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About Nathan Moore
Nathan M. Moore studied American Literature and Culture at UCLA and Bowling Green State University. He is a member of the Cultural Studies graduate cohort at Claremont Graduate University and a recent graduate teaching assistant. Louisiana Tech University awarded him a Master's in History. After two years of transcribing the audio recording of a radio show entitled “Re:Work” which airs regularly on KPFK in partnership with UCLA’s IRLE and Labor Center, he has joined NBN as a podcast host.NBN Episodes hosted by Nathan:
December 31, 2025
Critique of Political Decolonization
What is political independence? As a political act, what was it sanctioned to accomplish? Is formal colonialism over, or a condition in the present, a…
October 1, 2025
Nagasaki
Nagasaki: The Last Witnesses (Penguin Random House, 2025) is the second volume in a prize-worthy two-book series based on years of irreplicable person…
October 1, 2025
The Airborne Mafia
The Airborne Mafia: The Paratroopers Who Shaped America's Cold War Army (Cornell UP, 2025) explores how a small group of World War II airborne officer…
January 18, 2025
The Impossible Man
When he was six years old, Roger Penrose discovered a sundial in a clearing near his house. Through that machine made of light, shadow, and time, Roge…
January 17, 2025
Beyond Vanity
In the nineteenth century, the complex cultural meaning of hair was not only significant—it could affect one’s place in society. After the Civil War, …
December 30, 2024
Urban Culture and the Modern City
When consulting key works on urban studies, the absence of Central and Eastern European towns is striking. Cities such as Vienna, Budapest, Prague, an…
December 12, 2024
Humans in Shackles
During the era of the Atlantic slave trade, more than twelve million enslaved Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas in cramped, inhumane …
December 7, 2024
Imagining After Capitalism
Imagining After Capitalism (Triarchy Press, 2025) is the culmination of a decade-long exploration of what comes next after capitalism. It leverages pr…
November 26, 2024
A World of Enemies
A sobering account of how the United States trapped itself in endless wars—abroad and at home—and what it might do to break free. Over the past half-…
September 11, 2024
The Krebiozen Hoax
The brainchild of an obscure Yugoslav physician, Krebiozen emerged in 1951 as an alleged cancer treatment. Andrew Ivy, a University of Illinois vice p…
January 17, 2024
The Networked Leviathan
Governments and consumers expect internet platform companies to regulate their users to prevent fraud, stop misinformation, and avoid violence. Yet, s…
December 28, 2023
Black Lives, American Love
In this hard-hitting collection of essays, D.B. Maroon presents a personal biography of America, Blackness, and racial politics with unflinching style…
December 27, 2023
Catastrophic Diplomacy
Catastrophic Diplomacy: US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century (UNC Press, 2023) offers a sweeping history of US foreign disaster assi…
December 25, 2023
Eli and the Octopus
The poignant rise and fall of an idealistic immigrant who, as CEO of a major conglomerate, tried to change the way America did business before he hims…
December 25, 2023
Mediated Emotions of Migration
Sukhmani Khorana's book Mediated Emotions of Migration: Reclaiming Affect for Agency (Bristol UP, 2023) unpacks how emotions and affect are key concep…
December 24, 2023
Revolutionary Nonviolence
A persuasive account of the philosophy and power of nonviolence organizing, and a resource for building and sustaining effective social movements.Desp…
December 24, 2023
Ethics for Apocalyptic Times
Ethics for Apocalyptic Times: Theapoetics, Autotheory, and Mennonite Literature (Penn State UP, 2023) is about the role literature can play in helping…
December 19, 2023
Democracy in Darkness
Katlyn Marie Carter, Democracy in Darkness: Secrecy and Transparency in the Age of Revolutions (Yale UP, 2023) examines how debates over secrecy and t…
December 18, 2023
Uncharted
People with disabilities are underrepresented in STEM fields, and all too often, they face isolation and ableism in academia. Uncharted: How Scientist…
December 17, 2023
A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse
Public bathhouses embodied the Roman way of life, from food and fashion to sculpture and sports. The most popular institution of the ancient Mediterra…
December 10, 2023
Invested
Who hasn’t wished for a surefire formula for riches and a ticket to the good life? For three centuries, investment advisers of all kinds, legit and ot…
December 4, 2023
The Unintended
The end of the nineteenth century saw massive developments and innovations in photography at a time when the forces of Western modernity—industrializa…
November 26, 2023
The Burden-Sharing Dilemma
The Burden-Sharing Dilemma: Coercive Diplomacy in US Alliance Politics (Cornell UP, 2023) examines the conditions under which the United States is wil…
November 25, 2023
Voidopolis
Shortlisted for the 2023 Lumen Prize, Kat Mustatea's Voidopolis (MIT Press, 2023) is a hybrid digital artistic and literary project in the form of an …