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Elizabeth N. Saunders, "The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jun 9 • 49m
Quinn Slobodian and Philip J. Stern on Political Economy
Jun 5 • 1h 3m
Robert Garland, "What to Expect When You're Dead: An Ancient Tour of Death and the Afterlife" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Jun 2 • 53m
Peter Allen, "How to Think about Politics: A Guide in Five Parts" (Oxford UP, 2025)
May 28 • 38m
Dennis Ross, "Statecraft 2.0: What America Needs to Survive in a Multipolar World" (Oxford UP, 2025)
May 18 • 54m
Rasheedah Phillips, "Dismantling the Master's Clock: On Race, Space, and Time" (AK Press, 2025)
May 17 • 58m
Eric Heinze, "Coming Clean: The Rise of Critical Theory and the Future of the Left" (MIT Press, 2025)
May 16 • 1h 14m
Jeanne Sheehan, "American Democracy in Crisis: The Case for Rethinking Madisonian Government Post January 6" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
May 13 • 35m
Sandra Matz, "Mindmasters: The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior" (HBRP, 2025)
May 7 • 41m
Time to Rethink Democracy: Participatory and More-Than-Human Perspectives
May 6 • 39m
Stephen H. Legomsky, "Reimagining the American Union: The Case for Abolishing State Government" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
May 5 • 59m
Laura Spinney, "Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Apr 27 • 55m
How to Found A College: A Conversation with University of Austin President Pano Kanelos
Apr 26 • 38m
Philip V. McHarris, "Beyond Policing" (Legacy Lit, 2024)
Apr 22 • 46m
Will AI Transform What it Means to be Human in the Next Ten Years?
Apr 19 • 1h 1m
David Wiles, "Democracy, Theatre and Performance: From the Greeks to Gandhi" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Apr 12 • 1h 11m
Keith J. Hayward, "Infantilised: How Our Culture Killed Adulthood" (Constable & Robinson, 2025)
Apr 11 • 41m
Christopher Key Chapple, "The SāṃKhya System: Accounting for the Real" (SUNY Press, 2024)
Apr 10 • 56m
John Kay, "The Corporation in the 21st Century: Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told about Business Is Wrong" (Yale UP, 2025)
Apr 9 • 55m
William Dalrymple, "The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Apr 8 • 39m
We Have Never Been Woke: A Conversation with Musa al-Gharbi
Apr 2 • 45m
Andrew Canessa and Manuela Lavinas Picq, "Savages and Citizens: How Indigeneity Shapes the State" (U Arizona Press, 2025)
Mar 30 • 1h 1m
The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking
Mar 27 • 1h 0m
Chris Skinner, "Intelligent Money: When Money Thinks for You" (Marshall Cavendish, 2024)
Mar 25 • 25m
Peter D. Hershock, "Consciousness Mattering: A Buddhist Synthesis" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Mar 24 • 1h 57m
Adam K. Webb, "The World's Constitution: Spheres of Liberty in the Future Global Order" (Routledge, 2025)
Mar 23 • 1h 51m
Paul Seabright, "The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Mar 19 • 1h 13m
Bruce Hood, "The Science of Happiness: Seven Lessons for Living Well" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
Mar 15 • 49m
M. Chirimuuta, "The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience" (MIT Press, 2024)
Mar 10 • 52m
Jørgen Møller and Jonathan Doucette, "The Catholic Church and European State Formation, AD 1000-1500" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Mar 8 • 51m
Chris Higgins, "Undeclared: A Philosophy of Formative Higher Education" (MIT Press, 2024)
Mar 4 • 1h 5m
Webb Keane, "Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Mar 3 • 58m
Jeff Yoshimi, "Gaming Cancer: How Building and Playing Video Games Can Accelerate Scientific Discovery" (MIT Press, 2025)
Feb 27 • 22m
Steven Lesk, "Footprints of Schizophrenia: The Evolutionary Roots of Mental Illness" (Prometheus, 2023)
Feb 26 • 1h 5m
The Anxious Generation: A Conversation with Jonathan Haidt
Feb 19 • 57m
Glen L. Thompson, "Jingjiao: The Earliest Christian Church in China" (Eerdmans, 2024)
Feb 15 • 1h 7m
Ada Palmer, "Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Feb 13 • 54m
Michael Albertus, "Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn't, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies" (Basic Books, 2025)
Feb 11 • 40m
Arvid J. Lukauskas and Yumiko Shimabukuro, "Misery Beneath the Miracle in East Asia" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Feb 7 • 1h 11m
Hal Brands, "The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World" (Norton, 2025)
Feb 5 • 52m
Daniel Oberhaus, "The Silicon Shrink: How Artificial Intelligence Made the World an Asylum" (MIT Press, 2025)
Feb 4 • 59m
Antonio A. Casilli, "Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Jan 31 • 55m
James Boyle, "The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood" (MIT Press, 2024)
Jan 27 • 1h 14m
Brigid Schulte, "Over Work: Transforming the Daily Grind in the Quest for a Better Life" (Henry Holt, 2024)
Jan 20 • 1h 3m
Mariam Motamedi Fraser, "Dog Politics: Species Stories and the Animal Sciences" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Jan 15 • 1h 5m
Cordelia Fine, "Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society" (Norton, 2018)
Jan 11 • 1h 15m
David G. Hunter et al., "Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity: Authors, Texts, and Ideas" (Brill, 2024)
Jan 8 • 52m
Brandon Keim, "Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-Human World" (Norton, 2024)
Jan 1 • 1h 36m
Michael Fuerstein, "Experiments in Living Together: How Democracy Drives Social Progress" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jan 1 • 1h 10m
Frederick Crews, "Freud: The Making of an Illusion" (Picador, 2018)
Dec 31, 2024 • 1h 2m
Marc Schuilenburg, "Hysteria: Crime, Media, and Politics" (Routledge, 2021)
Dec 29, 2024 • 45m
Charles Foster, "Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness" (Metropolitan Books, 2021)
Dec 29, 2024 • 1h 2m
Kit Kowol, "Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Dec 28, 2024 • 39m
Markus Vinzent, "Christ's Torah: The Making of the New Testament in the Second Century" (Routledge, 2023)
Dec 25, 2024 • 1h 2m
Leah Downey, "Our Money: Monetary Policy as If Democracy Matters" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Dec 25, 2024 • 40m
Nick Couldry, "The Space of the World: Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media and What If It Can't?" (Polity, 2024)
Dec 23, 2024 • 38m
Josh Spodek, "Sustainability Simplified: The Definitive Guide to Solving All (Yes, All) Our Environmental Problems" (Amplify, 2025)
Dec 23, 2024 • 1h 6m
Erich Hatala Matthes, "What to Save and Why: Identity, Authenticity, and the Ethics of Conservation" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Dec 19, 2024 • 43m
Paul Pierson and Eric Schickler, "Partisan Nation: The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Dec 17, 2024 • 34m
Yaacov Yadgar, "To Be a Jewish State: Zionism as the New Judaism" (NYU Press, 2024)
Dec 16, 2024 • 1h 2m
Andrea Scarantino, "Emotion Theory: The Routledge Comprehensive Guide" (Routledge, 2024)
Dec 10, 2024 • 1h 12m
Andy Hines, "Imagining After Capitalism" (Triarchy Press, 2025)
Dec 7, 2024 • 50m
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
Yochai Ataria, "Not in Our Brain: Consciousness, Body, World" (Magnes Press, 2019)
Dec 4, 2024 • 53m
Alexander Guerrero, "Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Dec 4, 2024 • 1h 9m
Laura C. Chávez-Moreno, "How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America" (Harvard Education Press, 2024)
Dec 3, 2024 • 41m
Sabrina Strings, "The End of Love: Racism, Sexism, and the Death of Romance" (Beacon Press, 2024)
Nov 27, 2024 • 37m
Brian Donahue, "Slow Wood: Greener Building from Local Forests" (Yale UP, 2024)
Nov 26, 2024 • 52m
Robert B. Talisse, "Civic Solitude: Why Democracy Needs Distance" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Nov 21, 2024 • 1h 37m
Thinking Machines: Will Robots Have Rights?
Nov 20, 2024 • 29m
Rachael Litherland and Philly Hare, "People with Dementia at the Heart of Research: Co-Producing Research through The Dementia Enquirers Model" (Jessica Kingsley, 2024)
Nov 16, 2024 • 53m
Saadia Yacoob, "Beyond the Binary: Gender and Legal Personhood in Islamic Law" (U California Press, 2024)
Nov 16, 2024 • 1h 30m
Matti Eklund, "Alien Structure: Language and Reality" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Nov 10, 2024 • 1h 5m
Harvey Whitehouse, "Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Nov 10, 2024 • 44m
Libuse Hannah Veprek, "At the Edge of AI: Human Computation Systems and Their Intraverting Relations" (Transcript, 2024)
Nov 8, 2024 • 25m
Roberto Morales-Harley, "The Embassy, the Ambush, and the Ogre: Greco-Roman Influence in Sanskrit Theater” (Open Book, 2024)
Nov 7, 2024 • 38m
Mara Kardas-Nelson, "We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky: The Seductive Promise of Microfinance" (Metropolitan Books, 2024)
Nov 5, 2024 • 45m
Anneli Jefferson, "Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders?" (Routledge, 2024)
Nov 4, 2024 • 1h 28m
Nicholas Spencer, "Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion" (Oneworld, 2024)
Nov 1, 2024 • 55m
David Peña-Guzmán: Animals Dream and that Makes Them Morally Considerable (JP)
Oct 31, 2024 • 51m
Greg Epstein, "Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation" (MIT Press, 2024)
Oct 30, 2024 • 1h 29m
Michael Hardt, "The Subversive Seventies" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Oct 29, 2024 • 1h 26m
Peter Harrison, "Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Oct 29, 2024 • 1h 0m
Nathan J. Murphy, "The Ideas That Rule Us: How Other People's Ideas Rule our Lives and How to Change it" (Prepolitica, 2024)
Oct 26, 2024 • 26m
Matilde Masso, "Contested Money: Towards a New Social Contract" (Routledge, 2023)
Oct 25, 2024 • 51m
Steven Levitsky, "Tyranny of the Minority: How to Reverse an Authoritarian Turn, and Forge a Democracy for All" (Crown, 2024)
Oct 22, 2024 • 44m
René Boer, "Smooth City: Against Urban Perfection, Towards Collective Alternatives" (Valiz, 2023)
Oct 22, 2024 • 1h 10m
Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee, "Confucian Feminism: A Practical Ethic for Life" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Oct 20, 2024 • 58m
Francisco Aboitiz, "A History of Bodies, Brains, and Minds: The Evolution of Life and Consciousness" (MIT Press, 2024)
Oct 19, 2024 • 1h 11m
The Social Contract in the Ruins: A Conversation with Dr. Paul DeHart
Oct 16, 2024 • 58m
Marietje Schaake, "The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Oct 15, 2024 • 29m
Luke Clossey, "Jesus and the Making of the Modern Mind, 1380-1520" (Open Book, 2024)
Oct 9, 2024 • 34m
S4E9 The Fragility of China: A Conversation with Dennis Unkovic
Oct 9, 2024 • 59m
Alan F. Blackwell, "Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI" (MIT Press, 2024)
Oct 6, 2024 • 55m
Michael J. Thompson, "Descent of the Dialectic: Phronetic Criticism in an Age of Nihilism" (Routledge, 2024)
Oct 5, 2024 • 1h 0m
Alexandre Lefebvre, "Liberalism as a Way of Life" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Oct 4, 2024 • 1h 15m
Faisal Devji, "Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea" (Harvard UP, 2013)
Oct 4, 2024 • 1h 37m
From Tribalism to Common Humanity: A Conversation with Dr. John Ellis
Oct 2, 2024 • 56m
Jeff Schuhrke, "Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of U.S. Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade" (Verso, 2024)
Sep 27, 2024 • 1h 9m
Ian Williams, "Vampire State: The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Economy (Birlinn, 2024)
Sep 27, 2024 • 1h 3m
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
Ilias Alami and Adam D. Dixon, "The Spectre of State Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Sep 22, 2024 • 1h 9m
William H. F. Altman, "The German Stranger: Leo Strauss and National Socialism" (Lexington Books, 2010)
Sep 18, 2024 • 2h 12m
Danny Sriskandarajah, "Power to the People: Use Your Voice, Change the World" (Headline Press, 2024)
Sep 17, 2024 • 52m
Neil Van Leeuwen, "Religion As Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Sep 17, 2024 • 1h 17m
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
Lynn M. Tesser, "Rethinking the End of Empire: Nationalism, State Formation, and Great Power Politics" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Sep 13, 2024 • 55m
Are We Experiencing a Crisis of Culture?
