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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 …

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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 …
Law January 26, 2022

Justice on the Brink

The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Rise of Amy Coney Barrett, and Twelve Months That Transformed the Supreme Court

Linda Greenhouse

Hosted by William Domnarski
At the end of the Supreme Court's 2019-20 term, the center was holding. The predictions that the court would move irrevocably to the far right hadn't come to pass, as …
General History January 26, 2022

The Fairy Tellers

A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales

Nicholas Jubber

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
In The Fairy Tellers: A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales (John Murray, 2022), Nick Jubber unearths the lives of the dreamers who made our most beloved fairy …
General History January 26, 2022

Eaters of the Dead

Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters

Kevin J. Wetmore

Hosted by Jana Byars
Spanning myth, history, and contemporary culture, a terrifying and illuminating excavation of the meaning of cannibalism. Every culture has monsters that eat us, and every culture repels in horror when …
General History January 26, 2022

The Fires of Lust

Sex in the Middle Ages

Katherine Harvey

Hosted by Jana Byars
Today we are with Katherine Harvey, author of The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages (Reaktion Books, 2021). An illuminating exploration of the surprisingly familiar sex lives of ordinary …
Children's Literature January 26, 2022

If I Lived with Noah

Pamela Moritz

Hosted by Mel Rosenberg
Today I talked to Pamela Moritz about her charming rhyming story If I Lived with Noah (Apple and Honey Press, 2020). A young boy imagines being sequestered with Noah and all the …
Middle Eastern Studies January 25, 2022

Libya and the Global Enduring Disorder

Jason Pack

Hosted by James M. Dorsey
Libya stands out as an example of a complex, internecine Middle Eastern and North African conflict in which regional and global powers as well as jihadists exploit tribal and sectarian …
Psychoanalysis January 25, 2022

The Absent Father Effect on Daughters

Father Desire, Father Wounds

Susan E. Schwartz

Hosted by Christopher Russell
The Absent Father Effect on Daughters: Father Desire, Father Wounds (Routledge, 2020) investigates the impact of absent – physically or emotionally – and inadequate fathers on the lives and psyches …
General History January 25, 2022

Blood and Iron

The Rise and Fall of the German Empire

Katja Hoyer

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
Before 1871, Germany was not yet nation but simply an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable task at hand. How would he bring thirty-nine individual states under …
The Imperfect Buddha Podcast January 25, 2022

Practice Item no. 1

Matthew O'Connell

Hosted by Matthew O'Connell
Take a trip to the Great Feast in this first in a series of posts on the practising life. Non-Buddhism meets post-traditional slants on practice, whilst tackling complexity, doubt, and …
Literature January 25, 2022

The Singing Forest

Judith McCormack

Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
Two children stumble upon a mass grave in the forest outside of Minsk in Belarus where the NKVD, Stalin’s secret police, buried tens of thousands of innocent victims of torture …
Finance January 25, 2022

The Revolution That Wasn't

GameStop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors

Spencer Jakab

Hosted by Daniel Peris
In The Revolution That Wasn't: GameStop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors (Portfolio/Penguin, 2022), WSJ columnist Spencer Jakab weaves together personal narratives, the key market institutions, and social media to tell the fascinating …
Children's Literature January 25, 2022

The Family (and Frog! ) Haggadah

Karen Rostoger-Gruber

Hosted by Mel Rosenberg
I talked with Karen Rostoger-Gruber and her sidekick, Maria (Karen is a ventriloquist) on her career and writing process and celebrated her Passover hagaddah (prayer book) with an amphibian twist: The …
Film January 25, 2022

The First True Hitchcock

The Making of a Filmmaker

Henry K. Miller

Hosted by Joel Tscherne
This untold origin story of the filmmaker explores its transatlantic history. Alfred Hitchcock called The Lodger "the first true Hitchcock movie," one that anticipated all the others. And yet, the …
East Asian Studies January 24, 2022

Queer Taiwanese Literature

A Reader

Howard Chiang

Hosted by Li-Ping Chen
As the first state to legalize same-sex marriage in Asia and host the first annual gay pride in the Sinophone Pacific, Taiwan is a historic center of lesbian, gay, bisexual …
General History January 24, 2022

A Short History of War

Jeremy Black

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
Throughout history, warfare has transformed social, political, cultural, and religious aspects of our lives. We tell tales of wars--past, present, and future--to create and reinforce a common purpose. In A …
Children's Literature January 24, 2022

Irving Berlin

The Immigrant Boy Who Made America Sing

Nancy Churnin

Hosted by Mel Rosenberg
Today I talked to Nancy Churnin about her book Irving Berlin: The Immigrant Boy Who Made America Sing (Creston Books, 2018).Irving Berlin came to the United States as a refugee from …
Buddhist Studies January 24, 2022

Buddhism in Five Minutes

Elizabeth J. Harris

Hosted by Olivia Porter
In Elizabeth J. Harris' Buddhism in Five Minutes (Equinox Publishing, 2021), academic specialists offer answers to 75 questions about Buddhism that people curious about Buddhism might ask. The questions cover …
Islamic Studies January 24, 2022

Islamicate Cosmopolitan Spirit

Bruce B. Lawrence

Hosted by SherAli Tareen
In his new book cum manifesto, Islamicate Cosmopolitan Spirit (Wiley-Blackwell, 2021), legendary scholar of Islam Bruce Lawrence outlines his politico-conceptual manifesto for the study and place of Islam in the …