Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRina Bliss, "What's Real About Race: Untangling Science, Genetics, and Society" (W.W. Norton, 2025)
Episode 2868
Professor Rina Bliss teaches in the sociology department at Rutgers University, and has written on the social significance of genetic studies on inte…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Angus Burgin on the Rise of the Internet
Episode 2867
We were joined by Angus Burgin, Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, and talked about how the arrival of the Internet remade l…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Peter S. Soppelsa, "Paris After Haussmann: Living with Infrastructure in the City of Light, 1870–1914" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2026)
Episode 2866
Modern Paris is often hailed as a capital of urban infrastructure. Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann’s rebuilding of Paris in 1853–1870, branded “Haussm…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Olivier Sylvain, "Recovering the Internet: How Big Tech Took Control-And How We Can Take It Back" (Columbia Global Reports, 2026)
Episode 2865
Recovering the Internet: How Big Tech Took Control-And How We Can Take It Back (Columbia Global Reports, 2026)is an indictment of how Big Tech cloaks…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Are We Entering An Arms Race in Outer Space?
Episode 2864
This week on International Horizons, RBI interim director Eli Karetny interviewed Mallory Stewart, Chief Executive Officer of the Council on Strategi…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Angela Dimitrakaki, "Feminism. Art. Capitalism" (Pluto Press, 2026)
Episode 2863
Can art change the contemporary world? In Feminism, Art, Capitalism Angela Dimitrakaki, a Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the un…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Max Morris, "Not Sex Work: Queer Intimacy, Post-identity, and Incidental Encounters in the Digital Era" (Routledge, 2025)
Episode 2862
Max Morris's Not Sex Work: Queer Intimacy, Post-identity, and Incidental Encounters in the Digital Era (Routledge, 2025) brings together feminist the…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Patrick Brodie and Darin Barney eds., "Media Rurality" (Duke UP, 2026)
Episode 2861
Media Rurality (Duke UP, 2026), edited by Darin Barney and Patrick Brodie, investigates the centrality of rural places and people within the media sy…
6 months ago
Scott Solomon, "Becoming Martian: How Living in Space Will Change Our Bodies and Minds" (MIT Press, 2026)
Episode 2859
How living in space will affect future generations—and what the potential unintended consequences of space settlements are.
We are on the cusp of a go…
6 months ago
Deirdre Loughridge & Thomas Patteson, "The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments" (Reaktion, 2026)
Episode 2860
The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments (Reaktion, 2026) by Dr. Deirdre Loughridge & Dr. Thomas Patteson is a guided tour through centuries of in…
6 months ago