Sep 10, 2024 • 41m
Michael Gavin, "Literary Mathematics: Quantitative Theory for Textual Studies" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Sep 9, 2024 • 54m
Yakov Feygin, "Building a Ruin: The Cold War Politics of Soviet Economic Reform" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Sep 8, 2024 • 1h 6m
Terrence G. Peterson, "Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Sep 7, 2024 • 49m
Jordan Magnuson, "Game Poems: Videogame Design as Lyric Practice" (Amherst College Press, 2023)
Sep 4, 2024 • 35m
Sarah Malanowski and Nicholas R. Baima, "Why It's Ok to Be a Gamer" (Routledge, 2024)
Sep 3, 2024 • 24m
Brian Clegg, "Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe" (MIT Press, 2021)
Sep 2, 2024 • 52m
John V. Pavlik, "Journalism and the Metaverse" (Anthem Press, 2024)
Aug 30, 2024 • 41m
Mark Valeri, "The Opening of the Protestant Mind: How Anglo-American Protestants Embraced Religious Liberty" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 29, 2024 • 49m
Bhaskar Sunkara, "The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality" (Basic Books, 2020)
Aug 29, 2024 • 1h 7m
The Human Advantage: A Conversation with Jay Richards
Aug 28, 2024 • 54m
Nick Chater, "The Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain" (Yale UP, 2019)
Aug 24, 2024 • 1h 42m
Devonya N. Havis, "Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Aug 20, 2024 • 51m
Stuart Elden, "The Birth of Territory" (U Chicago Press, 2013)
Aug 17, 2024 • 1h 2m
Stephen Pinfield, "Achieving Global Open Access: The Need for Scientific, Epistemic and Participatory Openness" (Routledge, 2024)
Aug 17, 2024 • 1h 35m
Sudhir Kakar, "The Indian Jungle: Psychoanalysis and Non-Western Civilizations" (Karnac, 2024)
Aug 17, 2024 • 55m
Claudio Lomnitz, "Sovereignty and Extortion: A New State Form in Mexico" (Duke UP, 2024)
Aug 15, 2024 • 1h 53m
Gavin Steingo, "Interspecies Communication: Sound and Music Beyond Humanity" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Aug 10, 2024 • 58m
Samuel Ely Bagg, "The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 7, 2024 • 1h 21m
The GiveWell Method
Aug 7, 2024 • 28m
Jason Blakely, "Lost in Ideology: Interpreting Modern Political Life" (Agenda Publishing, 2023)
Aug 6, 2024 • 40m
Shai Held, "Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life" (FSG, 2024)
Aug 5, 2024 • 56m
Ellie Laks, "Cow Hug Therapy: How the Animals at the Gentle Barn Taught Me about Life, Death, and Everything in Between" (New World Library, 2024)
Aug 2, 2024 • 47m
Bernard E. Harcourt. "Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Jul 31, 2024 • 1h 12m
Musa al-Gharbi, "We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jul 28, 2024 • 39m
Daisy Dunn, "The Missing Thread: How Women Shaped the Course of Ancient History" (Viking, 2024)
Jul 26, 2024 • 24m
David E. Kaiser, “The Road to Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy” (Harvard UP, 2008)
Jul 22, 2024 • 1h 19m
Francine Banner, "Beyond Complicity: Why We Blame Each Other Instead of Systems" (U California Press, 2024)
Jul 21, 2024 • 55m
Seth A. Berkowitz, "Equal Care: Health Equity, Social Democracy, and the Egalitarian State" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
Jul 18, 2024 • 28m
Mahjabeen Dhala, "Feminist Theology and Social Justice in Islam: A Study on the Sermon of Fatima" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Jul 17, 2024 • 1h 14m
Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg, "The Abrahamic Vernacular" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Jul 16, 2024 • 49m
Shannon Vallor, "The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jul 10, 2024 • 1h 6m
Premal Dharia et al., "Dismantling Mass Incarceration: A Handbook for Change" (FSG Originals, 2024)
Jul 9, 2024 • 31m
Dmitri Alperovitch, "World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the 21st Century" (PublicAffairs, 2024)
Jul 6, 2024 • 50m
Tara Ward, "Appreciation Post: Towards an Art History of Instagram" (U California Press, 2024)
Jul 5, 2024 • 42m
Eve Herold, "Robots and the People Who Love Them: Holding on to Our Humanity in an Age of Social Robots" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
Jul 4, 2024 • 51m
Jason Hannan, "Trolling Ourselves to Death: Democracy in the Age of Social Media" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jul 2, 2024 • 47m
John Thomas Maier, "The Disabled Will: A Theory of Addiction" (Routledge, 2024)
Jun 26, 2024 • 49m
A Psychoanalytic Overview of Racism in America
Jun 24, 2024 • 48m
Adrian Johnston, "Infinite Greed: The Inhuman Selfishness of Capital" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Jun 22, 2024 • 1h 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
Daniel Scott Souleles et al., "People before Markets: An Alternative Casebook" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Jun 16, 2024 • 1h 17m
Allison J. Pugh, "The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jun 15, 2024 • 31m
Gordon C. Chang, "Revolution and Witchcraft: The Code of Ideology in Unsettled Times" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Jun 14, 2024 • 51m
Nivedita Menon, "Secularism As Misdirection: Critical Thought from the Global South" (Duke UP, 2024)
Jun 13, 2024 • 1h 9m
Timothy Morton, "Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Jun 12, 2024 • 1h 7m
Jason Read, "The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work" (Verso, 2024)
Jun 8, 2024 • 1h 12m
Mark Robert Rank, "The Random Factor: How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World Around Us" (U California Press, 2024)
Jun 4, 2024 • 37m
AI and the Humanities: Nina Beguš DIscusses "Artificial Humanities"
Jun 3, 2024 • 49m
Weh Yeoh, "Redundant Charities: Escaping the Cycle of Dependence" (Koan Press, 2023)
Jun 2, 2024 • 38m
Chris Haufe, "Do the Humanities Create Knowledge?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
May 28, 2024 • 1h 5m
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
Mark Moyar, "Triumph Regained: The Vietnam War, 1965-1968" (Encounter, 2023)
May 22, 2024 • 23m
Hippokratis Kiaris, "The End of the Western Civilization?: The Intellectual Journey of Humanity to Adulthood" (Vernon Press, 2022)
May 11, 2024 • 53m
Carl Zimmer, "Life's Edge: The Search For What it Means to be Alive" (Dutton, 2022)
May 10, 2024 • 36m
Donald Stoker, "Why America Loses Wars: Limited War and US Strategy from the Korean War to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
May 5, 2024 • 46m
J. P. Messina, "Private Censorship" (Oxford UP, 2024)
May 1, 2024 • 1h 9m
Markus Vinzent, "Resetting the Origins of Christianity: A New Theory of Sources and Beginnings" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Apr 30, 2024 • 43m
Teri Ann Finneman et al., "Reviving Rural News: Transforming the Business Model of Community Journalism in the US and Beyond" (Routledge, 2024)
Apr 25, 2024 • 42m
Alexander Statman, "A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Apr 25, 2024 • 50m
Matt Qvortrup, "The Political Brain: The Emergence of Neuropolitics" (CEU Press, 2024)
Apr 24, 2024 • 33m
Seth D. Kaplan, "Fragile Neighborhoods: Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time" (Little, Brown Spark, 2023)
Apr 14, 2024 • 30m
Rupa Marya and Raj Patel, "Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice" (FSG, 2021)
Apr 10, 2024 • 1h 3m
Eric Schwitzgebel, "The Weirdness of the World" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Apr 10, 2024 • 1h 2m
Matthieu Grandpierron, "Nostalgic Virility as a Cause of War: How Leaders of Great Powers Cope with Status Decline" (McGill-Queen's Press, 2024)
Apr 2, 2024 • 53m
Building the Future Buddha: A Discussion with Jundho Cohen
Mar 31, 2024 • 59m
Ignacio Cofone, "The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Mar 28, 2024 • 27m
David E. Sutton, "Bigger Fish to Fry: A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples" (Berghahn, 2021)
Mar 28, 2024 • 58m
Michael Ortiz, "Anti-Colonialism and the Crises of Interwar Fascism" (Bloombury, 2023)
Mar 27, 2024 • 53m
Karl Widerquist, "Universal Basic Income" (MIT Press, 2024)
Mar 22, 2024 • 28m
Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti, "Love, Money, and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Mar 20, 2024 • 59m
Myisha Cherry, "Failures of Forgiveness: What We Get Wrong and How to Do Better" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Mar 15, 2024 • 42m
Travis Rieder, "Catastrophe Ethics: How to Choose Well in a World of Tough Choices" (Dutton, 2024)
Mar 13, 2024 • 37m
Michael Poulshock, "Power Structures in International Politics" (Low 8, 2023)
Mar 5, 2024 • 45m
Joseph Cone, "Seeing Opera Anew: A Cultural and Biological Perspective" (Routledge, 2023)
Mar 3, 2024 • 1h 5m
Poppy Wilde, "Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities" (Routledge, 2023)
Mar 2, 2024 • 26m
Thomas J. Barfield, "Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Mar 1, 2024 • 47m
Vernon James Schubel, "Teaching Humanity: An Alternative Introduction to Islam" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
Feb 27, 2024 • 50m
Yanis Varoufakis, "Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism" (Melville House, 2023)
Feb 26, 2024 • 52m
Jeffrey D. Long, "Perspectives on Reincarnation: Hindu, Christian, Scientific" (MDPI Books, 2019)
Feb 22, 2024 • 1h 13m
Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There
Feb 22, 2024 • 50m
Neil Lee, "Innovation for the Masses: How to Share the Benefits of the High-Tech Economy" (U California Press, 2024)
Feb 21, 2024 • 37m
Robert Louis Wilken, "Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom" (Yale UP, 2019)
Feb 20, 2024 • 1h 2m
Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, "Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Feb 18, 2024 • 1h 13m
Jenna Ng, "The Post-Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections: Where Screen Boundaries Lie" (Amsterdam UP, 2021)
Feb 14, 2024 • 52m
Lehasa Moloi, "Developing Africa?: New Horizons with Afrocentricity" (Anthem Press, 2024)
Feb 12, 2024 • 39m
Seth Zuiho Segall, "The House We Live in: Virtue, Wisdom, and Pluralism" (Equinox, 2023)
Feb 8, 2024 • 55m
Nick Romeo, "The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy" (PublicAffairs, 2024)
Feb 7, 2024 • 30m
Sabina Andron, "Urban Surfaces, Graffiti, and the Right to the City" (Routledge, 2024)
Feb 4, 2024 • 1h 3m
Chrystin Ondersma, "Dignity Not Debt: An Abolitionist Approach to Economic Justice" (U California Press, 2024)
Feb 3, 2024 • 29m
Jon Paul Sydnor and Anthony J. Watson, "Nondualism: An Interreligious Exploration" (Lexington Books, 2023)
Feb 1, 2024 • 39m
Ismar Volić, "Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Feb 1, 2024 • 39m
Ankhi Mukherjee and Ato Quayson, "Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jan 28, 2024 • 1h 2m
Daniel Peris, "The Ownership Dividend: The Coming Paradigm Shift in the U.S. Stock Market" (Routledge, 2024)
Jan 23, 2024 • 52m
The Future of Ireland: Kevin Meagher on Why a United Ireland is Inevitable
Jan 17, 2024 • 57m
Paul Gowder, "The Networked Leviathan: For Democratic Platforms" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jan 17, 2024 • 1h 4m
Can A.I. Mean?
