Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCan Feminism be African?: A Conversation with Minna Salami
Episode 1657
Transcript of the interview
Minna Salami is a writer, social critic, and thought leader on feminism, knowledge production, and the aesthetics and str…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Nicholas Buccola, "One Man’s Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle Over an American Ideal" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 1656
From the acclaimed author of The Fire Is upon Us, the dramatic untold story of Barry Goldwater and Martin Luther King Jr.'s decade-long clash over th…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
On Democracy and Bullshit with Hélène Landemore
Episode 1655
Today I’m speaking with Hélène Landemore, Professor of Political Science at Yale University, about Democracy and Bullshit, with a special focus on he…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Michelle McSweeney, "OK" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 111
"OK" as a word accepts proposals, describes the world as satisfactory (but not good), provides conversational momentum, or even agrees (or disagrees)…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Susanna Rabow-Edling, "The First Russian Revolution: The Decembrist Revolt Of 1825" (Reaktion Books, 2025)
Episode 1653
On the 200th anniversary of the Decembrist Revolt, Susanna Rabow-Edling published The First Russian Revolution: The Decembrist Revolt Of 1825 (Reak…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Lucy Caplan, "Dreaming in Ensemble: How Black Artists Transformed American Opera" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Episode 1652
Recently, musicologists and others have started writing about Black participation in opera. Lucy Caplan’s Dreaming in Ensemble: How Black Artists Tra…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Eric H. Cline, "Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 1651
From the acclaimed author of 1177 B.C., a spellbinding account of the archaeological find that opened a window onto the vibrant diplomatic world of t…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Mila Burns, "Dictatorship Across Borders: Brazil, Chile, and the South American Cold War" (UNC Press, 2025)
Episode 1650
Dictatorship Across Borders: Brazil, Chile, and the South American Cold War (UNC Press, 2025) offers a groundbreaking perspective on the 1973 Chilean…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Lisa Vanhala, "Governing the End: The Making of Climate Change Loss and Damage" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Episode 1649
A searing account of how the international community is trying—and failing—to address the worst effects of climate change and the differential burden…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Lars Cornelissen, "Neoliberalism and Race" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Episode 1648
In Neoliberalism and Race (Stanford UP, 2025) Lars Cornelissen argues that the category of race constitutes an organizing principle of neoliberal i…
11 months, 3 weeks ago