Harris, "Buddhist Ethics and the Bodhisattva Path: Santideva on Virtue and Well-Being" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Jul 20, 2024 • 1h 18m

Jeremiah Coogan, "Eusebius the Evangelist: Rewriting the Fourfold Gospel in Late Antiquity" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Jul 18, 2024 • 1h 22m

Mahjabeen Dhala, "Feminist Theology and Social Justice in Islam: A Study on the Sermon of Fatima" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Jul 17, 2024 • 1h 14m

Michael Willrich, "American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century" (Basic Books, 2023)

Jul 16, 2024 • 1h 11m

Yosefa Raz, "The Poetics of Prophecy: Modern Afterlives of a Biblical Tradition" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Jul 16, 2024 • 1h 15m

Jonathan Marc Gribetz, "Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Jul 15, 2024 • 28m

Viren Murthy, "Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

Jul 13, 2024 • 1h 28m

Huan Jin, "The Collapse of Heaven: The Taiping Civil War and Chinese Literature and Culture, 1850-1880" (Harvard UP, 2024)

Jul 13, 2024 • 1h 8m

Anri Yasuda, "Beauty Matters: Modern Japanese Literature and the Question of Aesthetics, 1890-1930" (Columbia UP, 2024)

Jul 12, 2024 • 39m

Walaa Quisay, "Neo-Traditionalism in Islam in the West" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)

Jul 12, 2024 • 1h 40m

Wendy Matsumura, "Waiting for the Cool Moon: Anti-Imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan's Empire" (Duke UP, 2024)

Jul 11, 2024 • 59m

Monika Krause, "Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

Jul 10, 2024 • 34m

Sasha Warren, "Storming Bedlam: Madness, Mental Health, and Revolt" (Common Notions, 2024)

Jul 10, 2024 • 1h 26m

Rachel Z. Feldman, "Messianic Zionism in the Digital Age: Jews, Noahides, and the Third Temple Imaginary" (Rutgers UP, 2024)

Jul 9, 2024 • 1h 5m

Ed Simon, "Devil's Contract: A History of the Faustian Bargain" (Melville House, 2024)

Jul 9, 2024 • 50m

Benjamin J. B. Lipscomb, "The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Jul 9, 2024 • 43m

Andrew S. Jacobs, "Gospel Thrillers: Conspiracy, Fiction, and the Vulnerable Bible" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Jul 8, 2024 • 1h 6m

Russell Sandberg and Daniel Newman, "Law and Humanities" (Anthem Press, 2024)

Jul 7, 2024 • 1h 38m

Jonathan Judaken, "Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism" (Columbia UP, 2024)

Jul 7, 2024 • 1h 16m

Timothy Grieve-Carlson, "American Aurora: Environment and Apocalypse in the Life of Johannes Kelpius" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Jul 6, 2024 • 1h 5m

The (ir)Rational Rainbow (the DSM & the Fight to Depathologize Homosexuality)

Jul 6, 2024 • 1h 14m

Pierre Sokolsky, "Clock in the Sun: How We Came to Understand Our Nearest Star" (Columbia UP, 2024)

Jul 5, 2024 • 29m

Ben Wright, "Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism" (LSU Press, 2020)

Jul 2, 2024 • 22m

Alexandre Lefebvre, "Liberalism as a Way of Life" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Jul 1, 2024 • 1h 9m

Kehbuma Langmia, "Black 'Race' and the White Supremacy Saga" (Anthem Press, 2024)

Jul 1, 2024 • 44m

David Zeitlyn, "An Anthropological Toolkit: Sixty Useful Concepts" (Berghahn Books, 2022)

Jun 30, 2024 • 39m

Pandemic Perspectives 14: A Classical Approach to Improving Communication

Jun 30, 2024 • 2h 0m

Michael Sonenscher, "Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word" (Princeton UP, 2022)

Jun 30, 2024 • 51m

Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, "An Impossible Friendship: Group Portrait, Jerusalem Before and After 1948" (Columbia UP, 2024)

Jun 29, 2024 • 53m

The (ir)Rational Mob: On the Life and Legacy of Gustave Le Bon

Jun 29, 2024 • 55m

Joshua Schuster, "What Is Extinction?: A Natural and Cultural History of Last Animals" (Fordham UP, 2023)

Jun 28, 2024 • 57m

Shyam Ranganathan, "Yoga - Anticolonial Philosophy: An Action-Focused Guide to Practice" (Singing Dragon, 2024)

Jun 27, 2024 • 35m

Jeremy Schipper, "Denmark Vesey's Bible: The Thwarted Revolt That Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial" (Princeton UP, 2022)

Jun 27, 2024 • 1h 13m

Post-Orientalism Revisited: A Conversation with Salman Sayyid

Jun 27, 2024 • 38m

Faith, Business, and the Nature of Desire: Luke Burgis on René Girard and Mimetic Desire

Jun 26, 2024 • 1h 5m

Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī and Abū ʿAlī Miskawayh, "The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century" (NYU Press, 2019/22)

Jun 26, 2024 • 1h 28m

Peter Hill, "Prophet of Reason: Science, Religion and the Origins of the Modern Middle East" (Oneworld Academic, 2024)

Jun 26, 2024 • 39m

Shuchi Kapila, "Postmemory and the Partition of India: Learning to Remember" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024)

Jun 24, 2024 • 57m

Matthijs Lok, "Europe Against Revolution: Conservatism, Enlightenment, and the Making of the Past" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Jun 24, 2024 • 56m

Stephanie DeGooyer, "Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)

Jun 22, 2024 • 49m

Adrian Johnston, "Infinite Greed: The Inhuman Selfishness of Capital" (Columbia UP, 2024)

Jun 22, 2024 • 1h 56m

Malcolm Schofield, "How Plato Writes: Perspectives and Problems" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Jun 21, 2024 • 1h 3m

Nathaniel Gray Sutanto and Cory Brock, "T&T Clark Handbook of Neo-Calvinism" (T&T Clark, 2023)

Jun 19, 2024 • 38m

Paulina Rowinska, "Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers" (Pan Macmillan, 2024)

Jun 19, 2024 • 56m

Aziz Rana, "The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Jun 19, 2024 • 1h 16m

Nietzsche Now! With Glenn Wallis

Jun 18, 2024 • 1h 17m

Tahera Qutbuddin, trans., "Nahj al-Balāghah: The Wisdom and Eloquence of ʿAlī" (Brill, 2024)

Jun 17, 2024 • 1h 43m

Todd H. Weir, "Red Secularism: Socialism and Secularist Culture in Germany 1890 to 1933" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Jun 16, 2024 • 36m

Madman in the White House?

Jun 16, 2024 • 1h 3m

Robert D. Heaton, "The Shepherd of Hermas As Scriptura Non Grata: From Popularity in Early Christianity to Exclusion from the New Testament Canon" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)

Jun 16, 2024 • 1h 11m

Christopher William England, "Land and Liberty: Henry George and the Crafting of Modern Liberalism" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

Jun 14, 2024 • 41m

Benjamin Breen, "Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science" (Grand Central, 2024)

Jun 14, 2024 • 58m

Gordon C. Chang, "Revolution and Witchcraft: The Code of Ideology in Unsettled Times" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

Jun 14, 2024 • 51m

Cory C. Brock and Nathaniel Gray Sutanto, "Neo-Calvinism: A Theological Introduction" (Lexham Press, 2023)

Jun 14, 2024 • 40m

Gale L. Kenny, "Christian Imperial Feminism: White Protestant Women and the Consecration of Empire" (NYU Press, 2024)

Jun 13, 2024 • 1h 0m

Matthew Robertson, "Puruṣa: Personhood in Ancient India" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Jun 13, 2024 • 47m

Carl Elliott, "The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No" (Norton, 2024)

Jun 12, 2024 • 48m

Cameron J. Buckner, "From Deep Learning to Rational Machines" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Jun 10, 2024 • 1h 11m

Peter Bergamin, "The Making of the Israeli Far-Right: Abba Ahimeir and Zionist Ideology” (I. B. Tauris, 2019)

Jun 10, 2024 • 37m

Catherine Michael Chin, "Life: The Natural History of an Early Christian Universe" (U California Press, 2024)

Jun 9, 2024 • 1h 13m

Jason Read, "The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work" (Verso, 2024)

Jun 8, 2024 • 1h 12m

Joseph A. Skloot, "First Impressions: Sefer Hasidim and Early Modern Hebrew Printing" (Brandeis UP, 2023)

Jun 8, 2024 • 56m

Alan H. McGowan, "The Political Activism of Anthropologist Franz Boas, Citizen Scientist" (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2024)

Jun 7, 2024 • 49m

Citizen Soldiers, Republican Virtues, and the Roman Way of War

Jun 6, 2024 • 1h 10m

Glenn Dynner, "The Light of Learning: Hasidism in Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Jun 5, 2024 • 1h 13m

Nicholas Tampio, ed., "Democracy and Education" (Columbia UP, 2024)

Jun 5, 2024 • 1h 21m

Linda Hopkins and Steven Kuchuck, eds., "Diary of a Fallen Psychoanalyst: The Work Books of Masud Khan 1967-1972" (Karnac, 2022)

Jun 3, 2024 • 59m

Claire Weeda, "Ethnicity in Medieval Europe 950-1250: Medicine, Power and Religion" (Boydell and Brewer, 2021)

Jun 2, 2024 • 58m

The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present

Jun 2, 2024 • 1h 14m

Matthew Kadane, "The Enlightenment and Original Sin" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Jun 1, 2024 • 55m

Daniel Matt et al., "The Zohar: Pritzker Edition" (Stanford UP, 2004-2017)

May 29, 2024 • 1h 4m

David S. Richeson, "Tales of Impossibility: The 2000-Year Quest to Solve the Mathematical Problems of Antiquity" (Princeton UP, 2019)

May 28, 2024 • 54m

Chris Haufe, "Do the Humanities Create Knowledge?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

May 28, 2024 • 1h 5m

Vartan Matiossian, "The Politics of Naming the Armenian Genocide: Language, History and 'Medz Yeghern'" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

May 28, 2024 • 1h 12m

Eileen M. Hunt, "The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

May 28, 2024 • 52m

Jesse McCarthy, "The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

May 26, 2024 • 1h 13m

Adi Mahalel, "The Radical Isaac: I. L. Peretz and the Rise of Jewish Socialism" (SUNY Press, 2023)

May 26, 2024 • 1h 10m

Bernardo Kastrup, "Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell: A Straightforward Summary of the 21st Century's Only Plausible Metaphysics" (Iff Books, 2024)

May 24, 2024 • 1h 53m

Nicholas Taylor-Collins, "Shakespeare, Memory, and Modern Irish Literature" (Manchester UP, 2022)

May 24, 2024 • 1h 1m

Stephen Phillips, "The Metaphysics of Meditation: Sri Aurobindo and Adi-Sakara on the Isa Upanisad" (Bloombury, 2024)

May 23, 2024 • 37m

Christine Abigail L. Tan, "Freedom's Frailty: Self-Realization in the Neo-Daoist Philosophy of Guo Xiang's Zhuangzhi" (SUNY Press, 2024)

May 21, 2024 • 52m

Jason A. Kerr, "Milton's Theological Process: Reading de Doctrina Christiana and Paradise Lost" (Oxford UP, 2023)

May 21, 2024 • 32m

Assaf Tamari, "God as Patient: The Medical Discourse of Lurianic Kabbalah" (Magnes Press, 2023)

May 20, 2024 • 40m

Daniel R. Schwartz, "Ancient Jewish Historians and the German Reich: Seven Studies" (de Gruyter, 2024)

May 19, 2024 • 1h 13m

Shakespeare in America

May 18, 2024 • 56m

Todd Mcgowan, "Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves" (Repeater, 2024)

May 18, 2024 • 57m

Wei Wu, "Esoteric Buddhism in China: Engaging Japanese and Tibetan Traditions, 1912–1949" (Columbia UP, 2023)

May 17, 2024 • 1h 8m

Ambereen Dadabhoy, "Shakespeare Through Islamic Worlds" (Routledge, 2023)

May 17, 2024 • 1h 5m

Sari Nusseibeh, "Avicenna's Al-Shifā': Oriental Philosophy" (Routledge, 2018)

May 16, 2024 • 1h 3m

Kunal M. Parker, "The Turn to Process: American Legal, Political, and Economic Thought, 1870-1970" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

May 16, 2024 • 1h 2m

Jennifer Dorothy Lee, "Anxiety Aesthetics: Maoist Legacies in China, 1978-1985" (U California Press, 2024)

May 16, 2024 • 1h 23m

Christopher Tounsel, "Bounds of Blackness: African Americans, Sudan, and the Politics of Solidarity" (Cornell UP, 2024)

May 15, 2024 • 52m

Liliana Doganova, "Discounting the Future: The Ascendancy of a Political Technology" (Princeton UP, 2024)

May 14, 2024 • 1h 1m

Sony Coráñez Bolton, "Crip Colony: Mestizaje, US Imperialism, and the Queer Politics of Disability in the Philippines" (Duke UP, 2023)

May 14, 2024 • 43m

Lauren Horn Griffin, "Fabricating Founders in Early Modern England: History, Rhetoric, and the Origins of Christianity" (Brill, 2023)

May 14, 2024 • 32m

Inhuman

May 14, 2024 • 20m

Siân E. Grønlie, "The Old Testament in Medieval Icelandic Texts: Translation, Exegesis and Storytelling" (Boydell & Brewer, 2024)

May 13, 2024 • 46m

Cecily N. Zander, "The Army under Fire: The Politics of Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era" (LSU Press, 2024)

May 12, 2024 • 1h 2m

Yasmine Ramadan, "Space in Modern Egyptian Fiction" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)

May 12, 2024 • 40m

Y. Tzvi Langermann, "Before Maimonides: A New Philosophical Dialogue in Hebrew" (Brill, 2023)

May 11, 2024 • 31m

Mark Dooley, "Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

May 9, 2024 • 30m

Sean Griffin, "The Liturgical Past in Byzantium and Early Rus" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

May 7, 2024 • 55m

Rustam Alexander, "Gay Lives and ‘Aversion Therapy’ in Brezhnev’s Russia, 1964–1982" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)

May 6, 2024 • 56m

Richard M. Jaffe, "Seeking Sakyamuni: South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism" (U Chicago Press, 2019)

May 5, 2024 • 1h 6m

Francesca Trivellato, "The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society" (Princeton UP, 2019)

May 5, 2024 • 1h 2m

Zahra Ayubi, "Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society" (Columbia UP, 2019)

May 4, 2024 • 1h 7m

Shu Yang, "Untamed Shrews: Negotiating New Womanhood in Modern China" (Cornell UP, 2023)

May 2, 2024 • 1h 6m

Renée Bergland, "Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science" (Princeton UP, 2024)

May 1, 2024 • 39m

Nietzsche Now! with Glenn Wallis

May 1, 2024 • 1h 15m

Jaume Aurell, "What Is a Classic in History?: The Making of a Historical Canon" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Apr 30, 2024 • 48m

Christopher Cameron, "Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism" (Northwestern UP, 2019)

Apr 29, 2024 • 48m

Ariella Aisha Azoulay, "Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism" (Verso, 2019)

Apr 28, 2024 • 52m

Kristin M. Franseen, "Imagining Musical Pasts: The Queer Literary Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson" (Clemson UP, 2023)

Apr 27, 2024 • 1h 1m

Stefanos Geroulanos on "The Invention of Prehistory"

Apr 26, 2024 • 1h 8m

Alexander Statman, "A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

Apr 25, 2024 • 50m

Crawford Gribben, "J. N. Darby and the Roots of Dispensationalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Apr 24, 2024 • 43m

Michael Scott and Michael Collins, "Christian Shakespeare?: A Collection of Essays on Shakespeare in His Christian Context" (Vernon Press, 2022)

Apr 23, 2024 • 48m

Gary S. Cross, "Free Time: The History of an Elusive Ideal" (NYU Press, 2024)

Apr 23, 2024 • 48m

Nora E. H. Parr, "Novel Palestine: Nation Through the Works of Ibrahim Nasrallah" (U California Press, 2023)

Apr 23, 2024 • 36m

Steven Nadler, "Spinoza: A Life" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Apr 22, 2024 • 35m

On the History and Evolution of Zionism

Apr 22, 2024 • 1h 32m

Vaia Touna and Richard Newton, "Fieldnotes in the Critical Study of Religion: Revisiting Classical Theorists" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Apr 21, 2024 • 56m

Debby Koren, "Responsa in a Historical Context: A View of Post-Expulsion Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Communities Through 16th- And 17th-Century Responsa" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)

Apr 18, 2024 • 49m

Plutarch as Philosopher and Political Thinker: A Conversation with Hugh Liebert

Apr 18, 2024 • 50m

Thor Rydin, "The Works and Times of Johan Huizinga (1872-1945): Writing History in the Age of Collapse" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)

Apr 17, 2024 • 59m

D. J. Taylor, "Who Is Big Brother?: A Reader's Guide to George Orwell" (Yale UP, 2024)

Apr 17, 2024 • 29m

Miriam Piilonen, "Theorizing Music Evolution: Darwin, Spencer, and the Limits of the Human" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Apr 15, 2024 • 1h 17m

Melvin L. Rogers, "The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Apr 15, 2024 • 54m

Betty Milan, "Analyzed by Lacan: A Personal Account" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Apr 15, 2024 • 54m

Kevin Lambert, "Symbols and Things: Material Mathematics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)

Apr 15, 2024 • 1h 20m

R. J. Boutelle, "The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny" (UNC Press, 2023)

Apr 13, 2024 • 1h 7m

Seamus O'Malley, "Irish Culture and 'The People': Populism and Its Discontents" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Apr 11, 2024 • 35m

Hume, the Epicureans, and the Origins of Liberalism

Apr 10, 2024 • 59m

Eric Hoffer's "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements" (1951)

Apr 10, 2024 • 33m

Charles William Johns, "Hegel and Speculative Realism" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)

Apr 10, 2024 • 53m

Matthew Robertson, "Puruṣa: Personhood in Ancient India" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Apr 9, 2024 • 1h 8m

James McElvenny, "A History of Modern Linguistics: From the Beginnings to World War II" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)

Apr 9, 2024 • 37m

Eric Calderwood, "On Earth Or in Poems: The Many Lives of Al-Andalus" (Harvard UP, 2023)

Apr 8, 2024 • 40m

Christopher Michael Blakley, "Empire of Brutality: Enslaved People and Animals in the British Atlantic World" (Louisiana State UP, 2023)

Apr 8, 2024 • 58m

Enactivism, Embodiment, and the Gorier Stuff with Marilyn Stendera

Apr 7, 2024 • 33m

Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, "The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market" (Bloomsbury. 2023)

Apr 5, 2024 • 1h 3m

Stefanos Geroulanos, "The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins" (Liveright, 2024)

Apr 4, 2024 • 1h 14m

Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, "Merits of the Plague" (Penguin, 2023)

Apr 2, 2024 • 1h 9m

Alexej Lochmatow, "Public Knowledge in Cold War Poland: Scholarly Battles and the Clash of Virtues, 1945–1956" (Routledge, 2023)

Apr 1, 2024 • 1h 4m

Huaping Lu-Adler, "Kant, Race, and Racism: Views from Somewhere" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Mar 31, 2024 • 36m

W. B. Allen, "Montesquieu's 'The Spirit of the Laws': A Critical Edition" (Anthem Press, 2023)

Mar 31, 2024 • 55m

Aleksandar Bosković and Steven Teref, "Zenithism (1921-1927): A Yugoslav Avant-Garde Anthology" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)

Mar 29, 2024 • 1h 20m

Jeanelle K. Hope and Bill V. Mullen, "The Black Antifascist Tradition: Fighting Back from Anti-Lynching to Abolition" (Haymarket Books, 2024)

Mar 29, 2024 • 1h 10m

Robin Waterfield, "Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Mar 28, 2024 • 50m

Chia-ling Yang, "Appropriating Antiquity for Modern Chinese Painting" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Mar 27, 2024 • 1h 21m

Michael Ortiz, "Anti-Colonialism and the Crises of Interwar Fascism" (Bloombury, 2023)

Mar 27, 2024 • 53m

Jeffrey R. Di Leo, "Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: An Overview" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Mar 27, 2024 • 36m

William Bain, "Political Theology of International Order" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Mar 26, 2024 • 1h 39m

Colleen Taylor, "Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Mar 26, 2024 • 1h 3m

Aaron Clift, "Anticommunism in French Society and Politics, 1945-1953" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Mar 25, 2024 • 1h 1m

Maarten Couttenier, "Anthropology and Race in Belgium and the Congo (1839-1922)" (Routledge, 2023)

Mar 24, 2024 • 39m

Marc-William Palen, "Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Mar 23, 2024 • 1h 9m

Stephanie Li, "Ugly White People: Writing Whiteness in Contemporary America" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

Mar 20, 2024 • 41m

Isaac Deutscher, "Lenin's Childhood" (Verso, 2024)

Mar 20, 2024 • 1h 13m

Stephen Phillips, "The Metaphysics of Meditation: Sri Aurobindo and Adi-Sakara on the Isa Upanisad" (Bloombury, 2024)

Mar 20, 2024 • 1h 3m

How to Be a Good Statesman: Johnny Burtka on Political Leadership from Xenophon to Churchill

Mar 19, 2024 • 49m

Rachel Gordan, "Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Mar 18, 2024 • 1h 3m

Ashok Gopal, "A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B.R. Ambedkar" (Navayana Press, 2023)

Mar 18, 2024 • 2h 3m

SherAli Tareen, "Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire" (Columbia UP, 2023)

Mar 15, 2024 • 1h 31m

Pankaj Jain and Jeffery D. Long, "Indian and Western Philosophical Concepts in Religion" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023)

Mar 14, 2024 • 40m

Korey Garibaldi, "Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Mar 13, 2024 • 1h 14m

Janine Giordano Drake, "The Gospel of Church: How Mainline Protestants Vilified Christian Socialism and Fractured the Labor Movement" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Mar 13, 2024 • 42m

Travis Rieder, "Catastrophe Ethics: How to Choose Well in a World of Tough Choices" (Dutton, 2024)

Mar 13, 2024 • 37m

Sofia Rehman, "Gendering the Hadith Tradition: Recentering the Authority of Aisha, Mother of the Believers" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Mar 12, 2024 • 42m

Surya Parekh, "Black Enlightenment" (Duke UP, 2023)

Mar 12, 2024 • 1h 8m

Daniel Tutt, "How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche" (Repeater, 2024)

