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November 16, 2024
Changed Men
Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and had learned to kill and to quickly dispatch sexual…
November 15, 2024
The War People
In The War People: A Social History of Common Soldiers during the Era of the Thirty Years War (Cambridge UP, 2024), Lucian Staino-Daniles uses the tra…
November 14, 2024
How Sondheim Can Change Your Life
For fans of musical theatre, Stephen Sondheim is one of the true titans – the genius who brought us Sweeney Todd and West Side Story, Into the Woods, …
November 12, 2024
The Myth of Harm
The horror genre has endured a long and controversial success within popular culture. Fraught with accusations pertaining to its alleged ability to ha…
November 11, 2024
Empire of Rags and Bones
Paper, bottles, metal scrap, kitchen garbage, rubber, hair, fat, rags, and bones--the Nazi empire demanded its population obsessively collect anything…
November 10, 2024
Alien Structure
It is not uncommon to encounter people who think and talk about the world so differently from the way you do that it’s not really possible to put your…
November 9, 2024
Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire
How did the Algerian war of independence shape contemporary sociology? In Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggl…
November 7, 2024
Why Can’t the US Compete with China in Infrastructure?
In this episode, Dr. Shahar Hameiri and Dr. Lee Jones discuss the political economy and financing behind global infrastructure development, with a foc…
November 6, 2024
The Impeachment Power
In this week’s episode we step into conversation with Keith Whittington about his new book, The Impeachment Power: The Law, Politics, and Purpose of a…
November 5, 2024
Sick Note
Sick Note: A History of the British Welfare State (Oxford UP, 2022) is a history of how the British state asked, 'who is really sick?' Tracing medical…
November 4, 2024
Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders?
The question of whether mental disorders are disorders of the brain has led to a long-running and controversial dispute within psychiatry, psychology …
November 3, 2024
Living Off the Government?
Who deserves public assistance from the government? This age-old question has been revived by policymakers, pundits, and activists following the massi…
November 2, 2024
Uncut
The “uncut” penis is viewed by some as attractive or erotic, and by others as ugly or undesirable. Secular parents of male infants worry about whether…
November 1, 2024
Magisteria
Most things you 'know' about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widespr…
October 31, 2024
Atlas of Finance
From the emergence of money in the ancient world to today’s interconnected landscape of high-frequency trading and cryptocurrency, the story of financ…
October 30, 2024
Poor Things
For generations most of the canonical works that detail the lives of poor people have been created by rich or middle-class writers like Charles Dicken…
October 29, 2024
Some New World
In his famous argument against miracles, David Hume gets to the heart of the modern problem of supernatural belief. 'We are apt', says Hume, 'to imagi…
October 28, 2024
Slaves of God
Augustine believed that slavery is permissible, but to understand why, we must situate him in his late antique Roman intellectual context. Slaves of G…
October 27, 2024
Ancestry Reimagined
Recent social and political psychological research indicates that increased access to ancestry testing has strengthened the notion of genetic essentia…
October 26, 2024
Rock Star/Movie Star
During the mid-1950s, when Hollywood found itself struggling to compete within an expanding entertainment media landscape, certain producers and studi…