Jan 13, 2024 • 52m
John Quiggin, "Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Jan 10, 2024 • 46m
Krista K. Thomason, "Dancing with the Devil: Why Bad Feelings Make Life Good" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jan 10, 2024 • 59m
Melanie Joy, "How to End Injustice Everywhere" (Lantern, 2023)
Jan 8, 2024 • 1h 14m
Matthew O. Jackson, "The Human Network: How Your Social Position Determines Your Power, Beliefs, and Behaviors" (Vintage, 2019)
Jan 5, 2024 • 1h 6m
Gary Shiffman, "The Economics of Violence: How Behavioral Science Can Transform our View of Crime, Insurgency, and Terrorism" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Jan 3, 2024 • 56m
Martha C. Nussbaum, "Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility" (Simon & Schuster, 2022)
Jan 2, 2024 • 51m
Matthew Gutmann, "Are Men Animals? How Modern Masculinity Sells Men Short" (Basic Books, 2019)
Jan 2, 2024 • 1h 2m
Adam Mestyan, "Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Jan 1, 2024 • 47m
Kevin Hood Gary, "Why Boredom Matters: Education, Leisure, and the Quest for a Meaningful Life" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Dec 29, 2023 • 41m
David Courtwright, "The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Dec 26, 2023 • 44m
Ben Jacobsen and David Beer, "Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory: Classification, Ranking and the Sorting of the Past" (Bristol UP, 2023)
Dec 24, 2023 • 46m
André Jansson, "Rethinking Communication Geographies: Geomedia, Digital Logistics and the Human Condition" (Edward Elgar, 2022)
Dec 23, 2023 • 28m
David M. Freidenreich, "Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy" (U California Press, 2023)
Dec 21, 2023 • 57m
Michael W. Doyle, "Cold Peace: Avoiding the New Cold War" (Liveright, 2023)
Dec 12, 2023 • 51m
Philip Goff, "Why? The Purpose of the Universe" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Dec 10, 2023 • 1h 6m
The Future of Predictions: A Discussion with Christopher E. Mason
Dec 9, 2023 • 30m
This is the Best Statement of the Simulation Hypothesis We've Seen
Dec 8, 2023 • 1h 28m
James A. Chamberlain, "Undoing Work, Rethinking Community: A Critique of the Social Function of Work" (ILR Press, 2018)
Dec 6, 2023 • 45m
Simon Joyce, "LGBT Victorians: Sexuality and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Archives" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Dec 5, 2023 • 1h 14m
Too Much Communication?
Dec 2, 2023 • 52m
Samuel Clowes Huneke, "A Queer Theory of the State" (Floating Opera Press, 2023)
Nov 27, 2023 • 39m
Ceri Houlbrook,"‘Ritual Litter' Redressed" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Nov 27, 2023 • 43m
Darwinian Accident or Divine Architect? (with Jay Richards)
Nov 23, 2023 • 1h 16m
Plantationocene
Nov 17, 2023 • 18m
Stefan Tanaka, "History without Chronology" (Lever Press, 2019)
Nov 15, 2023 • 1h 2m
Gary Tomlinson, "The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning" (Zone Books, 2023)
Nov 14, 2023 • 1h 18m
Peter Nelson, "Computer Games As Landscape Art" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Nov 6, 2023 • 36m
Jeremy Howick, "The Power of Placebos: Unlocking Their Potential to Improve Health Care" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Nov 5, 2023 • 34m
Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale, "Why Men?: A Human History of Violence and Inequality" (Hurst, 2023)
Nov 3, 2023 • 1h 14m
Daniele Lorenzini, "The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Nov 1, 2023 • 1h 29m
Neil Cohn, "Who Understands Comics?: Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Oct 30, 2023 • 1h 17m
Jeremy Nobel, "Project UnLonely: Healing Our Crisis of Disconnection" (Avery Publishing Group, 2023)
Oct 24, 2023 • 48m
Alexandre Baril, "Undoing Suicidism: A Trans, Queer, Crip Approach to Rethinking (Assisted) Suicide" (Temple UP, 2023)
Oct 20, 2023 • 1h 8m
Mutual Aid and the Anarchist Radical Imagination
Oct 11, 2023 • 1h 10m
Swati Srivastava, "Hybrid Sovereignty in World Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Oct 9, 2023 • 53m
The Future of Superstates: A Discussion with Alasdair Roberts
Oct 9, 2023 • 42m
Eric B. Elbogen and Nico Verykoukis, "Violence and Mental Illness: Rethinking Risk Factors and Enhancing Public Safety" (NYU Press, 2023)
Oct 8, 2023 • 32m
S. D. Chrostowska, "Utopia in the Age of Survival: Between Myth and Politics" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Oct 6, 2023 • 56m
Ronna Detrick, "Rewriting Eve: Claiming Women's Sacred Stories As Our Own" (She Writes Press, 2023)
Oct 3, 2023 • 53m
The Future of the EAST: A Discussion of Yasheng Huang
Oct 2, 2023 • 45m
Kevin J. Mitchell, "Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Oct 1, 2023 • 32m
Michael D. Smith, "The Abundant University: Remaking Higher Education for a Digital World" (MIT Press, 2023)
Sep 29, 2023 • 1h 2m
Nigel Biggar, "Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning" (William Collins, 2023)
Sep 25, 2023 • 1h 18m
Nigel Biggar, "Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning" (William Collins, 2023)
Sep 25, 2023 • 1h 18m
Jack Schneider and Ethan L. Hutt, "Off the Mark: How Grades, Ratings, and Rankings Undermine Learning (but Don't Have To)" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Sep 22, 2023 • 36m
Christopher F. Zurn, "Splitsville USA: A Democratic Argument for Breaking Up the United States" (Routledge, 2023)
Sep 16, 2023 • 1h 18m
Bryan Rennie, "An Ethology of Religion and Art: Belief as Behavior" (Routledge, 2020)
Sep 16, 2023 • 1h 8m
Michèle Lamont, "Seeing Others: How Recognition Works-And How It Can Heal a Divided World" (Atria, 2023)
Sep 13, 2023 • 36m
Adam Toon, "Mind As Metaphor: A Defence of Mental Fictionalism" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Sep 12, 2023 • 1h 0m
William Darity et al., "The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice" (U California Press, 2023)
Sep 12, 2023 • 37m
A Better Way to Buy Books
Sep 12, 2023 • 32m
Vincent W. Lloyd, "Black Dignity: The Struggle Against Domination" (Yale UP, 2022)
Sep 9, 2023 • 1h 1m
Richard Sclove, "Escaping Maya's Palace: Decoding an Ancient Myth to Heal the Hidden Madness of Modern Civilization" (Karavelle Press, 2022)
Sep 9, 2023 • 41m
Hans Van Eyghen, "The Epistemology of Spirit Beliefs" (Routledge, 2023)
Sep 1, 2023 • 37m
Who’s Afraid of the Catholic Integralists? (with Kevin Vallier)
Aug 31, 2023 • 59m
Dagmar Schafer, "Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property" (MIT Press, 2023)
Aug 30, 2023 • 41m
Sara Protasi, "The Philosophy of Envy" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Aug 29, 2023 • 54m
Peter Heather and John Rapley, "Why Empires Fall: Rome, America, and the Future of the West" (Yale UP, 2023)
Aug 27, 2023 • 49m
Gary Smith, "Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 27, 2023 • 35m
Peter Heather and John Rapley, "Why Empires Fall: Rome, America, and the Future of the West" (Yale UP, 2023)
Aug 27, 2023 • 49m
Meditating Three Minutes a Day: A Conversation with Richard Dixey
Aug 22, 2023 • 1h 3m
Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein, "We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care" (Penguin, 2023)
Aug 21, 2023 • 56m
Stephen Aron, "Peace and Friendship: An Alternative History of the American West" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Aug 18, 2023 • 54m
The Digital Mind: How Science Is Redefining Humanity
Aug 15, 2023 • 17m
Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist
Aug 14, 2023 • 17m
Michael Ruse, "Darwinism as Religion: What Literature Tells Us about Evolution" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Aug 11, 2023 • 1h 18m
Michael J. Diamond, "Ruptures in the American Psyche: Containing Destructive Populism in Perilous Times" (Phoenix Publishing, 2022)
Aug 11, 2023 • 1h 8m
Boaventura de Sousa Santos, "From the Pandemic to Utopia: The Future Begins Now" (Routledge, 2023)
Aug 11, 2023 • 52m
Idolatry and Idle Hands (with Jacob Howland)
Aug 10, 2023 • 1h 9m
Cory Doctorow, "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" (Verso, 2023)
Aug 9, 2023 • 43m
Landon Mascareñaz and Doannie Tran, "The Open System: Redesigning Education and Reigniting Democracy" ((Harvard Education Press, 2023)
Aug 6, 2023 • 33m
Robot Futures
Aug 3, 2023 • 14m
Alelard to Apple: The Fate of American Colleges and Universities
Aug 2, 2023 • 15m
Chrisoula Andreou, "Choosing Well: The Good, the Bad, and the Trivial" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 1, 2023 • 1h 11m
The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
Jul 31, 2023 • 16m
Jade E. Davis, "The Other Side of Empathy" (Duke UP, 2023)
Jul 30, 2023 • 48m
Zhihua Yao, "Nonexistent Objects in Buddhist Philosophy: On Knowing What There is Not" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Jul 30, 2023 • 59m
Benjamin Studebaker, "The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way Is Shut" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
Jul 28, 2023 • 1h 7m
Anne Phillips, "Unconditional Equals" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Jul 18, 2023 • 58m
Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris, "Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken in and What We Can Do about It" (Basic Books, 2023)
Jul 16, 2023 • 1h 1m
The Future of Food: A Discussion with Kimberly Wilson
Jul 14, 2023 • 38m
Randall Patnode, "The Synchronized Society: Time and Control From Broadcasting to the Internet" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Jul 12, 2023 • 52m
Torin Alter, "The Matter of Consciousness: From the Knowledge Argument to Russellian Monism" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jul 10, 2023 • 1h 8m
Daniel Boyarin, "The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto" (Yale UP, 2023)
Jul 7, 2023 • 55m
Kevin J. Elliott, "Democracy for Busy People" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Jul 1, 2023 • 1h 6m
Why Do So Many Young People Think the Unabomber was Right?