Mar 12, 2024 • 52m

Lorraine Daston, "Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate" (Columbia Global Reports, 2023)

Mar 10, 2024 • 48m

Brian Merchant, "Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech" (LIttle, Brown, 2023)

Mar 10, 2024 • 1h 42m

Myrto Garani et al., "The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Mar 9, 2024 • 52m

Patrick Olivelle, "Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King" (Yale UP, 2024)

Mar 8, 2024 • 1h 3m

Dariusz Tołczyk, "Blissful Blindness: Soviet Crimes under Western Eyes" (Indiana UP, 2023)

Mar 8, 2024 • 1h 32m

Carmen Fracchia, "'Black But Human': Slavery and Visual Arts in Hapsburg Spain, 1480-1700" (Oxford UP, 2019)

Mar 8, 2024 • 1h 19m

The Reeducation of Race with Sonali Thakkar (JP)

Mar 7, 2024 • 48m

Murray Dick, "The Infographic: A History of Data Graphics in News and Communications" (MIT Press, 2020)

Mar 7, 2024 • 1h 10m

Leona Toker, "Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps: An Intercontexual Reading" (Indiana UP, 2019)

Mar 6, 2024 • 1h 31m

Angie Chau, "Paris and the Art of Transposition: Early Twentieth Century Sino-French Encounters" (U Michigan Press, 2023)

Mar 6, 2024 • 52m

Baidik Bhattacharya, "Colonialism, World Literature, and the Making of the Modern Culture of Letters" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Mar 5, 2024 • 54m

Jean-Manuel Roubineau, "The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Mar 4, 2024 • 30m

Roseen Giles, "Monteverdi and the Marvellous: Poetry, Sound, and Representation" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Mar 4, 2024 • 59m

Yaniv Feller, "The Jewish Imperial Imagination: Leo Baeck and German-Jewish Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Mar 3, 2024 • 1h 3m

Ryan Wolfson-Ford, "Forsaken Causes: Liberal Democracy and Anticommunism in Cold War Laos" (U Wisconsin Press, 2024)

Mar 1, 2024 • 57m

Marchella Ward, "Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres: Towards New Ways of Looking and Looking Back" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Mar 1, 2024 • 1h 27m

Dominique Scarfone, "The Reality of the Message: Psychoanalysis in the Wake of Jean Laplanche" (Unconscious in Translation, 2023)

Feb 29, 2024 • 1h 22m

Erin Elizabeth Greer, "Fiction, Philosophy and the Ideal of Conversation" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)

Feb 29, 2024 • 1h 31m

Christian R. Burset, "An Empire of Laws: Legal Pluralism in British Colonial Policy" (Yale UP, 2023)

Feb 29, 2024 • 44m

Till Van Rahden, "Multiplicity: Jewish History and the Ambivalences of Universalism" (Hamburger Editionen, 2022)

Feb 24, 2024 • 53m

Michael Johnston, "The Middle English Book: Scribes and Readers, 1350-1500" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Feb 24, 2024 • 43m

Katharina Pistor, "The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality" (Princeton UP, 2019)

Feb 22, 2024 • 1h 11m

Harriet Lyon, "Memory and the Dissolution of the Monasteries in Early Modern England" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Feb 22, 2024 • 59m

Isabella Alexander, "Copyright and Cartography: History, Law, and the Circulation of Geographical Knowledge" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Feb 22, 2024 • 43m

T. Corey Brennan, "The Fasces: A History of Ancient Rome's Most Dangerous Political Symbol" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Feb 21, 2024 • 49m

Ricky W. Law, "Transnational Nazism: Ideology and Culture in German Japanese Relations, 1919-1936" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

Feb 20, 2024 • 1h 16m

Robert Louis Wilken, "Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom" (Yale UP, 2019)

Feb 20, 2024 • 1h 2m

Torsa Ghosal, "Out of Mind: Mode, Mediation, and Cognition in Twenty-First-Century Narrative" (Ohio State UP, 2021)

Feb 20, 2024 • 52m

Isabel B. Taylor, "The Crown and Its Records: Archives, Access, and the Ancient Constitution in Seventeenth-Century England" (De Gruyter, 2023)

Feb 19, 2024 • 45m

Todd McGowan, "Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution" (Columbia UP, 2019)

Feb 19, 2024 • 54m

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Feb 18, 2024 • 1h 13m

Lawrence Glickman, "Free Enterprise: An American History" (Yale UP, 2019)

Feb 18, 2024 • 1h 1m

Ed Simon, "Relic" (Bloomsbury. 2024)

Feb 15, 2024 • 48m

Jewish War Ethics, Ancient to Contemporary: A Conversation with Rabbi Shlomo Brody

Feb 14, 2024 • 53m

Patrick Gamsby, "The Discourse of Scholarly Communication" (Lexington Books, 2023)

Feb 14, 2024 • 47m

Alison M. Downham Moore, "The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women's Ageing" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Feb 14, 2024 • 45m

Anthony Kaldellis, "Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium" (Harvard UP, 2019)

Feb 13, 2024 • 49m

Paul Mendes-Flohr, "Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent" (Yale UP, 2019)

Feb 12, 2024 • 50m

Andrius Gališanka, "John Rawls: The Path to a Theory of Justice" (Harvard UP, 2019)

Feb 12, 2024 • 1h 14m

Michael Devitt, "Biological Essentialism" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Feb 10, 2024 • 1h 7m

Devin Griffiths and Deanna Kreisel, "After Darwin: Literature, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Feb 10, 2024 • 44m

Seth Zuiho Segall, "The House We Live in: Virtue, Wisdom, and Pluralism" (Equinox, 2023)

Feb 8, 2024 • 55m

Gregory Wallance, "Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)

Feb 8, 2024 • 54m

Jeffery D. Long, "Discovering Indian Philosophy: An Introduction to Hindu, Jain and Buddhist Thought" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Feb 8, 2024 • 52m

The Future of the Future: A Discussion with Jonathan White

Feb 7, 2024 • 41m

Daniel Capper, "Roaming Free Like a Deer: Buddhism and the Natural World" (Cornell UP, 2022)

Feb 5, 2024 • 51m

Nicholas Dames, "The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Feb 5, 2024 • 1h 9m

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Feb 3, 2024 • 1h 4m

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Feb 3, 2024 • 1h 6m

Bedross Der Matossian, "The Armenian Social Democrat Hnchakian Party: Politics, Ideology and Transnational History" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Feb 3, 2024 • 1h 0m

Jon Paul Sydnor and Anthony J. Watson, "Nondualism: An Interreligious Exploration" (Lexington Books, 2023)

Feb 1, 2024 • 39m

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Feb 1, 2024 • 38m

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Jan 31, 2024 • 55m

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Jan 30, 2024 • 49m

Holly A. Baggett, "Making No Compromise: Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, and the Little Review" (Northern Illinois UP, 2023)

Jan 30, 2024 • 39m

Ankhi Mukherjee and Ato Quayson, "Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Jan 28, 2024 • 1h 4m

Hillel Goldberg, "Across the Expanse of Jewish Thought: From the Holocaust to Halakhah and Beyond" (Ktav, 2022)

Jan 27, 2024 • 40m

Renée Fox, "The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature" (Ohio State UP, 2023)

Jan 27, 2024 • 35m

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Jan 27, 2024 • 1h 55m

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Jan 26, 2024 • 51m

Caleb Wellum, "Energizing Neoliberalism: The 1970s Energy Crisis and the Making of Modern America" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

Jan 26, 2024 • 57m

Eugenio Refini, "Staging the Soul: Allegorical Drama as Spiritual Practice in Baroque Italy" (Legenda, 2022)

Jan 25, 2024 • 53m

Amar Sohal, "The Muslim Secular: Parity and the Politics of India's Partition" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Jan 24, 2024 • 1h 9m

Camillo Leonardi, "Speculum Lapidum: A Renaissance Treatise on the Healing Properties of Gemstones" (Penn State UP, 2023)

Jan 23, 2024 • 52m

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Jan 22, 2024 • 1h 5m

Guido Parietti, "On the Concept of Power: Possibility, Necessity, Politics" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Jan 22, 2024 • 1h 20m

Catherine Powell-Warren, "Gender and Self-Fashioning at the Intersection of Art and Science: Agnes Block, Botany, and Networks in the Dutch 17th Century" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)

Jan 22, 2024 • 49m

Jakob Norberg, "The Brothers Grimm and the Making of German Nationalism" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Jan 21, 2024 • 1h 0m

Cassander L. Smith, "Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic" (LSU Press, 2023)

Jan 21, 2024 • 40m

Jan Westerhoff, "Candrakirti's Introduction to the Middle Way: A Guide" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Jan 20, 2024 • 54m

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Jan 20, 2024 • 35m

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Jan 19, 2024 • 56m

Veena R. Howard, "Gandhi's Global Legacy: Moral Methods and Modern Challenges" (Lexington Books, 2022)

Jan 18, 2024 • 1h 3m

Karen C. Pinto, "Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration" (U Chicago Press, 2016)

Jan 16, 2024 • 53m

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Jan 16, 2024 • 1h 8m

Alexandra Filindra, "Race, Rights, and Rifles: The Origins of the NRA and Contemporary Gun Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

Jan 15, 2024 • 53m

Miles P. Grier, "Inkface: Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery" (U Virginia Press, 2023)

Jan 15, 2024 • 1h 22m

Douglas S. Duckworth, "Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy of Mind and Nature" (Oxford UP, 2019)

Jan 15, 2024 • 52m

Stéphane Jettot, "Selling Ancestry: Family Directories and the Commodification of Genealogy in Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Jan 13, 2024 • 55m

Patrick R. O'Malley, "The Irish and the Imagination of Race: White Supremacy Across the Atlantic in the Nineteenth Century" (U Virginia Press, 2023)

Jan 11, 2024 • 57m

Jennifer Thomson, "The Wild and the Toxic: American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health" (UNC Press, 2019)

Jan 10, 2024 • 47m

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Jan 10, 2024 • 59m

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Jan 9, 2024 • 1h 3m

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Jan 9, 2024 • 1h 1m

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Jan 8, 2024 • 1h 18m

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Jan 7, 2024 • 49m

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Jan 7, 2024 • 1h 2m

Pavel Khazanov, "The Russia that We Have Lost: Pre-Soviet Past as Anti-Soviet Discourse" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)

Jan 6, 2024 • 34m

Roland Allen, "The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper" (Profile Books, 2023)

Jan 6, 2024 • 1h 0m

Eileen Botting, "The Wollstonecraftian Mind" (Routledge, 2019)

Jan 6, 2024 • 1h 8m

Martyn Whittock, "American Vikings: How the Norse Sailed into the Lands and Imaginations of America" (Pegasus Books, 2023)

Jan 5, 2024 • 31m

Kate Kirkpatrick, "Becoming Beauvoir: A Life" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)

Jan 5, 2024 • 56m

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Jan 4, 2024 • 18m

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Jan 4, 2024 • 1h 0m

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Jan 4, 2024 • 1h 0m

Jack Glazier, "Anthropology and Radical Humanism: Native and African American Narratives and the Myth of Race" (MSU Press, 2020)

Jan 4, 2024 • 1h 4m

Noel Malcolm, "Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750" (Oxford UP, 2019)

Jan 3, 2024 • 1h 4m

Katherine M. Marino, "Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement" (UNC Press, 2019)

Jan 3, 2024 • 55m

Martha C. Nussbaum, "Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility" (Simon & Schuster, 2022)

Jan 2, 2024 • 51m

Lenny A. Ureña Valerio, "Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities: Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840-1920" (Ohio UP, 2019

Jan 2, 2024 • 53m

Khurram Hussain, "Islam as Critique: Sayyid Ahmad Khan and the Challenge of Modernity" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)

Jan 1, 2024 • 1h 2m

Patrick Ffrench, "Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism and Poetics" (Bloomsbury, 2019)

Jan 1, 2024 • 1h 15m

Jason Read, "The Politics of Transindividuality" (Haymarket Books, 2017)

Dec 31, 2023 • 1h 15m

Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan, "The Cultural Roots of Slow Food: Peasants, Partisans, and the Landscape of Italian Resistance" (Lexington Books, 2023)

Dec 30, 2023 • 1h 6m

Erika Dyck, "Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2018)

Dec 30, 2023 • 56m

Michael Braddick, "The Common Freedom of the People: John Lilburne and the English Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2018)

Dec 30, 2023 • 28m

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Dec 29, 2023 • 44m

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Dec 29, 2023 • 22m

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Dec 29, 2023 • 22m

Matthieu Felt, "Meanings of Antiquity: Myth Interpretation in Premodern Japan" (Harvard UP, 2023)

Dec 29, 2023 • 44m

Kristian Petersen, “Interpreting Islam in China: Pilgrimage, Language, and Scripture in the Han Kitab” (Oxford UP, 2017)

Dec 28, 2023 • 42m

Joshua W. Jipp, "The Messianic Theology of the New Testament" (Eerdmans, 2020)

Dec 27, 2023 • 39m

Stuart Elden, “Foucault: The Birth of Power” (Polity Press, 2017)

Dec 26, 2023 • 46m

Timothy McCall, "Making the Renaissance Man: Masculinity in the Courts of Renaissance Italy" (Reaktion Books, 2023)

Dec 25, 2023 • 1h 4m

Edward J. Watts, "The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Dec 25, 2023 • 1h 7m

Olga V. Solovieva, "The Russian Kurosawa: Transnational Cinema, Or the Art of Speaking Differently" (Oxford UP. 2023)

Dec 22, 2023 • 33m

Anne E. Linton, "Unmaking Sex: The Gender Outlaws of Nineteenth-Century France" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Dec 22, 2023 • 1h 2m

David M. Freidenreich, "Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy" (U California Press, 2023)

Dec 21, 2023 • 58m

Ricardo Sousa Silvestre et al., "Vaiṣṇava Concepts of God: Philosophical Perspectives" (Routledge, 2024)

Dec 21, 2023 • 58m

Tyler Dalton McNabb and Erik Baldwin, "Classical Theism and Buddhism: Connecting Metaphysical and Ethical Systems" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Dec 20, 2023 • 1h 9m

Katlyn Marie Carter, "Democracy in Darkness: Secrecy and Transparency in the Age of Revolutions" (Yale UP, 2023)

Dec 19, 2023 • 51m

Gary Saul Morson, "Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter" (Harvard UP, 2023)

Dec 17, 2023 • 49m

Jackson Lears, "Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality from Camp Meeting to Wall Street" (FSG, 2023)

Dec 17, 2023 • 1h 5m

Pankaj Jain, "Modern Jainism: A Historical Approach" (Springer, 2023)

Dec 14, 2023 • 48m

Peter Brown, "Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Dec 14, 2023 • 1h 4m

Tristan G. Brown, "Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Dec 11, 2023 • 57m

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Dec 10, 2023 • 52m

Paul Crosthwaite et al., "Invested: How Three Centuries of Stock Market Advice Reshaped Our Money, Markets, and Minds" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

Dec 10, 2023 • 50m

Stephen Legg, "Round Table Conference Geographies: Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Dec 10, 2023 • 51m

Genealogies of Modernity Episode 5: Picturing Race in Colonial Mexico

Dec 9, 2023 • 1h 0m

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Dec 6, 2023 • 36m

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Dec 5, 2023 • 46m

Jonathan D. Fitzgerald, "How the News Feels: The Empathic Power of Literary Journalists" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)

Dec 4, 2023 • 51m

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Dec 4, 2023 • 1h 11m

Barbara D. Savage, "Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar" (Yale UP, 2023)

Dec 3, 2023 • 32m

J. Christopher Edwards, "Crucified: The Christian Invention of the Jewish Executioners of Jesus" (Fortress Press, 2023)

Dec 2, 2023 • 1h 15m

Daniel Jütte, "Transparency: The Material History of an Idea" (Yale UP, 2023)

Dec 1, 2023 • 1h 3m

Christian B. Miller, "Honesty: The Philosophy and Psychology of a Neglected Virtue" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Nov 30, 2023 • 57m

Poppy Corbett et al., "Creative Histories of Witchcraft: France, 1790–1940" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Nov 30, 2023 • 1h 1m

Jürgen Zimmerer, "Memory Wars: New German Historical Consciousness" (Reclam Verlag, 2023)

Nov 29, 2023 • 1h 1m

Charles S. Maier, "The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries" (Harvard UP, 2023)

Nov 29, 2023 • 50m

Shuchen Xiang, "Chinese Cosmopolitanism: The History and Philosophy of an Idea" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Nov 29, 2023 • 1h 29m

Tony Spawforth, "What the Greeks Did for Us" (Yale UP, 2023)

Nov 28, 2023 • 57m

Roslyn Weiss, "Hasdai Crescas: Collected Writings" (Library of the Jewish People, 2023)

Nov 27, 2023 • 1h 11m

Ran Zwigenberg, "Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

Nov 27, 2023 • 1h 5m

Nader Kadhem, "Africanism: Blacks in the Medieval Arab Imaginary" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)

Nov 25, 2023 • 42m

Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of History" (Indiana UP, 2023)

Nov 25, 2023 • 29m

Jennifer Maclure, "The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction" (Ohio State UP, 2023)

Nov 25, 2023 • 1h 3m

Ian Smith, "Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Nov 24, 2023 • 1h 10m

The Idea of "Central Europe" from Naumann to Kundera

Nov 24, 2023 • 44m

Greg Bailey, "The Brahmavaivarta Purana (Ganesa Khanda): Ancient Indian Tradition and Mythology" (Motilal Banarsidass, 2022)

Nov 23, 2023 • 33m

Biko Mandela Gray and Ryan J. Johnson, "Phenomenology of Black Spirit" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)

Nov 22, 2023 • 52m

Chris Cutrone, "The Death of the Millennial Left: Interventions: 2006-2022" (Sublation Media, 2023)

Nov 19, 2023 • 1h 6m

Robert P. George's 'Making Men Moral': A 30th Anniversary Conference

Nov 18, 2023 • 1h 1m

Christopher Lazarski, "Lord Acton for Our Time" (Northern Illinois UP, 2023)

Nov 18, 2023 • 55m

Plantationocene

Nov 17, 2023 • 18m

Charisse Burden-Stelly, "Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

Nov 17, 2023 • 48m

Mira Balberg, "Fractured Tablets: Forgetfulness and Fallibility in Late Ancient Rabbinic Culture" (U California Press, 2023)

Nov 16, 2023 • 43m

Keith Cantú, "Like a Tree Universally Spread: Sri Sabhapati Swami And Śivarājayoga" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Nov 16, 2023 • 41m

Jonathan Greenaway, "Theology, Horror and Fiction: A Reading of the Gothic Nineteenth Century" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Nov 15, 2023 • 43m

Martin Jay, "Immanent Critiques: The Frankfurt School under Pressure" (Verso, 2023)

Nov 15, 2023 • 1h 22m

Beatriz Nascimento, "The Dialectic Is in the Sea: The Black Radical Thought of Beatriz Nascimento" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Nov 15, 2023 • 48m

Dalia Kandiyoti, "The Converso's Return: Conversion and Sephardi History in Contemporary Literature and Culture" (Stanford UP, 2020)

Nov 14, 2023 • 1h 36m

Jennifer Burns on the Life and Lasting Influence of Milton Friedman

Nov 14, 2023 • 43m

David Myer Temin, "Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

Nov 13, 2023 • 1h 22m

Musab Younis, "On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought" (U California Press, 2022)

Nov 13, 2023 • 51m

Emma R. Jones, "Being as Relation in Luce Irigaray" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

Nov 13, 2023 • 45m

Elizabeth Anderson, "Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Nov 13, 2023 • 56m

Natasha Wheatley, "The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Nov 12, 2023 • 46m

Aditya Balasubramanian, "Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Nov 11, 2023 • 1h 40m

Matthew J. Clavin, "Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War" (NYU Press, 2023)

Nov 7, 2023 • 36m

Ed Simon, "Elysium: A Visual History of Angelology" (Cernunnos, 2023)

Nov 5, 2023 • 39m

Austin Surls, "Making Sense of the Divine Name in the Book of Exodus: From Etymology to Literary Onomastics" (Eisenbrauns, 2017)

Nov 5, 2023 • 25m

Carson Bay, "Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Nov 4, 2023 • 1h 2m

Empires, States, Corporations: A Discussion with Historians Philip J. Stern and Quinn Slobodian

Nov 3, 2023 • 1h 5m

Melvin L. Rogers, "The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Nov 1, 2023 • 1h 8m

Daniele Lorenzini, "The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

Nov 1, 2023 • 1h 29m

Paolo Sandro, "The Making of Constitutional Democracy: From Creation to Application of Law" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Nov 1, 2023 • 1h 10m

Leonie Hannan, "A Culture of Curiosity: Science in the Eighteenth-Century Home" (Manchester UP, 2023)

Oct 30, 2023 • 57m

Youcef L. Soufi, "The Rise of Critical Islam: 10th-13th Century Legal Debate" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Oct 27, 2023 • 1h 14m

Stuart McHardy, "The Nine Maidens: Priestesses of the Ancient World" (Luath Press, 2023)

Oct 26, 2023 • 38m

Denise D. Meringolo, "Radical Roots: Public History and a Tradition of Social Justice Activism" (Amherst College Press, 2021)

Oct 26, 2023 • 1h 2m

Scott Kamen, "From Union Halls to the Suburbs: Americans for Democratic Action and the Transformation of Postwar Liberalism" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)

Oct 25, 2023 • 1h 5m

Matthew Thiessen, "A Jewish Paul: The Messiah's Herald to the Gentiles" (Baker Academic, 2023)

Oct 22, 2023 • 1h 6m

Kevin Passmore, "Fascism: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2014)

Oct 22, 2023 • 43m

Danielle N. Boaz, "Voodoo: The History of a Racial Slur" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Oct 21, 2023 • 1h 2m

Grant H. Kester, "The Sovereign Self: Aesthetic Autonomy from the Enlightenment to the Avant-Garde" (Duke UP, 2023)

Oct 21, 2023 • 1h 17m

Chris Fraser, "Late Classical Chinese Thought" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Oct 20, 2023 • 1h 7m

The Unquiet Legacy of Jewish Radical Meir Kahane

Oct 19, 2023 • 45m

Vikram Visana, "Uncivil Liberalism: Labour, Capital and Commercial Society in Dadabhai Naoroji’s Political Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Oct 18, 2023 • 1h 10m

Elena Serrano, "Ladies of Honor and Merit. Gender, Useful Knowledge, and Politics in Enlightened Spain" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022)

Oct 18, 2023 • 44m

Branko Milanovic, "Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War" (Harvard UP, 2023)

