Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAnna-Luna Post, "Galileo’s Fame: Science, Credibility, and Memory in the Seventeenth Century" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2025)
Episode 1737
From the beginning of Galileo’s career, well before the publication of the Sidereus Nuncius, his contemporaries took pains to shape his reputation an…
8 months, 1 week ago
Zalman Newfield, "Brooklyn Odyssey: My Journey Out of Hasidism" (Temple UP, 2026)
Episode 1736
Growing up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn as a member of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic Orthodox Jewish community, Zalman Newfield was raised in an atmosph…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Ashely Alker, "99 Ways to Die: And How to Avoid Them" (St. Martin's Press, 2026)
Episode 1735
In 99 Ways to Die: And How To Avoid Them (St. Martins Press, 2026) emergency medicine doctor Ashley Alker presents an illuminating, hilarious, and pr…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Subodhana Wijeyeratne, "The Islands and the Stars: A History of Japan's Space Programs" (Stanford UP, 2026)
Episode 1734
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is among the six largest national space agencies in the world, along with China's CNSA, US's NASA, and …
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Eray Çayli, "Earthmoving: Extractivism, War, and Visuality in Northern Kurdistan" (U Texas Press, 2025)
Episode 1733
Extractivism—exploiting the earth for resources—has long driven racial capitalism and colonialism. And yet, how does extractivism operate in a world …
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Thomas Zeitzoff, "No Option But Sabotage: The Radical Environmental Movement and the Climate Crisis" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Episode 1732
An authoritative history of the radical environmental movement in the United States, No Option But Sabotage explores how far activists are willing to…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Emily Dufton, "Addiction, Inc: Medication-assisted Treatment and America's Forgotten War on Drugs" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
Episode 1731
How the war on drugs created the gold standard treatment for addiction--until America's opioid crisis got privatized for profit, to the detriment of …
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Shelley Puhak, "The Blood Countess: Murder, Betrayal, and the Making of a Monster" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Episode 1730
There have long been whispers, coming from the castle; from the village square; from the dark woods. The great lady-a countess, from one of Europe's …
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Carl Death, "African Climate Futures" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 1729
This episode is brought to you by the BISA Environment and Climate Politics Working Group.
African Climate Futures (Oxford UP, 2025) shows how climat…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Sugata Bose, "Asia after Europe: Imagining a Continent in the Long Twentieth Century" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Episode 1728
The balance of global power changed profoundly over the course of the twentieth century, above all with the economic and political rise of Asia. Asia…
8 months, 3 weeks ago