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October 30, 2024
Hessians
Between 1776 and 1783, Britain hired an estimated 30,000 German soldiers to fight in its war against the Americans. Collectively known as Hessians, th…
October 29, 2024
The Subversive Seventies
A thought-provoking reconsideration of how the revolutionary movements of the 1970s set the mold for today's activism. The 1970s was a decade of "s…
October 28, 2024
The Nature of Christian Doctrine
The Nature of Christian Doctrine: Its Origins, Development, and Function (Oxford UP, 2024) offers a groundbreaking account of the origins, development…
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…
October 23, 2024
The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt
A funny thing happened to historian Michael Vann* on the way to his PhD thesis. While he was doing his research on French colonialism and the urbanist…
October 21, 2024
Marx's Ethical Vision
Does Marx have a coherent ethical vision? How does that square with his sometimes-scathing dismissal of morality? What does his critique of capital ha…
October 17, 2024
Teaching Honesty in a Populist Era
Democracy is struggling in an age of populism and post-truth. In a world swirling with competing political groups stating conflicting facts, citizens …
October 15, 2024
The Changing Electoral Map of England and Wales
What is the connection between where people live and how they vote? In The Changing Electoral Map of England and Wales (Oxford UP, 2024), Jamie Furlon…
October 13, 2024
Women Writing Antiquity
Women Writing Antiquity: Gender and Learning in Early Modern France (Oxford UP, 2024) recounts women authors' struggle to define the female intellectu…
October 9, 2024
Of Ancestors and Ghosts
In Buddhist cosmology, pretas make up one of several categories of rebirth. They are best known as "hungry ghosts," pitiful beings with miniscule mout…
October 6, 2024
Transnational Communicative Care
How do families care for each when they are divided over generations by powerful geopolitical forces beyond their control? In this episode, Hanna Tors…
October 3, 2024
The Battle for Sabarimala
The Battle for Sabarimala: Religion, Law, and Gender in Contemporary India (Oxford UP, 2024) tells the story of one of contemporary India’s most conte…
October 1, 2024
The Dispersion of Power
We commonly think of democracy as a social order governed by the people’s collective will. Given the size of the modern states, this picture is typic…
September 28, 2024
Against the Liberal Order
In the aftermath of the First World War the Western great powers sought to redefine international norms according to their liberal vision. They introd…
September 28, 2024
The Enlightenment
Enlightenment studies are currently in a state of flux, with unresolved arguments among its adherents about its dates, its locations, and the contents…
September 27, 2024
Revolutions: a Very Short Introduction
In their pursuit of social justice, revolutionaries have taken on the assembled might of monarchies, empires, and dictatorships. They have often, thou…
September 26, 2024
Female Servants in Early Modern England
Charmian Mansell joins Jana Byars to talk about Female Servants in Early Modern England (Oxford University Press, 2024). What was it like to be a wo…
September 24, 2024
Buddhism Between Religion and Philosophy
Nāgārjuna (c. 150-250), founder of the Madhyamaka or Middle Way school of Buddhist philosophy and the most influential of all Buddhist thinkers aside …
September 24, 2024
From Tudor to Stuart
From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I (Oxford UP, 2024) tells the story of the troubled accession of England's first Sco…