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NBN Episodes hosted by Caleb:
October 9, 2026
Yiddish Scholarship Comes to America
This comprehensive history of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research—a groundbreaking American Jewish cultural organization, library, and research cen…
October 9, 2026
A Gathering of Leaves
Today I’m speaking with David Bentley Hart about his book, A Gathering of Leaves: Extravagances and Ephemera, from the University of Notre Dame Press.…
October 4, 2026
Obsolete
Today I’m speaking with Garrison Lovely, technology journalist and author of the new book, Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion Dollar Race to Replace…
September 26, 2026
Democracy on the Edge
In Democracy on the Edge, leading political scientists John Kenneth White and Matthew R. Kerbel unravel the elections of 2020, 2022, and 2024 to show …
September 25, 2026
Miracle Road
Research Triangle Park in North Carolina (RTP) emerged under the unique circumstances of a poor Southern state that needed to find a way to offset the…
September 17, 2026
Educators As Designers
An invitation to K-12 educators to reimagine their roles through the transformative lens of design In Educators as Designers, Jim Gaona Ellis draws on…
September 3, 2026
Inside Ink & Ribbon Press
A year ago, Ink & Ribbon Press did not exist. Today it’s a nonprofit publisher with its first books in the world, a readership built largely throu…
September 1, 2026
Your Fellow Americans
Have you ever swapped stories on a porch with Amish snowbirds in Florida? Searched for reindeer with the Siberian Yupik in Alaska? Been a guest on a h…
August 28, 2026
An Honest Death
A fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at non-religious funerals in contemporary London, An Honest Death: Life's End and Humanist Funerals (Princeton U…
August 14, 2026
American Pogroms
Amidst heightened rhetoric and increasing polarization in the United States, American Pogroms: How Forgotten Massacres Shape America (Oxford Universit…
July 30, 2026
The Science of Memory with Steve Ramirez
Today I’m speaking with neuroscientist Stave Ramirez about bullshit and memory. Steve is an associate professor at Boston University, where he runs a …
July 29, 2026
American Infidelity
Today I'm speaking with Steven K. Green, Fred H. Paulus Professor of Law and Affiliated Professor of History and Religious Studies at Willamette Unive…
July 17, 2026
Fakers
Fakers: A Top-Secret Tale of Phantoms and Forgeries on the Disinformation Front Line (Oxford UP, 2026) reveals the rise and fall of the mavericks runn…
July 15, 2026
Private Power and Democracy's Decline
Today I'm speaking with Mordecai Kurz, Joan Kenney Professor of Economics Emeritus at Stanford University. We are discussing his latest book, Private …
July 10, 2026
A New Approach to Political Speech
A New Approach to Political Speech: Democratic Theory, Constitutional Law, and Public Liberty After January 6 (de Gruyter, 2026) challenges convention…
July 7, 2026
Fighting for New York
Today I'm speaking with Nicholas Freudenberg, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Public Health at the CUNY School of Public Health. We are discussing…
July 1, 2026
Thomas Paine at the Semiquincentennial
Thomas Paine: Collected Writings (Princeton University Press, 2026) is the first major new edition of Paine’s works, bringing together all his writing…
July 1, 2026
Nine Days in May
In May, 1926, nearly three million British workers downed tools to support nearly one million of their countrymen, miners whose employers meant to len…
June 28, 2026
How We Disappear
This is the third time I have the great fortune of interviewing Tom Mullaney. I can hardly think of a more worthy ambassador for the history disciplin…
June 22, 2026
Real Men on Top
In Real Men on Top: How Patriarchy Shapes Our Reality (Oxford University Press, 2026), Robin Dembroff shows us that we don't just live in a patriarcha…
June 21, 2026
Straighten Up, Girls and Boys
In Straighten Up, Girls and Boys: How Schools Have Shaped Sexuality and Gender (Harvard Education Press, 2026), acclaimed historian and educator Jacki…
June 19, 2026
Inside the Mississippi Marathon
In 2008, Rachel Canter founded Mississippi First, an education non-profit with the mission of improving educational outcomes for students across the s…
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 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…