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Introducing Ministry of Ideas

January 1, 2023

Introducing Ministry of Ideas

Zachary Davis
Hosted by Zachary Davis

Introducing Ministry of Ideas, a podcast that explores the ideas that shape our lives.…

Introduction to Digital Nomads

December 27, 2022

An Introduction to Digital Nomads

Maggie Freeman
Hosted by Maggie Freeman

Welcome to Digital Nomads! This episode introduces your host, Maggie, and gives a brief overview of the aims, future of, and inspiration behind this p…

The Proust Questionnaire Podcast: An Introduction

June 24, 2020

The Proust Questionnaire Podcast

Uli Baer and Caroline Weber

What motivates creative people to do what they do, especially to change the world? The Proust Questionnaire is thought in action. It's a personality t…

An Introduction to NYIH Studios

September 21, 2018

An Introduction to NYIH Studios

Welcome to the New York Institute for the Humanities podcast. Learn more about the history of the Institute and our shows.…

Navigating Landmines at Work: Differences Can Create Value

June 4, 2026

Navigating Landmines at Work

Susan MacKenty Brady

Susan MacKenty Brady is a leadership educator, executive coach, bestselling author, and the founding CEO of the Simmons University Institute for Inclu…

Mollie Barnes, "Paper Heroines: Women Writers in Conversation and Community Across the Sea Islands, 1838-1902" (U South Carolina Press, 2026)

June 4, 2026

Paper Heroines

Mollie Barnes

In Paper Heroines: Women Writers in Conversation and Community Across the Sea Islands, 1838-1902 (U South Carolina Press, 2026), Dr. Mollie Barnes stu…

Turning IBM's Culture Massively Around

June 4, 2026

Turning IBM's Culture Massively Around

Phil Gilbert

Phil Gilbert is best known for leading IBM’s transformation as their General Manager of Design, a project that updated the work of 400,000 IBM employe…

Homa Katouzian, "Iran and the Revolution: A History" (Yale UP, 2026)

June 4, 2026

Iran and the Revolution

Homa Katouzian
Hosted by Nicholas Gordon

Iran is, once again, in global headlines, following U.S. strikes on the country earlier this year. Operation Epic Fury, as the Department of Defense c…

172 David Cunningham on Contesting Confederate Monuments (JP)

June 4, 2026

David Cunningham on Contesting Confederate Monuments (JP)

David Cunningham joins John to speak about his pathbreaking article about visiting each of the 113 communities that removed or relocated Confederate s…

Anand Gopal, "Days of Love and Rage: A Story of Ordinary People Forging a Revolution" (Viking, 2026)

June 4, 2026

Days of Love and Rage

Anand Gopal
Hosted by Chris Holmes

From Pulitzer and National Book Award finalist Anand Gopal, an epic and enthralling account of six Syrians fighting for a better world, in the traditi…

Romani Grassroots Language Learning

June 3, 2026

Romani Grassroots Language Learning

Santiago Betancor Falcón

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Emily Pacheco speaks with Dr Santiago Betancor Falcón (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, …

A Divine Comedy: On Hollywood, Creativity, and Religion with Rob Long

June 3, 2026

A Divine Comedy

Rob Long
Hosted by Ryan Shinkel

Here in Episode 9 of Season 5, I interview Mr. Rob Long. A longtime Hollywood professional, he was a writer and producer for the classic sitcom Cheers…

Rivka Weinberg, "The Meaning of It All: Ultimate Meaning, Everyday Meaning, Cosmic Meaning, Death, and Time" (Oxford UP, 2026)

June 3, 2026

The Meaning of It All

Rivka Weinberg
Hosted by Blain Neufeld

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 …

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor, "Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word and Me" (37 Ink, 2026)

June 2, 2026

Something We Said

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor
Hosted by Sullivan Summer

The N-word is one of the most perplexing, controversial and misunderstood words in the American lexicon. It’s a word that Elizabeth Pryor has not only…

For All Mankind Concludes Its Search For New Life

June 2, 2026

For All Mankind Concludes Its Search For New Life

It’s the Pop Culture Professors, and we conclude our analysis of season 5 of For All Mankind with a discussion of the finale, “This Land Is Our Land…

Homes of the Past

June 1, 2026

Homes of the Past

Jeffrey Shandler
Hosted by YIVO Institute

In 1940s New York, immigrant Jewish scholars sought to build a museum to commemorate their lost worlds and people. Among the Jews who arrived in the U…

Dougald O’Reilly, "Empires of the Southern Ocean: Early Civilizations of Mainland and Insular Southeast Asia" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026)

June 1, 2026

Empires of the Southern Ocean

Dougald O’Reilly
Hosted by Patrick Jory

From about the middle of the first millennium of the Common Era through to the fifteenth century, Southeast Asian societies underwent a political tran…

The Atheist who Makes the Secular Case against Abortion (Monica Snyder): Why and When Does Human Life Have Value?

June 1, 2026

The Atheist who Makes the Secular Case against Abortion (Monica Snyder)

Monica Snyder is the executive director of Secular Pro Life and makes the case for the value of human life from conception based on empirical biology …

The Predictable Shock of Brexit: Cultural Dissonance and the Rise of Populism with Iain Quinn

June 1, 2026

The Predictable Shock of Brexit

Was Brexit really a sudden, populist shock, or was the writing on the wall for decades? This week on International Horizons, Eli Karetny sits down wit…

Julie J. Park, "Race, Class, and Affirmative Action: College Admissions in a New Era" (Harvard Education Press, 2026)

May 31, 2026

Race, Class, and Affirmative Action

Julie J. Park
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

In Race, Class, and Affirmative Action: College Admissions in a New Era (Harvard Education Press, 2026), Julie J. Park offers deft analysis of the cha…