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Back to SearchJose Eos Trinidad, "Subtle Webs: How Local Organizations Shape US Education" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 1697
In Subtle Webs: How Local Organizations Shape US Education (Oxford UP, 2025), Jose Eos Trinidad reveals how organizations outside schools have create…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Angie Hobbs, "Why Plato Matters Now" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Episode 1696
Does Plato matter? An ancient philosopher whose work has inspired and informed countless thinkers and poets across the centuries, his ideas are no lo…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Ambika Kamath and Melina Packer, "Feminism in the Wild: How Human Biases Shape Our Understanding of Animal Behavior" (MIT Press, 2025)
Episode 1695
In Feminism in the Wild: How Human Biases Shape Our Understanding of Animal Behavior (MIT Press, 2025), Ambika Kamath and Melina Packer reveal how sc…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Noam Sienna, "Jewish Books in North Africa: Between the Early Modern and Modern Worlds" (Indiana UP, 2025)
Episode 1694
Author Noam Sienna unveils a vast Sephardic world created by these books. This literary network transcended geographical boundaries, connecting Jewis…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Jonathan Sumption, "The Challenges of Democracy: And the Rule of Law" (Profile Books, 2026)
Episode 1693
Across the globe, democracy is in crisis - in the UK alone, it has been rocked by Brexit, the pandemic and successive attempts by governments to bypa…
10 months, 1 week ago
Robin F. Hansen, "Prison Born: Incarceration and Motherhood in the Colonial Shadow" (U Regina Press, 2024)
Episode 1692
With rigorous scrutiny and deep care, Robin Hansen's Prison Born: Incarceration and Motherhood in the Colonial Shadow (U Regina Press, 2024) offers c…
10 months, 1 week ago
Sven Beckert, "Capitalism: A Global History" (Allen Lane, 2025)
Episode 164
No other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisively as capitalism. It structures how we live and work, how we think about ourselves and others…
10 months, 1 week ago
Marcus Willaschek, "Kant: A Revolution in Thinking" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Episode 1690
Immanuel Kant is undoubtedly the most important philosopher of the modern era. His Critique of Pure Reason, “categorical imperative,” and conception…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Christian Smith, "Why Religion Went Obsolete: The Demise of Traditional Faith in America" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 1689
Is traditional American religion doomed?
Traditional religion in the United States has suffered huge losses in recent decades. The number of American…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
David Fleming, "A Big Mess in Texas: The Miraculous, Disastrous 1952 Dallas Texans and the Craziest Untold Story in NFL History" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
Episode 302
Today we are joined by David Fleming, Peabody-nominated correspondent for Meadowlark Media, longtime ESPN senior writer, and author of A Big Mess in …
10 months, 2 weeks ago