Jun 30, 2023 • 1h 16m
Making Democracy Fun: How Game Design Can Empower Citizens and Transform Politics
Jun 29, 2023 • 15m
Andy Karr, "Into the Mirror: A Buddhist Journey through Mind, Matter, and the Nature of Reality" (Shambhala, 2023)
Jun 25, 2023 • 1h 1m
Tom Higham, "The World Before Us: The New Science Behind Our Human Origins" (Yale UP, 2021)
Jun 24, 2023 • 41m
Robert Falconer, "The Others Within Us: Internal Family Systems, Porous Mind, and Spirit Possession" (Great Mystery Press, 2023)
Jun 23, 2023 • 52m
Richard Duncan, "The Money Revolution: How to Finance the Next American Century" (John Wiley & Sons, 2022)
Jun 21, 2023 • 55m
Chris Impey, "Worlds Without End: Exoplanets, Habitability, and the Future of Humanity" (MIT Press, 2023)
Jun 16, 2023 • 32m
Josh Milburn, "Food, Justice, and Animals: Feeding the World Respectfully" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jun 15, 2023 • 1h 16m
Peter Baldwin, "Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All" (MIT Press, 2023)
Jun 14, 2023 • 33m
Simon Sharpe, "Five Times Faster: Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jun 14, 2023 • 30m
Nate G. Hilger, "The Parent Trap: How to Stop Overloading Parents and Fix Our Inequality Crisis" (MIT Press, 2023)
Jun 13, 2023 • 56m
Graham Harman and Christopher Witmore, "Objects Untimely: Object-Oriented Philosophy and Archaeology" (Polity Press, 2023)
Jun 10, 2023 • 1h 4m
Philip Kitcher, "What's the Use of Philosophy?' (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jun 5, 2023 • 51m
Jen Ross, "Digital Futures for Learning: Speculative Methods and Pedagogies" (Routledge, 2022)
Jun 4, 2023 • 38m
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, "The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty" (Penguin, 2020)
Jun 2, 2023 • 50m
Orly Lobel, "The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future" (PublicAffairs, 2022)
May 31, 2023 • 55m
Jaime Green, "The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination and Our Vision of the Cosmos" (Hanover Square Press, 2023)
May 29, 2023 • 56m
Lawrence H. White, "Better Money: Gold, Fiat, or Bitcoin?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
May 28, 2023 • 43m
Bart D. Ehrman, "Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)
May 28, 2023 • 37m
After the Pill: A Conversation with Mary Eberstadt
May 23, 2023 • 48m
James Poskett, "Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science" (Mariner Books, 2022)
May 21, 2023 • 46m
Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, "We Have Always Been Cyborgs: Digital Data, Gene Technologies, and an Ethics of Transhumanism" (Bristol UP, 2023)
May 21, 2023 • 45m
Philip Pettit, "The State" (Princeton UP, 2023)
May 20, 2023 • 41m
The Origins of the Modern Self: A Conversation with Carl Trueman
May 18, 2023 • 59m
Carol Graham, "The Power of Hope: How the Science of Well-Being Can Save Us from Despair" (Princeton UP, 2023)
May 15, 2023 • 1h 6m
Karen Schrier, "We the Gamers: How Games Teach Ethics and Civics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
May 11, 2023 • 36m
The Miraculous Mind (with Paul Bloom)
May 11, 2023 • 59m
Ami Harbin, "Fearing Together: Ethics for Insecurity" (Oxford UP, 2023)
May 7, 2023 • 40m
Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, "Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity" (PublicAffairs, 2023)
May 5, 2023 • 44m
Jack Buffington, "Reinventing the Supply Chain: A 21st-Century Covenant with America" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
May 5, 2023 • 37m
Peter Frankopan, "The Earth Transformed: An Untold History" (Knopf, 2023)
May 4, 2023 • 52m
The Future of Germs: A Discussion with Jonathan Kennedy
Apr 28, 2023 • 1h 2m
Extraterrestrials
Apr 27, 2023 • 16m
Alan Lightman, "The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science" (Pantheon, 2023)
Apr 26, 2023 • 29m
Free Will as an Open Scientific Problem
Apr 25, 2023 • 14m
Scott Newstok, "How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Apr 23, 2023 • 47m
Tom Hutton, "Hitler's Maladies and Their Impact on World War II" (Texas Tech UP, 2023)
Apr 23, 2023 • 50m
Rachel Robison-Greene, "Edibility and in Vitro Meat: Ethical Considerations" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Apr 21, 2023 • 49m
Paul Kenny, "Why Populism?: Political Strategy from Ancient Greece to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Apr 17, 2023 • 39m
Doug Bates on the Ancient Greek Version of Buddhism
Apr 17, 2023 • 35m
David Rothenberg, "Whale Music: Thousand Mile Songs in a Sea of Sound" (Terra Nova Press, 2023)
Apr 4, 2023 • 54m
Ben Shneiderman, "Human-Centered AI" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Apr 4, 2023 • 22m
Brian Villmoare, "The Evolution of Everything: The Patterns and Causes of Big History" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Apr 3, 2023 • 1h 0m
Karen Frost-Arnold, "Who Should We Be Online?: A Social Epistemology for the Internet" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Apr 1, 2023 • 1h 5m
Ioannis Gaitanidis, "Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan: Beyond Religion?" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Mar 31, 2023 • 50m
The Good Enough Life
Mar 30, 2023 • 1h 8m
Antonius C. G. M. Robben and Alex Hinton, "Perpetrators: Encountering Humanity's Dark Side" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Mar 29, 2023 • 1h 23m
Todd McGowan, "Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets" (Columbia UP, 2016)
Mar 23, 2023 • 43m
Tobias Tanton, "Corporeal Theology: The Nature of Theological Understanding in Light of Embodied Cognition" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Mar 22, 2023 • 55m
The Future of Genes and Equality: A Discussion with Kathryn Paige Harden
Mar 22, 2023 • 40m
David LePoire, "Time Patterns in Big History: Cycles, Fractals, Waves, Transitions, and Singularities" (2020)
Mar 22, 2023 • 1h 10m
Choice Architecture
Mar 7, 2023 • 20m
Nicola Rollock, "The Racial Code: Tales of Resistance and Survival" (Penguin, 2022)
Mar 5, 2023 • 44m
Mary-Jane Rubenstein, "Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Mar 3, 2023 • 35m
Adrian Bejan, "Time and Beauty: Why Time Flies and Beauty Never Dies" (World Scientific, 2022)
Feb 26, 2023 • 45m
Anna M. Grzymała-Busse, "Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Feb 19, 2023 • 44m
Jonathan Herring, "The Right to Be Protected from Committing Suicide" (Hart Publishing, 2022)
Feb 19, 2023 • 1h 3m
Philip Nel, "Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Feb 16, 2023 • 49m
Karyne E. Messina, "Resurgence of Global Populism: A Psychoanalytic Study of Projective Identification, Blame-Shifting and the Corruption of Democracy" (Routledge, 2022)
Jan 21, 2023 • 48m
The Myth of Modernity: Is There a Bigger Picture?
Jan 20, 2023 • 34m
Robert Ovetz, "We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few" (Pluto Press, 2022)
Jan 18, 2023 • 1h 11m
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
Jan 13, 2023 • 1h 2m
Oana Serban, "After Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Aesthetic Revolutions" (de Gruyter, 2022)
Jan 12, 2023 • 1h 6m
Richard Wolin, "Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology" (Yale UP, 2023)
Jan 10, 2023 • 1h 54m
John P. Gluck, "Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals: A Primate Scientist's Ethical Journey" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
Jan 3, 2023 • 1h 17m
Tommie Shelby, "The Idea of Prison Abolition" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Dec 30, 2022 • 1h 12m
Ed Cohen, "On Learning to Heal or, What Medicine Doesn't Know" (Duke UP, 2022)
Dec 28, 2022 • 1h 23m
Luke Munn, "Automation Is a Myth" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Dec 27, 2022 • 1h 6m
Christopher M. Palmer, "Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health" (Benbella Books, 2022)
Dec 23, 2022 • 56m
Geert Lovink, "Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism" (Pluto Press, 2019)
Dec 22, 2022 • 1h 0m
Illiquidity + Opacity = Insolvency: A Discussion with Gary Stern, Former President of the Minneapolis Fed
Dec 22, 2022 • 48m
Tom McLeish, "The Poetry and Music of Science: Comparing Creativity in Science and Art" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Dec 20, 2022 • 35m
Batja Mesquita, "Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions" (Norton, 2022)
Dec 15, 2022 • 59m
Jason Ananda Josephson Storm, "Metamodernism: The Future of Theory" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Dec 12, 2022 • 1h 0m
Nancy J. Nersessian, "Interdisciplinarity in the Making: Models and Methods in Frontier Science" (MIT Press, 2022)
Dec 10, 2022 • 1h 8m
The Future of AI in Work: A Discussion with Daniel Susskind
Dec 9, 2022 • 51m
Agathe Demarais, "Backfire: How Sanctions Reshape the World Against U.S. Interests" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Nov 29, 2022 • 1h 7m
Hilan Bensusan, "Indexicalism: The Metaphysics of Paradox" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
Nov 29, 2022 • 1h 3m
Michael Bess, "Planet in Peril: Humanity's Four Greatest Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Nov 29, 2022 • 49m
Joseph Silk, "Back to the Moon: The Next Giant Leap for Humankind" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Nov 28, 2022 • 35m
Samuel J. Levine, "Was Yosef on the Spectrum?: Understanding Joseph Through Torah, Midrash, and Classical Jewish Sources" (Urim Publications, 2018)
Nov 18, 2022 • 1h 4m
Lowell Gustafson, "Religion, Space and Deep Time" (Routledge, 2022)
Nov 8, 2022 • 1h 8m
Željka Matijasević, "The Borderline Culture: Intensity, Jouissance, and Death" (Lexington, 2021)
Nov 7, 2022 • 40m
Gerd Gigerenzer, "How to Stay Smart in a Smart World: Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms" (MIT Press, 2022)
Nov 3, 2022 • 1h 7m
Rachel Aumiller, "A Touch of Doubt: On Haptic Scepticism" (de Gruyter, 2021)
Oct 27, 2022 • 1h 24m
Adrian Hon, "You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All" (Basic Books, 2022)Adrian Hon, "You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All" (Basic Books, 2022)
Oct 25, 2022 • 44m
Paul Daugherty and H. James Wilson, "Radically Human: How New Technology Is Transforming Business and Shaping Our Future" (HBR Press, 2022)
Oct 20, 2022 • 35m
Lisa Feldman Barrett, "Seven and a Half Lessons about the Brain" (Mariner Books, 2020)
Oct 19, 2022 • 1h 21m
Geert Lovink, "Stuck on the Platform: Reclaiming the Internet" (Valiz, 2022)
Oct 13, 2022 • 1h 0m
Neil Levy, "Bad Beliefs: Why They Happen to Good People" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Oct 10, 2022 • 1h 10m
Gabriel Levy, "Beyond Heaven and Earth: A Cognitive Theory of Religion" (MIT Press, 2022)
Oct 10, 2022 • 55m
Joseph Blankholm, "The Secular Paradox: On the Religiosity of the Not Religious" (NYU Press, 2022)
Oct 7, 2022 • 43m
Adam Adatto Sandel, "Happiness in Action: A Philosopher's Guide to the Good Life" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Oct 6, 2022 • 1h 6m
C. Thi Nguyen, "Games: Agency as Art" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Oct 4, 2022 • 58m
Samo Tomšič, "The Labour of Enjoyment: Towards a Critique of Libidinal Economy" (Walther Konig Verlag, 2019)
Sep 27, 2022 • 1h 16m
Thomas S. Mullaney and Christopher Rea, "Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World)" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Sep 15, 2022 • 1h 26m
Amber M. Trotter, "Psychoanalysis as a Subversive Phenomenon: Social Change, Virtue Ethics, and Analytic Theory" (Lexington Books, 2020)
Sep 14, 2022 • 1h 0m
Nicholas Gamso, "Art After Liberalism" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Sep 12, 2022 • 1h 24m
Joel Michael Reynolds, "The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Sep 9, 2022 • 45m
Survival of the Leftest: Should We Embrace Behavioural Genetics?
