Podcast Episodes

Elizabeth Bradfield's Books in Dark Times (JP)

For the RtB Books in Dark Times series back in 2021, John spoke with Elizabeth Bradfield, editor of Broadsided Press, poet, professor of creative wri…

2 weeks, 3 days ago

George Baylon Radics, "Emotional Filipinos: The American Myth of the 'Lazy Native' and Islamic Separatism in the Philippines" (U Georgia Press, 2026)

In the first half of the twentieth century, the United States attempted to build a colony in the Philippines in its own image—one fraught with racis…

2 weeks, 4 days ago

Utku Balaban, "Industrial Islamism: How Authoritarian Movements Mobilize Workers" (U California Press, 2025)

What explains the rise of religious populism in contemporary Turkish politics and society? How does industrialization help to explain change and co…

2 weeks, 4 days ago

Thomas Doherty, "How Film Became History: The Rise of the Archival Documentary in 1930s America" (Columbia UP, 2026)

By the 1930s, filmmakers had access to a backlog of footage from nearly forty years of motion pictures, allowing them to create a new kind of film st…

2 weeks, 4 days ago

Rachel Deblinger, "Saving Our Survivors: How American Jews Learned about the Holocaust" (Indiana UP, 2025)

How did American Jews come to learn about the Holocaust in the immediate aftermath of the war? What kinds of images and representations of Holocaust …

2 weeks, 4 days ago

Brett Neilson, "The Rest and the West: Capital and Power in a Multipolar World" (Verso, 2024)

At the heart of the fiercest international conflicts is the struggle for the future of globalization.

In the wake of a pandemic that tested economie…

2 weeks, 4 days ago

Angharad N. Valdivia and Isabel Molina-Guzmán, "Rebooting Inequality: Critical Takes on Film and Television Remakes" (NYU Press, 2026)

From Ghostbusters to Will & Grace, One Day at a Time to Jurassic Park, the past decade has seen Hollywood reach a new peak in its obsession with rebo…

2 weeks, 4 days ago

Hugo Drochon, "Elites and Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2026)

A central paradox of democracies is that they are always ruled by elites. What can democracy mean in this context? Today, it is often said that a p…

2 weeks, 4 days ago

Kristin LaFollette, "Rehumanizing People of the Past: Bioarchaeology, Medical Museums and Archives, and the Human Remains Trade" (SUNY Press, 2026)

Rehumanizing People of the Past: Bioarchaeology, Medical Museums and Archives, and the Human Remains Trade (SUNY Press, 2026) argues that much of th…

2 weeks, 4 days ago

Georgia C. Ennis, "Rainforest Radio: Language Reclamation and Community Media in the Ecuadorian Amazon" (U Arizona Press, 2025)

In Rainforest Radio: Language Reclamation and Community Media in the Ecuadorian Amazon (U Arizona Press, 2025), Dr. Georgia C. Ennis provides a compr…

2 weeks, 5 days ago