Oct 16, 2023 • 36m

Jonathan Downs, "Discovery at Rosetta: Revealing Ancient Egypt" (American University in Cairo Press, 2020)

Oct 15, 2023 • 58m

Ben Witherington III, "Paul's Letter to the Romans: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary" (Eerdmans, 2004)

Oct 14, 2023 • 32m

Patrick Laude, "Surrendering to the Self: Ramana Maharshi's Message for the Present" (Hurst, 2021)

Oct 12, 2023 • 45m

Dennis C. Rasmussen, "The Constitution's Penman: Gouverneur Morris and the Creation of America's Basic Charter" (UP of Kansas, 2023)

Oct 12, 2023 • 51m

Andrea Celli, "Dante and the Mediterranean Comedy: From Muslim Spain to Post-Colonial Italy" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

Oct 11, 2023 • 48m

The History of Liberalism: A Conversation with Alan Kahan ‘80

Oct 10, 2023 • 1h 0m

Christopher M. Bellitto, "Humility: The Secret History of a Lost Virtue" (Georgetown UP, 2023)

Oct 10, 2023 • 1h 0m

Sharon Patricia Holland, "an other: a black feminist consideration of animal life" (Duke UP, 2023)

Oct 7, 2023 • 1h 9m

S. D. Chrostowska, "Utopia in the Age of Survival: Between Myth and Politics" (Stanford UP, 2021)

Oct 6, 2023 • 56m

Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar, "Against High-Caste Polygamy: An Annotated Translation" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Oct 4, 2023 • 44m

Philippe Huneman, "Why?: The Philosophy Behind the Question" (Stanford UP, 2023)

Oct 3, 2023 • 1h 26m

Claudine Chavannes-Mazel and Linda Ijpelaar, "The Green Middle Ages: The Depiction and Use of Plants in the Western World 600-1600" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)

Oct 2, 2023 • 35m

Eric Bennett, "Workshops of Empire: Stegner, Engle, and American Creative Writing During the Cold War" (U Iowa Press, 2015)

Oct 1, 2023 • 44m

Rebecca J. Fraser, "Black Female Intellectuals in 19th Century America: Born to Bloom Unseen?" (Routledge, 2022)

Oct 1, 2023 • 1h 28m

Sara Marcus, "Political Disappointment: A Cultural History from Reconstruction to the AIDS Crisis" (Harvard UP, 2023)

Sep 30, 2023 • 44m

Michelle Karnes, "Medieval Marvels and Fictions in the Latin West and Islamic World" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

Sep 30, 2023 • 31m

Craig A. Hefner, "Kierkegaard and the Changelessness of God: A Modern Defense of Classical Immutability" (InterVarsity Press, 2023)

Sep 29, 2023 • 42m

Sumit Chakrabarti, "Local Selfhood, Global Turns: Akshay Kumar Dutta and Public Culture in Nineteenth-Century Bengal" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Sep 28, 2023 • 38m

Debapriya Sarkar, "Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

Sep 27, 2023 • 1h 5m

Michael D. Gordin, "Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Sep 27, 2023 • 1h 7m

Michael Wheeler, "The Year that Shaped the Victorian Age: Lives, Loves and Letters of 1845" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Sep 27, 2023 • 48m

Gary Saul Morson, "Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter" (Harvard UP, 2023)

Sep 26, 2023 • 57m

Michael Kochenash, "Roman Self-Representation and the Lukan Kingdom of God" (Fortress Academic, 2020)

Sep 26, 2023 • 1h 31m

The Civic Bargain: A Conversation with Josiah Ober on Ancients and Moderns

Sep 26, 2023 • 1h 3m

Mark Thomas Edwards, "Walter Lippmann: American Skeptic, American Pastor" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Sep 25, 2023 • 53m

Alda Balthrop-Lewis, "Thoreau's Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Sep 25, 2023 • 41m

Tracy Rutler, "Queering the Enlightenment: Kinship and Gender in Eighteenth-Century French Literature" (Oxford UP/Liverpool UP, 2021)

Sep 23, 2023 • 56m

Jamie Bronstein, "The Happiness of the British Working Class" (Stanford UP, 2023)

Sep 21, 2023 • 38m

Matthew R. Dasti, "Vatsyayana's Commentary on the Nyaya-Sutra: A Guide" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Sep 20, 2023 • 1h 16m

David B. Wong, "Moral Relativism and Pluralism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Sep 19, 2023 • 1h 6m

Lenora Hanson, "The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation" (Stanford UP, 2022)

Sep 18, 2023 • 1h 9m

Peter Adamson, "Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna): a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Sep 17, 2023 • 51m

Joshua Ehrlich, "The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Sep 16, 2023 • 40m

The Future of Anarchism: A Discussion with Ruth Kinna

Sep 16, 2023 • 37m

Julia C. Schneider, "Nation and Ethnicity: Chinese Discourses on History, Historiography, and Nationalism (1900s-1920s)" (Brill, 2017)

Sep 15, 2023 • 52m

Rebecca Kingston, "Plutarch's Prism: Classical Reception and Public Humanism in France and England, 1500–1800" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Sep 14, 2023 • 47m

Neil Tarrant, "Defining Nature's Limits: The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

Sep 13, 2023 • 1h 9m

Matthew McManus, "The Political Right and Equality: Turning Back the Tide of Egalitarian Modernity" (Routledge, 2023)

Sep 13, 2023 • 30m

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Sep 12, 2023 • 34m

Jacob Abell, "Spiritual and Material Boundaries in Old French Verse: Contemplating the Walls of the Earthly Paradise" (Medieval Institute Publications, 2023)

Sep 12, 2023 • 1h 1m

Religion and Politics in the Lord of the Rings

Sep 12, 2023 • 1h 2m

Muḥsin Jāsim Mūsawī, "The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures: Global Commodification, Translation, and the Culture Industry" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Sep 10, 2023 • 54m

Sarah Ruden, "Vergil: The Poet's Life" (Yale UP, 2023)

Sep 10, 2023 • 1h 5m

L. M. Ratnapalan, "Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pacific: The Transformation of Global Christianity" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)

Sep 9, 2023 • 59m

Vincent W. Lloyd, "Black Dignity: The Struggle Against Domination" (Yale UP, 2022)

Sep 9, 2023 • 1h 3m

Jared Secord, "Christian Intellectuals and the Roman Empire: From Justin Martyr to Origen" (Penn State UP, 2020)

Sep 9, 2023 • 49m

Situating Religion and Medicine (with Michael Stanley-Baker)

Sep 8, 2023 • 1h 6m

Oliver Crisp and Daniel J. Hill, eds., "Reason in the Service of Faith: Collected Essays of Paul Helm" (Routledge, 2023)

Sep 8, 2023 • 30m

Michael S. Roth, "The Student: A Short History" (Yale UP, 2023)

Sep 7, 2023 • 45m

Matthew W. Knotts, "On Creation, Science, Disenchantment and the Contours of Being and Knowing" (Bloomsbury, 2019)

Sep 5, 2023 • 1h 2m

The Philosophy of Music and the Attunement of the Soul

Sep 5, 2023 • 1h 22m

Endre Sashalmi, "Russian Notions of Power and State in a European Perspective, 1462-1725: Assessing the Significance of Peter's Reign" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)

Sep 4, 2023 • 1h 2m

Sarah Clegg, "Women's Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi" (Apollo, 2023)

Sep 2, 2023 • 48m

Marion Holmes Katz, "Wives and Work: Islamic Law and Ethics Before Modernity" (Columbia UP, 2022)

Sep 1, 2023 • 1h 44m

Hans Van Eyghen, "The Epistemology of Spirit Beliefs" (Routledge, 2023)

Sep 1, 2023 • 37m

H. Norman Strickman, "The Secret of the Torah: A Translation of Abraham Ibn Ezra's Sefer Yesod Mora" (Kodesh Press, 2021)

Aug 30, 2023 • 1h 1m

Joshua Daniel Schachterle, "John Cassian and the Creation of Monastic Subjectivity" (Equinox Publishing, 2022)

Aug 30, 2023 • 1h 36m

How Should Protestants Engage With Natural Law Theory?

Aug 29, 2023 • 48m

Sara Protasi, "The Philosophy of Envy" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Aug 29, 2023 • 54m

Barbara Sattler, "The Concept of Motion in Ancient Greek Thought: Foundations in Logic, Method, and Mathematics" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

Aug 28, 2023 • 1h 12m

The Ideology of Entrepreneurship: A Conversation with Robert Eberhart

Aug 28, 2023 • 1h 16m

Hollis Robbins, "Forms of Contention: Influence and the African American Sonnet Tradition" (U Georgia Press, 2020)

Aug 26, 2023 • 1h 32m

Lawrence Goldman, "Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Aug 25, 2023 • 1h 31m

Mbaye Lo and Carl W. Ernst, "I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar Ibn Said's America" (UNC Press, 2023)

Aug 25, 2023 • 48m

Smita A. Rahman et al., "Globalizing Political Theory" (Routledge, 2022)

Aug 24, 2023 • 49m

Jeffrey J. Cohen and Julian Yates, "Noah's Arkive" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

Aug 24, 2023 • 1h 41m

Travis Holloway, "How to Live at the End of the World: Theory, Art, and Politics for the Anthropocene" (Stanford UP, 2022)

Aug 23, 2023 • 51m

Thomas Simpson, "The Frontier in British India: Space, Science, and Power in the Nineteenth Century" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Aug 22, 2023 • 1h 4m

Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity

Aug 21, 2023 • 40m

Peter Moore, "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream (1740–1776)" ( FSG, 2023)

Aug 20, 2023 • 1h 10m

Laura R. Kremmel, "Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid Anatomies" (U Wales Press, 2022)

Aug 20, 2023 • 49m

Samuel Moyn, "Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times" (Yale UP, 2023)

Aug 19, 2023 • 49m

Morgan J. Robinson, "A Language for the World: The Standardization of Swahili" (Ohio UP, 2022)

Aug 19, 2023 • 55m

Mary Edwards, "Sartre’s Existential Psychoanalysis: Knowing Others" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Aug 19, 2023 • 1h 47m

The Future of Traditionalism: A Discussion with Mark J. Sedgwick

Aug 18, 2023 • 49m

Jason Weiner, "Care and Covenant: A Jewish Bioethic of Responsibility" (Georgetown UP, 2023)

Aug 16, 2023 • 48m

Yehuda Halper, "Jewish Socratic Questions in an Age Without Plato: Permitting and Forbidding Open-Inquiry in 12-15th Century Europe and North Africa" (Brill, 2021)

Aug 15, 2023 • 1h 0m

Al Coppola, "The Theater of Experiment: Staging Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2016)

Aug 15, 2023 • 50m

Jeremy Black, "Smollett's Britain" (St. Augustine's Press, 2022)

Aug 14, 2023 • 22m

Robert T. Tally, Jr., "For a Ruthless Critique of All That Exists: Literature in an Age of Capitalist Realism" (Zero Books, 2022)

Aug 14, 2023 • 1h 53m

Simon Mills, "A Commerce of Knowledge: Trade, Religion, and Scholarship Between England and the Ottoman Empire, 1600-1760" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Aug 13, 2023 • 52m

Shana Rosenblatt Mauer, "Mordecai Richler's Imperfect Search for Moral Values" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)

Aug 12, 2023 • 48m

Ashley Robertson Preston, "Mary Mcleod Bethune the Pan-Africanist" (UP of Florida, 2023)

Aug 12, 2023 • 28m

Michael Ruse, "Darwinism as Religion: What Literature Tells Us about Evolution" (Oxford UP, 2017)

Aug 11, 2023 • 1h 18m

Jon Stewart, "A History of Nihilism in the Nineteenth Century: Confrontations with Nothingness" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Aug 9, 2023 • 1h 15m

Stanley E. Porter and Alan E. Kurschner eds., "The Future Restoration of Israel: A Response to Supersessionism" (Pickwick, 2023)

Aug 8, 2023 • 22m

Yoni Furas, "Educating Palestine: Teaching and Learning History Under the Mandate" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Aug 7, 2023 • 1h 4m

Mike Rothschild, "Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories" (Melville House, 2023)

Aug 6, 2023 • 49m

Daniel G Hummel, "The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism: How the Evangelical Battle Over the End Times Shaped a Nation" (William B. Eerdmans, 2023)

Aug 5, 2023 • 1h 24m

Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey, "Cross-Border Cosmopolitans: The Making of a Pan-African North America" (UNC Press, 2023)

Aug 4, 2023 • 57m

What Was Contemporary Art?

Aug 3, 2023 • 19m

Ruth Yun-Ju Chen, "Good Formulas: Empirical Evidence in Mid-Imperial Chinese Medical Texts" (U Washington Press, 2023)

Aug 2, 2023 • 55m

D. J. Taylor, "Orwell: The New Life" (Pegasus Books, 2023)

Aug 1, 2023 • 46m

Zhihua Yao, "Nonexistent Objects in Buddhist Philosophy: On Knowing What There is Not" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

Jul 30, 2023 • 1h 1m

Adom Getachew and Jennifer Pitts eds. "W. E. B. Du Bois: International Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Jul 30, 2023 • 39m

Manfred B. Steger and Ravi K. Roy, "Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Jul 30, 2023 • 1h 6m

Jonathan R. Topham, "Reading the Book of Nature: How Eight Best Sellers Reconnected Christianity and the Sciences on the Eve of the Victorian Age" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

Jul 29, 2023 • 57m

Archaeology and Nomadism in the Russian Empire: An interview with Ismael Biyashev

Jul 29, 2023 • 56m

Marzia Milazzo, "Colorblind Tools: Global Technologies of Racial Power" (Northwestern UP, 2022)

Jul 29, 2023 • 52m

The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke

Jul 28, 2023 • 52m

Richard N. Langlois, "The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Jul 27, 2023 • 45m

Ismay Milford, "African Activists in a Decolonising World: The Making of an Anticolonial Culture, 1952-1966" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Jul 25, 2023 • 52m

Melissa Shew and Kimberly Garchar, "Philosophy for Girls: An Invitation to the Life of Thought" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Jul 25, 2023 • 1h 11m

50 Years after Martin Jay's "The Dialectical Imagination"

Jul 24, 2023 • 1h 53m

Yamin Levy, "The Mysticism of Andalusia: Exploring HaRambam's Mystical Tradition" (MHC Press, 2023)

Jul 23, 2023 • 53m

Toril Moi, "Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies After Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell" (U Chicago Press, 2017)

Jul 22, 2023 • 1h 34m

Scott A. Mitchell, "The Making of American Buddhism" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Jul 21, 2023 • 58m

"Companionable Thinking: Spenser With..." Spencer Studies, Volume 37 (2023)

Jul 21, 2023 • 1h 15m

Paul Hanebrink, "In Defense of Christian Hungary: Religion, Nationalism, and Antisemitism, 1890–1944" (Cornell UP, 2018)

Jul 21, 2023 • 1h 5m

Dimitry Shevchenko, "Mirror of Nature, Mirror of Self: Mirror of Self: Models of Consciousness in Sāṃkhya, Yoga, and Advaita Vedānta" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Jul 20, 2023 • 35m

Mere Natural Law: A Conversation with Hadley Arkes

Jul 18, 2023 • 1h 4m

Anne Phillips, "Unconditional Equals" (Princeton UP, 2021)

Jul 18, 2023 • 58m

Nick Witham, "Popularizing the Past: Historians, Publishers, and Readers in Postwar America" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

Jul 18, 2023 • 53m

Kelly Ross, "Slavery, Surveillance and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Jul 16, 2023 • 44m

Wayne Deakin, "Modern Language, Philosophy and Criticism" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

Jul 14, 2023 • 1h 11m

Ankur Barua, "Exploring Hindu Philosophy" (Equinox Publishing, 2023)

Jul 13, 2023 • 33m

Emily Katz Anhalt, "Embattled: How Ancient Greek Myths Empower Us to Resist Tyranny" (Redwood Press, 2021)

Jul 11, 2023 • 52m

Liana Saif et al., "Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice" (Brill, 2020)

Jul 10, 2023 • 1h 2m

Torin Alter, "The Matter of Consciousness: From the Knowledge Argument to Russellian Monism" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Jul 10, 2023 • 1h 8m

Katherine Giuffre, "Outrage: The Arts and the Creation of Modernity" (Stanford UP, 2023)

Jul 10, 2023 • 53m

Kevin Killeen, "The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought: Natural Philosophy and the Poetics of the Ineffable" (Stanford UP, 2023)

Jul 9, 2023 • 1h 13m

Nicole Bauer, "Tracing the Shadow of Secrecy and Government Transparency in Eighteenth-Century France" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

Jul 8, 2023 • 1h 23m

Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg, "The Closed Book: How the Rabbis Taught the Jews (Not) to Read the Bible" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Jul 8, 2023 • 42m

Daniel Boyarin, "The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto" (Yale UP, 2023)

Jul 7, 2023 • 55m

James Crossland, "The Rise of Devils: Fear and the Origins of Terrorism" (Manchester UP, 2023)

Jul 6, 2023 • 59m

Maxwell Kennel, "Ontologies of Violence: Deconstruction, Pacifism, and Displacement" (Brill, 2023)

Jul 6, 2023 • 32m

Marco Caboara, "Regnum Chinae: The Printed Western Maps of China to 1735" (Brill, 2022)

Jul 6, 2023 • 42m

Derek Attridge, "The Singularity of Literature" (Routledge, 2017)

Jul 5, 2023 • 1h 3m

Peter Stansky, "The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War" (Stanford UP, 2023)

Jul 4, 2023 • 43m

Rose Marie San Juan, "Violence and the Genesis of the Anatomical Image" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2023)

Jul 3, 2023 • 58m

Katie Kadue, "Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to Milton" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

Jul 3, 2023 • 50m

Greg A. Salazar, "Calvinist Conformity in Post-Reformation England: The Theology and Career of Daniel Featley" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Jul 1, 2023 • 37m

John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle, "Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Jul 1, 2023 • 31m

The Marketplace of Attention: How Audiences Take Shape in a Digital Age

Jun 30, 2023 • 19m

Why Do So Many Young People Think the Unabomber was Right?

Jun 30, 2023 • 1h 16m

Edward Kissi, "Africans and the Holocaust: Perceptions and Responses of Colonized and Sovereign Peoples" (Routledge, 2021)

Jun 29, 2023 • 1h 56m

Michael Muhammad Knight, "Sufi Deleuze: Secretions of Islamic Atheism" (Fordham UP, 2023)

Jun 28, 2023 • 39m

Philip J. Stern, "Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism" (Harvard UP, 2023)

Jun 26, 2023 • 54m

Marcello Musto, "The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography" (Stanford UP, 2020)

Jun 26, 2023 • 2h 7m

Andy Karr, "Into the Mirror: A Buddhist Journey through Mind, Matter, and the Nature of Reality" (Shambhala, 2023)

Jun 25, 2023 • 1h 1m

Bradley C. S. Watson, "Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea" (U Notre Dame Press, 2020)

Jun 25, 2023 • 1h 22m

Brian Cummings, "Bibliophobia: The End and the Beginning of the Book" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Jun 25, 2023 • 1h 27m

Andrew Jones, "How Kant Matters for Biology: A Philosophical History" (U Wales Press, 2023)

Jun 23, 2023 • 1h 3m

James Hannam, "The Globe: How the Earth Became Round" (Reaktion Books, 2023)

Jun 22, 2023 • 47m

Chris Millington, "The Invention of Terrorism in France, 1904-1939" (Stanford UP, 2023)

Jun 22, 2023 • 1h 3m

The Environmental Unconscious

Jun 20, 2023 • 21m

The Ascendance of Social Conservatism in the Public Square

Jun 20, 2023 • 55m

Anna Schur, "The Letters and the Law: Legal and Literary Culture in Late Imperial Russia" (Northwestern UP, 2022)

Jun 20, 2023 • 1h 13m

Rachel E. Walker, "Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early America" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

Jun 19, 2023 • 51m

Keith Tribe, "Constructing Economic Science: The Invention of a Discipline 1850-1950" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Jun 18, 2023 • 1h 4m

Chris Manias, "The Age of Mammals: Nature, Development, and Paleontology in the Long Nineteenth Century" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)

Jun 17, 2023 • 53m

Brett Brehm, "Kaleidophonic Modernity: Transatlantic Sound, Technology, and Literature" (Fordham UP, 2023)

Jun 16, 2023 • 1h 8m

Grace Elisabeth Lavery, "Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Jun 15, 2023 • 33m

Josh Milburn, "Food, Justice, and Animals: Feeding the World Respectfully" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Jun 15, 2023 • 1h 16m

Simon Paul Cox, "The Subtle Body: A Genealogy" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Jun 15, 2023 • 56m

Michael B. Gill, "A Philosophy of Beauty: Shaftesbury on Nature, Virtue, and Art" (Princeton UP, 2022)

Jun 14, 2023 • 1h 7m

The Rhetoric of Decline

Jun 13, 2023 • 19m

Socialist Cultures and Politics of Secularism and Atheism

Jun 13, 2023 • 1h 12m

Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind, "Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis" (Harvard UP, 2023)

Jun 12, 2023 • 1h 1m

Graham Harman and Christopher Witmore, "Objects Untimely: Object-Oriented Philosophy and Archaeology" (Polity Press, 2023)

Jun 10, 2023 • 1h 4m

Doug Enaa Greene, "Stalinism and the Dialectics of Saturn: Anticommunism, Marxism, and the Fate of the Soviet Union" (Lexington, 2023)

Jun 9, 2023 • 59m

Douglas Kerr, "Orwell and Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Jun 9, 2023 • 42m

Ann Komaromi, "Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society" (Cornell UP, 2022)

Jun 8, 2023 • 50m

Loriliai Biernacki, "The Matter of Wonder: Abhinavagupta's Panentheism and the New Materialism" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Jun 8, 2023 • 31m

Xin Fan, "World History and National Identity in China: The Twentieth Century" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Jun 7, 2023 • 51m

Feminism Against Progress: A Conversation with Mary Harrington

Jun 6, 2023 • 50m

Philip Kitcher, "What's the Use of Philosophy?' (Oxford UP, 2023)

Jun 5, 2023 • 51m

Jonathan Abel, "Guibert's General Essay on Tactics" (Brill, 2021)

Jun 4, 2023 • 48m

Lorenzo Costaguta, "Workers of All Colors Unite: Race and the Origins of American Socialism" (U Illinois Press, 2023)

Jun 3, 2023 • 52m

Scott R. Stroud, "The Evolution of Pragmatism in India: Ambedkar, Dewey, and the Rhetoric of Reconstruction" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

