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Back to SearchLesley Smith, "Fragments of a World: William of Auvergne and His Medieval Life" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 73
Lesley Smith of Oxford University joins Jana Byars to talk about her new book, Fragments of a World: William of Auvergne and His Medieval Life (Unive…
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Shaul Magid, "Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 540
Rabbi Meir Kahane came of age amid the radical politics of the counterculture, becoming a militant voice of protest against Jewish liberalism. Kahane…
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A Hidden Life (with Brian Zahnd)
Episode 93
What would you do in the place of Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter in 1943? Mumble your loyalty oath to Hitler like everyone else—or refuse and pay…
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James Madison and the Spirit of Self-Government: A Conversation with Colleen Sheehan
Episode 114
Who was James Madison? Why were his Notes on Government so valuable to the American founding? Did James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and George Washi…
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Zoë Bossiere, "Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir" (Abrams Press, 2024)
Episode 418
Today, I interview Zoë Bossiere about Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir (Abrams Press, 2024). Bossiere is writer from Tucson, Arizona. They are the ma…
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Paul Volcker: “The only number that works is zero”
Episode 158
More than any other global institution, the US Federal Reserve’s decisions and communications drive capital markets and alter financial conditions ev…
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Arthur Burns: “The smartest guy in the room”
Episode 157
More than any other global institution, the US Federal Reserve’s decisions and communications drive capital markets and alter financial conditions ev…
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Na'ou Liu, "Urban Scenes" (Cambria Press, 2023)
Episode 540
"In this tango palace everything was swaying rhythmically to and fro, bodies of men and women, beams of colored light, brilliant wine glasses, red an…
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Bill Martin: “Truman looked at him and said: ‘Traitor’”
Episode 156
More than any other global institution, the US Federal Reserve’s decisions and communications drive capital markets and alter financial conditions ev…
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Edward Shanks, "The People of the Ruins" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 162
In The People of the Ruins (originally published in 1920), Edward Shanks imagines England in the not-so-distant future as a neo mediaeval society who…
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