About Ryan Tripp

Ryan Tripp is an adjunct for universities and California community colleges.

NBN Episodes hosted by Ryan:

Ian Saxine, "Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier" (NYU Press, 2019)

February 16, 2024

Properties of Empire

Ian Saxine
Hosted by Ryan Tripp

In Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier (NYU Press, 2019), Ian Saxine, Visiting Assistant Profes…

Andrius Gališanka, "John Rawls: The Path to a Theory of Justice" (Harvard UP, 2019)

February 12, 2024

John Rawls

Andrius Gališanka
Hosted by Ryan Tripp

It is hard to overestimate the influence of John Rawls on political philosophy and theory over the last half-century. His books have sold millions of …

Seth Bernard, "Building Mid-Republican Rome: Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy" (Oxford UP, 2018)

January 7, 2024

Building Mid-Republican Rome

Seth Bernard
Hosted by Ryan Tripp

Building Mid-Republican Rome: Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy (Oxford University Press, 2018), offers a holistic treatment of the developme…

Douglas Hunter, "Beardmore: The Viking Hoax That Rewrote History" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2018)

December 30, 2023

Beardmore

Douglas Hunter
Hosted by Ryan Tripp

In 1936, long before the discovery of the Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, the Royal Ontario Museum made a sensational acquisition: the conten…

Martin Jay, "Immanent Critiques: The Frankfurt School under Pressure" (Verso, 2023)

November 15, 2023

Immanent Critiques

Martin Jay
Hosted by Ryan Tripp

The Frankfurt School’s own legacy is best preserved by exercising an immanent critique of its premises and the conclusions to which they often led. By…

Kristofer Ray and Brady DeSanti, "Understanding and Teaching Native American History" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)

November 14, 2023

Understanding and Teaching Native American History

Kristofer Ray and Brady DeSanti
Hosted by Ryan Tripp
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Understanding and Teaching Native American History (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023), co-edited by Kristofer Ray and Brady DeSanti, is a timely an…

Richard Wolin, "Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology" (Yale UP, 2023)

January 10, 2023

Heidegger in Ruins

Richard Wolin
Hosted by Ryan Tripp

What does it mean when a radical understanding of National Socialism is inextricably embedded in the work of the twentieth century's most important ph…

Richard White, "Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded-Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University" (W. W. Norton, 2022)

June 28, 2022

Who Killed Jane Stanford?

Richard White
Hosted by Ryan Tripp

In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son. After her husband’s death in 1893, Jane Stanford, …

Robert A. Gross, "The Transcendentalists and Their World" (FSG, 2021)

January 4, 2022

The Transcendentalists and Their World

Robert A. Gross
Hosted by Ryan Tripp

In The Transcendentalists and Their World (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021), Robert A. Gross offers a fresh view of the thinkers whose outsize impact …

Martin Jay, "Genesis and Validity: The Theory and Practice of Intellectual History" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)

November 17, 2021

Genesis and Validity

Martin Jay
Hosted by Ryan Tripp

There is no more contentious and perennial issue in the history of modern Western thought than the vexed relationship between the genesis of an idea a…

Gregory Jones-Katz, "Deconstruction: An American Institution" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

October 1, 2021

Deconstruction

Gregory Jones-Katz
Hosted by Ryan Tripp

The basic story of the rise, reign, and fall of deconstruction as a literary and philosophical groundswell is well known among scholars. In this intel…

Joy Porter, "Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War: The Making of Frank Prewett" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

August 30, 2021

Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War

Joy Porter
Hosted by Ryan Tripp

In Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War: The Making of Frank Prewett (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021), Joy Porter examines the extraordinary life of…

Max Skjönsberg, "The Persistence of Party: Ideas of Harmonious Discord in Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

July 30, 2021

The Persistence of Party

Max Skjönsberg
Hosted by Ryan Tripp

Political parties are taken for granted today, but how was the idea of party viewed in the eighteenth century, when core components of modern, represe…

Patricia E. Rubertone, "Native Providence: Memory, Community, and Survivance in the Northeast" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)

June 28, 2021

Native Providence

Patricia E. Rubertone
Hosted by Ryan Tripp

A city of modest size, Providence, Rhode Island, had the third-largest Native American population in the United States by the first decade of the nine…

Louis Menand, "The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War" (FSG, 2021)

June 7, 2021

The Free World

Louis Menand
Hosted by Ryan Tripp

In his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Metaphysical Club, acclaimed scholar and critic Louis Menand, Professor of English at Harvard Unive…

David A. Rennie, "American Writers and World War I" (Oxford UP, 2020)

May 4, 2021

American Writers and World War I

David A. Rennie
Hosted by Ryan Tripp

In American Writers and World War I (Oxford University Press, 2020), David A. Rennie argues that authors' war writing continuously evolved in response…

William Max Nelson, "The Time of Enlightenment: Constructing the Future in France, 1750 to Year One" (U Toronto Press, 2021)

March 29, 2021

The Time of Enlightenment

William Max Nelson
Hosted by Ryan Tripp

A new idea of the future emerged in eighteenth-century France. With the development of modern biological, economic, and social engineering, the future…

Peter E. Gordon, "Migrants in the Profane: Critical Theory and the Question of Secularization" (Yale UP, 2020)

January 26, 2021

Migrants in the Profane

Peter E. Gordon
Hosted by Ryan Tripp

A beautifully written exploration of religion's role in a secular, modern politics, by an accomplished scholar of critical theory, Migrants in the Pro…

Simon J. Gilhooley, "The Antebellum Origins of the Modern Constitution: Slavery and the Spirit of the American Founding" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

December 28, 2020

The Antebellum Origins of the Modern Constitution

Simon J. Gilhooley
Hosted by Ryan Tripp

The Antebellum Origins of the Modern Constitution: Slavery and the Spirit of the American Founding (Cambridge University Press, 2020) argues that conf…

Gaby Mahlberg, "The English Republican Exiles in Europe during the Restoration" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

November 27, 2020

The English Republican Exiles in Europe during the Restoration

Gaby Mahlberg
Hosted by Ryan Tripp

The Restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660 changed the lives of English republicans for good. Despite the Declaration of Breda, where Charles II p…

Joanne Paul, "Counsel and Command in Early Modern English Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

November 11, 2020

Counsel and Command in Early Modern English Thought

Joanne Paul
Hosted by Ryan Tripp

While it has often been recognized that counsel formed an essential part of the political discourse in early modern England, the precise role that it …

Alison Games, "Inventing the English Massacre: Amboyna in History and Memory" (Oxford UP, 2020

September 24, 2020

Inventing the English Massacre

Alison Games
Hosted by Ryan Tripp

My Lai, Wounded Knee, Sandy Hook: the place names evoke grief and horror, each the site of a massacre. Massacres-the mass slaughter of people-might se…

Sherry L. Smith, "Bohemians West: Free Love, Family, and Radicals in Twentieth-Century America" (Heyday Books, 2020)

September 15, 2020

Bohemians West

Sherry L. Smith
Hosted by Ryan Tripp

The opening years of the twentieth century saw a grand cast of radicals and reformers fighting for a new America, seeking change not only in labor pic…

Martin Jay, "Splinters in Your Eye: Frankfurt School Provocations" (Verso, 2020) 

July 15, 2020

Splinters in Your Eye

Martin Jay
Hosted by Ryan Tripp

Although successive generations of the Frankfurt School have attempted to adapt Critical Theory to new circumstances, the work done by its founding me…