Jun 3, 2023 • 1h 2m

Chris Suh, "The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Jun 3, 2023 • 1h 58m

Perry Mehrling, "Money and Empire: Charles P. Kindleberger and the Dollar System" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Jun 2, 2023 • 58m

X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction

Jun 1, 2023 • 51m

J. Daniel Elam, "World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics" (Fordham UP, 2020)

May 31, 2023 • 58m

Alex Prichard, "Anarchism: a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2022)

May 31, 2023 • 55m

Ashok Gopal, "A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B. R. Ambedkar" (Navayana, 2023)

May 30, 2023 • 36m

Mariana Alessandri, "Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves Through Dark Moods" (Princeton UP, 2023)

May 30, 2023 • 1h 8m

Learning for Liberation: The Life and Legacy of Paulo Freire

May 29, 2023 • 1h 5m

Bart D. Ehrman, "Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)

May 28, 2023 • 37m

Max Weiss, "Revolutions Aesthetic: A Cultural History of Ba'thist Syria" (Stanford UP, 2022)

May 28, 2023 • 1h 24m

Naoíse Mac Sweeney, "The West: A New History of an Old Idea" (Dutton, 2023)

May 27, 2023 • 42m

Patrick J. Corbeil, "Empire and Progress in the Victorian Secularist Movement: Imagining a Secular World" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

May 26, 2023 • 1h 4m

Nicholas Scott Baker, "In Fortune's Theater: Financial Risk and the Future in Renaissance Italy" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

May 26, 2023 • 58m

The Hundred Year War for the American Right: A Conversation with Matthew Continetti

May 25, 2023 • 44m

Elise Coquereau-Saouma and Daniel Raveh, "The Making of Contemporary Indian Philosophy: Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya" (Routledge, 2022)

May 25, 2023 • 26m

Alaina Kaus, "Fighting Over There: U.S. War Making and Contemporary Refugee Literature" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)

May 25, 2023 • 39m

Avigail Rock, "Great Biblical Commentators: Biographies, Methodologies, and Contributions" (Maggid, 2023)

May 23, 2023 • 38m

Bruce Pass, ed., "Herman Bavinck, "On Theology: Herman Bavinck's Academic Orations" (Brill, 2020)

May 22, 2023 • 27m

James Poskett, "Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science" (Mariner Books, 2022)

May 21, 2023 • 48m

Philip Pettit, "The State" (Princeton UP, 2023)

May 20, 2023 • 43m

Where Did Conservatism Go? A Conversation with Yoram Hazony

May 20, 2023 • 1h 3m

Dilip M. Menon and Nishat Zaidi, "Cosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought" (Routledge, 2023)

May 20, 2023 • 31m

The Origins of the Modern Self: A Conversation with Carl Trueman

May 19, 2023 • 59m

Virginia Jackson, "Before Modernism: Inventing American Lyric" (Princeton UP, 2023)

May 18, 2023 • 49m

Simon Cox on the Subtle Body

May 18, 2023 • 1h 16m

Matt Dawson, "The Political Durkheim: Sociology, Socialism, Legacies" (Routledge, 2023)

May 17, 2023 • 46m

Bruce R. Pass, "The Heart of Dogmatics: Christology and Christocentrism in Herman Bavinck" (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020)

May 17, 2023 • 50m

Pamela M. Lee, "Think Tank Aesthetics: Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present" (MIT Press, 2020)

May 16, 2023 • 1h 11m

Harry V. Jaffa and the Fight for America: A Conversation with Glenn Ellmers

May 16, 2023 • 48m

Kody W. Cooper and Justin Buckley Dyer, "The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics: Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Founding" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

May 16, 2023 • 1h 20m

Annabel L. Kim, "Cacaphonies: The Excremental Canon of French Literature" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)

May 14, 2023 • 56m

Christian Raffensperger, "Authorship, Worldview, and Identity in Medieval Europe" (Routledge, 2022)

May 13, 2023 • 46m

Alvin J. Henry, "Black Queer Flesh: Rejecting Subjectivity in the African American Novel" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)

May 13, 2023 • 1h 0m

Bedross Der Matossian, "Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

May 12, 2023 • 1h 0m

Michael Brown, "Emotions and Surgery in Britain, 1793-1912" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

May 12, 2023 • 1h 16m

Katherine Bowers, "Writing Fear: Russian Realism and the Gothic" (U Toronto Press, 2022)

May 11, 2023 • 55m

Timothy Sandefur, "Freedom's Furies: How Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Ayn Rand Found Freedom in an Age of Darkness" (Cato Institute, 2022)

May 11, 2023 • 37m

Britta K. Ager, "The Scent of Ancient Magic" (U Michigan Press, 2022)

May 10, 2023 • 53m

Hasok Chang, "Realism for Realistic People: A New Pragmatist Philosophy of Science (Cambridge UP, 2022)

May 10, 2023 • 1h 4m

Christianity and the American Founding with Mark David Hall

May 9, 2023 • 56m

The Education of Cyrus: A Conversation with Shilo Brooks

May 8, 2023 • 54m

Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi, "The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism" (Princeton UP, 2023)

May 7, 2023 • 1h 22m

Plato’s Symposium: A Conversation with Marcus Gibson

May 5, 2023 • 42m

Semiotext(e): The Theory Press

May 4, 2023 • 46m

Daniel Roth, "Third-Party Peacemakers in Judaism: Text, Theory, and Practice" (Oxford UP, 2021)

May 3, 2023 • 28m

John McCannon, "Nicholas Roerich: The Artist Who Would Be King" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)

May 3, 2023 • 1h 11m

Henrik Örnebring and Michael Karlsson, "Journalistic Autonomy: The Genealogy of a Concept" (U Missouri Press, 2022)

May 3, 2023 • 40m

Plato's Republic (Books VIII and IX): A Conversation with Marcus Gibson

May 2, 2023 • 45m

Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics

May 2, 2023 • 32m

Brian Domitrovic, "The Emergence of Arthur Laffer: The Foundations of Supply-Side Economics in Chicago and Washington, 1966–1976" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)

May 1, 2023 • 43m

Jo Littler, "Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and Political" (Lawrence Wishart, 2023)

May 1, 2023 • 34m

Citizenship

Apr 30, 2023 • 11m

K. N. Sunandan, "Caste, Knowledge, and Power: Ways of Knowing in Twentieth Century Malabar" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Apr 30, 2023 • 53m

Craig Leonard, "Uncommon Sense: Aesthetics after Marcuse" (MIT Press, 2022)

Apr 29, 2023 • 54m

Pablo Bradbury, "Liberationist Christianity in Argentina (1930-1983): Faith and Revolution" (Tamesis Books, 2023)

Apr 29, 2023 • 1h 44m

Teena U. Purohit, "Sunni Chauvinism and the Roots of Muslim Modernism" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Apr 28, 2023 • 1h 9m

Locke, Tocqueville, and Civic Education: A Conversation with Jeffrey Sikkenga

Apr 28, 2023 • 36m

All Men Are Created Equal: A Conversation with Allen C. Guelzo

Apr 27, 2023 • 1h 5m

Barak S. Cohen, "For Out of Babylonia Shall Come Torah and the Word of the Lord from Nehar Peqod" (Brill, 2017)

Apr 27, 2023 • 30m

Evert van der Zweerde, "Russian Political Philosophy: Anarchy, Authority, Autocracy" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)

Apr 26, 2023 • 1h 24m

Ferenc Hörcher, "Art and Politics in Roger Scruton's Conservative Philosophy" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

Apr 25, 2023 • 37m

Timothy Sean Quinn, "Apiqoros: The Last Essays of Salomon Maimon" (Hebrew Union College Press, 2021)

Apr 24, 2023 • 1h 35m

Eberhard Guhe, "An Indian Theory of Defeasible Reasoning: The Doctrine of Upādhi in the Upādhidarpaṇa" (Harvard UP, 2022)

Apr 23, 2023 • 1h 13m

The Apology of Socrates: A Conversation with Marcus Gibson

Apr 22, 2023 • 56m

Plato and the Dialogues: A Conversation with Marcus Gibson

Apr 22, 2023 • 36m

Li-Chun Hsiao, "The Soldier-Writer, the Expatriate, and Cold War Modernism in Taiwan" (Lexington Books, 2022)

Apr 21, 2023 • 1h 35m

Barak S. Cohen, "The Legal Methodology of Late Nehardean Sages in Sasanian Babylonia" (Brill, 2011)

Apr 20, 2023 • 1h 3m

Modern Crises, Ancient Wisdom

Apr 20, 2023 • 53m

Graham Harman, "The Graham Harman Reader" (Zero Books, 2023)

Apr 19, 2023 • 59m

Benjamin E. Park, "American Nationalisms: Imagining Union in the Age of Revolutions, 1783-1833" (Cambridge UP, 2018)

Apr 18, 2023 • 1h 8m

Lincoln at Gettysburg: A Conversation with Allen C. Guelzo

Apr 18, 2023 • 55m

Quinn Slobodian, "Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy" (Metropolitan, 2023)

Apr 17, 2023 • 50m

Doug Bates on the Ancient Greek Version of Buddhism

Apr 17, 2023 • 37m

Joshua Myers, "Of Black Study" (Pluto Press, 2022)

Apr 17, 2023 • 57m

Donald Harman Akenson, "The Americanization of the Apocalypse: Creating America's Own Bible" (Oxford UP. 2023)

Apr 16, 2023 • 32m

Aleksandar Uskokov, "The Philosophy of the Brahma-sutra: An Introduction" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Apr 16, 2023 • 50m

The Future of Antisemitism: A Discussion with Dave Rich

Apr 15, 2023 • 58m

David Edmonds, "Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Apr 15, 2023 • 34m

George Washington and American Honor: A Conversation with Craig Bruce Smith

Apr 14, 2023 • 54m

Freddy Foks, "Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain" (U California Press, 2023)

Apr 14, 2023 • 1h 11m

A Warning to the West: A Conversation with Sergiu Klainerman

Apr 13, 2023 • 1h 2m

Christopher S. Celenza, "The Italian Renaissance and the Origin of the Humanities: An Intellectual History, 1400-1800" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Apr 13, 2023 • 59m

David Baumeister, "Kant on the Human Animal: Anthropology, Ethics, Race" (Northwestern UP, 2022)

Apr 12, 2023 • 44m

The Roots of Equity and Equality: A Conversation with Teresa Bejan

Apr 11, 2023 • 1h 1m

Matthew Mewhinney, "Form and Feeling in Japanese Literati Culture" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

Apr 10, 2023 • 57m

Daniel Neofetou, "Rereading Abstract Expressionism, Clement Greenberg and the Cold War" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

Apr 9, 2023 • 1h 10m

Mercedes Valmisa, "Adapting: A Chinese Philosophy of Action" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Apr 8, 2023 • 58m

Jonathan A. C. Brown, "Islam and Blackness" (Oneworld Academic, 2022)

Apr 7, 2023 • 1h 36m

Helen Small, "The Function of Cynicism at the Present Time" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Apr 7, 2023 • 58m

The Gospel According to Dorothy (with Kathryn Wehr)

Apr 6, 2023 • 1h 3m

God, The Founders, and Natural Law: A Conversation with Phil Muñoz

Apr 5, 2023 • 33m

Lost in Thought: A Conversation with Zena Hitz

Apr 5, 2023 • 45m

Patrick Bixby, "Nietzsche and Irish Modernism" (Manchester UP, 2022)

Apr 5, 2023 • 1h 4m

Joseph Giacomelli, "Uncertain Climes: Debating Climate Change in Gilded Age America" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

Apr 5, 2023 • 41m

Natilee Harren, "Fluxus Forms: Scores, Multiples, and the Eternal Network" (U Chicago Press, 2020)

Apr 5, 2023 • 56m

Stuart Elden, "The Archaeology of Foucault" (Polity, 2022)

Apr 5, 2023 • 49m

Katherine Johnston, "The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Apr 3, 2023 • 1h 3m

Andrew D. Berns, "The Land Is Mine: Sephardi Jews and Bible Commentary in the Renaissance" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

Apr 2, 2023 • 1h 5m

Mike Jay, "Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind" (Yale UP, 2023)

Apr 2, 2023 • 44m

Foluke Adebisi, "Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility" (Bristol UP, 2023)

Apr 2, 2023 • 59m

Philip Jenkins, "He Will Save You from the Deadly Pestilence: The Many Lives of Psalm 91" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Apr 1, 2023 • 29m

Colleen Lye and Christopher Nealon, "After Marx: Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Mar 31, 2023 • 1h 52m

School Authority, Parents' Rights: Rita Koganzon on Early Modern Education

Mar 30, 2023 • 1h 0m

School Authority, Parents' Rights: Rita Koganzon on Early Modern Education

Mar 30, 2023 • 1h 0m

Ravi Malhotra and Benjamin Isitt, eds., "Class Warrior: The Selected Works of E. T. Kingsley" (Athabasca UP, 2022)

Mar 28, 2023 • 55m

Leslie M. Alexander, "Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States" (U Illinois Press, 2022)

Mar 27, 2023 • 1h 5m

Joshua D. Schendel, "The Necessity of Christ's Satisfaction: A Study of the Reformed Scholastic Theologians William Twisse (1578-1646) and John Owen (1616-1683)" (Brill, 2022)

Mar 27, 2023 • 37m

Ching Keng, "Toward a New Image of Paramartha: Yogacara and Tathagatagarbha Buddhism Revisited" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Mar 25, 2023 • 1h 4m

Lee Trepanier, "Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters: Reflections of Political Theory from Antiquity to the Age of COVID" (Routledge, 2022)

Mar 23, 2023 • 28m

Present at the Creation: Edward Mead Earle and the Depression-Era Origins of Security Studies

Mar 22, 2023 • 26m

John P. Bequette, "Bede the Theologian: History, Rhetoric, and Spirituality" (Catholic U of America Press, 2022)

Mar 21, 2023 • 25m

Max Kaiser, "Jewish Antifascism and the False Promise of Settler Colonialism" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

Mar 21, 2023 • 1h 24m

Nadia Abu El-Haj, "Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America" (Verso, 2022)

Mar 21, 2023 • 1h 19m

David Weiss, "The God Susanoo and Korea in Japan’s Cultural Memory: Ancient Myths and Modern Empire" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Mar 19, 2023 • 55m

Arya Aryan, "The Postmodern Representation of Reality in Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton" (Cambridge Scholars, 2022)

Mar 19, 2023 • 26m

Patrick L. Schmidt, "Harvard's Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science: The Rise and Fall of the Department of Social Relations" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022)

Mar 19, 2023 • 1h 21m

Michael Walzer, "The Struggle for a Decent Politics: On 'Liberal' As an Adjective" (Yale UP, 2023)

Mar 18, 2023 • 52m

Book Talk 58: Vivian Gornick on Emma Goldman

Mar 17, 2023 • 1h 4m

Rick de Villiers, "Eliot and Beckett's Low Modernism: Humility and Humiliation" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)

Mar 17, 2023 • 31m

Annie Pfeifer, "To the Collector Belong the Spoils: Modernism and the Art of Appropriation" (Cornell UP, 2023)

Mar 17, 2023 • 59m

Dalia Nassar and Kristin Gjesdal, "Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Mar 16, 2023 • 1h 3m

Ezra Rashkow, "The Nature of Endangerment in India: Tigers, 'Tribes', Extermination and Conservation, 1818-2020" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Mar 16, 2023 • 48m

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Andrew S. Curran, "Who's Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race" (Harvard UP, 2022)

Mar 14, 2023 • 1h 0m

Rahul Sagar, "The Progressive Maharaja: Sir Madhava Rao's Hints on the Art and Science of Government" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Mar 13, 2023 • 1h 8m

The Evolution of Language

Mar 11, 2023 • 37m

Emily Steiner, "John Trevisa's Information Age: Knowledge and the Pursuit of Literature, c. 1400" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Mar 11, 2023 • 54m

Alison Stone, "Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Mar 11, 2023 • 56m

Marion Turner, "The Wife of Bath: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Mar 10, 2023 • 45m

Jessica Rosenberg, "Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

Mar 10, 2023 • 1h 4m

Jacqueline Broad, "Women Philosophers of Seventeenth-Century England: Selected Correspondence" (Oxford UP, 2019)

Mar 8, 2023 • 1h 5m

Measure for Measure Episode 7: Kinsey

Mar 8, 2023 • 23m

Constantin Iordachi, "The Fascist Faith of the Legion Archangel Michael in Romania, 1927-1941: From Martyrdom to Purification" (Routledge, 2022)

Mar 8, 2023 • 1h 26m

Choice Architecture

Mar 7, 2023 • 20m

Ben Dodds, "Myths and Memories of the Black Death" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

Mar 6, 2023 • 39m

Charlie Samuelson, "Courtly and Queer: Deconstruction, Desire, and Medieval French Literature" (Ohio State UP, 2022)

Mar 3, 2023 • 1h 1m

Reuven Mohl, "Faith Fulfilled: Megillat Esther and Ma'ariv Evening Service for Purim" (Urim Publications, 2022)

Mar 3, 2023 • 43m

Chien-Wen Kung, "Diasporic Cold Warriors: Nationalist China, Anticommunism, and the Philippine Chinese, 1930s-1970s" (Cornell UP, 2022)

Mar 3, 2023 • 1h 33m

Veena R. Howard et al., "The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Philosophy and Gender" (Bloomsbury, 2019)

Mar 2, 2023 • 47m

Marilyn Migiel, "Veronica Franco in Dialogue" (U Toronto Press, 2022)

Mar 2, 2023 • 1h 18m

Leslie M. Alexander, "Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States" (U Illinois Press, 2022)

Feb 27, 2023 • 1h 20m

Ron Hirschbein and Amin Asfari, "Jews and Muslims in the White Supremacist Conspiratorial Imagination" (Routledge, 2023)

Feb 26, 2023 • 1h 17m

Bernard D. Geoghegan, "Code: From Information Theory to French Theory" (Duke UP, 2023)

Feb 25, 2023 • 53m

Joseph T. Stuart, "Christopher Dawson: A Cultural Mind in the Age of the Great War" (Catholic U of America Press, 2022)

Feb 24, 2023 • 1h 24m

Nathan Vedal, "The Culture of Language in Ming China: Sound, Script, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge" (Columbia UP, 2022)

Feb 21, 2023 • 1h 3m

Chris Bongie, trans. and ed., "The Colonial System Unveiled by Baron de Vastey" (Liverpool UP, 2014)

Feb 21, 2023 • 1h 40m

Monima Chadha, "Selfless Minds: A Contemporary Perspective on Vasubandhu's Metaphysics" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Feb 20, 2023 • 1h 4m

Garima Garg, "Heavens and Earth: The Story of Astrology Through Ages and Cultures" (Penguin, 2023)

Feb 20, 2023 • 40m

Azzan Yadin-Israel, "Temptation Transformed: The Story of How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

Feb 20, 2023 • 52m

Zoe Adams, "The Legal Concept of Work" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Feb 19, 2023 • 1h 28m

Aurelian Craiutu, "Faces of Moderation: The Art of Balance in an Age of Extremes" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2017)

Feb 19, 2023 • 49m

Geoffrey Jones, "Deeply Responsible Business A Global History of Values-Driven Leadership" (Harvard University Press, 2023)

Feb 18, 2023 • 1h 1m

Hadia Mubarak, "Rebellious Wives, Neglectful Husbands: Controversies in Modern Qur'anic Commentaries" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Feb 17, 2023 • 1h 22m

Joseph MacKay, "The Counterinsurgent Imagination: A New Intellectual History" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Feb 17, 2023 • 51m

Marnia Lazreg, "Foucault's Orient: The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan" (Berghahn Books, 2020)

Feb 17, 2023 • 54m

Justin W. Henry, "Ravana's Kingdom: The Ramayana and Sri Lankan History from Below" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Feb 16, 2023 • 25m

Historians Examine Thomas Piketty’s Capital and Ideology

Feb 15, 2023 • 1h 15m

Kathy E. Ferguson, "Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture" (Duke UP, 2023)

Feb 15, 2023 • 55m

Chris Kaczor and Matthew Petrusek, "Jordan Peterson, God, and Christianity" (Word on Fire Institute, 2021)

Feb 14, 2023 • 50m

Lee D. Baker, "From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954" (U California Press, 1998)

Feb 13, 2023 • 54m

M. Christhu Doss, "India after the 1857 Revolt: Decolonising the Mind" (Routledge, 2022)

Feb 12, 2023 • 50m

Golda Akhiezer, "Historical Consciousness, Haskalah, and Nationalism Among the Karaites of Eastern Europe" (Brill, 2017)

Feb 11, 2023 • 1h 30m

Winston James, "Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik" (Columbia UP, 2022)

Feb 11, 2023 • 1h 51m

Chantelle Gray, "Anarchism After Deleuze and Guattari: Fabulating Futures" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Feb 11, 2023 • 1h 7m

Jane Hwang Degenhardt, "Globalizing Fortune on the Early Modern Stage" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Feb 10, 2023 • 1h 12m

Bruce Kuklick, "Fascism Comes to America: A Century of Obsession in Politics and Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

Feb 8, 2023 • 1h 2m

Robert J. Dostal, "Gadamer's Hermeneutics: Between Phenomenology and Dialectic" (Northwestern UP, 2022)

Feb 7, 2023 • 46m

Geoffrey Roberts, "Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books" (Yale UP, 2022)

Feb 6, 2023 • 1h 17m

Chris Boesel, "In Kierkegaard's Garden with the Poppy Blooms: Why Derrida Doesn't Read Kierkegaard When He Reads Kierkegaard" (Fortress Academic, 2021)

Feb 6, 2023 • 2h 5m

Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps, "Heterotopic World Fiction: Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)

Feb 6, 2023 • 40m

Gyan Prakash and Jeremy Adelman, "Inventing the Third World: In Search of Freedom for the Postwar Global South" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Feb 5, 2023 • 1h 1m

Sean Hannan, "On Time, Change, History, and Conversion" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

Feb 4, 2023 • 1h 5m

Reclaiming a Lost Vision of Feminism: A Conversation with Erika Bachiochi

Feb 4, 2023 • 55m

Michah Gottlieb, "The Jewish Reformation: Bible Translation and Middle-Class German Judaism As Spiritual Enterprise" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Feb 4, 2023 • 39m

Susan Stewart, "The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2020)

Feb 4, 2023 • 27m

Where Did Conservatism Go? A Conversation with Yoram Hazony

Feb 3, 2023 • 1h 4m

Sennett and Foucault on Sexuality and Solitude (1979)

Feb 2, 2023 • 1h 8m

Horton's Cosmic Zoom: A Discussion with Zachary Horton

Feb 2, 2023 • 43m

Meir M. Bar-Asher, "Jews and the Qur'an" (Princeton UP, 2022)

Feb 1, 2023 • 1h 10m

Mikel Burley, "A Radical Pluralist Philosophy of Religion: Cross-Cultural, Multireligious, Interdisciplinary" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

Feb 1, 2023 • 58m

100 Nietzsche, Wokeism, Non-Buddhist Mysticism

Feb 1, 2023 • 1h 54m

Derrick Darby, "A Realistic Blacktopia: Why We Must Unite to Fight" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Feb 1, 2023 • 1h 18m

Andrea Dara Cooper, "Gendering Modern Jewish Thought" (Indiana UP, 2021)

Jan 31, 2023 • 1h 2m

Arthur Keefer, "Ecclesiastes and the Meaning of Life in the Ancient World" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Jan 31, 2023 • 47m

David Newheiser, "The Varieties of Atheism: Connecting Religion and Its Critics" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

Jan 31, 2023 • 1h 18m

Sebastian Truskolaski, "Adorno and the Ban on Images" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Jan 30, 2023 • 59m

The Mesopotamian Connection: Comparing the Bible to Other Literature of the Ancient Near East

Jan 30, 2023 • 1h 1m

Matthew Galway, "The Emergence of Global Maoism: China's Red Evangelism and the Cambodian Communist Movement, 1949-1979" (Cornell UP, 2022)

Jan 30, 2023 • 1h 7m

Apocalypse Past, Present, and Future: Thinking about the End in History and Culture

Jan 29, 2023 • 1h 3m

Anthony Reed, "Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production" (Duke UP, 2020)

Jan 28, 2023 • 55m

Stephen C. Finley, "In and Out of This World: Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam" (Duke UP, 2022)

Jan 27, 2023 • 1h 6m

Susannah Heschel, "The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany" (Princeton UP, 2010)

Jan 27, 2023 • 1h 7m

Igor H. De Souza, "Rewriting Maimonides: Early Commentaries on the Guide of the Perplexed" (de Gruyter, 2018)

Jan 27, 2023 • 1h 29m

Eric Adler, "The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Jan 25, 2023 • 1h 3m

Frank Wolff, "Yiddish Revolutionaries in Migration: The Transnational History of the Jewish Labour Bund" (Haymarket Books, 2021)

Jan 25, 2023 • 1h 20m

Stealing the Canon: Who Should Be In and Who Should Be Out?