Sep 7, 2022 • 51m
Ivan Franceschini and Nicholas Loubere, "Global China as Method" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Aug 26, 2022 • 22m
Alfie Bown, "Dream Lovers: The Gamification of Relationships" (Pluto Press, 2022)
Aug 24, 2022 • 59m
Mathew Lawrence and Adrienne Buller, "Owning the Future: Power and Property in an Age of Crisis" (Verso, 2022)
Aug 23, 2022 • 44m
Ron Broglio, "Animal Revolution" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Aug 16, 2022 • 50m
Eswar S. Prasad, "The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Aug 16, 2022 • 40m
The Future of Net Zero: A Discussion with Eric Lonergan
Aug 16, 2022 • 47m
Mark Solms, "The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness" (Norton, 2021)
Aug 12, 2022 • 1h 7m
Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner, "The Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be" (MIT Press, 2022)
Jul 22, 2022 • 1h 15m
Maxwell Kennel, "Postsecular History: Political Theology and the Politics of Time" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Jul 20, 2022 • 32m
Lisa Jean Moore, "Our Transgenic Future: Spider Goats, Genetic Modification, and the Will to Change Nature" (NYU Press, 2022)
Jul 20, 2022 • 45m
Siniša Malešević, "Why Humans Fight: The Social Dynamics of Close-Range Violence" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Jul 18, 2022 • 1h 0m
Jed Esty, "The Future of Decline: Anglo-American Culture at Its Limits" (Stanford Briefs, 2022)
Jul 13, 2022 • 1h 7m
Jamie Susskind, "The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century" (Pegasus Books, 2022)
Jul 11, 2022 • 42m
Max Ajl, "A People's Green New Deal" (Pluto Press, 2021)
Jul 5, 2022 • 51m
Adrienne Buller, "The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Jul 5, 2022 • 48m
David Hunter, "On Believing: Being Right in a World of Possibilities" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jul 1, 2022 • 1h 3m
Frans de Waal, "Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
Jun 27, 2022 • 54m
Ryan North, "How to Take Over the World: Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain" (Riverhead Books, 2022)
Jun 27, 2022 • 1h 8m
Joni Schwartz and John R. Chaney, "Gifts from the Dark: Learning from the Incarceration Experience" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Jun 24, 2022 • 57m
Christopher Blattman, "Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace" (Viking, 2022)
Jun 23, 2022 • 49m
Jonathan Crary, "Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World" (Verso, 2022)
Jun 22, 2022 • 1h 6m
Robert-Jan Smits and Rachael Pells, "Plan S for Shock: Science. Shock. Solution. Speed." (Ubiquity Press, 2022)
Jun 21, 2022 • 1h 2m
Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman, "Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Jun 17, 2022 • 56m
Michael Munger, "The Sharing Economy: Its Pitfalls and Promises" (Duke UP, 2021)
Jun 15, 2022 • 55m
The Future of Religion: A Conversation with Robin Dunbar
Jun 14, 2022 • 49m
Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin, "How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth" (Polity, 2022)
Jun 9, 2022 • 1h 12m
Catherine Besteman, "Militarized Global Apartheid" (Duke UP, 2020)
Jun 8, 2022 • 36m
Gernot Wagner, "Geoengineering: The Gamble" (Polity, 2021)
Jun 7, 2022 • 1h 3m
David B. Goldstein, "The End of Genetics: Designing Humanity's DNA" (Yale UP, 2022)
Jun 6, 2022 • 56m
Are We Entering a "Neo-Medieval" Era?: A Conversation with Greg Lewicki
Jun 3, 2022 • 1h 5m
Rob Dunn, "A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species" (Basic Book, 2021)
Jun 2, 2022 • 1h 1m
The Future of the Brain: A Conversation with Daniel Graham
May 31, 2022 • 48m
Clive Hamilton and Mareike Ohlberg, "Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping the World" (Oneworld, 2021)
May 30, 2022 • 1h 10m
Ilana M. Horwitz, "God, Grades, and Graduation: Religion's Surprising Impact on Academic Success" (Oxford UP, 2022)
May 30, 2022 • 1h 5m
Yanis Varoufakis, "Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present" (Melville House, 2020)
May 30, 2022 • 32m
Paul Morland, "Tomorrow's People: The Future of Humanity in Ten Numbers" (Picador, 2022)
May 25, 2022 • 1h 0m
Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan, "Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success" (Public Affairs, 2022)
May 18, 2022 • 50m
The Future of Human Fertility: A Conversation with R. John Aitken
May 17, 2022 • 48m
David M. Peña-Guzmán, "When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness" (Princeton UP, 2022)
May 17, 2022 • 42m
Will Kinney, "An Infinity of Worlds: Cosmic Inflation and the Beginning of the Universe" (MIT Press, 2022)
May 16, 2022 • 50m
Sam Tatam, "Evolutionary Ideas: Unlocking Ancient Innovation to Solve Tomorrow's Challenges" (Harriman House, 2022)
May 11, 2022 • 1h 6m
Richard Schwartz, "No Bad Parts: How the Internal Family Systems Model Changes Everything" (Sounds True, 2021)
May 6, 2022 • 1h 3m
Nate G. Hilger, "The Parent Trap: How to Stop Overloading Parents and Fix Our Inequality Crisis" (MIT Press, 2022)
Apr 26, 2022 • 1h 0m
Pamela Hieronymi, "Freedom, Resentment, and the Metaphysics of Morals" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Apr 21, 2022 • 49m
Jonathan Beller, "The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism" (Duke UP, 2021)
Apr 15, 2022 • 59m
John A. List, "The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale" (Currency, 2022)
Apr 14, 2022 • 1h 1m
Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake, "Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Apr 5, 2022 • 1h 1m
Michael J. Graetz and Ian Shapiro, "The Wolf at the Door: The Menace of Economic Insecurity and How to Fight It" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Apr 4, 2022 • 55m
Lene Andersen, "Metamodernity: Meaning and Hope in a Complex World" (Nordic Bildung, 2019)
Apr 1, 2022 • 57m
W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz, "Tractatus Politico-Philosophicus: New Directions for the Future Development of Humankind" (Routledge, 2019)
Apr 1, 2022 • 1h 18m
The Future of Rational Decision Making: A Discussion with Olivier Sibony
Mar 29, 2022 • 44m
N. J. Enfield, "Language Vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists" (MIT Press, 2022)
Mar 23, 2022 • 1h 7m
Oded Galor, "The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality" (Dutton Books, 2022)
Mar 22, 2022 • 1h 5m
Kate Crawford, "The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence" (Yale UP, 2021)
Mar 21, 2022 • 56m
The Future of Consciousness: A Discussion with Eva Jablonka
Mar 8, 2022 • 49m
Daniel Chirot, "You Say You Want a Revolution?: Radical Idealism and Its Tragic Consequences" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Mar 7, 2022 • 1h 26m
Sean Kelly, "Becoming Gaia: On the Threshold of Planetary Initiation" (Integral Imprint, 2020)
Feb 28, 2022 • 1h 1m
William R. Miller, "On Second Thought: How Ambivalence Shapes Your Life" (Guilford, 2021)
Feb 23, 2022 • 46m
Charles R. Shipan and Craig Volden, "Why Bad Policies Spread (and Good Ones Don't)" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Feb 21, 2022 • 51m
Tony Veale, "Your Wit Is My Command: Building AIs with a Sense of Humor" (MIT Press, 2021)
Feb 16, 2022 • 1h 5m
Raghuveer Parthasarathy, "So Simple a Beginning: How Four Physical Principles Shape Our Living World" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Feb 15, 2022 • 50m
Aubrey Clayton, "Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Feb 10, 2022 • 1h 9m
Neil Vallelly, "Futilitarianism: Neoliberalism and the Production of Uselessness" (MIT Press, 2021)
Jan 26, 2022 • 59m
Helga Nowotny, "In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms" (Polity, 2021)
Jan 20, 2022 • 48m
Bradley Schurman, "The Super Age: Decoding Our Demographic Destiny" (Harper Business, 2022)
Jan 18, 2022 • 1h 4m
Charles Foster, "Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness" (Metropolitan Books, 2021)
Jan 14, 2022 • 1h 2m
Elizabeth A. Povinelli, "Between Gaia and Ground: Four Axioms of Existence and the Ancestral Catastrophe of Late Liberalism" (Duke UP, 2021)
Jan 7, 2022 • 1h 0m
Robert W. Baloh and Robert E. Bartholomew, "Havana Syndrome: Mass Psychogenic Illness and the Real Story Behind the Embassy Mystery and Hysteria" (Copernicus, 2020)
Jan 4, 2022 • 1h 10m
Seth David Radwell, "American Schism: How the Two Enlightenments Hold the Secret to Healing our Nation" (Greenleaf, 2021)
Dec 29, 2021 • 59m
Andrew Zitcer, "Practicing Cooperation: Mutual Aid Beyond Capitalism" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Dec 28, 2021 • 56m
Gabriel Yoran, "The Interfact: On Structure and Compatibility in Object-Oriented Ontology" (Open Humanities Press, 2021)
Dec 24, 2021 • 49m
Roger Mac Ginty, "Everyday Peace: How So-Called Ordinary People Can Disrupt Violent Conflict" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Dec 22, 2021 • 56m
Erin Cech, "The Trouble with Passion: How Searching for Fulfillment at Work Fosters Inequality" (U California Press, 2021)
Dec 15, 2021 • 40m
Jason Lyall, "Divided Armies: Inequality and Battlefield Performance in Modern War" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Dec 14, 2021 • 54m
Jeremy Lent, "The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find our Place in the Universe" (New Society, 2021)
Dec 14, 2021 • 1h 2m
Paul Collier, "The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties" (Harper, 2019)
Nov 30, 2021 • 58m
Eva von Redecker, "Praxis and Revolution: A Theory of Social Transformation" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Nov 29, 2021 • 1h 4m
Josep M. Coll, "Buddhist and Taoist Systems Thinking: The Natural Path to Sustainable Transformation" (Routledge, 2021)
Nov 19, 2021 • 57m
Daniel K. L. Chua and Alexander Rehding, "Alien Listening: Voyager's Golden Record and Music from Earth" (Zone Book, 2021)
Nov 16, 2021 • 48m
Steve Katsouros, "Come to Believe: How Jesuits Are Reinventing Education (Again)" (Orbis, 2017)
Nov 15, 2021 • 1h 26m
Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever, "Making AI Intelligible: Philosophical Foundations" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Nov 11, 2021 • 1h 14m
Edward Slingerland, "Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization" (Hachette, 2021)
Nov 10, 2021 • 1h 0m
Tony Nader, "One Unbounded Ocean of Consciousness: Simple Answers to the Big Questions of Life" (Penguin Random House, 2021)
Nov 8, 2021 • 1h 52m
Alex Pentland and Alexander Lipton, "Building the New Economy: Data As Capital" (MIT Press, 2021)
Oct 25, 2021 • 59m
Paulina Ochoa Espejo, "On Borders: Territories, Legitimacy, and the Rights of Place" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Oct 21, 2021 • 1h 4m
Philip Dwyer and Mark Micale, "The Darker Angels of Our Nature: Refuting the Pinker Theory of History & Violence" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Oct 19, 2021 • 1h 9m
Marco Dondi, "Outgrowing Capitalism: Rethinking Money to Reshape Society and Pursue Purpose" (Fast Company Press, 2021)
Oct 18, 2021 • 1h 12m
Vincent Ialenti, "Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now" (MIT Press, 2020)
Oct 15, 2021 • 1h 11m
Claudia Goldin, "Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Oct 15, 2021 • 51m
Alvin E. Roth, "Who Gets What--and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design" (HMH, 2015)
Oct 5, 2021 • 1h 0m
Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm, "Metamodernism: The Future of Theory" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Oct 4, 2021 • 1h 19m
Joshua Preiss, "Just Work for All: The American Dream in the 21st Century" (Taylor & Francis, 2020)
Sep 29, 2021 • 1h 5m
Giorgio Vallortigara, "Born Knowing: Imprinting and the Origins of Knowledge" (MIT Press, 2021)
Sep 28, 2021 • 1h 6m
Samuel Gershman, "What Makes Us Smart: The Computational Logic of Human Cognition" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Sep 28, 2021 • 43m
