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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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The Proust Questionnaire Podcast
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Welcome to the New York Institute for the Humanities podcast. Learn more about the history of the Institute and our shows. …
African Studies
October 2, 2023
History of South Africa
From 1902 to the Present
Thula Simpson
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Ari Barbalat
South Africa was born in war, has been cursed by crises and ruptures, and today stands on a precipice once again. Thula Simpson's History of South Africa: From 1902 to …
Biblical Studies
October 2, 2023
Deuteronomy
Concordia Commentary
Adolph L. Harstad
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Michael Morales
The Book of Deuteronomy, the Fifth Book of Moses, is foundational for both Judaism and Christianity. What makes Deuteronomy so significant? How does one apply its message today? Tune in …
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October 2, 2023
A Brief History of the Pacific
The Great Ocean
Jeremy Black
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Charles Coutinho
Jeremy Black's A Brief History of the Pacific: The Great Ocean (Robinson, 2023) succeeds in examining both the indigenous presence on ocean's islands and Western control or influence over the …
The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones
October 2, 2023
The Future of the EAST
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Yasheng Huang
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Exams, autocracy, stability, and technology have been hallmarks of Chinese society for centuries — from ancient times through to the present. Is that set to continue and how well does …
Shakespeare For All
October 2, 2023
Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" Part 2: Characters and Questions
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Simon Palfrey
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With Professor Simon Palfrey, Part 2 looks closely at the play’s characters, and especially at the intelligence and swiftness of Juliet. You’ll see how the lovers apprehend new possibilities of …
Peoples & Things
October 2, 2023
Twenty Years After “The New Economy”
A Conversation with Doug Henwood
Doug Henwood
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Lee Vinsel
Economic journalist and broadcaster Doug Henwood revisits his 2003 book, After the New Economy (New Press), with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. “The New Economy” was a catchphrase that became …
Japanese Studies
October 2, 2023
Toward a Gameic World
New Rules of Engagement from Japanese Video Games
Ben Whaley
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Nathan Hopson
Ben Whaley’s Toward a Gameic World: New Rules of Engagement from Japanese Video Games (U Michigan Press 2023) examines the pathbreaking engagement strategies of four Japanese video games produced between 200 …
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October 2, 2023
The Vanishing
A Film by George Sluizer
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If you have seen Sluizer’s original 1988 thriller—not his 1993 American remake with Jeff Bridges and Kiefer Sutherland--you’ll know exactly why we are doing it as a companion piece to …
Religion
October 2, 2023
Life without God
An Outsider's Look at Atheism
Rik Peels
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Tiatemsu Longkumer
In Life without God: An Outsider's Look at Atheism (Cambridge UP, 2023), Rik Peels explores atheism from a new perspective that aims to go beyond the highly polarized debate about …
America and Beyond with Paul Starobin
October 2, 2023
On the Secrets of Writing Historical Fiction
A Discussion with Burt Solomon, author of "The Murder of Andrew Johnson"
Burt Solomon
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The Murder of Andrew Johnson (Forge, 2023) is the third in Burt Solomon’s John Hay Mystery trilogy. Our conversation explores the art and craft of writing historical fiction. What licenses …
General History
October 2, 2023
The Edwin Fox
How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850-1914
Boyd Cothran and Adrian Shubert
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Miranda Melcher
It began as a small, slow, and unadorned sailing vessel—in a word, ordinary. Later, it was a weary workhorse in the age of steam. But the story of the Edwin …
Capitalism and Freedom in the Twenty-First Century
October 2, 2023
40 Years Since Milton Friedman‘s ‘Free To Choose‘
A conversation with Rob Chatfield
Rob Chatfield
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It's been over 40 years since Milton Friedman's famous ten-part television series 'Free To Choose' was broadcast on PBS. Rob Chatfield, President and CEO of the Free To Choose Network …
Literary Studies
October 1, 2023
Workshops of Empire
Stegner, Engle, and American Creative Writing During the Cold War
Eric Bennett
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Morteza Hajizadeh
During and just after World War II, an influential group of American writers and intellectuals projected a vision for literature that would save the free world. Novels, stories, plays, and …
African American Studies
October 1, 2023
Black Female Intellectuals in 19th Century America
Born to Bloom Unseen?
Rebecca J. Fraser
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Katrina Anderson
Drawing on letters, personal testimony, works of art, novels, and historic Black newspapers, this book is an interdisciplinary exploration of Black women’s contributions to the intellectual life of nineteenth-century America …
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October 1, 2023
CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine
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Marius Turda and Mark A. Brandon
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Welcome to episode 7 of the CEU Press Podcast Series. In this episode, we sit down with Professor Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes, UK), the series editor of CEU Press Studies …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast
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Free Agents
How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
Kevin J. Mitchell
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Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of …
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