Jan 24, 2023 • 31m

Near Death Experience

Jan 23, 2023 • 21m

Mostafa Minawi, "Losing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire" (Stanford UP, 2022)

Jan 23, 2023 • 1h 2m

Rens Bod, "A New History of the Humanities: The Search for Principles and Patterns from Antiquity to the Present" (Oxford UP, 2014)

Jan 23, 2023 • 1h 10m

The Thought of Ivan Illich

Jan 20, 2023 • 1h 25m

Youshaa Patel, "The Muslim Difference: Defining the Line Between Believers and Unbelievers from Early Islam to the Present" (Yale UP, 2023)

Jan 20, 2023 • 1h 34m

Better Call Paul: How Did the Early Jewish Christians Understand “Works of the Law”?

Jan 19, 2023 • 57m

Lorraine Daston Books In Dark Times (JP)

Jan 19, 2023 • 33m

Gila Ashtor, "Exigent Psychoanalysis: The Interventions of Jean Laplanche" (Routledge, 2021)

Jan 18, 2023 • 59m

Robert Ovetz, "We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few" (Pluto Press, 2022)

Jan 18, 2023 • 1h 11m

Marion Turner, "The Wife of Bath: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Jan 17, 2023 • 46m

Michael Joseph Roberto, "The Coming of the American Behemoth: The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920-1940" (Monthly Review Press, 2018)

Jan 17, 2023 • 1h 30m

Richard Davenport-Hines, "Conservative Thinkers from All Souls College Oxford" (Boydell & Brewer, 2022)

Jan 15, 2023 • 1h 0m

On Émile Durkheim's "The Elementary Forms of Religious Life" (1912)

Jan 15, 2023 • 59m

Oana Serban, "After Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Aesthetic Revolutions" (de Gruyter, 2022)

Jan 12, 2023 • 1h 6m

Restless Pilgrims: About CS Lewis

Jan 11, 2023 • 57m

Enlightened Cynicism: Should We Be More Cynical Than We Are?

Jan 11, 2023 • 20m

Sarah Imhoff, "The Lives of Jessie Sampter: Queer, Disabled, Zionist" (Duke UP, 2022)

Jan 11, 2023 • 1h 7m

Vincent Phillip Muñoz, "Religious Liberty and the American Founding: Natural Rights and the Original Meanings of the First Amendment Religion Clauses" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

Jan 11, 2023 • 1h 21m

Richard Wolin, "Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology" (Yale UP, 2023)

Jan 10, 2023 • 1h 54m

Rousseau's Ideas About Censorship in the Arts

Jan 9, 2023 • 1h 40m

Romani Representation in Pop Culture

Jan 9, 2023 • 54m

Robin Vose, "The Index of Prohibited Books: Four Centuries of Struggle Over Word and Image for the Greater Glory of God" (Reaktion, 2022)

Jan 9, 2023 • 53m

What about Hell? CS Lewis and Theology of the Afterlife

Jan 8, 2023 • 53m

Joshua Kulp and Jason Rogoff, "Reconstructing the Talmud: An Introduction to the Academic Study of Rabbinic Literature" (Hadar Press, 2014)

Jan 8, 2023 • 1h 5m

Peter Hudis, "Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades" (Pluto Press, 2015)

Jan 7, 2023 • 1h 13m

Urvashi Chakravarty, "Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

Jan 7, 2023 • 1h 7m

Mirror Image: New Technologies and the Self

Jan 7, 2023 • 15m

Book Talk 56: Roosevelt Montás on "Great Books"

Jan 6, 2023 • 1h 11m

Roger A Sneed, "The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought" (Ohio State UP, 2021)

Jan 6, 2023 • 1h 27m

Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps, "Heterotopic World Fiction: Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)

Jan 6, 2023 • 39m

On W. H. Auden

Jan 5, 2023 • 25m

Lorraine Daston Rules the World (EF, JP)

Jan 5, 2023 • 45m

Matthew J. Hart and Daniel J. Hill, "Does God Intend that Sin Occur?" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

Jan 5, 2023 • 43m

Melila Hellner-Eshed, "Seekers of the Face: Secrets of the Idra Rabba (the Great Assembly) of the Zohar" (Stanford UP. 2021)

Jan 4, 2023 • 1h 9m

Aaron W. Hughes, "Jacob Neusner: An American Jewish Iconoclast" (NYU Press, 2016)

Jan 3, 2023 • 1h 12m

Dannelle Gutarra Cordero, "She Is Weeping: An Intellectual History of Racialized Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Jan 3, 2023 • 49m

Paul J. Gutacker, "The Old Faith in a New Nation: American Protestants and the Christian Past" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Jan 3, 2023 • 44m

The Shape of History: Thinking Historically and Changing History

Jan 2, 2023 • 12m

Donovan O. Schaefer, "Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism after Darwin" (Duke UP, 2022)

Jan 2, 2023 • 1h 13m

Gareth Dale, et al., "Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age: Struggling to Be Born?" (Haymarket Books, 2021)

Jan 2, 2023 • 1h 7m

Josiah Ober, "The Greeks and the Rational: The Discovery of Practical Reason" (U California Press, 2022)

Jan 1, 2023 • 1h 5m

The Gospels in the Early Church: Evidence for the Chronology and Transmission of the Christian Scriptures

Dec 31, 2022 • 46m

Zachary Schrag, "The Princeton Guide to Historical Research" (Princeton UP, 2021)

Dec 31, 2022 • 42m

Martha C. Nussbaum, "Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility" (Simon & Schuster, 2022)

Dec 31, 2022 • 51m

Edmund Leach on Roman Jakobson's Contributions to Linguistics

Dec 30, 2022 • 59m

Abdul Alkalimat, "The Future of Black Studies" (Pluto Press, 2022)

Dec 29, 2022 • 1h 34m

Ed Cohen, "On Learning to Heal or, What Medicine Doesn't Know" (Duke UP, 2022)

Dec 28, 2022 • 1h 24m

Jed Rasula, "What the Thunder Said: How 'The Waste Land' Made Poetry Modern" (Princeton UP, 2022)

Dec 28, 2022 • 49m

Eren Duzgun, "Capitalism, Jacobinism and International Relations: Revisiting Turkish Modernity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Dec 28, 2022 • 1h 39m

Jefferson Cowie, "Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power" (Basic Books, 2022)

Dec 28, 2022 • 1h 31m

Who Wrote the Bible? Sorting out the History of the Bible We Have.

Dec 27, 2022 • 55m

Historian Laurence Stone on the Role and Revival of Narrative in History

Dec 27, 2022 • 48m

Mary M. Burke, "Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Dec 26, 2022 • 44m

Anatoly Liberman, "Take My Word for It: A Dictionary of English Idioms" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

Dec 25, 2022 • 48m

Lucy Fraser, "The Pleasures of Metamorphosis: Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformations of "The Little Mermaid"" (Wayne State UP, 2017)

Dec 25, 2022 • 36m

Pedro Lebrón Ortiz, "The Philosophy of Marronage" (Editora Educación Emergente, 2021)

Dec 25, 2022 • 55m

The Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States: Part 3 of 3

Dec 25, 2022 • 1h 53m

The Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States: Part 2 of 3

Dec 24, 2022 • 1h 29m

Kenneth B. Moss, "An Unchosen People: Jewish Political Reckoning in Interwar Poland" (Harvard UP, 2021)

Dec 24, 2022 • 1h 4m

Stephen Dobranski, "Reading John Milton: How to Persist in Troubled Times" (Stanford UP, 2022)

Dec 24, 2022 • 36m

Annie Reiner, "W. R. Bion’s Theories of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction" (Routledge, 2022)

Dec 24, 2022 • 49m

Neurasthenia

Dec 23, 2022 • 18m

Arya Aryan, "The Post-War Novel and the Death of the Author" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)

Dec 23, 2022 • 34m

The Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States: Part 1 of 3

Dec 23, 2022 • 1h 13m

Nathanael Vette, "Writing With Scripture: Scripturalized Narrative in the Gospel of Mark" (T&T Clark, 2022)

Dec 23, 2022 • 28m

Elena Goodwin, "Translating England into Russian: The Politics of Children's Literature in the Soviet Union and Modern Russia" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

Dec 23, 2022 • 55m

Sam Slote et al., "Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Dec 22, 2022 • 1h 32m

Noémie Ndiaye, "Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

Dec 21, 2022 • 1h 17m

On Martin Heidegger's "Being and Time"

Dec 21, 2022 • 53m

Jacob Kramer, "The New Freedom and the Radicals: Woodrow Wilson, Progressive Views of Radicalism, and the Origins of Repressive Tolerance" (Temple UP, 2015)

Dec 21, 2022 • 55m

Karma Ben-Johanan, "Jacob’s Younger Brother: Christian-Jewish Relations after Vatican II" (Harvard UP, 2022)

Dec 20, 2022 • 1h 3m

Ariana Huberman. "Keeping the Mystery Alive: Jewish Mysticism in Latin American Cultural Production" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)

Dec 20, 2022 • 1h 19m

Jane Freeland, "Feminist Transformations and Domestic Violence Activism in Divided Berlin, 1968-2002" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Dec 20, 2022 • 57m

Clara E. Mattei, "The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

Dec 19, 2022 • 1h 2m

Pamela H. Smith, "From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

Dec 19, 2022 • 1h 1m

Thomas M. Kemple, "Marx's Wager: Das Kapital and Classical Sociology" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

Dec 18, 2022 • 1h 10m

Efram Sera-Shriar, "Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022)

Dec 18, 2022 • 58m

J. V. Fesko, "The Spirit of the Age: The 19th-Century Debate Over the Holy Spirit and the Westminster Confession" (Reformation Heritage, 2017)

Dec 17, 2022 • 40m

Jingjing Li, "Comparing Husserl's Phenomenology and Chinese Yogacara in a Multicultural World: A Journey Beyond Orientalism" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Dec 17, 2022 • 56m

Harvey J. Kaye, "The British Marxist Historians" (Zero Book, 2022)

Dec 16, 2022 • 1h 13m

Samuel J. Redman, "Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums" (Harvard UP, 2022)

Dec 15, 2022 • 47m

On Voltaire's "Candide"

Dec 14, 2022 • 29m

David Newheiser, "The Varieties of Atheism: Connecting Religion and Its Critics" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

Dec 13, 2022 • 56m

Marla Segol, "Kabbalah and Sex Magic: A Mythical-Ritual Genealogy" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2022)

Dec 12, 2022 • 57m

Leigh T. I. Penman, "The Lost History of Cosmopolitanism: The Early Modern Origins of the Intellectual Ideal" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

Dec 11, 2022 • 1h 31m

Yannis Stouraitis, "Identities and Ideologies in the Medieval East Roman World" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)

Dec 10, 2022 • 54m

Jane Stevenson, "Women and Latin in the Early Modern Period" (Brill, 2022)

Dec 10, 2022 • 55m

Matthew Thaler, "No Other Planet: Utopian Visions for a Climate-changed World" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Dec 10, 2022 • 1h 7m

On Hans Blumenberg's "The Legitimacy of the Modern Age"

Dec 9, 2022 • 33m

Autumn Womack, "The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

Dec 8, 2022 • 1h 5m

Ayelet Zohar, "The Curious Case of the Camel in Modern Japan: (De)Colonialism, Orientalism, and Imagining Asia" (Brill, 2022)

Dec 7, 2022 • 1h 39m

Second Thoughts on Consistency: A Lecture by Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Dec 6, 2022 • 45m

Jay Michaelson, "The Heresy of Jacob Frank: From Jewish Messianism to Esoteric Myth" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Dec 6, 2022 • 1h 5m

Jasmine Calver, "Anti-Fascism, Gender, and International Communism: The Comité Mondial Des Femmes Contre la Guerre et Le Fascisme, 1934-1941" (Routledge, 2022)

Dec 5, 2022 • 1h 8m

Yoram Hazony, "Conservatism: A Rediscovery" (Regnery Publishing,2022)

Dec 5, 2022 • 1h 10m

Yochai Ataria, "Primo Levi and Ka-Tzetnik: The Map and the Territory" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

Dec 5, 2022 • 53m

Cathy McClive, "The Art of Childbirth: A Seventeenth-Century Midwife's Epistolary Treatise to Doctor Vallant" (Iter Press, 2022)

Dec 5, 2022 • 54m

Shaul Bartal and Nesya Rubinstein-Shemer, "Hamas and Ideology: Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qara?awi on the Jews, Zionism and Israel" (Routledge, 2017)

Dec 4, 2022 • 31m

Edmund Hayes, "Agents of the Hidden Imam: Forging Twelver Shi‘ism, 850-950 CE" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Dec 3, 2022 • 55m

Andrew Spria, "Foreshadowed: Malevich’s "Black Square" and Its Precursors" (Reaktion Books, 2022)

Dec 3, 2022 • 1h 0m

Irene Hilden, "Absent Presences in the Colonial Archive: Dealing with the Berlin Sound Archive's Acoustic Legacies" (Leuven UP, 2022)

Dec 3, 2022 • 53m

Jennifer Smith, "Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-De-Siècle Spain" (Vanderbilt UP, 2021)

Dec 3, 2022 • 30m

Civil Disobedience

Dec 2, 2022 • 17m

Huw J. Davies, "The Wandering Army: The Campaigns That Transformed the British Way of War" (Yale UP, 2022)

Dec 1, 2022 • 1h 13m

Alexander Kirshner, "Legitimate Opposition" (Yale UP, 2022)

Dec 1, 2022 • 1h 2m

Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, "Human Being, Bodily Being: Phenomenology from Classical India" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Dec 1, 2022 • 51m

Stephanie LeMenager and Teresa Shewry, "Literature and the Environment: Critical and Primary Sources" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

Nov 30, 2022 • 49m

Nathanael Aschenbrenner and Jake Ransohoff, "The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe" (Dumbarton Oaks, 2021)

Nov 30, 2022 • 1h 0m

Mathematical Morality: The Ideology that Justifies Billionaires

Nov 30, 2022 • 49m

On Frantz Fanon's "The Wretched of the Earth"

Nov 29, 2022 • 35m

Viren Murthy, "The Politics of Time in China and Japan: Back to the Future" (Routledge, 2022)

Nov 29, 2022 • 59m

Hilan Bensusan, "Indexicalism: The Metaphysics of Paradox" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)

Nov 29, 2022 • 1h 3m

On George Orwell's "1984"

Nov 28, 2022 • 42m

Christopher Willoughby, "Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in US Medical Schools" (UNC Press, 2022)

Nov 24, 2022 • 52m

Aidan Enright, "Charles Owen O'Conor, the O'Conor Don: Landlordism, Liberal Catholicism and Unionism in Nineteenth-Century Ireland" (Four Courts, 2022)

Nov 24, 2022 • 30m

Travis Zadeh, "Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos" (Harvard UP, 2023)

Nov 24, 2022 • 54m

Eric MacGilvray, "Liberal Freedom: Pluralism, Polarization, and Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Nov 23, 2022 • 1h 6m

Anna Arabindan-Kesson, "Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World" (Duke UP, 2021)

Nov 23, 2022 • 1h 12m

Sushmita Nath, "The Secular Imaginary: Gandhi, Nehru and the Idea(s) of India" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Nov 23, 2022 • 1h 2m

Gary Kates, "The Books that Made the European Enlightenment: A History in 12 Case Studies" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Nov 23, 2022 • 1h 3m

On Michel Foucault's "Discipline and Punish"

Nov 22, 2022 • 40m

Amy Gajda, "Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy" (Viking, 2022)

Nov 22, 2022 • 52m

Donald Bloxham and A. Dirk Moses, "Genocide: Key Themes" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Nov 22, 2022 • 1h 15m

Constantin Noica, "Pray for Brother Alexander" (Punctum Books, 2018)

Nov 22, 2022 • 1h 4m

Michael Genovese, "The Modern Presidency: Six Debates That Define the Institution" (Columbia UP, 2022)

Nov 22, 2022 • 1h 1m

Eric Vanden Eykel, "The Magi: Who They Were, How They've Been Remembered, and Why They Still Fascinate" (Fortress Press, 2022)

Nov 21, 2022 • 51m

Alda Benjamen, "Assyrians in Modern Iraq: Negotiating Political and Cultural Space" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Nov 21, 2022 • 1h 17m

Charles Goodman, "The Tattvasaṃgraha Of Śāntarakṣita: Selected Metaphysical Chapters" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Nov 21, 2022 • 1h 1m

Dawne Y. Curry, "Social Justice at Apartheid's Dawn: African Women Intellectuals and the Quest to Save the Nation" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

Nov 21, 2022 • 1h 21m

On Sigmund Freud's "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality"

Nov 18, 2022 • 33m

Deiter Reinisch, "Learning behind Bars: How IRA Prisoners Shaped the Peace Process in Ireland" (U Toronto Press, 2022)

Nov 18, 2022 • 46m

Sophie Lewis, "Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation" (Verso, 2022)

Nov 18, 2022 • 1h 0m

Ethnonationalism since 1973: A Discussion with Quinn Slobodian

Nov 17, 2022 • 46m

Riché Richardson, "Emancipation's Daughters: Re-Imagining Black Femininity and the National Body" (Duke UP, 2020)

Nov 17, 2022 • 1h 9m

Ruth Vanita, "The Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Nov 17, 2022 • 56m

On Victor and Edith Turner's "The Forest of Symbols"

Nov 17, 2022 • 39m

Science Against the People: Anti-Capitalist Science

Nov 16, 2022 • 1h 4m

On Boethius' "The Consolation of Philosophy"

Nov 16, 2022 • 26m

Adam Laats, "Creationism USA: Bridging the Impasse on Teaching Evolution" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Nov 16, 2022 • 30m

James Mallinson and Péter-Dániel Szántó, "The Amṛtasiddhi and Amṛtasiddhimūla: The Earliest Texts of the Haṭhayoga Tradition" (Institut français de Pondichéry, 2021)

Nov 16, 2022 • 41m

Melancholy

Nov 15, 2022 • 15m

Igor Shoikhedbrod, "Revisiting Marx’s Critique of Liberalism: Rethinking Justice, Legality and Rights" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)

Nov 14, 2022 • 59m

Francesca Stavrakopoulou, "God: An Anatomy" (Knopf, 2022)

Nov 14, 2022 • 45m

Andrea Scheurer, et al., "Entanglements: Envisioning World Literature from the Global South" (Ibidem Press, 2022)

Nov 14, 2022 • 42m

On Aimé Césaire's "Discourse on Colonialism"

Nov 14, 2022 • 46m

Kedar Arun Kulkarni, "World Literature and the Question of Genre in Colonial India: Poetry, Drama, and Print Culture 1790-1890" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Nov 14, 2022 • 51m

Jeremy Bangs, "New Light on the Old Colony: Plymouth, the Dutch Context of Toleration, and Patterns of Pilgrim Commemoration" (Brill, 2019)

Nov 11, 2022 • 39m

Kathryn Gin Lum, "Heathen: Religion and Race in American History" (Harvard UP, 2022)

Nov 11, 2022 • 1h 3m

Andrea Graziosi and Frank E. Sysyn, "Genocide: The Power and Problems of a Concept" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)

Nov 11, 2022 • 1h 9m

On Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's "Elements of the Philosophy of Right"

Nov 11, 2022 • 39m

Martin Puchner, "Literature for a Changing Planet" (Princeton UP, 2022)

Nov 10, 2022 • 39m

Bradley Onishi, "Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism--And What Comes Next" (Broadleaf Books, 2023)

Nov 10, 2022 • 54m

J. Richard Middleton, "Abraham's Silence: The Binding of Isaac, the Suffering of Job, and How to Talk Back to God" (Baker Academic, 2021)

Nov 9, 2022 • 1h 0m

The Future of Rules: A Discussion with Lorraine Daston

Nov 8, 2022 • 35m

On Edward Said's "Orientalism"

Nov 8, 2022 • 35m

Helen De Cruz ed. "Philosophy Illustrated: Forty-Two Thought Experiments to Broaden your Mind" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Nov 8, 2022 • 2h 2m