Bob Quinn and Liz Carlisle, "Grain by Grain: A Quest to Revive Ancient Wheat, Rural Jobs, and Healthy Food" (Island Press, 2019)
Sep 27, 2021 • 1h 13m
Caitlin Petre, "All the News That’s Fit to Click: How Metrics Are Transforming the Work of Journalists" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Sep 10, 2021 • 52m
Stephen J. Pyne, "The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next" (U California Press, 2021)
Sep 8, 2021 • 39m
Juha Kaakinen: Homelessness, a Solvable Problem
Sep 8, 2021 • 1h 58m
Hans Gersbach, "Redesigning Democracy: More Ideas for Better Rules" (Springer, 2018)
Sep 3, 2021 • 43m
Anil Seth, "Being You: A New Science of Consciousness" (Dutton, 2020)
Sep 2, 2021 • 1h 4m
Benjamin Ho, "Why Trust Matters: An Economist's Guide to the Ties That Bind Us" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Aug 26, 2021 • 59m
Gary Shiffman, "The Economics of Violence: How Behavioral Science Can Transform our View of Crime, Insurgency, and Terrorism" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Aug 25, 2021 • 57m
Jason M. Kelly, "Market Maoists: The Communist Origins of China's Capitalist Ascent" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Aug 19, 2021 • 36m
David Potter, "Disruption: Why Things Change" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Aug 12, 2021 • 59m
Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, "When Maps Become the World" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Aug 10, 2021 • 1h 7m
Chiara Marletto, "The Science of Can and Can't: A Physicist's Journey Through the Land of Counterfactuals" (Viking, 2021)
Aug 9, 2021 • 1h 8m
James Ladyman and K. Wiesner, "What Is a Complex System?" (Yale UP, 2020)
Jul 30, 2021 • 1h 14m
Robin Derricourt, "Creating God: The Birth and Growth of Major Religions" ( Manchester UP, 2021)
Jul 29, 2021 • 57m
Nichola Raihani, "The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World" (St. Martin's Press, 2021)
Jul 12, 2021 • 1h 10m
Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, "A Glossary of Urban Voids" (Jovis Verlag, 2020)
Jul 5, 2021 • 48m
Tyson Yunkaporta, "Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World" (HarperOne, 2021)
Jun 30, 2021 • 1h 0m
Margaret MacMillan, "War: How Conflict Shaped Us" (Random House, 2020)
Jun 28, 2021 • 34m
Hélène Landemore, "Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Jun 28, 2021 • 1h 8m
Susan Crane, "Nothing Happened: A History" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Jun 23, 2021 • 59m
Kathleen Fitzpatrick, "Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
Jun 15, 2021 • 1h 2m
Tom Eisenmann, "Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success" (Currency, 2021)
Jun 8, 2021 • 1h 25m
Jonathan Rauch, "The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth" (Brookings, 2021)
Jun 7, 2021 • 39m
James M. Banner Jr., "The Ever-Changing Past: Why All History Is Revisionist History" (Yale UP, 2021)
Jun 4, 2021 • 50m
Skylar Tibbits, "Things Fall Together: A Guide to the New Materials Revolution" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Jun 1, 2021 • 50m
Gregg D. Caruso, "Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Jun 1, 2021 • 1h 9m
Shai Reshef: Founding President, University of the People
May 31, 2021 • 49m
Linda Colley, "The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World" (Liveright, 2021)
May 26, 2021 • 46m
William D. Nordhaus, "The Spirit of Green: The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World" (Princeton UP, 2021)
May 24, 2021 • 28m
Bobby C. Lee, "The Promise of Bitcoin: The Future of Money and How It Can Work for You" (McGraw-Hill Education, 2021)
May 18, 2021 • 40m
David R. Boyd, "The Rights of Nature: A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World" (ECW Press, 2017)
May 18, 2021 • 57m
Michael D. Gordin, "On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience" (Oxford UP, 2021)
May 17, 2021 • 54m
Simon Critchley, "Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us" (Vintage, 2020)
May 14, 2021 • 55m
Tim Jackson, "Post Growth: Life after Capitalism" (Polity, 2021)
May 7, 2021 • 52m
Peter Godfrey-Smith, "Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind" (FSG, 2020)
May 3, 2021 • 47m
Melvin Konner, "Believers: Faith in Human Nature" (Norton, 2019)
Apr 26, 2021 • 1h 2m
Herbert Terrace, "Why Chimpanzees Can't Learn Language and Only Humans Can" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Apr 21, 2021 • 59m
Matthew O. Jackson, "The Human Network: How Your Social Position Determines Your Power, Beliefs, and Behaviors" (Vintage, 2019)
Apr 19, 2021 • 1h 6m
Frank Ruda, "Abolishing Freedom: A Plea for a Contemporary Use of Fatalism" (U Nebraska Press, 2016)
Apr 12, 2021 • 1h 18m
Philip N. Howard, "Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives" (Yale UP, 2020)
Apr 12, 2021 • 48m
Avi Loeb, "Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth" (Houghton Mifflin, 2021)
Apr 6, 2021 • 54m
Edward Ashford Lee, "The Coevolution: The Entwined Futures of Humans and Machines" (MIT Press, 2020)
Apr 2, 2021 • 1h 11m
Eugenia Cheng, "x + y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender" (Basic Book, 2020)
Apr 1, 2021 • 42m
Luke Russell, "Being Evil: A Philosophical Perspective" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Apr 1, 2021 • 1h 7m
John Durham Peters et al., "Action at a Distance" (Meson Press, 2020)
Mar 26, 2021 • 1h 12m
Eric Hayot, "Humanist Reason: A History. An Argument. A Plan" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Mar 17, 2021 • 1h 28m
Jeremy DeSilva, "First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human" (Harper, 2021)
Mar 12, 2021 • 1h 7m
Roland T. Rust and Ming-Hui Huang, "The Feeling Economy: How Artificial Intelligence Is Creating the Era of Empathy" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)
Mar 4, 2021 • 35m
Ronald J. Deibert, "Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society" (House of Anansi, 2020)
Feb 26, 2021 • 1h 5m
Simon Baron-Cohen, "The Pattern Seekers: A New Theory of Human Invention" (Allen Lane, 2020)
Jan 26, 2021 • 1h 1m
Emmanuel Kreike, "Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime Against Humanity and Nature" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Jan 25, 2021 • 1h 20m
R. A. Woldoff and R. C. Litchfield, "Digital Nomads: In Search of Freedom, Community, and Meaningful Work in the New Economy" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jan 21, 2021 • 1h 46m
Michael J. Sandel, "The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?" (FSG, 2020)
Jan 8, 2021 • 42m
Daniel Oberhaus, "Extraterrestrial Languages" (MIT Press, 2019)
Jan 6, 2021 • 59m
Robert Baker, "The Structure of Moral Revolutions: Studies of Changes in the Morality of Abortion, Death, and the Bioethics Revolution" (MIT Press, 2019)
Jan 6, 2021 • 1h 10m
Paul Davies, "The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Dec 24, 2020 • 1h 18m
Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, "Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Dec 17, 2020 • 1h 1m
Ian Ayres and Fredrick E. Vars, "Weapon of Choice: Fighting Gun Violence While Respecting Gun Rights" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Dec 16, 2020 • 1h 2m
Carl R. Trueman, "The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution" (Crossway, 2020)
Dec 7, 2020 • 2h 5m
Richard Seymour, "The Twittering Machine" (Verso, 2020)
Dec 3, 2020 • 1h 4m
Glenn Sauer, "Points of Contact: Science, Religion, and the Search for Truth" (Orbis Books, 2020)
Dec 2, 2020 • 59m
Andrew Liu, "Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India" (Yale UP, 2020)
Nov 4, 2020 • 50m
Michael E. McCullough, "The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code" (Basic Books, 2020)
Oct 29, 2020 • 35m
Philip Jenkins, "Fertility and Faith: The Demographic Revolution and the Transformation of World Religions" (Baylor UP, 2020)
Oct 27, 2020 • 1h 8m
Joan Scott, "On the Judgment of History" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Oct 15, 2020 • 1h 3m
Margaret Heffernan, "Uncharted: How to Map and Navigate the Future Together" (Simon and Schuster, 2020)
Oct 12, 2020 • 35m
Jeremy England, "Every Life is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things" (Basic Books, 2020)
Oct 5, 2020 • 1h 39m
R. Pollin and N. Chomsky, "Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet" (Verso, 2020)
Sep 15, 2020 • 46m
David Haig, "From Darwin to Derrida: Selfish Genes, Social Selves, and the Meanings of Life" (MIT Press, 2020)
Sep 10, 2020 • 45m
Matthew Yglesias, "One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger" (Portfolio, 2020)
Sep 8, 2020 • 1h 1m
David J. Hand, "Dark Data: Why What You Don't Know Matters" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Sep 4, 2020 • 1h 18m
Jered Rubin, "Rulers, Religion, and Riches: Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Aug 19, 2020 • 1h 16m
Christopher Newfield, "The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2016)
Aug 12, 2020 • 55m
Saqib Iqbal Qureshi, "The Broken Contract: Making Our Democracies Accountable, Representative, and Less Wasteful" (Lioncrest, 2020)
Jul 31, 2020 • 1h 11m
Justin Tosi and Brandon Warmke, "Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jul 1, 2020 • 1h 8m
Eric Holthaus, "The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What’s Possible in the Age of Warming" (HarperOne, 2020)
Jun 30, 2020 • 59m
George Lawson, "Anatomies of Revolution" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Jun 19, 2020 • 1h 24m
Nathan G. Alexander, "Race in a Godless World: Atheism, Race, and Civilization, 1850–1914" (NYU Press, 2019)
Jun 17, 2020 • 42m
James C. Scott, "Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States" (Yale UP, 2017)
Jun 4, 2020 • 57m
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
Jun 2, 2020 • 2h 0m
B. Earp and J. Savulescu, "Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Relationships" (Stanford UP, 2020) )
May 11, 2020 • 1h 11m
Yael Tamir, "Why Nationalism?" (Princeton UP, 2019)
May 4, 2020 • 35m
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Apr 28, 2020 • 59m
Wade Roush, "Extraterrestrials" (MIT Press, 2020)
Apr 27, 2020 • 54m
Valerie Hansen, "The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World -- and Globalization Began" (Scribner, 2020)
Apr 24, 2020 • 49m
Thomas Piketty, "Capital and Ideology" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Apr 21, 2020 • 36m
K. Aronoff, et al., "A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal" (Verso, 2019)
Apr 14, 2020 • 1h 44m
V. Hudson, D. Bowen, P. Nielsen, "The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Apr 1, 2020 • 1h 39m
Samuel Gregg, "Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization" (Gateway, 2019)
Mar 31, 2020 • 1h 30m
Sir John Redwood, "We Don't Believe You: Why Populists and the Establishment See the World Differently" (Bite-Sized Books, 2019)
Mar 31, 2020 • 59m
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
Mar 30, 2020 • 52m
Olivier Roy, "Is Europe Christian?" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Mar 3, 2020 • 31m
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Feb 25, 2020 • 42m
Douglas Murray, "The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity" (Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019)
Feb 25, 2020 • 1h 12m
Lee Drutman, "Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Feb 17, 2020 • 39m
Matthew Gutmann, "Are Men Animals? How Modern Masculinity Sells Men Short" (Basic Books, 2019)
Feb 12, 2020 • 1h 1m
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
Jan 30, 2020 • 37m
Neil McArthur, "Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications" (MIT Press, 2017)
Jan 9, 2020 • 1h 11m
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
Dec 3, 2019 • 57m
Jonathan Rothwell, "A Republic of Equals: A Manifesto for a Just Society" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Nov 20, 2019 • 37m
Richard Robb, "Willful: How We Choose What We Do" (Yale UP, 2019)
Nov 18, 2019 • 42m
What are Empires and Why do they Matter?
