Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchH. Jefferson Powell, "The Practice of American Constitutional Law" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 179
What areas of our lives are governed by constitutional law? When asked about what constitutional law is, Americans tend to think of notable Supreme C…
3 years, 8 months ago
Amy S. Bruckman, "Should You Believe Wikipedia?: Online Communities and the Construction of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 335
As we interact online we are creating new kinds of knowledge and community. How are these communities formed? How do we know whether to trust them as…
3 years, 8 months ago
Greg Brew, "Petroleum and Progress in Iran: Oil, Development, and the Cold War" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 20
From the 1940s to 1960s, Iran developed into the world's first “petro-state,” where oil represented the bulk of state revenue and supported an indust…
3 years, 8 months ago
Arthur Keefer, "Ecclesiastes and the Meaning of Life in the Ancient World" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 89
Is the search for meaning a luxury of the modern world or have human beings always struggled to find meaning in the human condition – in the face of …
3 years, 8 months ago
Zachary Shore, "This Is Not Who We Are: America’s Struggle Between Vengeance and Virtue" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 6
What kind of country is America? Zachary Shore tackles this polarizing question by spotlighting some of the most morally muddled matters of WWII. Sho…
3 years, 8 months ago
Michael Fleming, "In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Poland, the United Nations War Crimes Commission, and the Search for Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 183
In the midst of the Second World War, Central and East European governments-in-exile struggled to make their voices heard as they reported back to th…
3 years, 8 months ago
Wolfgang P. Müller, "Marriage Litigation in the Western Church, 1215-1517" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 23
Wolfgang Muller, Marriage Litigation in the Western Church, 1215- 1517 (Cambridge University Press, 2021). From the establishment of a coherent doctr…
3 years, 8 months ago
Automating Finance
Episode 11
Sociologist Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, a professor at University of California San Diego, talks about his book Automating Finance: Infrastructures, Eng…
3 years, 8 months ago
Paulina Laura Alberto et al., "Voices of the Race: Black Newspapers in Latin America, 1870-1960" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 178
Voices of the Race: Black Newspapers in Latin America, 1870-1960 (Cambridge University Press, 2022) offers English translations of more than one hund…
3 years, 8 months ago
Stuart Carroll, "Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 28
Stuart Carroll's Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2023) transforms our understanding of Europe between 1500 an…
3 years, 8 months ago