Kimlyn J. Bender and D. Stephen Long, "T&T Clark Handbook of Ecclesiology" (T&T Clark, 2020)

Nov 8, 2022 • 29m

Can We Square the Circle? Universalism Versus Communitarianism

Nov 7, 2022 • 48m

Daniel Scarborough, "Russia's Social Gospel: The Orthodox Pastoral Movement in Famine, War, and Revolution" (U Wisconsin Press, 2022)

Nov 7, 2022 • 1h 6m

Aufhebunga Bunga and Global Politics

Nov 4, 2022 • 1h 3m

David Caute, "Red List: MI5 and British Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century" (Verso, 2022)

Nov 4, 2022 • 31m

Erin Webster, "The Curious Eye: Optics and Imaginative Literature in Seventeenth-Century England" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Nov 4, 2022 • 1h 13m

Peter Adamson, "Don't Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy" (U Notre Dame Press, 2022)

Nov 4, 2022 • 1h 2m

Jonathan Brunstedt, "The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Nov 3, 2022 • 58m

On Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "The Social Contract"

Nov 3, 2022 • 37m

Timothy W. Burns, "Leo Strauss on Democracy, Technology, and Liberal Education" (SUNY Press, 2021)

Nov 3, 2022 • 1h 51m

Andrew Fitzmaurice, "King Leopold's Ghostwriter: The Creation of Persons and States in the Nineteenth Century" (Princeton UP, 2021)

Nov 3, 2022 • 1h 16m

Joseph Valente and Margot Gayle Backus, "The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature: Writing the Unspeakable" (Indiana UP, 2020)

Nov 3, 2022 • 1h 28m

Herman Melville, "Moby-Dick" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Nov 2, 2022 • 57m

Saba Bazargan-Forward, "Authority, Cooperation, and Accountability" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Nov 1, 2022 • 1h 12m

Ksenia Chizhova, "Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea: Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday" (Columbia UP, 2021)

Nov 1, 2022 • 59m

John Stillwell, "The Story of Proof: Logic and the History of Mathematics" (Princeton UP, 2022)

Oct 31, 2022 • 57m

Alan Verskin, "A Vision of Yemen: The Travels of a European Orientalist and His Native Guide--a Translation of Hayyim Habshush's Travelogue" (Stanford UP, 2019)

Oct 31, 2022 • 1h 3m

Red Cat

Oct 31, 2022 • 16m

On Augustine's "Confessions"

Oct 31, 2022 • 35m

Mackenzie Cooley, "The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

Oct 31, 2022 • 56m

Benjamin Parris, "Vital Strife: Sleep, Insomnia, and the Early Modern Ethics of Care" (Cornell UP, 2022)

Oct 28, 2022 • 1h 9m

Anna Triandafyllidou and Ruby Gropas, "What is Europe?" (Routledge, 2022)

Oct 28, 2022 • 39m

Bartholomew Ryan, "Kierkegaard's Indirect Politics: Interludes with Lukács, Schmitt, Benjamin and Adorno" (Brill, 2014)

Oct 28, 2022 • 1h 27m

Ágúst Magnússon, "Kierkegaard and Eastern Orthodox Thought: A Comparative Philosophical Analysis" (Gorgias Press, 2019)

Oct 28, 2022 • 1h 36m

Nirmalangshu Mukherji, "The Human Mind Through the Lens of Language: Generative Explorations" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Oct 27, 2022 • 1h 19m

John Jeffries Martin, "A Beautiful Ending: The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Making of the Modern World" (Yale UP, 2022)

Oct 27, 2022 • 58m

Rachel Aumiller, "A Touch of Doubt: On Haptic Scepticism" (de Gruyter, 2021)

Oct 27, 2022 • 1h 24m

Anthony J. Barbieri-Low, "The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China" (U Washington Press, 2022)

Oct 27, 2022 • 38m

Jose O. Fernandez, "Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures" (Ohio State UP, 2022)

Oct 26, 2022 • 43m

Kelisha B. Graves, ed., "Nannie Helen Burroughs: A Documentary Portrait of an Early Civil Rights Pioneer, 1900-1959" (U Notre Dame Press, 2019)

Oct 26, 2022 • 51m

On Samuel Smiles' "Self-Help"

Oct 26, 2022 • 27m

Jose O. Fernandez, "Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures" (Ohio State UP, 2022)

Oct 26, 2022 • 43m

On Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex"

Oct 25, 2022 • 39m

Leonardo da Vinci and Vassari’s "Lives of the Painters"

Oct 25, 2022 • 1h 3m

Kenyon Gradert, "Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination" (U Chicago Press, 2020)

Oct 25, 2022 • 39m

Yohanan Friedmann, "Messianic Ideas and Movements in Sunni Islam" (Oneworld Academic, 2022)

Oct 22, 2022 • 59m

Camilla Russell, "Being a Jesuit in Renaissance Italy: Biographical Writing in the Early Global Age" (Harvard UP, 2022)

Oct 21, 2022 • 55m

Michael Keevak, "On Saving Face: A Brief History of Western Appropriation" (Hong Kong UP, 2022)

Oct 21, 2022 • 1h 16m

Leah Kalmanson, "Cross-Cultural Existentialism: On the Meaning of Life in Asian and Western Thought" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

Oct 20, 2022 • 59m

Martin Fárek, "India in the Eyes of Europeans: Conceptualization of Religion in Theology and Oriental Studies" (Karolinum Press, Charles University, 2021)

Oct 20, 2022 • 54m

Matthew W. King, "In the Forest of the Blind: The Eurasian Journey of Faxian's Record of Buddhist Kingdoms" (Columbia UP, 2022)

Oct 19, 2022 • 1h 38m

On Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations"

Oct 19, 2022 • 40m

On Carl von Clausewitz's "On War"

Oct 18, 2022 • 31m

Arthur Bradley, "Unbearable Life: A Genealogy of Political Erasure" (Columbia UP, 2019)

Oct 18, 2022 • 1h 24m

Robin Waterfield, trans. and ed., "The Complete Works of Epictetus: Handbook, Discourses, and Fragments" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

Oct 18, 2022 • 39m

David Weinfeld, "An American Friendship: Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism" (Cornell UP, 2022)

Oct 18, 2022 • 1h 3m

On Immanuel Kant's "Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals"

Oct 17, 2022 • 34m

Robin McCoy Brooks, "Psychoanalysis, Catastrophe, and Social Action" (Routledge, 2021)

Oct 17, 2022 • 59m

Radicalism, Humility, and Racism in America

Oct 17, 2022 • 1h 5m

Mark D. Usher, ed. "How to Say No: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Cynicism" (Princeton UP, 2022)

Oct 14, 2022 • 45m

Sandeep Banerjee, "Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization: Literary Pre-Figurations of the Postcolony" (Routledge, 2021)

Oct 14, 2022 • 38m

On Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"

Oct 14, 2022 • 44m

On Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan"

Oct 13, 2022 • 31m

John Behr, "John the Theologian and His Paschal Gospel: A Prologue to Theology" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Oct 13, 2022 • 37m

Evan Haefeli, "Accidental Pluralism: America and the Religious Politics of English Expansion, 1497-1662" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

Oct 12, 2022 • 40m

On Niccolò Machiavelli's "The Prince"

Oct 12, 2022 • 30m

Peter Coviello, "Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism" (U Chicago Press, 2019)

Oct 12, 2022 • 1h 7m

Nissim Mannathukkaren, "Communism, Subaltern Studies and Postcolonial Theory: The Left in South India" (Routledge Chapman & Hall, 2021)

Oct 12, 2022 • 1h 13m

Nadine Weidman, "Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America" (Harvard UP, 2021)

Oct 11, 2022 • 1h 9m

On Hannah Arendt's "Origins of Totalitarianism"

Oct 11, 2022 • 31m

Gregory Conti, "Parliament the Mirror of the Nation: Representation, Deliberation, and Democracy in Victorian Britain" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

Oct 11, 2022 • 1h 1m

Andrew Porwancher et al., "The Prophet of Harvard Law: James Bradley Thayer and His Legal Legacy" (UP of Kansas, 2022)

Oct 10, 2022 • 1h 20m

Kathryn Gin Lum, "Heathen: Religion and Race in American History" (Harvard UP, 2022)

Oct 7, 2022 • 46m

Carles Prado-Fonts, "Secondhand China: Spain, the East, and the Politics of Translation" (Northwestern UP, 2022)

Oct 7, 2022 • 1h 0m

Sarah Fatima Waheed, "Hidden Histories of Pakistan: Censorship, Literature, and Secular Nationalism in Late Colonial India" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Oct 7, 2022 • 59m

Angela Costley, "Creation and Christ: An Exploration of the Topic of Creation in the Epistle to the Hebrews" (Mohr Siebeck, 2021)

Oct 7, 2022 • 36m

Margarita Fajardo, "The World That Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era" (Harvard UP, 2021)

Oct 7, 2022 • 1h 4m

Emelia Quinn, "Reading Veganism: The Monstrous Vegan, 1818 to Present" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Oct 6, 2022 • 46m

Sanjay Krishnan, "V. S. Naipaul's Journeys: From Periphery to Center" (Columbia UP, 2020)

Oct 5, 2022 • 32m

On Abd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī's "Indications of Inimitability"

Oct 4, 2022 • 27m

Jenny C. Mann, "The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime" (Princeton UP, 2021)

Oct 3, 2022 • 49m

Technocracy Now! Part 1: Noam Chomsky on Intellectuals and Expertise

Oct 2, 2022 • 1h 7m

On David Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature"

Sep 30, 2022 • 27m

Noah Shusterman, "Armed Citizens: The Road from Ancient Rome to the Second Amendment" (U Virginia Press, 2020)

Sep 30, 2022 • 1h 24m

On Einstein's Discoveries

Sep 29, 2022 • 31m

Kermit Roosevelt III, "The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

Sep 29, 2022 • 1h 1m

On Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species"

Sep 28, 2022 • 33m

Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean, "Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing" (Verso, 2022)

Sep 28, 2022 • 45m

Christopher Nichols and David Milne, "Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations: New Histories" (Columbia UP, 2022)

Sep 28, 2022 • 1h 0m

Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt, "Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)

Sep 27, 2022 • 55m

Writing/Reading the Bible in Postcolonial Perspective

Sep 27, 2022 • 23m

Gregory Sholette, "The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art" (Lund Humphries, 2021)

Sep 27, 2022 • 57m

Samo Tomšič, "The Labour of Enjoyment: Towards a Critique of Libidinal Economy" (Walther Konig Verlag, 2019)

Sep 27, 2022 • 1h 16m

Peter J. Kalliney, "The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature" (Princeton UP, 2022)

Sep 26, 2022 • 52m

Jonathon Lookadoo, "The Epistle of Barnabas: A Commentary" (Cascade Books, 2022)

Sep 26, 2022 • 32m

NBN Classic: Thomas Piketty, "Capital and Ideology" (Harvard UP, 2020)

Sep 25, 2022 • 36m

NBN Classic: Geraldine Heng, "The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages" (Cambridge UP, 2018)

Sep 24, 2022 • 1h 1m

Doug Greene, "Failure of Vision: Michael Harrington and the Limits of Democratic Socialism" (Zero Books, 2022)

Sep 23, 2022 • 1h 13m

Yarimar Bonilla ed. et al., "Trouillot Remixed: The Michel-Rolph Trouillot Reader" (Duke UP, 2021)

Sep 23, 2022 • 1h 5m

On Karl Marx's "The Communist Manifesto"

Sep 23, 2022 • 32m

Charles Devellenes, "Positive Atheism: Bayle, Meslier, D'Holbach, Diderot" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)

Sep 23, 2022 • 1h 7m

David Max Moerman, "The Japanese Buddhist World Map: Religious Vision and the Cartographic Imagination" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)

Sep 23, 2022 • 1h 23m

Yoav Ashkenazy, "The Death of Transcendence: Reflections on Jean Améry's 'At the Mind's Limits'" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

Sep 23, 2022 • 54m

Olúfemi Táíwò, "Against Decolonization: Taking African Agency Seriously" (Hurst, 2022)

Sep 22, 2022 • 1h 5m

Andrey V. Ivanov, "A Spiritual Revolution: The Impact of Reformation and Enlightenment in Orthodox Russia, 1700–1825" (U Wisconsin Press, 2020)

Sep 22, 2022 • 46m

John Peter DiIulio, "Completely Free: The Moral and Political Vision of John Stuart Mill" (Princeton UP, 2022)

Sep 21, 2022 • 1h 37m

Olivier Zunz, "The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville" (Princeton UP, 2022)

Sep 21, 2022 • 1h 8m

Andrew Hadfield, "Literature and Class: From the Peasants’ Revolt to the French Revolution" (Manchester UP, 2021)

Sep 20, 2022 • 1h 9m

Abby L. Goode, "Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability" (UNC Press, 2022)

Sep 20, 2022 • 39m

David Bashevkin, "Sin•a•gogue: Sin and Failure in Jewish Thought (Academic Studies Press, 2019)

Sep 19, 2022 • 1h 1m

Sara Ronis, "Demons in the Details: Demonic Discourse and Rabbinic Culture in Late Antique Babylonia" (U California Press, 2022)

Sep 19, 2022 • 1h 4m

Corinne E. Blackmer, "Queering Anti-Zionism: Academic Freedom, LGBTQ Intellectuals, and Israel/Palestine Campus Activism" (Wayne State UP, 2022)

Sep 19, 2022 • 32m

On Plato's "Apology"

Sep 19, 2022 • 34m

Anna Clark, "Making Australian History" (Random House Australia, 2022)

Sep 16, 2022 • 41m

John Kieschnick, "Buddhist Historiography in China" (Columbia UP, 2022)

Sep 16, 2022 • 50m

On Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "Confessions"

Sep 15, 2022 • 36m

David Reeve, "To Remain Myself: The History of Onghokham" (ASAA Southeast Asia Publications Series / NUS Press, 2022)

Sep 15, 2022 • 44m

Michael S. Allen, "The Ocean of Inquiry: Niscaldas and the Premodern Origins of Modern Hinduism" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Sep 15, 2022 • 1h 4m

Charles William Johns, "Object Oriented Dialectics: Hegel, Heidegger, Harman" (Mimesis International, 2022)

Sep 15, 2022 • 43m

Michael Ignatieff, "On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times" (Metropolitan Books, 2021)

Sep 14, 2022 • 35m

Jennifer L. Allen, "Sustainable Utopias: The Art and Politics of Hope in Germany" (Harvard UP, 2022)

Sep 14, 2022 • 1h 14m

On Victor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning"

Sep 14, 2022 • 27m

R. B. More and Satyendra More, "Memoirs of a Dalit Communist: The Many Worlds of R.B. More" (Leftword Books, 2020)

Sep 12, 2022 • 1h 28m

On Plato's "The Republic"

Sep 12, 2022 • 40m

Book Talk 55: Courtney B. Hodrick and Amir Eshel on Hannah Arendt's "Rachel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman"

Sep 12, 2022 • 1h 31m

Nicholas Gamso, "Art After Liberalism" (Columbia UP, 2022)

Sep 12, 2022 • 1h 24m

On Maciej Miechowita's "Treatise on the Two Sarmatias"

Sep 9, 2022 • 32m

Joel Michael Reynolds, "The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)

Sep 9, 2022 • 45m

Seth M. Ehorn, "Exodus in the New Testament" (T&T Clark, 2022)

Sep 9, 2022 • 35m

Barry Houlihan, "Theatre and Archival Memory: Irish Drama and Marginalised Histories 1951-1977" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)

Sep 9, 2022 • 52m

Jini Kim Watson, "Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization" (Fordham UP, 2021)

Sep 8, 2022 • 1h 28m

William C. Kirby, "Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China" (Harvard UP, 2022)

Sep 8, 2022 • 46m

The Twisted Science of Great Replacement Theory

Sep 8, 2022 • 47m

On Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions"

Sep 8, 2022 • 31m

Lorgia García Peña, "Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective" (Duke UP, 2022)

Sep 8, 2022 • 54m

On Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason"

Sep 7, 2022 • 27m

Alexandr Dugin, Russia’s Imperial Philosopher: Into the Mind of a Russian Political Theorist

Sep 6, 2022 • 43m

Neoliberalism

Sep 6, 2022 • 20m

On Sigmund Freud's "Civilization and Its Discontents"

Sep 6, 2022 • 22m

On John Maynard Keynes’ "General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money"

Sep 5, 2022 • 27m

Michael Engel, "Elijah Del Medigo and Paduan Aristotelianism: Investigating the Human Intellect" (Bloomsbury, 2016)

Sep 5, 2022 • 1h 19m

Manuel Duarte de Oliveira, "Humanity Divided: Martin Buber and the Challenges of Being Chosen" (de Gruyter, 2021)

Sep 2, 2022 • 44m

On "Encyclopédie"

Sep 2, 2022 • 27m

On Filippo Tomasso Marinetti's "Manifesto of Futurism"

Sep 1, 2022 • 28m

Philipp Felsch, "The Summer of Theory: History of a Rebellion, 1960-1990" (Polity Press, 2021)

Sep 1, 2022 • 1h 4m

Vinayak Chaturvedi, "Hindutva and Violence: V. D. Savarkar and the Essentials of History" (SUNY Press, 2022)

Aug 31, 2022 • 1h 30m

Sandra Eder, "How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

Aug 30, 2022 • 51m

E. James West, "Our Kind of Historian: The Work and Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr." (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)

Aug 30, 2022 • 58m

Michael Ackland, "The Existentialist Vision of Haruki Murakami" (Cambria Press, 2022)

Aug 29, 2022 • 56m

Sarah Neville, "Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Aug 29, 2022 • 49m

Robert Edmund Cotter, "John Cennick (1718-1755): Methodism, Moravianism and the Rise of Evangelicalism" (Routledge, 2022)

Aug 29, 2022 • 32m

Asad Q. Ahmed, "Palimpsests of Themselves: Logic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia" (U California Press, 2022)

Aug 26, 2022 • 44m

Ruben Espinosa, "Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism" (Routledge, 2021)

Aug 26, 2022 • 58m

On Edmund Burke's "Reflections on the Revolution in France"

Aug 26, 2022 • 31m

Ruben Espinosa, "Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism" (Routledge, 2021)

Aug 26, 2022 • 58m

On Inazō Nitobe's "Bushido: The Soul of Japan"

Aug 25, 2022 • 32m

Philip Hollander, "From Schlemiel to Sabra: Zionist Masculinity and Palestinian Hebrew Literature" (Indiana UP, 2019)

Aug 25, 2022 • 2h 7m

Simon Truwant, "Cassirer and Heidegger in Davos: The Philosophical Arguments" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Aug 22, 2022 • 1h 2m

Karen Bauer and Feras Hamza, "An Anthology of Qur'anic Commentaries (vol. 2): On Women" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Aug 19, 2022 • 1h 17m

Elena Aronova, "Scientific History: Experiments in History and Politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the End of the Cold War" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

Aug 19, 2022 • 1h 5m

Pascah Mungwini, "African Philosophy: Emancipation and Practice" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Aug 19, 2022 • 1h 2m

On Soren Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling"

Aug 19, 2022 • 32m

Mark D. Steinberg, "Russian Utopia: A Century of Revolutionary Possibilities" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

Aug 19, 2022 • 1h 8m

Rochelle DuFord, "Solidarity in Conflict: A Democratic Theory" (Stanford UP, 2022)

Aug 18, 2022 • 1h 9m

Paul Robichaud, "Pan: The Great God’s Modern Return" (Reaktion Books, 2021)

Aug 18, 2022 • 47m

Hussein Banai, "Hidden Liberalism: Burdened Visions of Progress in Modern Iran" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

Aug 18, 2022 • 56m

Marc Roscoe Loustau, "Hungarian Catholic Intellectuals in Contemporary Romania: Reforming Apostles" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

Aug 17, 2022 • 1h 1m

Johanna Drucker, "Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

Aug 17, 2022 • 59m

Lise van Boxel, "Warspeak: Nietzsche's Victory Over Nihilism" (Political Animal Press, 2020)

Aug 15, 2022 • 28m

Andrew Poe, "Political Enthusiasm: Partisan Feeling and Democracy's Enchantments" (Manchester UP, 2021)

Aug 12, 2022 • 1h 3m

Alexander Green, "Power and Progress: Joseph Ibn Kaspi and the Meaning of History" (SUNY Press, 2019)

Aug 11, 2022 • 1h 8m

Carolyn J. Eichner, "Feminism's Empire" (Cornell UP, 2022)

Aug 10, 2022 • 1h 23m

Ari D. Kahn, "The Crowns on the Letters: Essays on the Aggada and the Lives of the Sages" (OU Press, 2020)

Aug 10, 2022 • 51m

Lindsay Starkey, "Encountering Water in Early Modern Europe and Beyond" (Amsterdam UP, 2020)

Aug 9, 2022 • 54m

Jason A. Staples, "The Idea of 'Israel' in Second Temple Judaism: A New Theory of People, Exile, and Israelite Identity" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Aug 8, 2022 • 33m

January 6th and the Myth of the Mob: The Pervasive Power of Crowd Theory

Aug 8, 2022 • 1h 11m

Itay Lotem, "The Memory of Colonialism in Britain and France: The Sins of Silence" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)

Aug 5, 2022 • 1h 48m

Nina Rattner Gelbart, "Minerva's French Sisters: Women of Science in Enlightenment France" (Yale UP, 2021)

Aug 4, 2022 • 54m

Wayne Allen, "Thinking about Good and Evil: Jewish Views from Antiquity to Modernity" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)

Aug 3, 2022 • 1h 3m

Philip Tsang, "The Obsolete Empire: Untimely Belonging in Twentieth-Century British Literature" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)

Aug 3, 2022 • 47m

Timothy Bewes, "Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age" (Columbia UP, 2022)

Aug 2, 2022 • 45m

Megan Threlkeld, "Citizens of the World: U. S. Women and Global Government" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

Aug 2, 2022 • 44m

Mark Solovey, "Social Science for What? Battles over Public Funding for the 'Other Sciences' at the National Science Foundation" (MIT Press, 2020)

Aug 1, 2022 • 50m

Christy Pichichero, "The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon" (Cornell UP, 2018)

Jul 29, 2022 • 1h 3m

Kimberly Anne Coles, "Bad Humor: Race and Religious Essentialism in Early Modern England" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

Jul 29, 2022 • 1h 2m

David Konstan, "The Origin of Sin: Greece and Rome, Early Judaism and Christianity" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Jul 28, 2022 • 1h 1m

