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Back to SearchDennis Deletant, "In Search of Romania" (Hurst, 2022)
Episode 171
The imposition of Communist ideology was a misfortune for millions in Eastern Europe, but never for Dennis Deletant. Instead, it drew him to Romania. The renowned historian’s association with the cou…
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Oliver Davis and Tim Dean, "Hatred of Sex" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
Episode 178
How well do we understand our relationship to sex? According to Oliver Davis and Tim Dean, authors of the new book Hatred of Sex (University of Nebraska Press, 2022), we tend to overlook the “unpleas…
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Is a River Alive?: A Conversation with Robert Macfarlane
Hailed in the New York Times as "a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler," Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a profound work of travel writin…
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Carolyn J. Eichner, "Feminism's Empire" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Episode 1247
Feminism's Empire (Cornell UP, 2022) investigates the complex relationships between imperialisms and feminisms in the late nineteenth century and demonstrates the challenge of conceptualizing "pro-im…
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Charles Higham, "Early Southeast Asia: From First Humans to First Civilizations" (NUS Press, 2024)
In September 2025 the Dutch government announced that it would return to Indonesia the fossilized remains of the famous ‘Java Man’, the first known example of an early species of human, homo erectus.…
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The Renaissance of Marxist Studies: A Discussion with Babak Amini
Episode 279
The last few years have seen a resurgence of interest in academic research in Marxism and related fields, and many researchers have been stepping up to the plate to offer rigorous analysis and critic…
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John Kieschnick, "Buddhist Historiography in China" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Episode 40
Since the early days of Buddhism in China, monastics and laity alike have expressed a profound concern with the past. In voluminous historical works, they attempted to determine as precisely as possi…
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Philip Pettit, "The State" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 658
In The State (Princeton University Press, 2023), the prominent political philosopher Philip Pettit embarks on a massive undertaking, offering a major new account of the foundations of the state and t…
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Joshua Duclos, "Wilderness, Morality, and Value" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Episode 38
What if wilderness is bad for wildlife? This question motivates the philosophical investigation in Wilderness, Morality, and Value (Lexington Books, 2022). Environmentalists aim to protect wilderness…
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Sarah F. Derbew, "Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 326
Sarah Derbew’s new book Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity (Cambridge UP, 2022) asks how should articulations of blackness from the fifth century BCE to the twenty-first century be properly read…
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