Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHeino Falcke and Jörg Römer, "Light in the Darkness: Black Holes, the Universe, and Us" (HarperCollins, 2021)
Episode 165
An astrophysicist chronicles his quest to photograph a black hole and reflects on its spiritual ramifications in this international-bestselling memoi…
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Sarah Kunz, "Expatriate: Following a Migration Category" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Episode 271
Who are expatriates? How do they differ from other migrants? And why should we care about such distinctions? Expatriate: Following a Migration Catego…
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Re-examining the Women’s Movement in Cold War South Korea and Beyond
Episode 265
In the past decade, feminism has become one of the heated topics in public debate in South Korea. Feminism is embraced by activists, attacked in elec…
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J. Logan Smilges, "Crip Negativity" (U of Minnesota Press, 2023)
Episode 25
In the thirty years since the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law, the lives of disabled people have not improved nearly as much as a…
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Sonya Lea, "American Bloodlines: Reckoning with Lynch Culture" (UP of Kentucky, 2025)
Episode 540
Summer 1936: Rainey Bethea, a young Black man, is tried for the rape and murder of an elderly white woman. The all-white, all-male jury takes just fo…
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Keidrick Roy, "American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 539
Though the United States has been heralded as a beacon of democracy, many nineteenth-century Americans viewed their nation through the prism of the O…
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Barbara Jane Brickman, "Suffering Sappho! Lesbian Camp in American Popular Culture" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Episode 142
An ever-expanding and panicked Wonder Woman lurches through a city skyline begging Steve to stop her. A twisted queen of sorority row crashes her con…
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Charles G. Thomas, "Ujamaa's Army: The Creation and Evolution of the Tanzania People's Defence Force, 1964-1979" (Ohio UP, 2024)
Episode 318
The immediate postcolonial moment brought both promise and peril for the states of Africa and their security. The process of decolonization generated…
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Tomer Persico, "In God's Image: How Western Civilization Was Shaped by a Revolutionary Idea" (NYU Press, 2025)
Episode 248
Dr. Tomer Persico is a Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, a Rubinstein Fellow at Reichman University, and a Senior Research Scholar at …
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Christopher J. H. Wright, "The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative" (InterVarsity Press, 2025)
Episode 38
God's mission is to reclaim the world. The church has a designated role to play. Most Christians would agree that the Bible provides a basis for miss…
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