Ali Mirsepassi, "The Discovery of Iran: Taghi Arani, a Radical Cosmopolitan" (Stanford UP, 2021)

Jul 27, 2022 • 1h 10m

Skye Cleary, "How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)

Jul 27, 2022 • 49m

Thomas S. Kidd, "Benjamin Franklin: The Religious Life of a Founding Father" (Yale UP, 2017)

Jul 27, 2022 • 1h 3m

Presentism

Jul 26, 2022 • 15m

Mark Solovey, "Social Science for What?: Battles over Public Funding for the 'Other Sciences' at the National Science Foundation" (MIT Press, 2020)

Jul 25, 2022 • 47m

Duy Lap Nguyen, "The Unimagined Community: Imperialism and Culture in South Vietnam" (Manchester UP, 2019)

Jul 25, 2022 • 49m

The Bland Corporation: On the RAND Corporation and the Defence-Intellectual Industrial Complex

Jul 25, 2022 • 44m

James P. Byrd and James Hudnut-Beumler, "The Story of Religion in America: An Introduction" (Westminster John Knox Press, 2021)

Jul 25, 2022 • 1h 7m

Tova Ganzel, "Ezekiel's Visionary Temple in Babylonian Context" (de Gruyter, 2021)

Jul 25, 2022 • 44m

Jason Resnikoff, "Labor's End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work" (U Illinois Press, 2021)

Jul 21, 2022 • 1h 0m

Maxwell Kennel, "Postsecular History: Political Theology and the Politics of Time" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)

Jul 20, 2022 • 32m

Xine Yao, "Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America" (Duke UP, 2021)

Jul 19, 2022 • 37m

Patrick Hastings, "The Guide to James Joyce's Ulysses" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)

Jul 18, 2022 • 1h 8m

Victoria W. Wolcott, "Living in the Future: Utopianism and the Long Civil Rights Movement" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

Jul 18, 2022 • 41m

Joy Wiltenburg, "Laughing Histories: From the Renaissance Man to the Woman of Wit" (Routledge, 2022)

Jul 18, 2022 • 51m

Christina B. Carroll, "The Politics of Imperial Memory in France, 1850–1900" (Cornell UP, 2022)

Jul 15, 2022 • 57m

Donovan Sherman, "The Philosopher's Toothache: Embodied Stoicism in Early Modern English Drama" (Northwestern UP, 2021)

Jul 15, 2022 • 1h 11m

Laurie Marhoefer, "Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love" (U Toronto Press, 2022)

Jul 14, 2022 • 55m

Dean Krouk, "The Making of an Antifascist: Nordahl Grieg Between the World Wars" (U Wisconsin Press, 2022)

Jul 13, 2022 • 58m

Yehudah Mirsky, "Towards the Mystical Experience of Modernity: The Making of Rav Kook, 1865-1904" (Academic Studies Press, 2021)

Jul 13, 2022 • 1h 27m

On Hannah Arendt and Humanitarianism

Jul 13, 2022 • 47m

Travis W. Proctor, "Demonic Bodies and the Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Culture" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Jul 12, 2022 • 43m

Spenser and Race: A Discussion with Dennis Austin Britton and Kimberly Anne Coles

Jul 12, 2022 • 1h 0m

On Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem"

Jul 8, 2022 • 32m

Andrew R. Polk, "Faith in Freedom: Propaganda, Presidential Politics, and the Making of an American Religion" (Cornell UP, 2021)

Jul 7, 2022 • 57m

Adam Hanna, "Poetry, Politics, and the Law in Modern Ireland" (Syracuse UP, 2022)

Jul 7, 2022 • 1h 5m

Leila Neti, "Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Jul 6, 2022 • 58m

Drew Daniel, "Joy of the Worm: Suicide and Pleasure in Early Modern English Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

Jul 6, 2022 • 1h 5m

Vered Noam, "Shifting Images of the Hasmoneans: Second Temple Legends and Their Reception in Josephus and Rabbinic Literature" (Oxford UP, 2018)

Jul 6, 2022 • 52m

Annette G. Aubert and Zachary Purvis, "Transatlantic Religion: Europe, America, and the Making of Modern Christianity" (Brill, 2021)

Jul 5, 2022 • 43m

Mattin, "Social Dissonance" (MIT Press, 2022)

Jul 5, 2022 • 1h 0m

Yehudah Mirsky, "Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution" (Yale UP, 2014)

Jul 4, 2022 • 55m

Elisabeth R. Anker, "Ugly Freedoms" (Duke UP, 2022)

Jul 4, 2022 • 1h 6m

G. Ronald Murphy, "Brecht and the Bible: A Study of Religious Nihilism and Human Weakness in Brecht's Drama of Morality and the City" (UNC Press, 2020)

Jun 30, 2022 • 44m

James Stafford, "The Case of Ireland: Commerce, Empire and the European Order, 1750-1848" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Jun 30, 2022 • 46m

Book Talk 53: Paul Edwards on Toni Morrison's "Playing in the Dark"

Jun 30, 2022 • 1h 20m

Simon Atkinson, "Krishnamacharya on Kundalini: The Origins and Coherence of His Position" (Equinox Publishing, 2022)

Jun 29, 2022 • 1h 2m

Bradford P. Wilson and Carson Holloway, eds., "The Political Writings of Alexander Hamilton" (Cambridge UP, 2017)

Jun 28, 2022 • 1h 19m

Archie T. Wright, "Satan and the Problem of Evil: From the Bible to the Early Church Fathers" (Fortress Press, 2022)

Jun 28, 2022 • 45m

D. G. Hart, "Benjamin Franklin: Cultural Protestant" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Jun 28, 2022 • 46m

Meredith Farmer and Jonathan D. S. Schroeder, "Ahab Unbound: Melville and the Materialist Turn" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)

Jun 27, 2022 • 1h 7m

W. Michelle Wang, "Eternalized Fragments: Reclaiming Aesthetics in Contemporary World Fiction" (Ohio State UP, 2020)

Jun 24, 2022 • 55m

Adrienne Mayor, "Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws: And Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities" (Princeton UP, 2022)

Jun 24, 2022 • 34m

Marc David Baer, "German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus" (Columbia UP, 2020)

Jun 24, 2022 • 48m

Srilata Raman, "The Transformation of Tamil Religion: Ramalinga Swamigal and Modern Dravidian Sainthood" (Routledge, 2022)

Jun 23, 2022 • 38m

Howard Gardner, "A Synthesizing Mind: A Memoir from the Creator of Multiple Intelligences Theory" (MIT Press, 2022)

Jun 23, 2022 • 1h 11m

Joseph A. Boone, "The Homoerotics of Orientalism" (Columbia UP, 2014)

Jun 22, 2022 • 1h 11m

Slobodan Perovic, "From Data to Quanta: Niels Bohr’s Vision of Physics" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

Jun 22, 2022 • 48m

Ukrainian Nationalism in Historical Context

Jun 21, 2022 • 1h 6m

Mark Siderits, "How Things Are: An Introduction to Buddhist Metaphysics" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Jun 20, 2022 • 1h 4m

Paul Van Der Velde, "Life Under the Palms: The Sublime World of the Anti-Colonialist Jacob Haafner" (NUS Press, 2020)

Jun 20, 2022 • 46m

Jerry Z. Muller, "Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes" (Princeton UP, 2022)

Jun 20, 2022 • 1h 8m

Karen O'Brien-Kop, "Rethinking 'Classical Yoga' and Buddhism" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

Jun 16, 2022 • 41m

Adam Grener, "Improbability, Chance, and the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel" (Ohio State UP, 2020)

Jun 16, 2022 • 57m

Thomas Dixon and Adam Shapiro, "Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction" Second Edition. (Oxford UP, 2022)

Jun 16, 2022 • 1h 26m

Economics

Jun 16, 2022 • 14m

Matthew Specter, "The Atlantic Realists: Empire and International Political Thought Between Germany and the United States" (Stanford UP, 2022)

Jun 16, 2022 • 56m

James Joyce and Catherine Flynn (ed.), "The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Jun 15, 2022 • 48m

Mary Sarah Bilder, "Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution" (U Virginia Press, 2022)

Jun 15, 2022 • 42m

Steven K. Green, "Separating Church and State: A History" (Cornell UP, 2022)

Jun 14, 2022 • 48m

Nikita Braguinski, "Mathematical Music: From Antiquity to Music AI" (Focal Press, 2022)

Jun 9, 2022 • 1h 6m

Modernization

Jun 8, 2022 • 16m

Milton Santos, "For a New Geography" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)

Jun 8, 2022 • 55m

Bryan D. Palmer, "James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928" (U Illinois Press, 2010)

Jun 8, 2022 • 1h 30m

On the Myth of Divine Chosenness

Jun 7, 2022 • 54m

A Newly Discovered Essay by Fredrick Douglas: "Slavery" (1894-1895)

Jun 7, 2022 • 38m

Paul Le Blanc, "Revolutionary Collective: Comrades, Critics, and Dynamics in the Struggle for Socialism" (Haymarket, 2022)

Jun 6, 2022 • 1h 15m

Andy Hines, "Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism and the University" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

Jun 6, 2022 • 1h 11m

Olga Bertelsen, "In the Labyrinth of the KGB: Ukraine's Intelligentsia in the 1960s-1970s" (Lexington Books, 2022)

Jun 6, 2022 • 55m

Daniel Fairfax, "The Red Years of Cahiers Du Cinéma (1968-1973)" (Amsterdam UP, 2021)

Jun 3, 2022 • 1h 19m

Richard G. Marks, "Jewish Approaches to Hinduism: A History of Ideas from Judah Ha-Levi to Jacob Sapir (12th-19th Centuries)" (Routledge, 2021)

Jun 2, 2022 • 51m

Nathaniel Isaacson, "Celestial Empire: The Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction" (Wesleyan UP, 2017)

May 31, 2022 • 48m

Ray Argyle, "Inventing Secularism: The Radical Life of George Jacob Holyoake" (McFarland, 2021)

May 31, 2022 • 1h 38m

Daniel J. Burge, "A Failed Vision of Empire: The Collapse of Manifest Destiny, 1845-1872" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)

May 30, 2022 • 1h 37m

Ariela Marcus-Sells, "Sorcery or Science?: Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2022)

May 27, 2022 • 1h 8m

Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan, "The Teaching Archive: A New History for Literary Study" (U Chicago Press, 2020)

May 26, 2022 • 1h 4m

Mark Edmundson, "Song of Ourselves: Walt Whitman and the Fight for Democracy" (Harvard UP, 2021)

May 26, 2022 • 51m

Jacob Collins, "The Anthropological Turn: French Political Thought After 1968" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)

May 26, 2022 • 1h 4m

Kerry Brown and Gemma Chenger Deng, "China Through European Eyes: 800 Years of Cultural and Intellectual Encounter" (World Scientific, 2022)

May 26, 2022 • 30m

Katrina Goldstone, "Irish Writers and the Thirties: Art, Exile and War" (Routledge, 2020)

May 24, 2022 • 1h 20m

Daniel C. Matt, "Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation" (Yale UP, 2022)

May 24, 2022 • 32m

Ellen Schrecker, "The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

May 23, 2022 • 1h 7m

Jim Downs, "Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine" (Harvard UP, 2021)

May 23, 2022 • 1h 1m

John Lardas Modern, "Neuromatic: Or, a Particular History of Religion and the Brain" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

May 23, 2022 • 1h 47m

Military Industrial Complex

May 20, 2022 • 14m

91 Peter Salmon on Jacques Derrida and the Buddha

May 20, 2022 • 1h 24m

Olga Bertelsen, "In the Labyrinth of the KGB: Ukraine's Intelligentsia in the 1960s–1970s" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022)

May 20, 2022 • 1h 18m

Todd McGowan, "Universality and Identity Politics" (Columbia UP, 2020)

May 19, 2022 • 1h 1m

Adriana Alfaro Altamirano, "The Belief in Intuition: Individuality and Authority in Henri Bergson and Max Scheler" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)

May 19, 2022 • 49m

Alienation

May 18, 2022 • 14m

Elizabeth Rodrigues, "Collecting Lives: Critical Data Narrative as Modernist Aesthetic in Early Twentieth-Century Us Literatures" (U Michigan Press, 2022)

May 17, 2022 • 53m

Ferenc Hörcher, "The Political Philosophy of the European City: From Polis, Through City-State, to Megalopolis?" (Lexington Book, 2021)

May 16, 2022 • 1h 21m

Simon Heffer, "High Minds: The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain" (Pegasus Books, 2022)

May 16, 2022 • 1h 13m

Nigel Rothfels, "Elephant Trails: A History of Animals and Cultures" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)

May 13, 2022 • 1h 8m

Suman Seth, "Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

May 13, 2022 • 1h 4m

Victoria A. Malko, "The Ukrainian Intelligentsia and Genocide: The Struggle for History, Language, and Culture in the 1920s and 1930s" (Lexington Books, 2021)

May 13, 2022 • 52m

Shannon M. Mussett, "Entropic Philosophy: Chaos, Breakdown, and Creation" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)

May 13, 2022 • 56m

Heterotopia

May 13, 2022 • 13m

Mahmood Kooria, "Islamic Law in Circulation: Shafi'i Texts Across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

May 12, 2022 • 1h 18m

The Problem with Museums: A Conversation with Georgina Adam and Nizan Shaked

May 10, 2022 • 1h 14m

Piotr H. Kosicki, "Catholics on the Barricades: Poland, France, and 'Revolution,' 1891-1956" (Yale UP, 2018)

May 9, 2022 • 57m

Taylor Eggan, "Unsettling Nature: Ecology, Phenomenology, and the Settler Colonial Imagination" (U Virginia Press, 2022)

May 9, 2022 • 1h 35m

Bruce Clark, "Athens: City of Wisdom" (Pegasus Books, 2022)

May 9, 2022 • 1h 2m

Simon Critchley, "The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology" (Verso, 2014)

May 5, 2022 • 1h 4m

Stanley Bill, "Czesław Miłosz's Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human Identity" (Oxford UP, 2021)

May 4, 2022 • 1h 14m

Pandemic Perspectives 9: Covid, 'Scientism,' and the Betrayal of the Enlightenment

May 4, 2022 • 1h 1m

Blain Neufeld, "Public Reason and Political Autonomy: Realizing the Ideal of a Civic People" (Routledge, 2022)

May 3, 2022 • 1h 10m

Ban Wang, "China in the World: Culture, Politics, and World Vision" (Duke UP, 2022)

May 3, 2022 • 58m

Marta Puxan-Oliva, "Narrative Reliability, Racial Conflicts and Ideology in the Modern Novel" (Routledge, 2021)

May 3, 2022 • 1h 1m

William F. Eadie, "When Communication Became a Discipline" (Lexington, 2021)

May 2, 2022 • 43m

Roderick Beaton, "The Greeks: A Global History" (Basic Books, 2021)

May 2, 2022 • 1h 18m

Gregory M. Clines, "Jain Rāmāyaṇa Narratives: Moral Vision and Literary Innovation" (Routledge, 2022)

May 2, 2022 • 53m

Charles J. Halperin, "Ivan the Terrible in Russian Historical Memory Since 1991" (Academic Studies Press, 2021)

Apr 29, 2022 • 1h 5m

Juan Dal Maso, "Hegemony and Class Struggle: Trotsky, Gramsci and Marxism" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)

Apr 29, 2022 • 57m

Joseph Fewsmith, "Forging Leninism in China: Mao and the Remaking of the Chinese Communist Party, 1927–1934" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Apr 29, 2022 • 57m

Marlon B. Ross, "Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness" (Duke UP, 2022)

Apr 28, 2022 • 1h 1m

Jennifer Forestal and Menaka Philips, "The Wives of Western Philosophy: Gender Politics in Intellectual Labor" (Routledge, 2020)

Apr 28, 2022 • 52m

Emily Klancher Merchant, "Building the Population Bomb" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Apr 28, 2022 • 53m

Steve A. Wiggins, "Nightmares with the Bible: The Good Book and Cinematic Demons" (Fortress, 2020)

Apr 27, 2022 • 56m

Lillian Faderman, "Woman: The American History of an Idea" (Yale UP, 2022)

Apr 26, 2022 • 55m

Rachel Hall Sternberg, "The Ancient Greek Roots of Human Rights" (U Texas Press, 2021)

Apr 26, 2022 • 39m

Charles Alistair McCrary, "Sincerely Held: American Secularism and Its Believers" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

Apr 25, 2022 • 57m

Charly Coleman, "The Spirit of French Capitalism: Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment" (Stanford UP, 2021)

Apr 25, 2022 • 1h 4m

Death Drive

Apr 25, 2022 • 14m

Tomer Persico, "In God’s Image: The Making of the Modern World" (Yediot Aharonot, 2021)

Apr 25, 2022 • 1h 1m

Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen, "Modern Art and the Remaking of Human Disposition" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

Apr 21, 2022 • 1h 3m

Joseph Darda, "The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism" (Stanford UP, 2022)

Apr 21, 2022 • 1h 8m

Perry Myers, "Spiritual Empires in Europe and India: Cosmopolitan Religious Movements from 1875 to the Interwar Era" (Palgrave, 2021)

Apr 21, 2022 • 44m

Thomas Piketty, "A Brief History of Equality" (Harvard UP, 2022)

Apr 21, 2022 • 42m

Pamela Hieronymi, "Freedom, Resentment, and the Metaphysics of Morals" (Princeton UP, 2020)

Apr 21, 2022 • 49m

Commodity Fetishism B-Side

Apr 20, 2022 • 4m

Priyambada Sarkar, "Language, Limits, and Beyond: Early Wittgenstein and Rabindranath Tagore" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Apr 20, 2022 • 58m

John S. Huntington, "Far-Right Vanguard: The Radical Roots of Modern Conservatism" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)

Apr 19, 2022 • 1h 9m

Commodity Fetishism

Apr 19, 2022 • 12m

Jared N. Champion and Peter C. Kunze, "Taking a Stand: Contemporary US Stand-Up Comedians As Public Intellectuals" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)

Apr 19, 2022 • 1h 23m

The Future of the Far Right in the U.S.: A Discussion with Timothy Snyder

Apr 19, 2022 • 43m

George Warner, "The Words of the Imams: Al-Shaykh Al-Saduq and the Development of Twelver Shi'i Hadith Literature" (I. B. Tauris, 2021)

Apr 18, 2022 • 1h 1m

Isabella M. Weber, "How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate" (Routledge, 2021)

Apr 15, 2022 • 53m

Rossa Ó Muireartaigh, "The Zen Buddhist Philosophy of D. T. Suzuki: Strengths, Foibles, Intrigues, and Precision" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Apr 15, 2022 • 51m

Death of the Author

Apr 14, 2022 • 12m

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Apr 14, 2022 • 55m

Michael Carasik, "The Commentators' Bible: The Rubin JPS Miqra'ot Gedolot" (Jewish Publication Society, 2018)

Apr 13, 2022 • 41m

Ecosphere

Apr 13, 2022 • 20m

James C. Ungureanu, "Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition: Retracing the Origins of Conflict" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2019)

Apr 12, 2022 • 1h 13m

Jason M. Baxter, "The Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind" (InterVarsity, 2022)

Apr 12, 2022 • 1h 10m

James C. Klagge, "Wittgenstein's Artillery: Philosophy as Poetry" (MIT Press, 2021)

Apr 12, 2022 • 1h 5m

Partha Chatterjee, "The Truths and Lies of Nationalism: As Narrated by Charvak" (SUNY Press, 2021)

Apr 11, 2022 • 1h 6m

Alice Jardine, "At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

Apr 8, 2022 • 54m

Matthew Wilson, "Richard Congreve, Positivist Politics, the Victorian Press, and the British Empire" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)

Apr 8, 2022 • 1h 13m

78 Fantasy Then, Now, and Forever with Anna Vaninskaya

Apr 7, 2022 • 47m

Jared Staller, "Converging on Cannibals: Terrors of Slaving in Atlantic Africa, 1509-1670" (Ohio UP, 2019)

Apr 7, 2022 • 1h 15m

Jacob Mchangama, "Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media" (Basic Books, 2022)

Apr 6, 2022 • 36m

Gary Gerstle, "The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Apr 5, 2022 • 2h 18m

Yunxiang Gao, "Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2021)

Apr 5, 2022 • 48m

Piotr Puchalski, "Poland in a Colonial World-Order: Adjustments and Aspirations, 1918-1939" (Routledge, 2021)

Apr 5, 2022 • 1h 0m

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Apr 1, 2022 • 2m

Scott Kugle, "Hajj to the Heart: Sufi Journeys Across the Indian Ocean" (UNC Press, 2021)

Apr 1, 2022 • 1h 17m

William J. Talbott, "Learning from Our Mistakes: Epistemology for the Real World" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Apr 1, 2022 • 1h 10m

Rebecca Cypess, "Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

Apr 1, 2022 • 51m

Abigail Susik, "Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work" (Manchester UP, 2021)

Mar 31, 2022 • 1h 19m

Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath, "The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy" (Harvard UP, 2022)

Mar 31, 2022 • 1h 31m

Swami Medhananda, "Swami Vivekananda's Vedantic Cosmopolitanism" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Mar 31, 2022 • 1h 4m

Phil Christman, "How to Be Normal: Essays" (Belt, 2022)

Mar 30, 2022 • 1h 29m

Alexander Zaitchik, "Owning the Sun: A People's History of Monopoly Medicine from Aspirin to COVID-19 Vaccines" (Counterpoint, 2022)

Mar 30, 2022 • 1h 18m

Jan-Werner Müller, "Democracy Rules" (FSG, 2021)

Mar 25, 2022 • 57m

Emily J. Levine, "Allies and Rivals: German-American Exchange and the Rise of the Modern Research University" (UChicago Press, 2021)

Mar 25, 2022 • 53m

Vanessa Rampton, "Liberal Ideas in Tsarist Russia: From Catherine the Great to the Russian Revolution" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

Mar 25, 2022 • 57m

Tao Jiang, "Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China: Contestation of Humaneness, Justice, and Personal Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Mar 24, 2022 • 2h 5m

Jeremy Friedman, "Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World" (Harvard UP, 2022)

Mar 24, 2022 • 1h 19m

Michael D. Breidenbach, "Our Dear-Bought Liberty: Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America" (Harvard UP, 2021)

Mar 24, 2022 • 1h 27m

Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy, "Between Empire and Republic: America in the Colonial Canadian Imagination" (Lexington, 2022)

Mar 23, 2022 • 34m

Pandemic Perspectives 3: A Conversation with Samuel Moyn

Mar 23, 2022 • 1h 6m

John Bellamy Foster, "The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology" (Monthly Review Press, 2021)

