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Ministry of Ideas January 1, 2023

Introducing Ministry of Ideas

Zachary Davis

Hosted by Zachary Davis
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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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 …
East-West Psychology Podcast March 30, 2023

Arts-Based Collective Reading of Existential Posthumanism

A Manifesto

Francesca Ferrando

Hosted by Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay
Today’s podcast features a collective reading of Francesca Ferrando’s new text Existential Posthumanism: A Manifesto. It is set to a drone instrument called a sound bed, made up on a …
Asian Review of Books March 30, 2023

My Strange Shrinking Parents

Zeno Sworder

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
When the two immigrant parents in Zeno Sworder’s latest illustrated book go to the baker asking for a cake for their son, the baker asks for something different instead of …
Music March 30, 2023

DVS Mindz

The Twenty-Year Saga of the Greatest Rap Group to Almost Make It Outta Kansas

Geoff Harkness

Hosted by Alex Kuchma
99.9% of aspiring rappers never make it in the music industry. So why do we only hear the stories of the ones who do? DVS Mindz might be the greatest …
Science Fiction March 30, 2023

The Monsters We Defy

Leslye Penelope

Hosted by Rob Wolf
Leslye Penelope’s latest novel, The Monsters We Defy (Redhook, 2022), takes readers to a version of 1920s Washington D.C. where bootleggers, powerful spirits, and humans blessed (and burdened) with enchantments …
Political Science March 30, 2023

LGBT Inclusion in American Life

Pop Culture, Political Imagination, and Civil Rights

Susan Burgess

Hosted by Lilly Goren
LGBT Inclusion in American Life: Pop Culture, Political Imaginations, and Civil Rights (NYU Press, 2023) is a tour de force that weaves together the various narratives about the transformation of a …
Academic Life March 30, 2023

The Good Enough Life

Avram Alpert

Hosted by Christina Gessler
Today’s book is: The Good-Enough Life (Princeton UP, 2022) by Avram Alpert. We live in a world oriented toward greatness, one in which we feel compelled to be among the wealthiest, most …
American Studies March 30, 2023

We Are Not One

A History of America's Fight Over Israel

Eric Alterman

Hosted by Zalman Newfield
Fights about the fate of the state of Israel, and the Zionist movement that gave birth to it, have long been a staple of both Jewish and American political culture …
Jewish Studies March 30, 2023

A Political and Economic History of the Jews of Afghanistan

Sara Koplik

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
A Political and Economic History of the Jews of Afghanistan (Brill, 2015) by Sara Koplik describes the situation of Jews in that country during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, particularly 1839-1952. It …
Almost Good Catholics March 30, 2023

Gary Kulik: Conscientious Objector Who Served in Vietnam

The Catholic Doctrine of Just War and How to Apply It

Gary Kulik

Hosted by Krzysztof Odyniec
Gary Kulik was a Catholic Conscientious Objector (CO) during the Vietnam War, but when he was drafted he decided to go and serve as a medic. He tells me about …
Madison's Notes March 30, 2023

Administrative State 101

A Conversation with Adam J. White

Adam J. White

Hosted by Annika Nordquist
What is the Administrative State? Where did it come from? Is it a cause for concern or celebration? Adam J. White, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and Director …
Madison's Notes March 30, 2023

School Authority, Parents' Rights

Rita Koganzon on Early Modern Education

Rita Koganzon

Hosted by Annika Nordquist
Americans have always had mixed emotions about schooling: in popular literature and television, teachers are often depicted as tyrannical authorities, even as in classroom settings they often try to style …
MIT Press Podcast March 30, 2023

Water Is in the Air

Physics, Politics, and Poetics of Water in the Arts

Hosted by MIT Press
Our contributors discuss their work in the arts and sciences, which is showcased in the new article collection, Water Is in the Air: Physics, Politics, and Poetics of Water in …
Indian Religions March 30, 2023

Transnational Yoga at Work

Spiritual Tourism and Its Blind Spots

Laurah E. Klepinger

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Transnational Yoga at Work: Spiritual Tourism and Its Blind Spots (Lexington Books, 2022) is an ethnography about local wageworkers in the Indian branches of a transnational yoga institution and about …
Film March 29, 2023

The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson

American Apocrypha

Ethan Warren

Hosted by Daniel Moran
Paul Thomas Anderson’s evolution from a brash, self-anointed “Indiewood” auteur to one of his generation’s most distinctive voices has been one of the most remarkable career trajectories in recent …