Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMarcus Willaschek, "Kant: A Revolution in Thinking" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Episode 1872
Immanuel Kant is undoubtedly the most important philosopher of the modern era. His Critique of Pure Reason, “categorical imperative,” and conception…
10 months, 1 week ago
Amy Bowers Cordalis, "The Water Remembers: My Indigenous Family's Fight to Save a River and a Way of Life" (Little Brown, 2024)
Episode 132
For the members of a Northern California tribe, salmon are the lifeblood of the people—a vital source of food, income, and cultural identity. When a …
10 months, 1 week ago
Michael Braddick, "Christopher Hill: The Life of a Radical Historian" (Verso Books, 2025)
Episode 1870
Christopher Hill was one of the leading historians of his generation. His work across more than 15 books and dozens of articles fundamentally rewrote…
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Jane Eisner, "Carole King: She Made the Earth Move" (Yale UP, 2025)
Episode 1869
Jane Eisner is a widely published journalist who held leadership positions at the Philadelphia Inquirer and The Forward. She is the author of Taking …
10 months, 1 week ago
Kwame Nkrumah and Pan-Africanism’s High Tide: A Conversation with Howard W. French
Episode 1868
The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide (Liveright, 2025), the second work in a trilogy from best-selling…
10 months, 1 week ago
Joseph Torigian, "The Party’s Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Episode 1867
Xi Zhongxun’s career spanned the entirety of China’s modern history. Born just two years after the 1911revolution that overthrew the Qing Dynasty, Xi…
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Michael Staunton, "Thomas Becket and His World" (Reaktion Books, 2025)
Episode 1866
Thomas Becket and His World (Reaktion Books, 2025) explores the turbulent life and violent death of Thomas Becket, one of the most controversial fig…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Henry Rausch, "Submerged: Life on a Fast Attack Submarine in the Last Days of the Cold War" (Independently Published, 2024)
Episode 1865
In Submerged: Life on a Fast Attack Submarine in the Last Days of the Cold War (Independently Published, 2024), the author graduates from an elite u…
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Adam Silverstein, "Haman" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 1863
Haman, infamous as the antagonist in the book of Esther, appears as a villainous figure in virtually all varieties of Judaism, Christianity, and Isla…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Ali Anooshahr, "Slavery in the Early Mughal World: The Life and Thoughts of Jawhar Aftabachi (1520s–1580s)" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 1864
Jawhar Aftabachi was enslaved as a child by the Ottomans in the Black Sea region in the early sixteenth century. He was then sold to the Ottoman admi…
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