New Books Network
General History July 27, 2021

The Culture of Dissent in Restoration England

The Wonders of the Lord

George Southcombe

Hosted by Ryan Shelton
After over a decade of king-less government, civil war, and political and religious revolution, the restoration of the Stuart monarchy created a complex situation for those religious dissenters who had enjoyed …

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Sociology July 27, 2021

Against White Feminism

Notes on Disruption

Rafia Zakaria

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
Elite white women have branded feminism, promising an apolitical individual empowerment along with sexual liberation and satisfaction, LGBTQ inclusion, and racial solidarity. As Rafia Zakaria expertly argues in Against White Feminism …
Jewish Studies July 27, 2021

Nahmanides

Law and Mysticism

Moshe Halbertal

Hosted by Michael Morales
Rabbi Moses ben Nahman (1194–1270), known in English as Nahmanides and by the acronym the Ramban, was one of the most creative kabbalists, one of the deepest and most original …
Systems and Cybernetics July 27, 2021

Systems Approaches to Making Change: A Practical Guide

Martin Reynolds and Sue Holwell (Retired)

Hosted by Kevin Lindsay
Practitioners from all professional domains are increasingly confronted with incidences of systemic failure, yet poorly equipped with appropriate tools and know-how for understanding such failure, and the making of systemic …
Eastern European Studies July 27, 2021

Milan Rastislav Štefánik

The Slovak National Hero and Co-Founder of Czechoslovakia

Michal Kšiňan

Hosted by Leslie Waters
Michal Kšiňan’s Milan Rastislav Štefánik: The Slovak National Hero and Co-Founder of Czechoslovakia is the first scientific biography of Milan Rastislav Štefánik (1880–1919) that is focused on analyzing the process …
Literature July 27, 2021

The Thin Ledge

A Husband’s Memoir of Love, Trauma, and Unexpected Circumstances

Daniel Shapiro

Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
Daniel Shapiro was a successful attorney in his early forties when his wife, Susan, suffered a brain bleed and a diagnosis that her future was uncertain. Stunned, and with three …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast July 27, 2021

Constitutional Investigations

Linda Colley

Hosted by Howard Burton
Constitutional Investigations is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Linda Colley, the Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University. Linda Colley is a …
Economic and Business History July 27, 2021

Shredding Paper

The Rise and Fall of Maine's Mighty Paper Industry

Michael G. Hillard

Hosted by Jason Newton
From the early twentieth century until the 1960s, Maine led the nation in paper production. The state could have earned a reputation as the Detroit of paper production, however, the …
Early Modern History July 27, 2021

The Bookshop of the World

Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen

Hosted by Ryan Shelton
After a turbulent political revolt against the military superpower of the early modern world, the tiny Dutch Republic managed to situate itself as the dominant printing and book trading power …
Russian and Eurasian Studies July 27, 2021

CABBAGE AND CAVIAR

A History of Food in Russia

Alison K. Smith

Hosted by Steven Seegel
When people think of Russian food, they generally think either of the opulent luxury of the tsarist aristocracy or of post-Soviet elites, signified above all by caviar, or on the …
Archaeology July 27, 2021

Olga Tufnell’s 'Perfect Journey'

Letters and Photographs of an Archaeologist in the Levant and Mediterranean

John D.M. Green and Ros Henry

Hosted by Samuel Pfister
Olga Tufnell (1905–85) was a British archaeologist working in Egypt, Cyprus, and Palestine in the 1920s and 1930s, a period often described as a golden age of archaeological discovery. Tufnell …
Geography July 27, 2021

Mapping Beyond Measure

Art, Cartography, and the Space of Global Modernity

Simon Ferdinand

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
In Mapping Beyond Measure: Art, Cartography, and the Space of Global Modernity (U Nebraska Press, 2019), Simon Ferdinand analyzes diverse map-based works of painting, collage, film, walking performance, and digital drawing, made in …
Secularism July 26, 2021

Dangerous Games

What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds

Joseph P. Laycock

Hosted by Carrie Lynn Evans
The 1980s saw the peak of a moral panic over fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons. A coalition of moral entrepreneurs that included representatives from the Christian Right …
Entrepreneurship and Leadership July 26, 2021

Active Hotels, via Booking.com, to Angel Investing

A Discussion with Andy Phillips (Part 2)

Andy Phillipps

Hosted by Peter Cowley
Following on from Andy Phillipps first podcast, we are pleased to bring you part two. In part one, Andy described how he co-founded Active Hotels, selling to Priceline and eventually …
Intellectual History July 26, 2021

Canaan, Dim and Far

Black Reformers and the Pursuit of Citizenship in Pittsburgh, 1915-1945

Adam Lee Cilli

Hosted by Hettie V. Williams
Adam Lee Cilli's book Canaan, Dim and Far: Black Reformers and the Pursuit of Citizenship in Pittsburgh, 1915-1945 (U Georgia Press, 2021) is an assiduously researched book about the activism of …
The Future of Higher Education July 26, 2021

When Colleges Close

Leading in a Time of Crisis

David Chard and Mary Churchill

Hosted by David Finegold
David Chard, the President of Wheelock College in Boston, MA, discusses the process of merging Wheelock successfully into Boston University to become the BU Wheelock College of Education and Human …
National Security July 26, 2021

Pastels and Pedophiles

Inside the Mind of QAnon

Mia Bloom and Sophia Moskalenko

Hosted by Beth Windisch
Two experts of extremist radicalization take us down the QAnon rabbit hole, exposing how the conspiracy theory ensnared countless Americans, and show us a way back to sanity. In January …
Critical Theory July 26, 2021

Crises and Hegemonic Transitions

From Gramsci's Quaderni to the Contemporary World Economy

Lorenzo Fusaro

Hosted by Stephen Dozeman
Gramsci’s concept of hegemony is often invoked, but usually as a means of cultural critique and analysis. However, my guest Lorenzo Fusaro argues in his recent book Crises and Hegemonic …
Language July 26, 2021

No Future in This Country

The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry Mcneal Turner

Andre E. Johnson

Hosted by Lee Pierce
No Future in This Country: The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner (U Mississippi Press, 2020) is a history of the career of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner (1834–1915), specifically focusing …
Psychoanalysis July 26, 2021

The Desire of Psychoanalysis

Exercises in Lacanian Thinking

Gabriel Tupinambá

Hosted by Jordan Osserman
What does psychoanalysis want? In The Desire of Psychoanalysis: Exercises in Lacanian Thinking (Northwestern UP, 2021), analyst and academic Gabriel Tupinambá takes the Lacanian world to task for failing to properly …