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Big Ideas
Interviews with scholars promoting big ideas.
June 12, 2026
AI, Algocracy, and Democracy's Challenging Road Ahead
Like many people, I've been following the developments of AI, testing out new models and following the deluge of news stories about the fight for supr…
June 12, 2026
How Does the Second-Hand Book Business Really Work?
Today I’m speaking with Mike Lane, Managing Director and co-founder of WeBuyBooks about the economics of the second-hand book business. WeBuyBooks is …
June 3, 2026
The Meaning of It All
You can stock your life with important work, relationships, activities, and art, and yet, you can still ask: what's the point of it all? Almost every …
May 27, 2026
Intellectual Self-Destruction
In my recent conversation with Sittig, we explored her co-authored book Intellectual Self-Destruction: How the West Gambles Away Its Future (Ibidem Pr…
May 19, 2026
Tiny Gardens Everywhere
Kate Brown, Distinguished Professor in the History of Science at MIT joins Michael Stauch to discuss her new book Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, P…
May 12, 2026
The Mattering Instinct
MacArthur Fellow and National Humanities Medalist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex and The Mind-Body Problem, returns wi…
May 6, 2026
Career and Family
A century ago, it was a given that a woman with a college degree had to choose between having a career and a family. Today, there are more female coll…
May 4, 2026
Manufacturing Religion:
First published in 1997, Manufacturing Religion was a controversial book because it critiqued a widely adopted style of scholarship that presumes that…
April 25, 2026
An Anthropology of Wandering
In a culture saturated by speed, safety protocols, and mediated fear, what might we rediscover by walking or hiking slowly into the unknown? In this …
April 23, 2026
Beyond Wellness
Liz Bucar is a religious ethicist and professor of religion at Northeastern University, as well as a certified intenSati and Kripalu yoga instructor…
April 8, 2026
The Shape of Things Unseen
A compelling insight into how our imagination works, based on the latest scientific research. People often think of imagination as something used onl…
April 7, 2026
The Trouble with Freedom
As Melissa Butcher puts it in her book The Trouble with Freedom: Love, Hate and America’s Future (Manchester UP, 2026) when asked to rank the importan…
April 6, 2026
The Origins of the New
The Origins of the New (Princeton University Press, 2026) presents a revolutionary approach to evolutionary success in all realms of life. In this gro…
March 30, 2026
Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, and guest host, Paula Bialski, Associate Professor of Digital Sociology at University of St. Gallen, talk to Ben C…
March 28, 2026
On Our Continuing Age of Oil
Stanley Reed has been covering energy and the Middle East from London for more than three decades, most recently for The New York Times. With the war …
March 25, 2026
The Philosophy of Hope
In this third episode of Season 5, I interview Dr. R.J. Snell, a visiting instructor at Princeton University, the director of academic programs at the…
March 25, 2026
On Trump as a “World Historical Individual”
The philosopher G.W.F. Hegel “viewed history as consisting of stages punctuated by times of upheaval,” the author John B. Judis wrote in a recent essa…
March 23, 2026
Gist Books
Today I’m speaking with Ramona Liberoff and Liz Fried, cofounders of the new publisher, Gist Books. Gist allows readers to pick the topics they want, …
March 15, 2026
The Fast
With fasting at an all-time high in popularity, here is an enlightening exploration into the history, science, and philosophy behind the practice—esse…
March 15, 2026
The Infinite Alphabet
We all understand that knowledge shapes the fate of business and the growth of nations, but few of us are aware of the principles that govern its moti…