Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Player and the Played: From Gamed Capitalism to 21st-Century Fascism with Max Haiven (MIT Press, 2026)
Episode 600
A provocative examination of the ways our economy has been rigged by financialization, and the importance of games to our dangerous political moment.…
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Thomas Jefferson Survives: American Independence in His Time and Ours with Peter S. Onuf and Francis D. Cogliano (Liveright, 2026)
Episode 602
“Does Thomas Jefferson still matter?” ask two leading historians on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson has be…
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“Ten Percent” – Will Humanity Survive AI?
Episode 594
Could humanity’s most powerful invention become a threat to its survival? In this episode of The Survival Curve, we examine the disturbing prospect b…
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Fitness for Freedom: Disability, Degeneration, and Modern Irish Writing with Marion Quirici (Syracuse UP, 2025)
Episode 592
Fitness for Freedom: Disability, Degeneration, and Modern Irish Writing (Syracuse UP, 2025) explores the legacy of intersectional stereotypes of dis…
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Welcome to the Journal of Autoethnography
Episode 595
In this episode, the editors of the Journal of Autoethnography offer an inside look at the journal, discussing its origin and revisiting notable arti…
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Apocalyptic Abolitionism: How Millennialists Helped Abolish Slavery and Reform America with Kevin M. Burton (NYU Press, 2026)
Episode 596
Shows how apocalypticism helped drive anti-slavery abolitionism and inspire progressive social reform in nineteenth-century America In March 1844, Me…
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The Connoisseur: A Cultural History with Peter Burke (Reaktion, 2026)
Episode 591
Eminent historian Peter Burke joins Jana Byars to discuss his new book, The Connoisseur: A Cultural History (Reaktion, 2026), considering the art con…
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Wastelands and Wonderlands: Utopias and Dystopias in Film and Literature with Matthew Leggatt (SUNY Press, 2026)
Episode 593
Wastelands and Wonderlands: Utopias and Dystopias in Film and Literature with Matthew Leggatt (SUNY Press, 2026) is an edited collection exploring u…
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Weaponizing Civilian Protection: Counterinsurgency and Collateral Damage in Afghanistan with Thomas Gregory (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 584
Thomas Gregory is Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His new book, Weaponizing …
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Climate Hegemony: Confronting the Politics of Environmental Impasse with Laurie Parsons (LSE Press, 2026)
Episode 586
Climate action is at an impasse. Its political opponents are stronger than ever, its advocates powerless. Almost every major government and corporat…
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