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June 3, 2026
A Divine Comedy
Here in Episode 9 of Season 5, I interview Mr. Rob Long. A longtime Hollywood professional, he was a writer and producer for the classic sitcom Cheers…
June 3, 2026
Critical Care
The claim that real change is enabled by grassroots, community-based movements might seem a distant ideal, but Dr Geraldine Fela shows such assertions…
June 1, 2026
Picky
Are children naturally picky? It sure seems that way. Yet, amazingly, pickiness used to be almost nonexistent. Well into the 20th century, Americans s…
May 28, 2026
What They Stole
In 1955, following the devastation of the Korean War, Bertha and Harry Holt made headlines for adopting eight Korean children. Driven by evangelical c…
May 27, 2026
The Narrowing Sea
In The Narrowing Sea: Fukuoka, Pusan, and the Rise and Fall of an Imperial Region (U California Press, 2025), Hannah Shepherd examines the shared hist…
May 22, 2026
Huge Numbers
What if, every time you wanted to write down 1,000,000, you had to draw a picture of a god? And what if that number were the biggest you had a symbol …
May 18, 2026
Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film
Our bodies and brains are radically transformable, mutable and plastic. From the neuroplasticity of the brain to the epigenetic malleability of our bo…
May 16, 2026
A Womb of One's Own
In the well-trod history of the Roman Empire, a pivotal moment has long gone unnoticed: It was in ancient Rome that medical men first set their sights…
May 16, 2026
Cold War Comrades
In this major new interpretation of Sino-North Korean relations, Dr. Gregg A. Brazinsky argues that neither the PRC nor the DPRK would have survived a…
May 15, 2026
Empire of Skulls
In Empire of Skulls: Phrenology, the Fowler Family, and a New Nation's Quest to Unlock the Secrets of the Mind (Counterpoint Publishing, 2026), Dr. Pa…
May 14, 2026
Pyongyang on the Brink
North Korea has survived wars, sanctions, and isolation—to the point where it now seems that the continuation of the Kim dynasty, and a starkly divide…
May 13, 2026
What's Real about Race?
Professor Rina Bliss teaches in the sociology department at Rutgers University, and has written on the social significance of genetic studies on intel…
May 12, 2026
The Mattering Instinct
MacArthur Fellow and National Humanities Medalist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex and The Mind-Body Problem, returns wi…
May 11, 2026
The Rise of the Internet
We were joined by Angus Burgin, Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, and talked about how the arrival of the Internet remade li…
May 2, 2026
Lyrical Translation
Lyrical Translation: The Creation of Modern Poetry in Colonial Korea (U Hawai'i Press, 2026)is a literary history of modern Korean poetry's origins an…
April 30, 2026
Becoming Martian
How living in space will affect future generations—and what the potential unintended consequences of space settlements are.We are on the cusp of a gol…
April 30, 2026
The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments
The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments (Reaktion, 2026) by Dr. Deirdre Loughridge & Dr. Thomas Patteson is a guided tour through centuries of ins…
April 30, 2026
Empathy Takes Action
Mainstream psychology has long accepted that some people (like those with autism) are naturally more logical and unemotional, while others (like so-ca…
April 28, 2026
The Craft of Indo-Arabic Numerals
In the thirteenth-century Mediterranean, commerce transformed as merchants shifted from Roman to Indo-Arabic numerals—an alternative that better facil…
April 24, 2026
Marvellous Vegetables in the English Renaissance
Today, I interview Vin Nardizzi, Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, about his new monograph Marvellous Vegetables in the Engl…