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January 1, 2023
Introducing Ministry of Ideas
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December 27, 2022
An Introduction to Digital Nomads
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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 …
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April 1, 2022
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May 28, 2023
With Hawks and Angels
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Joel Lafayette Fletcher, III
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Economic and Business History
May 28, 2023
Better Money
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Lawrence H. White
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Say the Right Thing
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Kenji Yoshino and David Glasgow
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Middle Eastern Studies
May 28, 2023
Revolutions Aesthetic
A Cultural History of Ba'thist Syria
Max Weiss
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Reuben Silverman
The November 1970 coup that brought Hafiz al-Asad to power fundamentally transformed cultural production in Syria. A comprehensive intellectual, ideological, and political project—a Ba'thist cultural revolution—sought to align artistic endeavors …
Biblical Studies
May 28, 2023
Armageddon
What the Bible Really Says about the End
Bart D. Ehrman
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Frances Sacks
A New York Times bestselling Biblical scholar, reveals why our popular understanding of the Apocalypse is all wrong—and why that matters.You’ll find nearly everything the Bible has to say about the …
Military History
May 28, 2023
Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin
The Glider Pilots of World War II
Scott McGaugh
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AJ Woodhams
This book distills war down to individual young men climbing into defenseless gliders made of plywood, ready to trust the towing aircraft that would pull them into enemy territory by …
Critical Theory
May 28, 2023
The Cultural Sociology of Art and Music
New Directions and New Discoveries
Lisa McCormick
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May 28, 2023
Appendix N
The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons
Peter Bebergal
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Religion
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The Women’s Mosque of America
Authority and Community in US Islam
Tazeen M. Ali
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Martha Moody
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Susan Stinson
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American Studies
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The War is Here
Newark 1967
Chris Campion and Bud Lee
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Madison's Notes
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Martyrs in Mosul
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Michaela Chamberlain
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Cargoes in Motion
Materiality and Connectivity Across the Indian Ocean
Burkhard Schnepel and Julia Verne
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Medieval History
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Stories Between Christianity and Islam
Saints, Memory, and Cultural Exchange in Late Antiquity and Beyond
Reyhan Durmaz
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