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- The Truth About Bullshit
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- Turkish Studies
- The Vault
- Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast
- High Theory
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- Think About It
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- Florida Press Podcast
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- From the Square: An NYU Press Podcast
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- University of Georgia Press Podcast
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- Georgetown University Press Podcast
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Recall This Book
Free-ranging discussion of books from the past that cast a sideways light on today's world. Recall This Book is hosted by Elizabeth Ferry, Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University and John Plotz, Barbara Mandel Professor of the Humanities at Brandeis University and co-founder of the Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative.
June 4, 2026
David Cunningham on Contesting Confederate Monuments (JP)
David Cunningham joins John to speak about his pathbreaking article about visiting each of the 113 communities that removed or relocated Confederate s…
May 24, 2026
How Deeply Human Is Language?
How Deeply Human Is Language? Chomsky, the Brain, and the AI Fantasy (MIT Press, 2026) is Yosef Grodzinsky’s exploration of the criticality of the lin…
May 24, 2026
Music Between Your Ears
Explores the profound power of music to influence brain function and well-being. IPA 2026 Distinguished Favorite in the Music Category Why does musi…
May 21, 2026
171 Elizabeth Bradfield's Books in Dark Times (JP)
For the RtB Books in Dark Times series back in 2021, John spoke with Elizabeth Bradfield, editor of Broadsided Press, poet, professor of creative writ…
May 10, 2026
Consciousness is Motor
When it comes to consciousness, William James is well-known for his descriptions of it rather than his theory of it and its relation to the body. In C…
May 7, 2026
What Waltham Does When the Water Rises
Permafrost melts, desert cities boil, inland lakes dry up; but Waltham too in its own way has become one of the dark places of the earth. Adverse manm…
April 22, 2026
Our Brains, Our Selves
What makes us who we are?Through the stories of seven of his patients, acclaimed Oxford University neurologist Masud Husain shows us how our brains cr…
April 17, 2026
169* Hannah Arendt on Oases (JP)
On March 26, JP published "Arendt on Oases" the last of three short pieces about Hannah Arendt in Public Books (following “Against Anticipatory Despai…
April 8, 2026
The Shape of Things Unseen
A compelling insight into how our imagination works, based on the latest scientific research. People often think of imagination as something used onl…
April 2, 2026
What's Global about Sven Beckert's Capitalism (Paul Kramer, JP)
John is joined by the brilliant and affable Paul Kramer of Vanderbilt (The Blood of Government) to discuss Capitalism: A Global History (Penguin, 202…
March 26, 2026
Addiction with Gina Turrigiano (EF, JP)
In Recall This Book's second episode (January 2019) John and Elizabeth spoke with their brilliant Brandeis colleague, the MacArthur-winning neuroscien…
March 12, 2026
Imperial Depths
The notion of abolishing prisons strikes some as an impossible dream: could we could reasonably conceive of a society that responded to harm without t…
February 27, 2026
Consciousness
Neuroscientific evidence increasingly shows that consciousness is a remarkable but explainable function of a machinelike brain. Alan J. McComas' discu…
February 19, 2026
Helen Garner Hacking Away at the Adverbs
In this RTB and Novel Dialogue episode from 2021, Helen Garner sits down with John and Elizabeth McMahon, a distinguished scholar of Australian liter…
February 6, 2026
At the Crossroads of the Senses
Inspired by Richard Wagner’s idea of the total artwork, European modernist artists began to pursue multimedia projects that mixed colors, sounds, and …
February 5, 2026
Jewish Assimilation, Integration and the Dreyfus Affair (JP)
When it comes to the condition of Jews in Christian Europe, France was long known as the haven and heartland of integration and of toleration. And yet…
February 1, 2026
Nervous Systems
In this eye-opening chronicle of scientific research on the brain in the early Cold War era, the acclaimed historian Andreas Killen traces the compl…
January 29, 2026
The Drama of Celebrity with Sharon Marcus
As Oscar Season rolls around, Recall This Book looks back to John's 2019 discussion with Columbia University professor Sharon Marcus about The Drama o…
January 19, 2026
How to Change a Memory
As a graduate student at MIT, Steve Ramirez successfully created false memories in the lab. Now, as a neuroscientist working at the frontiers of brain…
January 18, 2026
If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal
What if human intelligence is actually more of a liability than a gift? After all, the animal kingdom, in all its diversity, gets by just fine without…