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Ministry of Ideas January 1, 2023

Introducing Ministry of Ideas

Zachary Davis

Hosted by Zachary Davis
Introducing Ministry of Ideas, a podcast that explores the ideas that shape our lives. …

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Nomads, Past and Present December 27, 2022

An Introduction to Digital Nomads

Maggie Freeman

Hosted by Maggie Freeman
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 …
High Theory April 1, 2022

Welcome to High Theory!

Kim Adams and Soronik Bosu

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Welcome to High Theory! High Theory is a podcast in which we get high on the substance of theory. And we ask the three standard questions, to each other, and …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast June 24, 2020

The Proust Questionnaire Podcast

An Introduction

Uli Baer and Caroline Weber

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
What motivates creative people to do what they do, especially to change the world? The Proust Questionnaire is thought in action. It's a personality test that allows us a glimpse …
The Vault September 21, 2018

An Introduction to NYIH Studios

Hosted by New York Institute for the Humanities
Welcome to the New York Institute for the Humanities podcast. Learn more about the history of the Institute and our shows. …
The Imperfect Buddha Podcast July 10, 2015

Imperfect Buddha Podcast: Introducing the Why, the How, the Intent of it All

Hosted by Matthew O'Connell
What is the Imperfect Buddha Podcast? Where does it come from? Why listen to it? All of these questions and more are presented in this introduction designed at clarifying for …
Geography February 8, 2023

Co-Cities

Innovative Transitions toward Just and Self-Sustaining Communities

Sheila R. Foster and Christian Iaione

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
A new model of urban governance, mapping the route to a more equitable management of a city’s infrastructure and services. The majority of the world’s inhabitants live in cities, but …
Architecture February 8, 2023

Design with Nature on Cape Cod and the Islands

John F. Ahern

Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
Cape Cod and the islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket are special places known for their distinctive flora, including pine-oak forests, sandplain grasslands, and sand dunes peppered with bearberry shrubs …
Irish Studies February 8, 2023

America and the Making of an Independent Ireland

A History

Francis M. Carroll

Hosted by Ryan Shelton
On Easter Day 1916, more than a thousand Irishmen stormed Dublin city center, seizing the General Post Office building and reading the Proclamation for an independent Irish Republic. The British …
Education February 8, 2023

Fascism Comes to America

A Century of Obsession in Politics and Culture

Bruce Kuklick

Hosted by Thomas Discenna
From the time Mussolini took power in Italy in 1922, Americans have been obsessed with and brooded over the meaning of fascism and how it might migrate to the United …
American South February 8, 2023

Rural Republican Realignment in the Modern South

The Untold Story

M. V. Hood and Seth C. McKee

Hosted by Brandon Jett
Beginning with the Dixiecrat Revolt of 1948 and extending through the 2020 election cycle, political scientists M.V. Hood III and Seth C. McKee trace the process by which rural white …
Food February 8, 2023

Buffalo Everything

A Guide to Eating in Nickel City with 50 Recipes

Arthur Bovino

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Buffalo isn't just a city full of great wings. There is a great hot dog tradition, from Greek- originated "Texas red hots" to year-round charcoal-grilling at Ted's that puts Manhattan's …
Scholarly Communication February 8, 2023

The Art of Translating Academic Research

A Discussion with Jennifer Crewe, Associate Provost and Director of Columbia University Press

Jennifer Crewe

Hosted by Avi Staiman
Jennifer Crewe talks about how translation became a key component of the Columbia University Press publishing program and how the press decides which books they want to translate. In addition …
Peoples & Things February 8, 2023

How a California Electricity Utility Caused Deadly Wildfires

A Discussion with Katherine Blunt

Katherine Blunt

Hosted by Lee Vinsel
Journalist Katherine Blunt, who writes about renewable energy and utilities for the Wall Street Journal, talks about her new book, California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric—and What …
Ministry of Ideas February 8, 2023

Beyond Happiness--Meaning and the 'Pursuit of Happiness'

Making Meaning Series 5

Emily Esfahani Smith

Hosted by Zachary Davis
Organizing our lives around the pursuit of happiness—defined as positive feelings—can ultimately leave our souls hungry. Instead, we should try connecting ourselves to deeper things: compassion, community, ritual, and awe …
Asian American Studies February 8, 2023

Racist Love

Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy

Leslie Bow

Hosted by Jingyi Li
In Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy (Duke UP, 2022), Leslie Bow traces the ways in which Asian Americans become objects of anxiety and desire. Conceptualizing these …
Critical Theory February 8, 2023

Humanitarian Journalists

Covering Crises from a Boundary Zone

Martin Scott and Kate Wright

Hosted by Dave O'Brien
How can the news better reflect important global issues? In Humanitarian Journalists Covering Crises from a Boundary Zone (Routledge, 2022), Drs Martin Scott, an Associate Professor in Media & Development …
African American Studies February 8, 2023

Black Women, Black Love

America's War on African-American Marriage

Dianne M. Stewart

Hosted by Mickell Carter
According to the 2010 US census, more than seventy percent of Black women in America are unmarried. Black Women, Black Love: America's War on African-American Marriage (Seal Press, 2020) reveals …
Peoples & Things February 7, 2023

“Tech” Journalism and the Many Lives of Stewart Brand

A Discussion with John Markoff

John Markoff

Hosted by Lee Vinsel
Journalist John Markoff has been writing about Silicon Valley for over forty years. In this interview with Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel, Markoff talks about his long career, how …
Politics & Polemics February 7, 2023

Christopher Hitchens

What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters

Ben Burgis

Hosted by Zalman Newfield
In Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters (Zero Books, 2022), Ben Burgis reminds readers about what was best in Hitchens's writings …