Podcast Episodes

Heidegger in Ruins

Episode 2015

Martin Heidegger’s sympathies for the conservative revolution and National Socialism have long been well known. As the rector of the University of Fr…

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Rachel Phan, "Restaurant Kid: A Memoir of Family and Belonging" (Douglas & McIntyre, 2025)

Episode 2014

In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Rachel Phan about her powerful memoir, ⁠Restaurant Kid: A Memoir of Family & Belonging⁠ (Douglas…

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Brad Tolinski and Chris Gill, "Blow by Blow: The Jeff Beck Story" (Da Capo, 2026)

Episode 2013

With his shag haircut and white Stratocaster guitar, Jeff Beck was an icon known and loved by millions. Yet somehow, he maintained the ineffable lo…

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Ted Powell, "Churchill and the Crown" (Oxford UP, 2026)

Episode 2012

Winston Churchill was born in a palace and was given a funeral worthy of a king. His family had enjoyed an intimate association with the British mo…

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Thy Will Be Done: George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory

Episode 2010

In Thy Will Be Done: George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory (UNC Press, 2026), historian John Garrison Marks tells…

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Rosa Campbell, "The Book That Taught the World to Orgasm and Then Disappeared: Shere Hite and the Hite Report" (Melville House, 2026)

Episode 2011

Despite being one of the leading thinkers of the second wave feminist movement, today Shere Hite is little known, little written about, and, unsurpri…

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Thomas Paine at the Semiquincentennial: A Conversation with Gregory Claeys

Episode 2009

Thomas Paine: Collected Writings (Princeton University Press, 2026) is the first major new edition of Paine’s works, bringing together all his writin…

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Christopher de Bellaigue, "The Golden Throne: The Curse of a King" (Bodley Head, 2025)

Episode 2007

What does a 16th century ruler reveal about the nature of power, past and present?

Istanbul, 1538. The greatest of the Ottoman Sultans is at the pinn…

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Andrew Wilson, "I Wanna Be Loved By You: Marilyn Monroe: A Life in 100 Takes" (Grand Central Publishing, 2026)

Episode 2008

Publishing one hundred years after her birth, Andrew Wilson’s biography of Marilyn Monroe, I Wanna Be Loved By You: Marilyn Monroe: A Life in 100 Tak…

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Thomas S. Mullaney, "How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information" (W. W. Norton, 2026)

Episode 2006

This is the third time I have the great fortune of interviewing Tom Mullaney. I can hardly think of a more worthy ambassador for the history discipli…

3 months, 4 weeks ago

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