Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAnna Wylegała et al., "No Neighbors’ Lands in Postwar Europe: Vanishing Others" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
Episode 197
Anna Wylegala, Sabine Rutar, and Malgorzata Lukianow's edited volume No Neighbors’ Lands in Postwar Europe: Vanishing Others (Palgrave MacMillan, 202…
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Samuel Moyn, "Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times" (Yale UP, 2023)
Episode 192
By the middle of the twentieth century, many liberals looked glumly at the world modernity had brought about, with its devastating wars, rising total…
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The Future of Traditionalism: A Discussion with Mark J. Sedgwick
Episode 74
Twenty years ago, it seemed Traditionalism was an esoteric and irrelevant set of beliefs. Since then, powerful people sympathetic to its ideas have o…
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Samuel Ramani, "Putin's War on Ukraine: Russia’s Campaign for Global Counter-Revolution" (Hurst, 2023)
Episode 190
Eight years after annexing Crimea, Russia embarked on a full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine in February 2022. For Vladimir Putin, this was a l…
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Mark Edele, "Russia's War Against Ukraine: The Whole Story" (Melbourne University, 2023)
Episode 14
"That Russia and Ukraine have diverged politically so radically since 1991 is partially due to their position vis-à-vis the imploded empire they emer…
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Jacob Mikanowski, "Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land" (Pantheon Books, 2023)
Episode 189
Eastern Europe, the moniker, has gone out of fashion since the fall of the Soviet Union. Ask someone now, and they might tell you that Estonia is in …
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Esra Özyürek, "Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Episode 243
At the turn of the millennium, Middle Eastern and Muslim Germans had rather unexpectedly become central to the country's Holocaust memory culture—not…
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Len Niehoff and Thomas Sullivan, "Free Speech: From Core Values to Current Debates" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 194
Why do we protect free speech? What values does it serve? How has the Supreme Court interpreted the First Amendment? What has the Court gotten right …
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Sharon Thompson, "Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women's Association and Family Law" (Hart Publishing, 2022)
Episode 61
This book tells the untold story of the Married Women's Association. Unlike more conventional histories of family law, which focus on legal actors, i…
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Maria Falina, "Religion and Politics in Interwar Yugoslavia: Serbian Nationalism and East Orthodox Christianity" (Bloombury, 2023)
Episode 196
The persistence of religion in modern Europe and the challenges of transitioning from a religious to a secular state has all too often been overlooke…
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