1522 Episodes

  1. Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, "Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity" (PublicAffairs, 2023)

    Published: 5/5/2023
  2. Cedric Johnson, "After Black Lives Matter: Policing and Anti-Capitalist Struggle" (Verso, 2023)

    Published: 5/4/2023
  3. Henrik Örnebring and Michael Karlsson, "Journalistic Autonomy: The Genealogy of a Concept" (U Missouri Press, 2022)

    Published: 5/3/2023
  4. James Charney, "Madness at the Movies: Understanding Mental Illness through Film" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

    Published: 5/2/2023
  5. Chandra Mallampalli, "South Asia's Christians: Between Hindu and Muslim" (Oxford UP, 2023)

    Published: 5/1/2023
  6. Annie Zaleski, "Lady Gaga: Applause" (Palazzo Editions, 2022)

    Published: 4/30/2023
  7. Craig Leonard, "Uncommon Sense: Aesthetics after Marcuse" (MIT Press, 2022)

    Published: 4/29/2023
  8. The Future of Germs: A Discussion with Jonathan Kennedy

    Published: 4/28/2023
  9. Elaine H. Ecklund and David R. Johnson, "Varieties of Atheism in Science" (Oxford UP, 2021)

    Published: 4/27/2023
  10. Alan Lightman, "The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science" (Pantheon, 2023)

    Published: 4/26/2023
  11. Beth Bailey, "An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era" (UNC Press, 2023)

    Published: 4/25/2023
  12. Paul A. Lombardo, "Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)

    Published: 4/24/2023
  13. Tom Hutton, "Hitler's Maladies and Their Impact on World War II" (Texas Tech UP, 2023)

    Published: 4/23/2023
  14. The Future of Eastern Europe: A Discussion with Zsuzsanna Szelényi

    Published: 4/22/2023
  15. Rachel Robison-Greene, "Edibility and in Vitro Meat: Ethical Considerations" (Lexington Books, 2022)

    Published: 4/21/2023
  16. Michael K. Johnson, "Speculative Wests: Popular Representations of a Region and Genre" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

    Published: 4/20/2023
  17. Kathryn Cornell Dolan, "Breakfast Cereal: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2023)

    Published: 4/19/2023
  18. Dwayne Epstein, "Killin' Generals: The Making of The Dirty Dozen, the Most Iconic WW II Movie of All Time" (Citadel Press, 2023)

    Published: 4/18/2023
  19. Quinn Slobodian, "Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy" (Metropolitan, 2023)

    Published: 4/17/2023
  20. Piotr M. A. Cywiński, "Auschwitz: A Monograph on the Human" (Muzeum Auschwitz, 2022)

    Published: 4/16/2023

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