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May 6, 2024
Gay Lives and ‘Aversion Therapy’ in Brezhnev’s Russia, 1964–1982
Rustam Alexander's Gay Lives and 'Aversion Therapy' in Brezhnev's Russia, 1964-1982 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) examines the autobiographies and diarie…
May 5, 2024
Military Medicine and the Hidden Costs of War
Decisions to go to war are often framed in cost-benefit terms, and typically such assessments do not factor in longer term costs. However, recent dram…
May 4, 2024
The Sandinista Revolution
The Sandinista Revolution and its victory against the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua gripped the United States and the world in the 1980s. But as so…
May 3, 2024
I Will Show You How It Was
The spring 2022 battle for Kyiv was "one of the most tragic – and the most bizarre – events in modern history," writes Illia Ponomarenko. "Outnumbered…
May 2, 2024
Not Your China Doll
In 2022, the U.S. Mint released the first batch of its American Women Quarters series, celebrating the achievements of U.S. women throughout its histo…
May 1, 2024
Private Censorship
When we think of censorship, our minds might turn to state agencies exercising power to silence dissent. However, contemporary concerns about censors…
April 30, 2024
Resetting the Origins of Christianity
How do we know what we know about the origins of the Christian religion? Neither its founder, nor the Apostles, nor Paul left any written accounts of …
April 29, 2024
November 1918
Was Weimar doomed from the outset? In November 1918: The German Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2020), Robert Gerwarth argues that this is the w…
April 28, 2024
The Constitution of the War on Drugs
David Pozen is the Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and the author of the new book, The Constitution of the War on Drugs…
April 27, 2024
The #MeToo Effect
The #MeToo movement inspired millions to testify to the widespread experience of sexual violence. More broadly, it shifted the deeply ingrained respo…
April 26, 2024
Tracks on the Trail
From Bill Clinton playing his saxophone on The Arsenio Hall Show to Barack Obama referencing Jay-Z's song "Dirt Off Your Shoulder," politicians have u…
April 25, 2024
A Global Enlightenment
Alexander Statman's book A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science (U Chicago Press, 2023) is a revisionist history of the idea of …
April 24, 2024
Digital Empires
The global battle among the three dominant digital powers―the United States, China, and the European Union―is intensifying. All three regimes are raci…
April 23, 2024
The Power to Destroy
The anti-tax movement is "the most important overlooked social and political movement of the last half century", according to our guest Michael J. Gra…
April 22, 2024
England's Jews
In 1290, Jews were expelled from England and subsequently largely expunged from English historical memory. Yet for two centuries they occupied importa…
April 21, 2024
America’s New Racial Battle Lines
What is happening to the politics of race in America? In America’s New Racial Battle Lines: Protect Versus Repair (U Chicago Press, 2024), Rogers Sm…
April 20, 2024
Electric Dreams
In the future, we’ll all be having sex with robots… won’t we? Roboticists say they’re a distracting science fiction, yet endless books, films and art…
April 19, 2024
As Gods Among Men
This provocative and interesting book has received considerable attention. Roaring reviews and interviews include The Financial Times (UK), The Teleg…
April 18, 2024
The Southern Tour
Deng Xiaoping’s 1992 Southern Tour has become a milestone in Chinese economic history. Historians and commentators credit Deng’s visit to Guangzhou Pr…
April 17, 2024
The Works and Times of Johan Huizinga (1872-1945)
Thor Rydin joins to talk about his new book, The Works and Times of Johan Huizinga (1872- 1945): Writing History in the Age of Collapse (Amsterdam UP,…