Podcast Episodes

Christiane Tristl, "Turning Water into Commodity: Digital Innovation and the Private Sector as Development Agent" (Bristol UP, 2025)

In this episode, I am in conversation with Dr Christiane Tristl, an economic geographer interested in heterodox economic geography. Their scholarship…

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Guoqi Xu, "The Idea of China: A Contested History" (Harvard UP, 2026)

What counts as China, and who counts as Chinese?

China became a capitalist superpower by investing in globalization. Now that it has established its …

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Danielle Wiggins, "Black Excellence: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Black Liberalism" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)

A provocative new history of modern black liberalism

Black Excellence: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Black Liberalism (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)…

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The Tree of Life (Bryan Zahnd)

“The movie is a prayer,” says Bryan Zahnd, about Terrence Mallick’s 2011 The Tree of Life, his favorite movie of all time. Bryan has seen it forty ti…

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The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City with Henry Sapoznik

The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City (SUNY Press, 2025) offers a new look at over a century of Yiddish culture in New York City. Author …

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Paul Gillingham, "Mexico: A 500-Year History" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2025)

Mexico is among the most unique nations in the world, writes Northwestern University historian Paul Gillingham in Mexico: A 500-Year History (Atlanti…

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Brit Griffin, "The Haunting of Modesto O’Brien" (Latitude 46, 2025)

In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Brit Griffin about her novel, The Haunting of Modesto O’Brien (Latitude 46, 2025).

A gothic tale…

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Sean Parson, "Punk Anarchism: An Anti-Politics of Resistance" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

Punk Anarchism: An Anti-Politics of Resistance (Bloomsbury, 2026) is a radical critique of contemporary politics, offering an alternative framework…

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Rebecca Sharpless, "People of the Wheat: Culture and Cultivation in North Texas" (U Texas Press, 2026)

If you’ve ever wondered where your wheat flour is coming from, who is milling it (and how), or how it came to be such an important staple, then this …

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The Cave and the Coalition: Philosophy, Populism, and the MAGA New Right

In this episode of International Horizons, RBI acting director Eli Karetny sits down with political theorist Laura Field to trace the intellectual cu…

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