Nov 14, 2019 • 1h 2m
Robert Talisse, "Overdoing Democracy: Why We Must Put Politics in Its Place" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Nov 11, 2019 • 1h 11m
John Gribbin, "Six Impossible Things: The ‘Quanta of Solace’ and the Mysteries of the Subatomic World" (Icon Books, 2019)
Nov 5, 2019 • 54m
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
Nov 3, 2019 • 38m
C. Strachan and L. Poloni-Staudinger, "Why Don′t Women Rule the World?: Understanding Women′s Civic and Political Choices" (Sage, 2019)
Oct 9, 2019 • 39m
Judith Grisel, "Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction" (Doubleday, 2019)
Sep 19, 2019 • 1h 0m
Harriet Washington, "A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind" (Little, Brown Spark, 2019)
Sep 9, 2019 • 48m
Charles King, "Gods of the Upper Air: How A Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century" (Doubleday, 2019)
Sep 4, 2019 • 1h 2m
Cyril Ghosh, "De-Moralizing Gay Rights: Some Queer Remarks on LGBT+ Rights Politics in the US" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
Aug 9, 2019 • 38m
Michael Beckley, "Unrivaled: Why America Will Remain the World's Sole Superpower" (Cornell UP, 2018)
Aug 7, 2019 • 48m
Stefan Al, "Adapting Cities to Sea Level Rise: Green and Gray Strategies" (Island Press, 2018)
Aug 5, 2019 • 52m
Violet Moller, "The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found" (Doubleday, 2019)
Jul 31, 2019 • 1h 4m
John Quiggen, "Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Jul 29, 2019 • 46m
David R. Montgomery, "Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life" (W. W. Norton, 2018)
Jul 26, 2019 • 57m
Paul Sutter, "Your Place in the Universe: Understanding Our Big, Messy Existence" (Prometheus, 2018)
Jul 18, 2019 • 54m
Donald Stoker, "Why America Loses Wars: Limited War and US Strategy from the Korean War to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Jul 8, 2019 • 45m
Yuen Yuen Ang, "How China Escaped the Poverty Trap" (Cornell UP, 2016)
Jul 2, 2019 • 41m
Joan Wallach Scott, "Sex and Secularism" (Princeton UP, 2017)
Jul 2, 2019 • 59m
Christian List, "Why Free Will is Real" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Jul 1, 2019 • 1h 6m
Jonathan D. T. Ward, "China's Vision of Victory" (Atlas Publishing, 2019)
Jun 28, 2019 • 52m
Morgan Marietta, "One Nation, Two Realities: Dueling Facts in American Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jun 26, 2019 • 45m
Michael Ruse, "A Meaning to Life" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jun 10, 2019 • 1h 1m
Mary Kate McGowan, "Just Words: On Speech and Hidden Harm" (Oxford UP, 2019)
May 31, 2019 • 1h 4m
Brian A. Jackson, "Practical Terrorism Prevention" (RAND Corporation, 2019)
May 30, 2019 • 57m
Zachary Kramer, "Outsiders: Why Difference is the Future of Civil Rights" (Oxford UP, 2019)
May 27, 2019 • 57m
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, "How Democracies Die" (Crown, 2018)
May 23, 2019 • 35m
Crystal Abidin, "Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online" (Emerald Publishing, 2018)
Apr 29, 2019 • 50m
Christopher Preston, "The Synthetic Age: Outdesigning Evolution, Resurrecting Species, and Reengineering Our World" (MIT Press, 2018)
Apr 18, 2019 • 51m
Laurence Cox, "Why Social Movements Matter: An Introduction" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018)
Apr 8, 2019 • 36m
Brad Stoddard and Craig Martin, “Stereotyping Religion: Critiquing Clichés” (Bloomsbury, 2017)
Apr 3, 2019 • 45m
Michael Hannon, "What is the Point of Knowledge? A Function-First Epistemology" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Apr 1, 2019 • 1h 1m
Jules Evans, "The Art of Losing Control: A Philosopher's Search for Ecstatic Experience" (Canongate Books, 2017)
Mar 28, 2019 • 1h 14m
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
Mar 19, 2019 • 32m
Janis Powers, "Health Care: Meet The American Dream" (River Grove Books, 2018)
Mar 4, 2019 • 58m
Geraldine Heng, "The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Feb 26, 2019 • 1h 1m
Jonathan Birch, "The Philosophy of Social Evolution" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Feb 11, 2019 • 1h 3m
Gary Metcalf, "Social Systems and Design" (Springer Verlag, 2014)
Feb 4, 2019 • 1h 2m
Leigh Goodmark, "Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence" (U California Press, 2018)
Feb 4, 2019 • 28m
Matthew Longo, "The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Feb 4, 2019 • 53m
John Torpey, "The Three Axial Ages: Moral, Material, Mental" (Rutgers UP, 2017)
Jan 30, 2019 • 31m
Maria Kronfeldner, "What's Left of Human Nature? A Post-Essentialist, Pluralist, and Interactive Account of a Contested Concept" (MIT Press, 2018)
Jan 15, 2019 • 1h 10m
McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
Dec 6, 2018 • 1h 4m
Steven Shaviro, “Discognition” (Repeater Books, 2016)
Nov 20, 2018 • 1h 7m
Paul Cartledge, “Democracy: A Life” (Oxford UP, 2016)
May 14, 2018 • 1h 4m
B.J. Mendelson, “Privacy: And How to Get It Back” (Curious Reads, 2017)
May 3, 2018 • 47m
Bruce Clarke, “Neocybernetics and Narrative” (University of Minnesota Press, 2014)
Mar 22, 2018 • 1h 19m
Thomas Mira y Lopez, “The Book of Resting Places: A Personal History of Where We Lay the Dead” (Counterpoint Press, 2017)
Feb 28, 2018 • 53m
Michael Ruse, “On Purpose” (Princeton UP, 2017)
Feb 12, 2018 • 57m
Andrew Keen, “How To Fix The Future” (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2018)
Feb 6, 2018 • 1h 0m
Christian B. Miller, “The Character Gap: How Good Are We?” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Jan 13, 2018 • 55m
Kate Manne, “Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Dec 25, 2017 • 1h 3m
Owen Flanagan, “The Geography of Morals: Varieties of Moral Possibility” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Dec 15, 2017 • 1h 6m
Zek Valkyrie, “Game Worlds Get Real: How Who We Are Online Became Who We Are Offline” (Praeger, 2017)
Dec 15, 2017 • 56m
Jo Littler, “Against Meritocracy: Culture, Power, and Myths of Mobility” (Routledge, 2017)
Nov 17, 2017 • 45m
Theodore Vial, “Modern Religion, Modern Race” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Nov 6, 2017 • 48m
Andrew Copson, “Secularism: Politics, Religion, and Freedom” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Nov 3, 2017 • 49m
Johan Swinnen and Devin Briski, “Beeronomics: How Beer Explains the World” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Oct 31, 2017 • 36m
James L. Kugel, “The Great Shift: Encountering God in Biblical Times” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017)
Oct 23, 2017 • 47m
Brian Clegg, “Big Data: How the Information Revolution Is Transforming Our Lives” (Icon Books, 2017)
Sep 19, 2017 • 54m
Ron Edwards, “The Edge of Evolution: Animality, Inhumanity, and Doctor Moreau” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Aug 25, 2017 • 57m
Robert Wright, “Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment” (Simon and Schuster, 2017)
Aug 25, 2017 • 56m
Brian Clegg, “The Reality Frame: Relativity and Our Place in the Universe” (Icon Books, 2017)
Jun 29, 2017 • 52m
Ronald A. Lindsay, “The Necessity of Secularism: Why God Can’t Tell Us What to Do” (Pitchstone Publishing, 2014)
Jun 23, 2017 • 1h 5m
Beau Lotto, “Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently” (Hatchette Books, 2017)
May 30, 2017 • 46m
Jon Mills, “Inventing God: Psychology of Belief and the Rise of Secular Spirituality” (Routledge, 2016)
May 21, 2017 • 54m
Ralph Young, “Dissent: The History of an American Idea” (NYU Press, 2015)
May 19, 2017 • 57m
Sharrona Pearl, “Face/On: Face Transplants and the Ethics of the Other” (U. Chicago Press, 2017)
May 18, 2017 • 1h 8m
Carrie Jenkins, “What Love is: And What it Could Be” (Basic Books, 2017)
Apr 25, 2017 • 1h 8m
Benjamin Hale, “The Wild and the Wicked: On Nature and Human Nature” (MIT Press, 2016)
Apr 15, 2017 • 1h 7m
Cristina Bicchieri, “Norms in the Wild: How to Diagnose, Measure, and Change Social Norms” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Apr 1, 2017 • 57m
Danielle Knafo and Rocco Lo Bosco, “The Age of Perversion: Desire and Technology in Psychoanalysis and Culture” (Routledge, 2016)
Mar 27, 2017 • 50m
Todd McGowan, “Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets” (Columbia UP, 2016)
Mar 19, 2017 • 59m
Berit Brogaard, “On Romantic Love: Simple Truths about a Complex Emotion” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Feb 13, 2017 • 51m
David Rosen and Aaron Santesso, “The Watchman in Pieces: Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood” (Yale UP, 2013)
Feb 9, 2017 • 1h 7m
Jessie Daniels, Karen Gregory, and Tressie McMillan Cottom, eds “Digital Sociologies” (Policy Press, 2016)
Feb 9, 2017 • 31m
John Hadley, “Animal Property Rights: A Theory of Habitat Rights for Wild Animals” (Lexington Books, 2015)
Feb 9, 2017 • 56m
Alan J. Levinovitz, “The Limits of Religious Tolerance” (Amherst College Press, 2016)
Jan 14, 2017 • 57m
Nicholas A. John, “The Age of Sharing” (Polity Press, 2016)
Jan 6, 2017 • 47m
Matthew MacWilliams, “The Rise of Trump: America’s Authoritarian Spring” (Amherst College Press, 2016)
Oct 22, 2016 • 50m
McKenzie Wark, “Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene” (Verso, 2015)
Oct 10, 2016 • 1h 2m
Martha Nussbaum, “Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Sep 1, 2016 • 1h 5m
Samantha Barbas, “Laws of Image: Privacy and Publicity in America” (Stanford Law Books, 2016)
Aug 25, 2016 • 1h 7m
Peter Harrison, “The Territories of Science and Religion” (U. of Chicago Press, 2014)
Jul 21, 2016 • 54m
Lance deHaven-Smith, “Conspiracy Theory in America” (U of Texas Press, 2014)
Jul 1, 2016 • 1h 36m
Ho-fung Hung, “The China Boom: Why China Will Not Rule the World” (Columbia UP, 2016)
May 18, 2016 • 1h 8m
Emily Troscianko, “Kafka’s Cognitive Realism” (Routledge, 2014)
May 2, 2016 • 39m
Alfie Bown, “Enjoying It: Candy Crush and Capitalism” (Zero Books, 2015)
Apr 18, 2016 • 31m
Wendell Potter and Nick Penniman, “Nation on the Take: How Big Money Corrupts Our Democracy” (Bloomsbury, 2016)
Apr 18, 2016 • 18m
Heather Boushey, “Finding Time: The Economies of Work-Life Conflict” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Apr 4, 2016 • 20m
Simon Critchley, “ABC of Impossibility” (Univocal Publishing, 2015)
Mar 7, 2016 • 1h 5m
Amy Allen, “The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory” (Columbia UP, 2016)
Mar 7, 2016 • 1h 7m
Timothy Snyder, “Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning” (Tim Duggan Books, 2015)
Jan 28, 2016 • 1h 18m
Jennifer Mittelstadt, “The Rise of the Military Welfare State” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Dec 10, 2015 • 50m
Saba Mahmood, “Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report” (Princeton UP, 2015)
Dec 7, 2015 • 1h 25m
Jason W. Moore, “Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital” (Verso, 2015)
Dec 3, 2015 • 51m
Carlos Fraenkel, “Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World” (Princeton UP, 2015)
Dec 1, 2015 • 1h 7m
Philip Roscoe, “A Richer Life: How Economics Can Change the Way We Think and Feel” (Penguin, 2015)
Nov 19, 2015 • 38m
Nancy Bauer, “How to Do Things With Pornography” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Nov 15, 2015 • 1h 12m
