Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJeremy Howick, "The Power of Placebos: Unlocking Their Potential to Improve Health Care" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Episode 105
Should your doctor prescribe a placebo for you, instead of conventional medicine? And if she did, would it work? Is the double-blind placebo-controll…
2 years, 7 months ago
Megan Nutzman, "Contested Cures: Identity and Ritual Healing in Roman and Late Antique Palestine" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
Episode 19
In the ancient Mediterranean world, individuals routinely looked for divine aid to cure physical afflictions. Contested Cures: Identity and Ritual He…
2 years, 7 months ago
Anthony Hodgson, "Ready for Anything: Designing Resilience for a Transforming World" (Triarchy Press, 2011)
Episode 47
Recently I had a chance to sit down for a long overdue chat with Anthony (Tony) Hodgson. When we last spoke it happened to be for my very first episo…
2 years, 7 months ago
Wendy H. Wong, "We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 684
Our data-intensive world is here to stay, but does that come at the cost of our humanity in terms of autonomy, community, dignity, and equality? In W…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Future of Cancelling: A Conversation with Greg Lukianoff
Episode 84
Cancel culture is something all academics are aware of and some are concerned about. Certainly that’s true of Greg Lukianoff who was the co-author (…
2 years, 7 months ago
Michael Serazio, "The Authenticity Industries: Keeping It Real in Media, Culture, and Politics" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Episode 321
In recent decades, authenticity has become an American obsession. It animates thirty years' worth of reality TV programming and fuels the explosive v…
2 years, 7 months ago
Tom Burbage et al., "F-35: The Inside Story of the Lightning II" (Skyhorse, 2023)
Episode 201
The inside story of the most expensive and controversial military program in history, as told by those who lived it.
The F-35 has changed allied comb…
2 years, 8 months ago
William B. Eimicke et al., "Leveling the Learning Curve: Creating a More Inclusive and Connected University" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 69
Will the COVID-19 pandemic be remembered as a turning point in how universities deliver teaching and learning? How might the widespread use of digita…
2 years, 8 months ago
Diana Kamin, "Picture-Work: How Libraries, Museums, and Stock Agencies Launched a New Image Economy" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 21
How the image collection, organized and made available for public consumption, came to define a key feature of contemporary visual culture. The origi…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Future of Paying Attention: A Discussion with Carolyn Dicey Jennings
Episode 83
Is it really harder to pay attention to something than it used to be? No doubt the world is getting faster, and social media platforms are so good at…
2 years, 8 months ago