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April 23, 2024
The Power to Destroy
The anti-tax movement is "the most important overlooked social and political movement of the last half century", according to our guest Michael J. Gra…
April 22, 2024
England's Jews
In 1290, Jews were expelled from England and subsequently largely expunged from English historical memory. Yet for two centuries they occupied importa…
April 21, 2024
America’s New Racial Battle Lines
What is happening to the politics of race in America? In America’s New Racial Battle Lines: Protect Versus Repair (U Chicago Press, 2024), Rogers Sm…
April 20, 2024
Electric Dreams
In the future, we’ll all be having sex with robots… won’t we? Roboticists say they’re a distracting science fiction, yet endless books, films and art…
April 19, 2024
As Gods Among Men
This provocative and interesting book has received considerable attention. Roaring reviews and interviews include The Financial Times (UK), The Teleg…
April 18, 2024
The Southern Tour
Deng Xiaoping’s 1992 Southern Tour has become a milestone in Chinese economic history. Historians and commentators credit Deng’s visit to Guangzhou Pr…
April 17, 2024
The Works and Times of Johan Huizinga (1872-1945)
Thor Rydin joins to talk about his new book, The Works and Times of Johan Huizinga (1872- 1945): Writing History in the Age of Collapse (Amsterdam UP,…
April 16, 2024
How the Spanish Empire Was Built
Sixteenth-century Spain was small, poor, disunited and sparsely populated. Yet the Spaniards and their allies built the largest empire the world had e…
April 14, 2024
Our Genes
Situated at the intersection of natural science and philosophy, Our Genes: A Philosophical Perspective on Human Evolutionary Genomics (Cambridge Unive…
April 13, 2024
When Left Moves Right
In her new book, When Left Moves Right: The Decline of the Left and the Rise of the Populist Right in Postcommunist Europe (Oxford University Press, 2…
April 12, 2024
Conflict
In this deep and incisive study, General David Petraeus, who commanded the US-led coalitions in both Iraq, during the Surge, and Afghanistan and forme…
April 11, 2024
The Loom of Time
The Middle East remains one of the world’s most complicated, thorny—and, uncharitably, unstable—parts of the world, as countless headlines make clear.…
April 10, 2024
The Weirdness of the World
"What's life for if there's no time to play and explore?" In The Weirdness of the World (Princeton UP, 2024), Eric Schwitzgebel invites the reader to…
April 9, 2024
Politics as Worship: Righteous Activism and the Egyptian Muslim Brothers
Despite expectations that the deeply held political and religious organizing principles at the heart of the Muslim Brotherhood would prove incompatibl…
April 8, 2024
Empire of Brutality
Historians of early America, slavery, early African American history, the history of science, and environmental history have interrogated the complex …
April 7, 2024
Theory of Irregular War
From Afghanistan to Angola, Indonesia to Iran, and Colombia to Congo, violent reactions erupt, states collapse, and militaries relentlessly pursue ope…
April 6, 2024
Cold War Country
Country music maintains a special, decades-long relationship to American military life, but these ties didn't just happen. This readable history revea…
April 5, 2024
The Big Myth
In their bestselling book Merchants of Doubt, Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway revealed the origins of climate change denial. Now, in The Big Myth: Ho…
April 3, 2024
The Invention of Prehistory
Books about the origins of humanity dominate bestseller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings an…
April 3, 2024
High Bias
The cassette tape was revolutionary. Cheap, portable, and reusable, this small plastic rectangle changed music history. Make your own tapes! Trade the…