Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEric Heinze, "Coming Clean: The Rise of Critical Theory and the Future of the Left" (MIT Press, 2025)
Episode 1501
What has gone wrong with the left—and what leftists must do if they want to change politics, ethics, and minds. Leftists have long taught that people…
1 year, 5 months ago
Noel Rubinton, "Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings of John McPhee" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 120
John McPhee has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1965 and has written more than thirty acclaimed books that began on the magazine's pages…
1 year, 5 months ago
Rochelle Rojas, "Bad Christians and Hanging Toads: Witch Crafting in Northern Spain, 1525–1675" (Cornell UP, 2025)
Episode 18
Bad Christians and Hanging Toads: Witch Crafting in Northern Spain, 1525–1675 (Cornell University Press, 2025) by Dr. Rochelle Rojas tells riveting s…
1 year, 5 months ago
Brian VanDeMark, "Kent State: An American Tragedy" (Norton, 2024)
Episode 292
Fifty-five years after the terrible shooting at Kent State University, I spoke with Brian VanDeMark, a Professor of History at the US Naval Academy, …
1 year, 5 months ago
Elaine Pagels, "Miracles and Wonder:The Historical Mystery of Jesus" (Doubleday, 2025)
Episode 1497
Early in her career, Elaine Pagels changed our understanding of the origins of Christianity with her work in The Gnostic Gospels. Now, in the culmina…
1 year, 5 months ago
Elyssa Ford and Rebecca Scofield, "Slapping Leather: Queer Cowfolx at the Gay Rodeo" (U Washington Press, 2023)
Episode 184
What would a rodeo open to anyone and everyone look like? In their new book, Slapping Leather: Queer Cowfolx at the Gay Rodeo (U Washington, 2023), h…
1 year, 5 months ago
Globalization's Backlash: Echoes of the Interwar Era in Today’s World
Episode 168
This week on International Horizons, RBI Director John Torpey interviews historian Tara Zahra, author of Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass P…
1 year, 5 months ago
Ruth Braunstein, "My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 412
In My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America (Princeton University Press, 2025), Ruth Braunstein maps the contested moral landscape in whi…
1 year, 5 months ago
Jake Monaghan, "Just Policing" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 29
Policing is a source of perennial conflict and philosophical disagreement. Current political developments in the United States have only increased th…
1 year, 5 months ago
Katherine Stewart, "Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Episode 206
Today, and for the past several years, many people both here and abroad have been trying to make sense of the radical right and its financial and ide…
1 year, 5 months ago