Mar 23, 2022 • 1h 41m

Elisheva Carlebach and Deborah Dash Moore, "The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization (6): Confronting Modernity, 1750-1880" (Yale UP, 2019)

Mar 22, 2022 • 1h 3m

Ian Tyrrell, "American Exceptionalism: A New History of an Old Idea" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

Mar 22, 2022 • 39m

Martin Shuster, "How to Measure a World?: A Philosophy of Judaism" (Indiana UP, 2021)

Mar 22, 2022 • 40m

Daniel Y. Kim, "The Intimacies of Conflict: Cultural Memory and the Korean War" (NYU Press, 2020)

Mar 22, 2022 • 49m

Kenneth Hsien-y Pai and Susan Chan Egan, "A Companion to the Story of the Stone: A Chapter-By-Chapter Guide" (Columbia UP, 2021)

Mar 21, 2022 • 53m

Wendy E. S. North, "What John Knew and What John Wrote: A Study in John and the Synoptics" (Fortress, 2020)

Mar 18, 2022 • 32m

77* Polynesia, Sea of Islands: with Christina Thompson

Mar 17, 2022 • 44m

Samuel Wright, "A Time of Novelty: Logic, Emotion, and Intellectual Life in Early Modern India, 1500-1700 C.E." (Oxford UP, 2021)

Mar 17, 2022 • 45m

Carl Erik Fisher, "The Urge: Our History of Addiction" (Penguin, 2022)

Mar 16, 2022 • 1h 2m

M. A. Muqtedar Khan, "Islam and Good Governance: A Political Philosophy of Ihsan" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)

Mar 14, 2022 • 53m

Friederike Assandri, "The Daode jing Commentary of Cheng Xuanying: Daoism, Buddhism, and the Laozi in the Tang Dynasty" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Mar 14, 2022 • 1h 5m

Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon, "Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

Mar 14, 2022 • 57m

Brett Kahr, "Freud's Pandemics: Surviving Global War, Spanish Flu, and the Nazis" (Confer Books, 2022)

Mar 11, 2022 • 1h 14m

Nadir Lahiji, "Architecture, Philosophy, and the Pedagogy of Cinema: From Benjamin to Badiou" (Routledge, 2021)

Mar 11, 2022 • 28m

Melvin I. Urofsky, "Dissent and the Supreme Court: Its Role in the Court's History and the Nation's Constitutional Dialogue" (Vintage, 2017)

Mar 11, 2022 • 53m

Pratik Chakrabarti, "Inscriptions of Nature: Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)

Mar 10, 2022 • 50m

Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman, "Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life" (Doubleday, 2022)

Mar 10, 2022 • 1h 8m

Julie Froud and Karel Williams, "Foundational Economy: The Infrastructure of Everyday Life" (Manchester UP, 2022)

Mar 9, 2022 • 43m

Christopher Clohessy, "Angels Hastening: The Karbalāʾ Dreams" (Gorgias Press, 2021)

Mar 9, 2022 • 53m

Joshua Myers, "Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition" (Polity, 2021)

Mar 9, 2022 • 2h 41m

The Future of Consciousness: A Discussion with Eva Jablonka

Mar 8, 2022 • 49m

Edward Jones Corredera, "The Diplomatic Enlightenment: Spain, Europe, and the Age of Speculation" (Brill, 2021)

Mar 7, 2022 • 1h 2m

Randy E. Barnett and Evan D. Bernick, "The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: Its Letter and Spirit" (Harvard UP, 2021)

Mar 7, 2022 • 45m

Racheli Haliva, "Isaac Polqar: A Jewish Philosopher or a Philosopher and a Jew? (Walter de Gruyter, 2020)

Mar 7, 2022 • 1h 0m

Daniel Chirot, "You Say You Want a Revolution?: Radical Idealism and Its Tragic Consequences" (Princeton UP, 2020)

Mar 7, 2022 • 1h 26m

Eliza Jane Smith, "Literary Slumming: Slang and Class in Nineteenth-Century France" (Lexington Books, 2021)

Mar 4, 2022 • 47m

Mark Christian Thompson, "Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

Mar 4, 2022 • 1h 4m

Konrad Schmid and Jens Schröter, "The Making of the Bible: From the First Fragments to Sacred Scripture" (Harvard UP, 2021)

Mar 3, 2022 • 1h 15m

Brian Ogren, "Kabbalah and the Founding of America: The Early Influence of Jewish Thought in the New World" (NYU Press, 2021)

Mar 3, 2022 • 52m

Lili Zách, "Imagining Ireland Abroad, 1904–1945: Conceiving the Nation, Identity, and Borders in Central Europe" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)

Mar 2, 2022 • 46m

Chase Burton, "Nicole Rafter" (Routledge, 2021)

Mar 2, 2022 • 1h 14m

Erin Drew, "The Usufructuary Ethos: Power, Politics, and Environment in the Long Eighteenth Century" (UVA Press, 2021)

Mar 1, 2022 • 1h 24m

Boyd van Dijk, "Preparing for War: the Making of the 1949 Geneva Conventions" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Mar 1, 2022 • 1h 8m

Nebil Husayn, "Opposing the Imam: The Legacy of the Nawasib in Islamic Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Feb 28, 2022 • 48m

Kei Hiruta, "Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin: Freedom, Politics and Humanity" (Princeton UP, 2021)

Feb 28, 2022 • 51m

Paul M. Dover, "The Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Feb 25, 2022 • 1h 20m

Peter Salmon, "An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida" (Verso, 2020)

Feb 25, 2022 • 1h 16m

David Schwartz, "David Cronenberg: Interviews" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)

Feb 24, 2022 • 50m

Diana Dimitrova, "Rethinking the Body in South Asian Traditions" (Routledge, 2020)

Feb 24, 2022 • 38m

Jon Butler, "God in Gotham: The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan" (Harvard UP, 2020)

Feb 24, 2022 • 1h 4m

The Future of the Apocalyptic Right in the U.S.: A Discussion with Benjamin R. Teitelbaum

Feb 22, 2022 • 1h 3m

Yunxiang Gao, "Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2021)

Feb 22, 2022 • 57m

Wouter Werner, "Repetition and International Law" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Feb 22, 2022 • 57m

Mark Devenney, "Towards an Improper Politics" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)

Feb 21, 2022 • 1h 30m

Sarah Shortall, "Soldiers of God in a Secular World: Catholic Theology and Twentieth-Century French Politics" (Harvard UP, 2021)

Feb 21, 2022 • 59m

Mauro José Caraccioli, "Writing the New World: The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire" (U Florida Press, 2021)

Feb 21, 2022 • 58m

Jay L. Garfield, "Buddhist Ethics: A Philosophical Exploration" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Feb 21, 2022 • 1h 4m

Michelle Christine Smith, "Utopian Genderscapes: Rhetorics of Women's Work in the Early Industrial Age" (Southern Illinois UP, 2021)

Feb 21, 2022 • 1h 1m

Michael Marmur and David Ellenson, "American Jewish Thought Since 1934: Writings on Identity, Engagement, and Belief" (Brandeis UP, 2020)

Feb 16, 2022 • 49m

Himani Bannerji, "The Ideological Condition: Selected Essays on History, Race and Gender" (Brill, 2020)

Feb 14, 2022 • 2h 26m

Dagmar Schwerk, "A Timely Message from the Cave" (2020)

Feb 14, 2022 • 1h 37m

Federica Francesconi, "Invisible Enlighteners: The Jewish Merchants of Modena, from the Renaissance to the Emancipation" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)

Feb 14, 2022 • 51m

Nauman Faizi, "God, Science, and Self: Muhammad Iqbal's Reconstruction of Religious Thought" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2021)

Feb 11, 2022 • 47m

Stuart Elden, "The Early Foucault" (Polity Press, 2021)

Feb 11, 2022 • 51m

Eric Herschthal, "The Science of Abolition: How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress" (Yale UP, 2021)

Feb 11, 2022 • 1h 10m

Kenneth L. Caneva, "Helmholtz and the Conservation of Energy: Contexts of Creation and Reception" (MIT Press, 2021)

Feb 10, 2022 • 47m

Richard Payne, ed., "Secularizing Buddhism: New Perspectives on a Dynamic Tradition" (Shambhala, 2021)

Feb 10, 2022 • 58m

Michele Alacevich, "Albert O. Hirschman: An Intellectual Biography" (Columbia UP, 2021)

Feb 9, 2022 • 1h 35m

Nathaniel L. Moir, "Number One Realist: Bernard Fall and Vietnamese Revolutionary Warfare" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Feb 8, 2022 • 45m

Rudolf Ramm, "Medical Jurisprudence and Rules of the Medical Profession [1942]" (Springer, 2019)

Feb 8, 2022 • 44m

Micah Alpaugh, "Friends of Freedom: The Rise of Social Movements in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Feb 7, 2022 • 1h 2m

David L. Hoffmann, "The Memory of the Second World War in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia" (Routledge, 2021)

Feb 4, 2022 • 1h 10m

Rita Koganzon, "Liberal States, Authoritarian Families: Childhood and Education in Early Modern Thought" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Feb 3, 2022 • 50m

Leonard Mlodinow, "Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking" (Pantheon, 2022)

Feb 3, 2022 • 48m

Simon Critchley, "Bald: 35 Philosophical Short Cuts" (Yale UP, 2021)

Feb 3, 2022 • 1h 7m

Joan L. Richards, "Generations of Reason: A Family's Search for Meaning in Post-Newtonian England" (Yale UP, 2021)

Feb 1, 2022 • 1h 21m

Isaac Butler, "The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Feb 1, 2022 • 1h 33m

Margareta von Oswald and Jonas Tinius, "Across Anthropology: Troubling Colonial Legacies, Museums, and the Curatorial" (Leuven UP, 2020)

Jan 31, 2022 • 57m

Sunny Xiang, "Tonal Intelligence: The Aesthetics of Asian Inscrutability During the Long Cold War" (Columbia UP, 2020)

Jan 31, 2022 • 53m

85 Secular Buddhism, Part 1: Winton Higgins

Jan 28, 2022 • 1h 7m

James Heisig, "Of Gods and Minds: In Search of a Theological Commons" (Chisokudō Publications, 2019)

Jan 27, 2022 • 1h 16m

73 Teletherapy with Hannah Zeavin (High Theory Crossover, Saronik)

Jan 27, 2022 • 20m

Samuel J. Spinner, "Jewish Primitivism" (Stanford UP, 2021)

Jan 26, 2022 • 1h 17m

Jason Lustig, "A Time to Gather: Archives and the Control of Jewish Culture" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Jan 24, 2022 • 59m

Bruce B. Lawrence, "Islamicate Cosmopolitan Spirit" (Wiley-Blackwell, 2021)

Jan 24, 2022 • 1h 6m

Kristin Waters, "Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought" (U Mississippi Press, 2021)

Jan 21, 2022 • 27m

Aleksandra Prica, "Decay and Afterlife: Form, Time, and the Textuality of Ruins, 1100 to 1900" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

Jan 21, 2022 • 1h 0m

Brenna Moore, "Kindred Spirits: Friendship and Resistance at the Edges of Modern Catholicism" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

Jan 20, 2022 • 59m

72 Caryl Phillips Speaks with Corina Stan

Jan 20, 2022 • 49m

Erin M. Cline, "The Analects: A Guide" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Jan 20, 2022 • 1h 7m

Nicholas Canny, "Imagining Ireland's Pasts: Early Modern Ireland Through the Centuries" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Jan 19, 2022 • 49m

Glenn Cronin, "Disenchanted Wanderer: The Apocalyptic Vision of Konstantin Leontiev" (Northern Illinois UP, 2021)

Jan 18, 2022 • 51m

Marion Thompson, "The Marion Thompson Wright Reader" (Rutgers UP, 2021)

Jan 18, 2022 • 50m

Ginger Nolan, "Savage Mind to Savage Machine: Racial Science and Twentieth-Century Design" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)

Jan 18, 2022 • 22m

Sanjukta Sunderason, "Partisan Aesthetics: Modern Art and India's Long Decolonization" (Stanford UP, 2020)

Jan 18, 2022 • 1h 6m

Yakir Englander, "The Male Body in Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Theology" (Pickwick Publications, 2021)

Jan 17, 2022 • 59m

Ronald Beiner, "Dangerous Minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)

Jan 14, 2022 • 47m

Marc Caplan, "Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin: A Fugitive Modernism" (Indiana UP, 2021)

Jan 13, 2022 • 1h 10m

Michael Newall, "A Philosophy of the Art School" (Routledge, 2021)

Jan 13, 2022 • 1h 6m

Timothy Brennan, "Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said" (FSG, 2021)

Jan 13, 2022 • 59m

Jonathan B. Edelmann, "Hindu Theology and Biology: The Bhagavata Purana and Contemporary Theory" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Jan 11, 2022 • 52m

Paul Halpern, "Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate" (Basic Books, 2021)

Jan 11, 2022 • 1h 7m

Kris Sealey, "Creolizing the Nation" (Northwestern UP, 2020)

Jan 10, 2022 • 57m

71 Jennifer Egan with Ivan Kreilkamp: Fiction as Streaming, Genre as Portal (Novel Dialogue crossover, JP)

Jan 6, 2022 • 37m

Laurie R. Lambert, "Comrade Sister: Caribbean Feminist Revisions of the Grenada Revolution" (U Virginia Press, 2020)

Jan 6, 2022 • 45m

Malika Maskarinec, "The Forces of Form in German Modernism" (Northwestern UP, 2018)

Jan 5, 2022 • 1h 15m

Mabel Moraña, "Philosophy and Criticism in Latin America: From Mariátegui to Sloterdijk" (Cambria Press, 2020)

Jan 4, 2022 • 1h 2m

Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado, "Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question of World Literature" (Northwestern UP, 2018)

Jan 4, 2022 • 57m

Robert A. Gross, "The Transcendentalists and Their World" (FSG, 2021)

Jan 4, 2022 • 2h 31m

Rommel Argamosa Curaming, "Power and Knowledge in Southeast Asia: State and Scholars in Indonesia and the Philippines" (Routledge, 2019)

Jan 3, 2022 • 32m

Thomas Schmidt, "The Book of Revelation and Its Eastern Commentators: Making the New Testament in the Early Christian World" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Jan 3, 2022 • 1h 10m

Noam Sachs Zion, "Sanctified Sex: The Two-Thousand-Year Jewish Debate on Marital Intimacy" (Jewish Publication Society, 2021)

Dec 31, 2021 • 1h 11m

Putin's Attempt to Hide the Crimes of Stalinism

Dec 30, 2021 • 51m

Isaac A. Kamola, "Making the World Global: U.S. Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary" (Duke UP, 2019)

Dec 29, 2021 • 1h 39m

Seth David Radwell, "American Schism: How the Two Enlightenments Hold the Secret to Healing our Nation" (Greenleaf, 2021)

Dec 29, 2021 • 59m

Joseph J. Ellis, "The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773-1783" (Liveright, 2021)

Dec 27, 2021 • 49m

Melinda Baldwin, "Making 'Nature': The History of a Scientific Journal" (U Chicago Press, 2015)

Dec 24, 2021 • 1h 6m

Michael K. Bourdaghs, "A Fictional Commons: Natsume Soseki and the Properties of Modern Literature" (Duke UP, 2021)

Dec 22, 2021 • 54m

F. Bruce Gordon, "Zwingli: God's Armed Prophet" (Yale UP, 2021)

Dec 22, 2021 • 31m

Joseph Reagle on H. G. Wells's "World Brain" (1937)

Dec 22, 2021 • 59m

Hua Li, "Chinese Science Fiction During the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw" (U Toronto Press, 2021)

Dec 21, 2021 • 54m

Jessica Hurley, "Infrastructures of Apocalypse: American Literature and the Nuclear Complex" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)

Dec 20, 2021 • 1h 4m

Alfred Mele, “Free Will: An Investigation” (Open Agenda, 2021)

Dec 20, 2021 • 1h 45m

Izabela Wagner, "Bauman: A Biography" (Polity, 2020)

Dec 17, 2021 • 59m

Julian E. Zelizer, "Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Life of Radical Amazement" (Yale UP, 2021)

Dec 17, 2021 • 55m

Margarett MacMillan, “For the Love of History” (Open Agenda, 2021)

Dec 17, 2021 • 1h 6m

2.7 The Novel of Revolutionary Ideas: Viet Thanh Nguyen and Colleen Lye

Dec 16, 2021 • 48m

Gloria Maité Hernández, "Savoring God: Comparative Theopoetics" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Dec 16, 2021 • 47m

Aaron Weinacht, "Nikolai Chernyshevskii and Ayn Rand: Russian Nihilism Travels to America" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)

Dec 16, 2021 • 1h 19m

Benjamin A. Cowan, "Moral Majorities Across the Americas: Brazil, the United States, and the Creation of the Religious Right" (UNC Press, 2021)

Dec 15, 2021 • 57m

Elizabeth McHenry, "To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship" (Duke UP, 2020)

Dec 15, 2021 • 1h 5m

Andrew Piper, "Can We Be Wrong? The Problem of Textual Evidence in a Time of Data" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

Dec 14, 2021 • 46m

Margaret Jacobs, “Enlightened Entrepreneurialism” (Open Agenda, 2021)

Dec 14, 2021 • 1h 35m

Cinthia Gannett and John Brereton, "Traditions of Eloquence: The Jesuits and Modern Rhetorical Studies" (Fordham UP, 2016)

Dec 14, 2021 • 1h 5m

Jeffrey J. Niehaus, "When Did Eve Sin?: The Fall and Biblical Historiography" (Lexham Press, 2020)

Dec 13, 2021 • 24m

Menachem Kellner, "We Are Not Alone: A Maimonidean Theology of the Other" (Academic Studies Press, 2021)

Dec 13, 2021 • 1h 13m

Kate Rigby, "Reclaiming Romanticism: Towards an Ecopoetics of Decolonisation" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

Dec 10, 2021 • 1h 18m

Bryan M. Santin, "Postwar American Fiction and the Rise of Modern Conservatism: A Literary History, 1945–2008" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Dec 10, 2021 • 1h 1m

Leigh Eric Schmidt, "The Church of Saint Thomas Paine: A Religious History of American Secularism" (Princeton UP, 2021)

Dec 8, 2021 • 1h 13m

Jennifer Ferng and Lauren R. Cannady, "Crafting Enlightenment: Artisanal Histories and Transnational Networks" (Voltaire Foundation, 2021)

Dec 8, 2021 • 52m

Tim Hartman, "Kwame Bediako: African Theology for a World Christianity" (Fortress Press, 2022)

Dec 8, 2021 • 1h 11m

Shaoling Ma, "The Stone and the Wireless: Mediating China, 1861–1906" (Duke UP, 2021)

Dec 6, 2021 • 1h 7m

Book Talk 49: “The Good Life” with Dora Zhang

Dec 6, 2021 • 1h 9m

Margherita Zanasi, "Economic Thought in Modern China: Market and Consumption, c.1500–1937" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

Dec 3, 2021 • 1h 29m

Barbara Martin, "Dissident Histories in the Soviet Union: From De-Stalinization to Perestroika" (Bloomsbury, 2019)

Dec 3, 2021 • 1h 1m

Anustup Basu, "Hindutva as Political Monotheism" (Duke UP, 2020)

Dec 3, 2021 • 1h 5m

Devin J. Vartija, "The Color of Equality: Race and Common Humanity in Enlightenment Thought" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)

Dec 2, 2021 • 1h 12m

Kim Charnley, "Sociopolitical Aesthetics: Art, Crisis and Neoliberalism" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

Nov 30, 2021 • 1h 15m

John Maraldo, "Japanese Philosophy in the Making 2: Borderline Interrogations" (Chisokudo, 2019)

Nov 29, 2021 • 1h 4m

Eric Berkowitz, "Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West from the Ancients to Fake News" (Beacon Press, 2021)

Nov 29, 2021 • 35m

Kevin Bruyneel, "Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race in the United States" (UNC Press, 2021)

Nov 29, 2021 • 53m

Katarzyna Bartoszyńska, "Estranging the Novel: Poland, Ireland, and Theories of World Literature" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)

Nov 26, 2021 • 31m

Jyotirmaya Sharma, "Elusive Nonviolence: The Making and Unmaking of Gandhi’s Religion of Ahimsa" (Westland, 2021)

Nov 25, 2021 • 43m

Daniel Lee, "The Right of Sovereignty: Jean Bodin on the Sovereign State and the Law of Nations" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Nov 24, 2021 • 1h 4m

Christos Tombras, "Discourse Ontology: Body and the Construction of a World, from Heidegger through Lacan" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)

Nov 23, 2021 • 58m

Beatrice Gruendler, "The Rise of the Arabic Book" (Harvard UP, 2020)

Nov 22, 2021 • 1h 30m

Claire Weeda, "Ethnicity in Medieval Europe 950-1250: Medicine, Power and Religion" (Boydell and Brewer, 2021)

Nov 19, 2021 • 59m

Ross Kane, "Syncretism and Christian Tradition" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Nov 19, 2021 • 50m

James Garrison, "Reconsidering the Life of Power: Ritual, Body, and Art in Critical Theory and Chinese Philosophy" (SUNY Press, 2021)

Nov 19, 2021 • 1h 8m

Dennis C. Rasmussen, "Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders" (Princeton UP, 2021)

Nov 18, 2021 • 54m

Ruth Gamble, "The Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje: Master of Mahamudra" (Shambala, 2020)

Nov 18, 2021 • 1h 1m

James G. Cantres, "Blackening Britain: Caribbean Radicalism from Windrush to Decolonization" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)

Nov 17, 2021 • 1h 19m

Joel Whitebook, "Freud: An Intellectual Biography" (Cambridge UP, 2017)

Nov 17, 2021 • 56m

Martin Jay, "Genesis and Validity: The Theory and Practice of Intellectual History" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)

Nov 17, 2021 • 1h 41m

John B. Kachuba, "Shapeshifters: A History" (Reaktion Books, 2019)

Nov 17, 2021 • 44m

Nicole Willock, "Lineages of the Literary: Tibetan Buddhist Polymaths of Socialist China" (Columbia UP, 2021)

Nov 17, 2021 • 1h 10m

Eva Del Soldato, "Early Modern Aristotle: On the Making and Unmaking of Authority" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)

Nov 16, 2021 • 1h 6m

Marilyn Lake, "Progressive New World: How Settler Colonialism and Transpacific Exchange Shaped American Reform" (Harvard UP, 2019)

Nov 16, 2021 • 55m

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