Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCredit to the Nation: Eastern European Jewish Immigrant Bankers and the Shaping of American Finance, 1873–1930 with Rebecca Kobrin (Harvard UP, 2026)
Episode 645
From a leading historian, the story of how entrepreneurial Jewish immigrants transformed commercial banking and enabled the economic and social advan…
1 month, 1 week ago
Rhetorical Powers: How Rising States Shape International Order with Sasikumar Sundaram (Columbia UP, 2026)
Episode 641
Recent years have seen a striking resurgence of anti-imperial and anticolonial rhetoric on the international stage, from Global South to Global North…
1 month, 1 week ago
Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing with Rahim Kurwa (U California Press, 2025)
Episode 643
In this episode, Lilyanna D'Amato speaks with Rahim Kurwa about his book Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing (U California P…
1 month, 1 week ago
Born Again: Romanticism and Fundamentalism with Jeffrey Champlin (U Toronto Press, 2025)
Episode 628
Born Again: Romanticism and Fundamentalism (U Toronto Press, 2025) examines the deep historical roots of fundamentalism in Protestantism and the ima…
1 month, 1 week ago
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night with Julian Sancton
Episode 633
I spoke with writer and The Hollywood Reporter editor Julian Sancton about his New York Times bestselling book, Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The…
1 month, 1 week ago
Allama Prabhu and the Shaiva Imagination with N.S. Gundur
Episode 629
Engages with the life and ideas of the twelfth-century Shaiva mystic and philosopher-poet Allama Prabhu.
In his last, profoundly innovative work All…
1 month, 1 week ago
How Girls Achieve
Episode 636
How Girls Achieve points out a simple and overlooked truth: most schools never had girls in mind to begin with. That is why the world needs what Dr. …
1 month, 1 week ago
Assassins and Secret Listeners: Britain's Invisible Armies, 1939-45 with Alistair Moffat (Birlinn, 2026)
Episode 626
Throughout Britain, all day, every day and in the dead of night, the secret listeners went about their solitary work. Hands on headphones, these men …
1 month, 1 week ago
Kennedy’s Only Hero: How JFK’s Obsession with Winston Churchill Defined His Presidency with Joel Nelson (Public Affairs, 2026)
Episode 635
President John F. Kennedy and Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill remain two of the most iconic figures of the twentieth century and Joel Nelson’s ne…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Generative Organization: AI Playbook for Exponential Leaders
Episode 634
How Do AI & Innovation Cohabitate?
Bryan Cassady is an author, professor, and all-around innovator, whether in book form or in classrooms, real and …
1 month, 1 week ago