1528 Episodes

  1. Dmitri N. Shalin, "Erving Manuel Goffman: Biographical Sources of Sociological Imagination" (Routledge, 2024)

    Published: 5/25/2025
  2. Jennifer T. Roberts, "Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture" (Princeton UP, 2024)

    Published: 5/24/2025
  3. Claire Knight, "Stalin's Final Films: Cinema, Socialist Realism, and Soviet Postwar Reality, 1945-1953" (Cornell UP, 2024)

    Published: 5/23/2025
  4. Matthew Shindell, "Lunar: A History of the Moon in Myths, Maps and Matter" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

    Published: 5/22/2025
  5. Derek J. Penslar, "Zionism: An Emotional State" (Rutgers UP, 2023)

    Published: 5/21/2025
  6. Quentin Skinner, "Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

    Published: 5/20/2025
  7. Alan Strathern, "Converting Rulers: Global Patterns, 1450-1850" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

    Published: 5/19/2025
  8. Dennis Ross, "Statecraft 2.0: What America Needs to Survive in a Multipolar World" (Oxford UP, 2025)

    Published: 5/18/2025
  9. Nicholas Borst, "The Bird and the Cage: China’s Economic Contradictions" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2025)

    Published: 5/17/2025
  10. Eric Heinze, "Coming Clean: The Rise of Critical Theory and the Future of the Left" (MIT Press, 2025)

    Published: 5/16/2025
  11. Noel Rubinton, "Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings of John McPhee" (Princeton UP, 2025)

    Published: 5/15/2025
  12. Rochelle Rojas, "Bad Christians and Hanging Toads: Witch Crafting in Northern Spain, 1525–1675" (Cornell UP, 2025)

    Published: 5/14/2025
  13. Brian VanDeMark, "Kent State: An American Tragedy" (Norton, 2024)

    Published: 5/13/2025
  14. Elaine Pagels, "Miracles and Wonder:The Historical Mystery of Jesus" (Doubleday, 2025)

    Published: 5/12/2025
  15. Elyssa Ford and Rebecca Scofield, "Slapping Leather: Queer Cowfolx at the Gay Rodeo" (U Washington Press, 2023)

    Published: 5/11/2025
  16. Globalization's Backlash: Echoes of the Interwar Era in Today’s World

    Published: 5/10/2025
  17. Ruth Braunstein, "My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America" (Princeton UP, 2025)

    Published: 5/9/2025
  18. Jake Monaghan, "Just Policing" (Oxford UP, 2023)

    Published: 5/8/2025
  19. Katherine Stewart, "Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

    Published: 5/7/2025
  20. Eunji Kim, "The American Mirage: How Reality TV Upholds the Myth of Meritocracy" (Princeton UP, 2025)

    Published: 5/6/2025

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