Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDaron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, "Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity" (PublicAffairs, 2023)
Episode 73
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity (PublicAffairs, 2023) is a groundbreaking work by bestselling authors D…
3 years, 3 months ago
Emma Hagström Molin, "Spoils of Knowledge: Seventeenth-Century Plunder in Swedish Archives and Libraries" (Brill, 2023)
Episode 3
In Spoils of Knowledge: Seventeenth-Century Plunder in Swedish Archives and Libraries (Brill, 2023), Emma Hagström Molin offers novel perspectives on…
3 years, 3 months ago
Francis Xavier Clooney, "Saint Joseph in South India: Poetry, Mission and Theology in Costanzo Gioseffo Beschi's Tēmpāvaṇi" (Brill, 2022)
Episode 257
Costanzo Gioseffo Beschi was an Italian Jesuit who worked in South India from 1710 to 1747. A brilliant scholar of Tamil, his works include hymns, in…
3 years, 3 months ago
Maura Dykstra, "Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine: The Administrative Revolution of the Eighteenth-Century Qing State" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Episode 493
Uncertainty about the way a state should be working is not necessarily produced by having multiple voices offering competing ideas about it. As Maura…
3 years, 3 months ago
Nicole von Germeten, "Death in Old Mexico: The 1789 Dongo Murders and How They Shaped the History of a Nation" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 190
In a Mexico City mansion on October 23, 1789, Don Joaquín Dongo and ten of his employees were brutally murdered by three killers armed with machetes.…
3 years, 3 months ago
All Men Are Created Equal: A Conversation with Allen C. Guelzo
Episode 32
Is the Declaration of Independence unique? Does the Declaration prescribe a form of government? What is the relationship between the Declaration and …
3 years, 3 months ago
Corrado Confalonieri, "Torquato Tasso and the Desire for Unity: 'Jerusalem Delivered' and a New Theory of the Epic" (Carocci editore, 2022)
Episode 22
A form at the origins of Western literature, the epic has always been theorized in contrast to other literary genres, those that would either perfect…
3 years, 3 months ago
Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America: A Conversation with Michael Breidenbach
Season 1 Episode 30
How did American Catholics go from subjects to citizens? Who is the "godfather" of the First Amendment? How can spiritual and temporal duties be reco…
3 years, 3 months ago
Benjamin L. Carp, "The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution" (Yale UP, 2023)
Episode 156
New York City, the strategic center of the Revolutionary War, was the most important place in North America in 1776. That summer, an unruly rebel arm…
3 years, 3 months ago
Scott Newstok, "How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 194
How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education (Princeton UP, 2020) offers a short, spirited defense of rhetoric and the liberal…
3 years, 3 months ago