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Critical Theory
Interviews with scholars of critical theory about their new books.
May 23, 2026
The Heartland of US Empire
Published by Temple University Press in 2026, The Heartland of US Empire: Race, Region, and the Queer Filipinx Midwest examines Filipinx cultural re…
May 21, 2026
Moral Philosophy and De-Colonialism
Why have moral philosophers largely ignored colonialism? In Moral Philosophy and De-Colonialism: The Irrationality of Oppression (Bloomsbury Academic,…
May 20, 2026
Rebooting Inequality
From Ghostbusters to Will & Grace, One Day at a Time to Jurassic Park, the past decade has seen Hollywood reach a new peak in its obsession with reboo…
May 20, 2026
Industrial Islamism
What explains the rise of religious populism in contemporary Turkish politics and society? How does industrialization help to explain change and…
May 20, 2026
Elites and Democracy
A central paradox of democracies is that they are always ruled by elites. What can democracy mean in this context? Today, it is often said that a popu…
May 20, 2026
The Rest and the West
At the heart of the fiercest international conflicts is the struggle for the future of globalization. In the wake of a pandemic that tested economies…
May 18, 2026
Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film
Our bodies and brains are radically transformable, mutable and plastic. From the neuroplasticity of the brain to the epigenetic malleability of our bo…
May 18, 2026
Fascismos
Carlos Martins joins the New Books Network to discuss his book Fascism: Beyond Hitler and Mussolini (Desassossego, 2022) (in Portuguese Fascismos: Par…
May 17, 2026
The Matter of Evil
Most of us today would assume that morality and ethics, being value propositions, are questions for inspired leaders, religious creeds, poets—in other…
May 12, 2026
The Mattering Instinct
MacArthur Fellow and National Humanities Medalist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex and The Mind-Body Problem, returns wi…
May 8, 2026
Every Man's Home a Castle
“Parental rights” is a rallying cry for today’s American conservatives, signaling opposition to mandatory vaccination and “woke” public school curricu…
May 6, 2026
Feminism. Art. Capitalism.
Can art change the contemporary world? In Feminism, Art, Capitalism Angela Dimitrakaki, a Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the univ…
May 4, 2026
The New Racial Regime
The New Racial Regime begins by interrogating the backlash against critical race theory and explains how the so-called war on woke can be used against…
May 4, 2026
From Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands
Today we think of land as the paradigmatic example of property, while in the past, the paradigmatic example was often a slave. In this seminal work, J…
May 3, 2026
Media Rurality
Media Rurality (Duke UP, 2026), edited by Darin Barney and Patrick Brodie, investigates the centrality of rural places and people within the media sys…
May 2, 2026
In the Land of the Lacandón
In the mid-1930s the amateur French ethnographer and filmmaker Bernard de Colmont ventured into the mountainous state of Chiapas to study the Lacandón…
May 1, 2026
Treaty Ground
In Treaty Ground: Diplomacy and the Politics of Sovereignty, from Roanoke to the Republic (U Nebraska Press, 2026), Professor Charles W. A. Prior off…
May 1, 2026
53 Mapping Out Food and Philosophy
This episode introduces a special issue on food and philosophy. Robert T. Valgenti, of Gastronomica’s Editorial Collective, talks with Andrea Borghini…
May 1, 2026
The Mask of Memory
In the early twentieth century, a group of white writers, artists, and performers from the cultural hub of Charleston, South Carolina, created and cur…
May 1, 2026
Hebrew Orientalism
In the decades before the establishment of a Jewish state in 1948, native and immigrant Jews in Palestine mediated between Jewish and Arab cultures wh…