New Books in Big Ideas

807 Episodes

1. Jørgen Møller and Jonathan Doucette, "The Catholic Church and European State Formation, AD 1000-1500" (Oxford UP, 2022)

   Published: 08/03/2025
2. Chris Higgins, "Undeclared: A Philosophy of Formative Higher Education" (MIT Press, 2024)

   Published: 04/03/2025
3. Webb Keane, "Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination" (Princeton UP, 2025)

   Published: 03/03/2025
4. Jeff Yoshimi, "Gaming Cancer: How Building and Playing Video Games Can Accelerate Scientific Discovery" (MIT Press, 2025)

   Published: 27/02/2025
5. Steven Lesk, "Footprints of Schizophrenia: The Evolutionary Roots of Mental Illness" (Prometheus, 2023)

   Published: 26/02/2025
6. The Anxious Generation: A Conversation with Jonathan Haidt

   Published: 19/02/2025
7. Glen L. Thompson, "Jingjiao: The Earliest Christian Church in China" (Eerdmans, 2024)

   Published: 15/02/2025
8. Ada Palmer, "Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

   Published: 13/02/2025
9. Michael Albertus, "Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn't, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies" (Basic Books, 2025)

   Published: 11/02/2025
10. Arvid J. Lukauskas and Yumiko Shimabukuro, "Misery Beneath the Miracle in East Asia" (Cornell UP, 2024)

    Published: 07/02/2025
11. Hal Brands, "The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World" (Norton, 2025)

    Published: 05/02/2025
12. Daniel Oberhaus, "The Silicon Shrink: How Artificial Intelligence Made the World an Asylum" (MIT Press, 2025)

    Published: 04/02/2025
13. Antonio A. Casilli, "Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

    Published: 31/01/2025
14. James Boyle, "The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood" (MIT Press, 2024)

    Published: 27/01/2025
15. Brigid Schulte, "Over Work: Transforming the Daily Grind in the Quest for a Better Life" (Henry Holt, 2024)

    Published: 20/01/2025
16. Mariam Motamedi Fraser, "Dog Politics: Species Stories and the Animal Sciences" (Manchester UP, 2024)

    Published: 15/01/2025
17. Cordelia Fine, "Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society" (Norton, 2018)

    Published: 11/01/2025
18. David G. Hunter et al., "Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity: Authors, Texts, and Ideas" (Brill, 2024)

    Published: 08/01/2025
19. Michael Fuerstein, "Experiments in Living Together: How Democracy Drives Social Progress" (Oxford UP, 2024)

    Published: 01/01/2025
20. Brandon Keim, "Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-Human World" (Norton, 2024)

    Published: 01/01/2025