2951 Episodes

  1. Nerina Rustomji, "The Beauty of the Houri: Heavenly Virgins and Feminine Ideals" (Oxford UP, 2021)

    Published: 09/11/2025
  2. Yunxiang Gao, "Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2021)

    Published: 08/11/2025
  3. Martha Biondi, "We Are Internationalists: Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight for African Liberation" (U California Press, 2025)

    Published: 08/11/2025
  4. The Technological Soul: Alex Priou on Modernity, Ideology, and the Limits of Reason

    Published: 06/11/2025
  5. Joshua Castellino, "Calibrating Colonial Crime: Reparations and The Crime of Unjust Enrichment" (Policy Press, 2025)

    Published: 04/11/2025
  6. Rebecca L. Davis, "Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America" (Norton, 2024)

    Published: 03/11/2025
  7. Natasha Piano, "Democratic Elitism: The Founding Myth of American Political Science" (Harvard UP, 2025)

    Published: 01/11/2025
  8. Adair Rounthwaite, "This Is Not My World: Art and Public Space in Socialist Zagreb" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)

    Published: 29/10/2025
  9. Rick A López, "Rooted in Place: Botany, Indigeneity, and Art in the Construction of Mexican Nature, 1570-1914" (U Arizona Press, 2025)

    Published: 28/10/2025
  10. Jeremy Swist, "Julian Augustus: Platonism, Myth and the Refounding of Rome" (Oxford UP, 2025)

    Published: 27/10/2025
  11. Garrett Hardin’s Tragic Environmentalism

    Published: 27/10/2025
  12. Mark Mazower, "On Antisemitism: A Word in History" (Penguin Press, 2025)

    Published: 26/10/2025
  13. Michael Lazarus, "Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx" (Stanford UP, 2025)

    Published: 26/10/2025
  14. Ashley D. Farmer, "Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore" (Pantheon, 2025)

    Published: 25/10/2025
  15. Hector Vera, "Yardstick Nation: The Metric System in America" (Vanderbilt UP, 2025)

    Published: 25/10/2025
  16. Dagmar Wujastyk, "Indian Alchemy: Sources and Contexts" (Oxford UP, 2025)

    Published: 23/10/2025
  17. Peter D. Blackmer, "Unleashing Black Power: Grassroots Organizing in Harlem and the Advent of the Long, Hot Summers" (UVA Press, 2025)

    Published: 21/10/2025
  18. Massimo Modonesi, "The Antagonistic Principle: Marxism and Political Action​" (Haymarket, 2019)

    Published: 20/10/2025
  19. Ladelle McWhorter, "Unbecoming Persons: The Rise and Demise of the Modern Moral Self" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

    Published: 20/10/2025
  20. David Bressoud, "Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas" (Princeton UP, 2019)

    Published: 19/10/2025

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