Lisa Tessman, “Moral Failure: On the Impossible Demands of Morality” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Nov 1, 2015 • 1h 3m
Colin Milburn, “Mondo Nano: Fun and Games in the World of Digital Matter” (Duke UP, 2015)
Oct 27, 2015 • 1h 13m
Jeffery S. Gurock, “The Holocaust Averted: An Alternate History of American Jewry, 1938-1967” (Rutgers UP, 2015)
Oct 22, 2015 • 57m
Jon Birger, “Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game” (Workman Publishing Company, 2015)
Oct 15, 2015 • 30m
Eric H. Cline, “1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed” (Princeton University Press, 2014)
Oct 7, 2015 • 1h 27m
Eugene Thacker, “Horror of Philosophy” (Zero Book, 2011-2015)
Sep 28, 2015 • 1h 8m
Michael L. Satlow, “How the Bible Became Holy” (Yale UP, 2014)
Sep 17, 2015 • 32m
Cass Sunstein, “Choosing Not to Choose: Understanding the Value of Choice” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Sep 1, 2015 • 1h 0m
Christine Desan, “Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Aug 25, 2015 • 58m
Tom Jackson, “Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again” (Bloomsbury, 2015)
Aug 19, 2015 • 56m
William Davies, “The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being” (Verso, 2015)
Aug 18, 2015 • 45m
Gyanendra Pandey, “A History of Prejudice: Race, Caste, and Difference in India and the United States” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
Aug 14, 2015 • 57m
Craig Martin, “Capitalizing Religion: Ideology and the Opiate of the Bourgeoisie” (Bloomsbury, 2014)
Aug 4, 2015 • 1h 2m
John H. Walton, “The Lost World of Adam and Eve: Genesis 2-3 and the Human Origins Debate” (IVP Academic, 2015)
Jul 24, 2015 • 56m
Asya Pereltsvaig and Martin Lewis, “The Indo-European Controversy: Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Jul 21, 2015 • 1h 1m
William Elliott III and Melinda Lewis, “Real College Debt Crisis” (Praeger, 2015)
Jul 20, 2015 • 31m
Kocku von Stuckrad, “The Scientification of Religion: An Historical Study of Discursive Change, 1800-2000” (De Gruyter, 2014)
Jul 6, 2015 • 55m
Iain W. Provan, “Seriously Dangerous Religion: What the Old Testament Really Says and Why It Matters” (Baylor UP, 2014)
Jul 6, 2015 • 55m
James Laine, “Meta-Religion: Religion and Power in World History” (U of California Press, 2015)
Jun 23, 2015 • 51m
Nick Sousanis, “Unflattening” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Jun 12, 2015 • 1h 6m
J. Bronsteen, C. Buccafusco, and J. S. Masur, “Happiness and the Law” (U Chicago Press, 2014)
May 12, 2015 • 43m
Robin Grier and Jerry F. Hough, “The Long Process of Development” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
May 11, 2015 • 1h 3m
Eben Kirksey, “The Multispecies Salon” (Duke University Press, 2014)
May 10, 2015 • 1h 8m
Thom van Dooren, “Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction” (Columbia UP, 2014)
Apr 17, 2015 • 1h 3m
Robert W. Gehl, “Reverse Engineering Social Media” (Temple UP, 2014)
Apr 13, 2015 • 42m
Robert Putnam, “Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis” (Simon and Schuster, 2015)
Mar 23, 2015 • 32m
Rick Strassman, “DMT and the Soul of Prophecy” (Park Street Press, 2014)
Mar 15, 2015 • 1h 25m
Edmund Russell, “Evolutionary History: Uniting History and Biology to Understand Life on Earth” (
Mar 11, 2015 • 50m
Alexander R. Galloway, “Laruelle: Against the Digital” (University of Minnesota Press, 2014)
Mar 5, 2015 • 1h 8m
Daniel Cloud, “The Domestication of Language” (Columbia UP, 2014)
Dec 16, 2014 • 56m
Suzanne Mettler, “Degrees of Inequality: How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream” (Basic Books, 2014)
Jul 9, 2014 • 56m
Nick Smith, “Justice through Apologies: Remorse, Reform, and Punishment” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
Jul 2, 2014 • 1h 14m
William Arnal and Russell T. McCutcheon, “The Sacred Is the Profane: The Political Nature of Religion” (Oxford UP, 2013)
Jun 27, 2014 • 1h 10m
Vili Lehdonvirta and Edward Castronova, “Virtual Economies: Design and Analysis” (MIT, 2014)
Jun 19, 2014 • 40m
Austin Sarat, “Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty” (Stanford UP, 2014)
Jun 18, 2014 • 56m
Morris B. Hoffman, “The Punisher’s Brain: The Evolution of Judge and Jury” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
Jun 11, 2014 • 1h 1m
Marci A. Hamilton, “God vs. the Gavel: Religion and the Rule of Law” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
Jun 7, 2014 • 59m
John L. Brooke, “Climate Change and the Course of Global History: A Rough Journey” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
Jun 4, 2014 • 1h 7m
Vincent Mosco, “To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World” (Paradigm Publishers, 2014)
May 29, 2014 • 38m
danah boyd, “It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens” (Yale UP, 2014)
May 12, 2014 • 45m
Jennifer Stromer-Galley, “Presidential Campaigning in the Internet Age” (Oxford UP, 2014)
May 5, 2014 • 26m
Benjamin Radcliff, “The Political Economy of Happiness” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
May 1, 2014 • 1h 4m
Elizabeth Kolbert, “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History” (Henry Holt, 2014)
Apr 19, 2014 • 56m
Jennifer Stromer-Galley, “Presidential Campaigning in the Internet Age” (Oxford UP, 2014)
Apr 18, 2014 • 33m
Michael Strevens, “Tychomancy: Inferring Probability from Causal Structure” (Harvard UP, 2013)
Apr 15, 2014 • 1h 1m
Nick Yee, “The Proteus Paradox: How Online Games and Virtual Worlds Change Us-and How They Don’t” (Yale UP, 2014)
Apr 11, 2014 • 51m
Nathan Schneider. “God in Proof: The Story of a Search from the Ancients to the Internet” (University of California Press, 2013)
Apr 7, 2014 • 58m
John R. Gillis, “The Human Shore: Seacoasts in History” (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
Feb 26, 2014 • 57m
John Hibbing et al., “Predisposed: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences” (Routledge, 2013)
Feb 24, 2014 • 21m
Joseph Uscinski, “The People’s News: Media, Politics, and the Demands of Capitalism” (NYU Press, 2014)
Feb 8, 2014 • 42m
Brent Nongbri, “Before Religion: A History of a Modern Concept” (Yale University Press, 2013)
Jan 18, 2014 • 1h 14m
Helene Landemore, “Democratic Reason: Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many” (Princeton UP, 2012)
Nov 1, 2013 • 54m
A. David Redish, “The Mind Within the Brain” (Oxford UP, 2013)
Oct 17, 2013 • 56m
Gayle Kaufman, “Superdads: How Fathers Balance Work and Family in the 21st Century” (NYU Press, 2013)
Sep 19, 2013 • 51m
Mary Eberstadt, “How the West Really Lost God” (Templeton Press, 2013)
Sep 7, 2013 • 51m
Jerome Kagan, “The Human Spark: The Science of Human Development” (Basic Books, 2013)
Sep 2, 2013 • 1h 3m
Hedrick Smith, “Who Stole the American Dream?” (Random House, 2012)
Aug 23, 2013 • 1h 3m
Elizabeth A. Armstrong and Laura T. Hamilton, “Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality” (Harvard UP, 2013)
Aug 9, 2013 • 1h 10m
Jonathan V. Last, “What to Expect When No One’s Expecting: America’s Coming Demographic Crisis” (Encounter Books, 2013)
Jul 25, 2013 • 53m
Frans De Waal, “The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among Primates” (Norton, 2013)
Jul 17, 2013 • 56m
John O. McGinnis, “Accelerating Democracy: Transforming Governance Through Technology” (Princeton UP, 2013)
Jul 10, 2013 • 1h 1m
Colin Gordon, “Growing Apart: A Political History of American Inequality” (Institute for Policy Studies, 2013)
Jun 25, 2013 • 1h 11m
Nicco Mele, “The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath” (St. Martin’s Press, 2013)
Jun 24, 2013 • 37m
Clive Hamilton, “Earthmasters: The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering” (Yale UP, 2013)
Jun 20, 2013 • 34m
Jonathan Rauch, “Denial: My 25 Years Without a Soul” (The Atlantic Books, 2013)
Jun 7, 2013 • 54m
Prasannan Parthasarathi, “Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600-1850” (Cambridge UP, 2011)
Jun 7, 2013 • 58m
Elizabeth H. Pleck, “Not Just Roommates: Cohabitation after the Sexual Revolution” (Chicago UP, 2012)
May 31, 2013 • 47m
Dan Kennedy, “The Wired City: Reimagining Journalism and Civic Life in the Post-Newspaper Age” (UMass Press, 2013)
May 29, 2013 • 44m
Douglas Rushkoff, “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now” (Current, 2013)
May 21, 2013 • 34m
Christian Caryl, “Strange Rebels:1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century” (Basic, 2013)
May 20, 2013 • 56m
James Dawes, “Evil Men” (Harvard UP, 2013)
May 16, 2013 • 58m
Thane Rosenbaum, “Payback: The Case for Revenge” (Chicago UP, 2013)
May 8, 2013 • 1h 3m
Steven J. Harper, “The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession in Crisis” (Basic Books, 2013)
May 1, 2013 • 1h 5m
Jared Diamond, “The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?” (Viking, 2012)
Apr 25, 2013 • 24m
Marlene Zuk, “Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live” (Norton, 2013)
Apr 22, 2013 • 57m
Neil Gross, “Why are Professors Liberal and Why do Conservatives Care?” (Harvard UP, 2013)
Apr 8, 2013 • 58m
Stephen T. Asma, “Against Fairness” (University of Chicago, 2013)
Apr 5, 2013 • 1h 0m
Robert W. McChesney, “Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy” (The New Press, 2013)
Apr 4, 2013 • 47m
Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky, “How Much is Enough: Money and the Good Life” (Other Press, 2012)
Mar 18, 2013 • 1h 0m
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, “American Umpire” (Harvard UP, 2013)
Mar 12, 2013 • 55m
Peter Gray, “Free to Learn” (Basic Books, 2013)
Mar 5, 2013 • 1h 6m
Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor, Jr., “Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It’s Intended to Help” (Basic Books, 2012)
Feb 22, 2013 • 1h 4m
Lawrence M. Krauss, “A Universe from Nothing: Why There is Something Rather than Nothing” (Atria, 2012)
Feb 13, 2013 • 32m
John Wood, “Creating Room to Read” (Viking Press, 2013)
Feb 4, 2013 • 32m
Alec Foege, "The Tinkerers: The Amateurs, DIYers, and Inventors Who Make America Great" (Basic Books, 2013)
Jan 17, 2013 • 51m
David Linen, “The Compass of Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good” (Viking, 2011)
Jun 26, 2012 • 36m
David Wolman, “The End Of Money: Counterfeiters, Preachers, Techies, Dreamers, and the Coming Cashless Society” (Da Capo Press, 2012)
Jun 8, 2012 • 58m
Mark Stephen Meadows, “We Robot: Skywalker’s Hand, Blade Runners, Iron Man, Slutbots, and How Fiction Became Fact” (Lyons Press, 2011)
Jul 6, 2011 • 56m
Jonathan Metzl, “The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease” (Beacon Press, 2010)
May 4, 2011 • 45m
Francis Fukuyama, “The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution” (FSG, 2011)
May 3, 2011 • 54m
Fred Spier, “Big History and the Future of Humanity” (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
Oct 1, 2010 • 1h 2m
Azar Gat, “War in Human Civilization” (Oxford UP, 2006)
Jul 15, 2010 • 53m
P. Bingham and J. Souza, “Death From a Distance and the Birth of a Humane Universe” (BookSurge, 2009)
Apr 30, 2010 • 1h 7m
Gregory Cochran, “The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution” (Basic, 2009)
Mar 6, 2009 • 1h 10m
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