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Ministry of Ideas
January 1, 2023
Introducing Ministry of Ideas
Zachary Davis
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Introducing Ministry of Ideas, a podcast that explores the ideas that shape our lives. …
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Nomads, Past and Present
December 27, 2022
An Introduction to Digital Nomads
Maggie Freeman
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Maggie Freeman
Welcome to Digital Nomads! This episode introduces your host, Maggie, and gives a brief overview of the aims, future of, and inspiration behind this podcast. Music in this episode: Desert …
High Theory
April 1, 2022
Welcome to High Theory!
Kim Adams and Soronik Bosu
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Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Welcome to High Theory! High Theory is a podcast in which we get high on the substance of theory. And we ask the three standard questions, to each other, and …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast
June 24, 2020
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast
An Introduction
Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
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Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
What motivates creative people to do what they do, especially to change the world? The Proust Questionnaire is thought in action. It's a personality test that allows us a glimpse …
The Vault
September 21, 2018
An Introduction to NYIH Studios
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New York Institute for the Humanities
Welcome to the New York Institute for the Humanities podcast. Learn more about the history of the Institute and our shows. …
The Imperfect Buddha Podcast
July 10, 2015
Imperfect Buddha Podcast: Introducing the Why, the How, the Intent of it All
Hosted by
Matthew O'Connell
What is the Imperfect Buddha Podcast? Where does it come from? Why listen to it? All of these questions and more are presented in this introduction designed at clarifying for …
African American Studies
January 31, 2023
Dismal Freedom
A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp
J. Brent Morris
Hosted by
Adam McNeil
The massive and foreboding Great Dismal Swamp sprawls over 2,000 square miles and spills over parts of Virginia and North Carolina. From the early seventeenth century, the nearly impassable Dismal …
Secularism
January 31, 2023
The Varieties of Atheism
Connecting Religion and Its Critics
David Newheiser
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Carrie Lynn Evans
The Varieties of Atheism: Connecting Religion and Its Critics (University of Chicago Press, 2022), edited by Professor David Newheiser reveals the diverse nonreligious experiences obscured by the combative intellectualism of …
How to Be Wrong
January 31, 2023
Otherness, Disability, and Beauty
A Conversation with Pulitzer finalist Chloé Cooper Jones
Chloé Cooper Jones
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John Kaag and John Traphagan
This episode of How To Be Wrong is about humility, beauty and the ways in which our society dictates the nature and boundaries of what is deemed beautiful. We talk …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel
January 31, 2023
Ecclesiastes and the Meaning of Life in the Ancient World
Arthur Keefer
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Renee Garfinkel
Is the search for meaning a luxury of the modern world or have human beings always struggled to find meaning in the human condition – in the face of suffering …
Peoples & Things
January 31, 2023
War, Plague, and Confession in Fourteenth-Century Provence
A Discussion with Nicole Archambeau
Nicole Archambeau
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Lee Vinsel
Nicole Archambeau, associate professor of history at Colorado State University, talks about her book, Souls under Siege: Stories of War, Plague, and Confession in Fourteenth-Century Provence (Cornell University Press), with …
Ministry of Ideas
January 31, 2023
Out of TIme
Sacred Time and 'Time is Money'
Ahmed Ragab and Mary Gray
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Zachary Davis
Many of the earliest time technologies were used to mark sacred time -- time set apart for the divine. But with the Industrial Revolution, efficient time use became its own …
Gender Studies
January 31, 2023
Missing: Men at Work
A Conversation with Nick Eberstadt
Nick Eberstadt
Hosted by
Annika Nordquist
Over six million prime-age men are neither working nor looking for work; America's low unemployment rate hides the fact that many men have dropped out of the workforce altogether. Our …
Jewish Studies
January 31, 2023
Gendering Modern Jewish Thought
Andrea Dara Cooper
Hosted by
Lea Greenberg
The idea of brotherhood has been an important philosophical concept for understanding community, equality, and justice. In Gendering Modern Jewish Thought (Indiana UP, 2021), Andrea Dara Cooper offers a gendered …
Diplomatic History
January 31, 2023
Petroleum and Progress in Iran
Oil, Development, and the Cold War
Greg Brew
Hosted by
Grant Golub
From the 1940s to 1960s, Iran developed into the world's first “petro-state,” where oil represented the bulk of state revenue and supported an industrializing economy, expanding middle class, and powerful …
Literature
January 31, 2023
Song of the Storyteller
Book 5 of 5: Songs of Steppe & Forest
C. P. Lesley
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G. P. Gottlieb
Today I talked to C. P. Lesley about Song of the Storyteller (Five Directions Press, 2023). It’s 1546, and Ivan the Terrible is about to be coronated and married off. Government …
Jewish Studies
January 31, 2023
The Belzec Death Camp
History, Biographies, Remembrance
Chris Webb
Hosted by
Ari Barbalat
Chris Webb's The Belzec Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance (Ibidem, 2016) is a comprehensive account of the Belzec death camp in Poland, which was the first death camp to use …
Almost Good Catholics
January 31, 2023
Walking the Via Dolorosa
An Archaeologist Follows Jesus from His Trial to His Crucifixion
Ilka Knüppel
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Krzysztof Odyniec
Archaeologist Ilka Knüppel discusses her master's thesis—The Search for Jesus's Final Steps: How Archaeological and Literary Evidence Reroutes the Via Dolorosa—and how she came to write it. To use both …
Peoples & Things
January 30, 2023
The History of Teletherapy
A Conversation with Hannah Zeavin
Hannah Zeavin
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Lee Vinsel
Hannah Zeavin, lecturer in the department of History and member of the executive committees of both the Center for New Media and the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society …
Ministry of Ideas
January 30, 2023
Public Thinking
Social Media and the New 'Public Intellectual'
Cornel West and George Scialabba
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Zachary Davis
We have usually relied on public intellectuals to provide facts, ideas, and cultural leadership--though not all have lived up to the ideal of “speaking truth to power.” Today, however, online …
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