1517 Episodes

  1. Alexandra Filindra, "Race, Rights, and Rifles: The Origins of the NRA and Contemporary Gun Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

    Published: 1/15/2024
  2. Justine Nolan and Martijn Boersma, "Addressing Modern Slavery" (UNSW Press, 2019)

    Published: 1/14/2024
  3. Jacob L. Wright, "Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and Its Origins" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

    Published: 1/13/2024
  4. Sam Lebovic, "State of Silence: The Espionage Act and the Rise of America's Secrecy Regime" (Basic Book, 2023)

    Published: 1/12/2024
  5. Thomas DeGloma, "Anonymous: The Performance of Hidden Identities" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

    Published: 1/11/2024
  6. Krista K. Thomason, "Dancing with the Devil: Why Bad Feelings Make Life Good" (Oxford UP, 2023)

    Published: 1/10/2024
  7. Ofer Ashkenazi, "Anti-Heimat Cinema: The Jewish Invention of the German Landscape" (U Michigan Press, 2020)

    Published: 1/9/2024
  8. Melanie Joy, "How to End Injustice Everywhere" (Lantern, 2023)

    Published: 1/8/2024
  9. Emma Kuby, "Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps After 1945" (Cornell UP, 2019)

    Published: 1/7/2024
  10. Elizabeth Eva Leach, "Medieval Sex Lives: The Sounds of Courtly Intimacy on the Francophone Borders" (Cornell UP, 2023)

    Published: 1/6/2024
  11. Martyn Whittock, "American Vikings: How the Norse Sailed into the Lands and Imaginations of America" (Pegasus Books, 2023)

    Published: 1/5/2024
  12. Amanda Kennell, "Alice in Japanese Wonderlands: Translation, Adaptation, Mediation" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)

    Published: 1/4/2024
  13. Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim, "Decolonizing Human Rights" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

    Published: 1/3/2024
  14. Stephen M. Engel and Timothy S. Lyle, "Disrupting Dignity: Rethinking Power and Progress in LGBTQ Lives" (NYU Press, 2021)

    Published: 1/2/2024
  15. Adam Mestyan, "Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East" (Princeton UP, 2023)

    Published: 1/1/2024
  16. Carolyn Birdsall, "Radiophilia" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

    Published: 12/31/2023
  17. Erika Dyck, "Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2018)

    Published: 12/30/2023
  18. Kevin Hood Gary, "Why Boredom Matters: Education, Leisure, and the Quest for a Meaningful Life" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

    Published: 12/29/2023
  19. Scott D. Seligman, "Murder in Manchuria: The True Story of a Jewish Virtuoso, Russian Fascists, a French Diplomat, and a Japanese Spy in Occupied China" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

    Published: 12/28/2023
  20. Jeffrey Whyte, "The Birth of Psychological War: Propaganda, Espionage, and Military Violence from WWII to the Vietnam War" (Oxford UP, 2023)

    Published: 12/27/2023

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