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Intellectual History
Interviews with intellectual historians about their new books.
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
Seeking Sakyamuni
Though fascinated with the land of their tradition’s birth, virtually no Japanese Buddhists visited the Indian subcontinent before the nineteenth cent…
May 5, 2024
Promise and Peril of Credit
In 1647, the French author Étienne Cleirac asserted in his book Les us, et coustumes de la mer that the credit instruments known as bills of exchange …
May 4, 2024
Gendered Morality
How are notions of justice and equality constructed in Islamic virtue ethics (akhlaq)? How are Islamic virtue ethics gendered, despite their venture i…
May 2, 2024
Untamed Shrews
If you are familiar with traditional Chinese literature, you have likely come across the figure of the “shrew,” a morally threatening woman who is eit…
May 1, 2024
Nietzsche Now!
What would Nietzsche say… about today’s divisive issues and debates? I spoke with Glenn Wallis, author of the new book, Nietzsche Now!, on how the Gre…
May 1, 2024
Natural Magic
Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known as natural philosophy, a pastime for p…
April 30, 2024
What Is a Classic in History?
What is a classic in historical writing? How do we explain the continued interest in certain historical texts, even when their accounts and interpreta…
April 29, 2024
Black Freethinkers
Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism (Northwestern University Press, 2019) by Christopher Cameron, an Associate Professor of h…
April 28, 2024
Potential History
Ariella Aisha Azoulay argues that the institutions that make our world, from archives and museums to ideas of sovereignty and human rights to history …
April 27, 2024
Imagining Musical Pasts
Imagining Musical Pasts: the Queer Literary Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson (Clemson University Press, 2023) by Kr…
April 26, 2024
Stefanos Geroulanos on "The Invention of Prehistory"
What does it mean to be human? What do we know about the true history of humankind? In this episode, I spoke with historian and NYU professor Stefanos…
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
J. N. Darby and the Roots of Dispensationalism
J.N. Darby and the Roots of Dispensationalism (Oxford University Press, 2024) describes the work of one of the most important and under-studied theolo…
April 23, 2024
Novel Palestine
Palestinian writing imagines the nation, not as a nation-in-waiting but as a living, changing structure that joins people, place, and time into a dist…
April 23, 2024
Free Time
Free time, one of life’s most precious things, often feels unfulfilling. But why? And how did leisure activities transition from strolling in the park…
April 23, 2024
Christian Shakespeare
The enigma of William Shakespeare's religious beliefs has long tantalized scholars and enthusiasts alike. Vernon Press's latest publication, Christian…
April 22, 2024
Spinoza
Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) was one of the most important philosophers of all time; he was also one of the most radical and controversial. The story of…
April 21, 2024
Fieldnotes in the Critical Study of Religion
Fieldnotes in the Critical Study of Religion: Revisiting Classical Theorists (Bloomsbury, 2023) introduces students to the so-called classics of the f…
April 18, 2024
Responsa in a Historical Context
Debby Koren's book Responsa in a Historical Context: A View of Post-Expulsion Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Communities Through 16th- And 17th-Century Res…