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Big Ideas
Interviews with scholars promoting big ideas.
September 10, 2024
Are We Experiencing a Crisis of Culture?
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey spoke with Olivier Roy, professor of social and political sciences at the Europe…
September 9, 2024
Literary Mathematics
Across the humanities and social sciences, scholars increasingly use quantitative methods to study textual data. Considered together, this research re…
September 8, 2024
Building a Ruin
A masterful account of the global Cold War’s decisive influence on Soviet economic reform, and the national decay that followed.What brought down the …
September 7, 2024
Revolutionary Warfare
The Algerian War of Independence constituted a major turning point of 20th century history. The conflict exacerbated divisions in French society, culm…
September 4, 2024
Game Poems
Scholars, critics, and creators describe certain videogames as being “poetic,” yet what that means or why it matters is rarely discussed. In Game Poem…
September 3, 2024
Why It's Ok to Be a Gamer
If you enjoy video games as a pastime, you are certainly not alone—billions of people worldwide now play video games. However, you may still find your…
September 2, 2024
Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe
Our universe might appear chaotic, but deep down it's simply a myriad of rules working independently to create patterns of action, force, and conseque…
August 30, 2024
Journalism and the Metaverse
Journalism has been in a state of disruption since the development of the Internet. The Metaverse, or what some describe as the future of the Internet…
August 29, 2024
The Opening of the Protestant Mind
During the mid-seventeenth century, Anglo-American Protestants described Native American ceremonies as savage devilry, Islamic teaching as violent chi…
August 28, 2024
The Human Advantage
In this episode, we explore the insights of Jay Richards, author of The Human Advantage: The Future of American Work in an Age of Smart Machines (Foru…
August 24, 2024
The Mind Is Flat
Psychologists and neuroscientists struggle with how best to interpret human motivation and decision making. The assumption is that below a mental “sur…
August 23, 2024
Another Aesthetics Is Possible
In Another Aesthetics Is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War (Duke UP, 2021), Jennifer Ponce de León examines the roles that art can p…
August 20, 2024
Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy
What can philosophy do? By taking up Black American cultural practices, Devonya N. Havis suggests that academic philosophy has been too narrow in its …
August 17, 2024
Achieving Global Open Access
Often assumed to be a self-evident good, Open Access has been subject to growing criticism for perpetuating global inequities and epistemic injustices…
August 17, 2024
The Indian Jungle
In this podcast, Ashis Roy (Psychoanalyst (IPA) and author of the recently published book Intimacy in Alienation: A Psychoanalytic Study of Hindu-Mu…
August 17, 2024
The Birth of Territory
Territory is one of the central political concepts of the modern world and, indeed, functions as the primary way the world is divided and controlled p…
August 15, 2024
Sovereignty and Extortion
Over the past fifteen years in Mexico, more than 450,000 people have been murdered and 110,000 more have been disappeared. In Sovereignty and Extortio…
August 10, 2024
Interspecies Communication
In Interspecies Communication: Sound and Music Beyond Humanity (U Chicago Press, 2024), music scholar Gavin Steingo examines significant cases of atte…
August 7, 2024
The GiveWell Method
In this episode, Caleb Zakarin and Uri Bram dive into the world of effective charitable giving through the lens of GiveWell, an organization known for…
August 7, 2024
The Dispersion of Power
This year, many countries around the world, including most of the world's most populous democracies, have consequential nation-wide elections. In many…