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April 17, 2026
Humanities Theory
Humanities Theory (Oxford UP, 2026) pioneers a new topic: the theory of the humanities. It is an urgent topic right now because the humanities face a …
April 16, 2026
Rape Fantasies
Political theorist Alisa Kessel (University of Puget Sound) has an important and impressive new book, Rape Fantasies: Rape Culture and the Persistence…
April 14, 2026
Breaking Down the Walls of Segregation
On March 2, 1945, five Mexican American families and their Jewish American lawyer filed a class-action lawsuit against four school districts in Orange…
April 11, 2026
Master of Rome
By any measure, Julius Caesar is one of the most significant and famous figures in Roman history. Self-identified as a "popular" politician, he advoca…
April 8, 2026
The Gospel According to Josephus, Part 2
In this fifth episode of Season 5, I interview Professor Thomas C. Schmidt, a historian who focuses on the New Testament, Patristics, and Eastern Chr…
April 5, 2026
Europe As Ideological Resource
How did the far right go from illegitimate fringe to contender for public office, and did Europe have anything to do with it? Europe As Ideological Re…
April 5, 2026
Justice and Reciprocity
Andrew Lister's Justice and Reciprocity (Oxford University Press, 2024) examines the place of reciprocity in egalitarianism, focusing on John Rawls's …
April 4, 2026
Morality and Revelation in Islamic Thought and Beyond
Amir Saemi’s exciting book Morality and Revelation in Islamic Thought and Beyond: A New Problem of Evil (Oxford UP, 2024) is a fascinating and deeply …
April 1, 2026
The Gospel According to Josephus, Part 1
In this fourth episode of Season 5, I interview Professor Thomas C. Schmidt, a historian who focuses on the New Testament, Patristics, and Eastern Chr…
March 30, 2026
Foucault and Liberal Political Economy
This highly original and innovative book is the first to comprehensively engage the ideas of the French social theorist and philosopher Michel Foucaul…
March 28, 2026
Fight, Flight, Mimic
Time spent and words spent—what does each signal? Deceptive mimicry—the manipulation of individual or group identity—includes passing off as a differ…
March 27, 2026
The Politics of Failed Policies
The Politics of Failed Policies (Oxford UP, 2025) examines how the interplay of politics and data affects when failed policies get recognized. It show…
March 26, 2026
The Battle of Manila
On Feb. 6, 1945, just three days after the U.S. army started to fight the Japanese in the city of Manila, General Douglas MacArthur declared that “Man…
March 26, 2026
The Kissinger Tapes
A richly detailed collection of transcripts of Henry Kissinger's secretly recorded phone conversations from his time in the Nixon administration that …
March 24, 2026
Business Ethics
The book places special emphasis on the relationship between corporations, managers, and shareholders. Drawing on Lynn Stout’s influential work on cor…
March 14, 2026
Coercing Syria on Chemical Weapons
In 2012, US President Barack Obama stated that the Syrian government’s use of chemical weapons on its population would cross a red line that would req…
March 13, 2026
Options for Success
Options for Success: A PhD's Guide to Navigating Career Transitions and Thriving in Your Next Professional Chapter (Oxford UP, 2025) is a transformati…
March 12, 2026
The Politics of Perception
Katelyn Stauffer, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Georgia, has an excellent new book focusing on how voters and citizens…
March 11, 2026
Worker Centered
Worker Centered: Allyship & Action in the Contemporary Labor Movement (Oxford UP, 2024) is a close-to-the-ground, ethnographic narrative of a workplac…
March 9, 2026
Reproductive Rights in Modern France
The introduction of the principle of women's reproductive liberty in France, tentatively by the family planning movement after 1960 and explicitly by …