New Books Network Podcast

Psychoanalysis January 21, 2023

Resurgence of Global Populism

A Psychoanalytic Study of Projective Identification, Blame-Shifting and the Corruption of Democracy

Karyne E. Messina

Hosted by Ashis Roy

Resurgence of Global Populism: A Psychoanalytic Study of Projective Identification, Blame-Shifting and the Corruption of Democracy (Routledge, 2022) provides a psychoanalytic perspective to the global implications of the populist movement …

Ministry of Ideas January 20, 2023

The Myth of Modernity

Is There a Bigger Picture?

Mayra Rivera and Jered Hickman

Hosted by Zachary Davis

Many think modernity is about the rise of science, the spread of democracy and capitalism, or the decline of religion or superstition. But those stories ignore the bigger picture about …

Intellectual History January 18, 2023

We the Elites

Why the US Constitution Serves the Few

Robert Ovetz

Hosted by Keith Krueger

We have been ruled long enough. It is time to govern ourselves. If we are to get past the Constitution and all systems based on constitutions, we need to move …

Peoples & Things January 13, 2023

Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

A Discussion with Meredith Broussard

Meredith Broussard

Hosted by Lee Vinsel

Data journalist Meredith Broussard talks about her book, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World, with Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel. The book discusses how artificial intelligence systems do …

Philosophy January 12, 2023

After Thomas Kuhn

The Structure of Aesthetic Revolutions

Oana Serban

Hosted by Carrie Figdor

Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions revolutionized the way philosophers and historians of science thought about science, scientific progress, and the nature of scientific knowledge. But Kuhn himself also …

General History January 10, 2023

Heidegger in Ruins

Between Philosophy and Ideology

Richard Wolin

Hosted by Ryan Tripp

What does it mean when a radical understanding of National Socialism is inextricably embedded in the work of the twentieth century's most important philosopher? Martin Heidegger's sympathies for the conservative …

Philosophy December 30, 2022

The Idea of Prison Abolition

Tommie Shelby

Hosted by Robert Talisse

By any reasonable metric, prisons as they exist in the United States and in many other countries are normatively unacceptable. What is the proper moral response to this? Can prisons …

Medicine December 28, 2022

On Learning to Heal

or, What Medicine Doesn't Know

Ed Cohen

Hosted by Ari Barbalat

At thirteen, Ed Cohen was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease—a chronic, incurable condition that nearly killed him in his early twenties. At his diagnosis, his doctors told him that the best …

Critical Theory December 27, 2022

Automation Is a Myth

Luke Munn

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh

For some, automation will usher in a labor-free utopia; for others, it signals a disastrous age-to-come. Yet whether seen as dream or nightmare, automation, argues Munn, is ultimately a fable …

Neuroscience December 23, 2022

Brain Energy

A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health--and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More

Christopher M. Palmer

Hosted by Sine Yaganoglu

Christopher M. Palmer's book Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health (Benbella Books, 2022) will forever change the way we understand and treat mental health. If you or someone …

Media December 22, 2022

Sad by Design

On Platform Nihilism

Geert Lovink

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez

Why is the internet making us so unhappy? Why is it in capital’s interests to cultivate populations that are depressed and desperate rather than driven by the same irrational exuberance …

Finance December 21, 2022

Illiquidity + Opacity = Insolvency

A Discussion with Gary Stern, Former President of the Minneapolis Fed

Gary Stern

Hosted by Robert Kowit

What's going on in private markets? As interest rates have gone up, public markets have been marked down much more severely than assets in the private market. Will the chickens …

Science December 20, 2022

The Poetry and Music of Science

Comparing Creativity in Science and Art

Tom McLeish

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh

What human qualities are needed to make scientific discoveries, and which to make great art? Many would point to 'imagination' and 'creativity' in the second case but not the first …

Psychology December 15, 2022

Between Us

How Cultures Create Emotions

Batja Mesquita

Hosted by Jolie Ho

A pioneer of cultural psychology argues that emotions are not innate, but made as we live our lives together. We may think of emotions as universal responses, felt inside, but …

On Religion December 12, 2022

Metamodernism

The Future of Theory

Jason Ananda Josephson Storm

Hosted by Gregory Soden

For decades, scholars have been calling into question the universality of disciplinary objects and categories. The coherence of defined autonomous categories—such as religion, science, and art—has collapsed under the weight …

Philosophy December 10, 2022

Interdisciplinarity in the Making

Models and Methods in Frontier Science

Nancy J. Nersessian