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Back to SearchYoung People and Democracy in Africa: Between Engagement and Disillusionment
What explains the growing tension between young people and democracy in Africa? Why are some increasingly frustrated, disengaged, or even open to aut…
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Angus Burgin on the Rise of the Internet
We were joined by Angus Burgin, Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, and talked about how the arrival of the Internet remade l…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
Brenda Boyle, "American War Stories" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
In American War Stories (Rutgers UP, 2021) Brenda Boyle examines how the story of war is told in the Unites States and how these stories of war work …
4 weeks ago
Justin Michael Reed, "The Injustice of Noah's Curse" (Oxford UP, 2025)
In Genesis 9, Noah plants a vineyard, and eventually becomes drunk and uncovered in his tent. Then we are told that Ham sees the nakedness of his fat…
4 weeks ago
Patrick Noonan, "Age of Disaffection: The Aesthetic Critique of Politics in 1960s Japan" (Columbia UP, 2025)
The 1960s in Japan have long been understood as a period of radical political engagement. But as political movements from Old Left Communism to New L…
4 weeks ago
Mariam Goshadze, "The Noise Silence Makes: Secularity and Ghana's Drum Wars" (Duke UP, 2025)
In The Noise Silence Makes: Secularity and Ghana's Drum Wars (Duke UP, 2025) Mariam Goshadze traces the history of noise regulation in Accra, Ghana, …
4 weeks ago
Nazi-Looted Art and Archives: Recovering and Preserving Jewish Culture
The ravages of the Holocaust and post-World War II led to the theft and disappearance of art, archives, and personal assets. Join Jonathan Brent and …
4 weeks ago
Italo Calvino on the Written and the Unwritten Word
In this episode of the Vault, we revisit the Italian writer Italo Calvino’s James Lecture, presented at the New York Institute for the Humanities on …
4 weeks ago
Rachel Grace Newman, "The Future in Their Hands: Making Mexico's Foreign-Educated Elite" (U California Press, 2026)
The Future in Their Hands: Making Mexico's Foreign-Educated Elite (U California Press, 2026), by Dr. Rachel Grace Newman is a deep history of the pol…
4 weeks ago
Alexander Klein, "Consciousness is Motor: William James on Mind and Action" (Oxford UP, 2025)
When it comes to consciousness, William James is well-known for his descriptions of it rather than his theory of it and its relation to the body. In …
4 weeks ago