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Saul Cornell, "The Partisan Republic: Democracy...
Cornell and Leonard focus on the decline of the Founding generation's elitist vision of the Constitution and the rise of a more 'democratic' vision...
50 min
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Binyamin Appelbaum, "The Economists' Hour: Fals...
Think economics is the "dismal science" with abstract formulas that have no impact on life as it is actually lived? Think again...
37 min
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Ricky W. Law, "Transnational Nazism: Ideology a...
Law examines the cultural context of Tokyo and Berlin’s political rapprochement in 1936...
72 min
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Dilek Huseyinzadegan, "Kant’s Nonideal Theory o...
Huseyinzadegan analyzes Kant’s political writings by attending to the role of history, anthropology, and geography in his thought...
54 min
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Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee, "Philology a...
The Hindu great epic, Mahābhārata, exists today in hundreds of variant manuscripts across India...
65 min
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David Lindsay Roberts, "Republic of Numbers: Un...
Roberts anchors 20 biographical chapters to a decadal series of events, whose mathematical significance could not often have been anticipated...
71 min
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Yael Almog, "Secularism and Hermeneutics" (U Pe...
In the late Enlightenment, a new imperative began to inform theories of interpretation: all literary texts should be read in the same way that we read the Bible...
57 min
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Eric D. Weitz, "A World Divided: The Global Str...
Who has the right to have rights?
45 min
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Ussama Makdisi, "Age of Coexistence: The Ecumen...
Makdisi dispels the myth that the Middle East is inherently or inescapably sectarian and complicates the often overstated binary of “secular” and religious...
49 min
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Mark McClish, "The History of the Arthaśāstra: ...
Was ancient India ruled by politics or religion?
40 min
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Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, "Revolution and It...
Sadeghi-Boroujerdi traces the rise and evolution of reformist political thought in Iran...
57 min
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Esau McCaulley, "Sharing in the Son's Inheritan...
McCaulley examines the nature of land, prophesy, and Jewish/Christian understandings of Messianic fulfillment..
48 min
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Erika Milam, "Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for H...
Milam talks about the scientific search for human nature, a project that captured the attention of paleontologists, anthropologists, and primatologists in the years after World War II...
38 min
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Grégoire Mallard, "Gift Exchange: The Transnati...
What is the relevance of Mauss' ideas on gift exchanges and international solidarity?
87 min
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Hans Boersma, "Seeing God: The Beatific Vision ...
Boersma introduces readers to the historic teaching of Christian theology concerning beatitude—the eschatological reality of being in the presence of God...
47 min
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Gerry Milligan, "Moral Combat: Women, Gender an...
Milligan takes as its subject the woman warrior in early modern Italy as she was and as she was represented across varied types of texts,..
52 min
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Benjamin Kahan, "The Book of Minor Perverts: Se...
The conversation covers major changes in the cultural discourse around sexual identity, but still makes time for conversation about sexual magicians and wanderlust...
42 min
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Melissa E. Sanchez, "Queer Faith: Reading Promi...
Sanchez provides an overview of feminist discourse on sex trafficking...
64 min
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Larry E. Morris, "A Documentary History of the ...
The story of the creation of the Book of Mormon has been told many times, and often ridiculed...
48 min
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Alexandra Minna Stern, "White Ethnostate: How t...
Our conversation examines the intersections of gender and sexuality, and is they relate to her her research on eugenics, white nationalists, the alt-right, and the alt-lite...
64 min
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Kate Kirkpatrick, "Becoming Beauvoir: A Life" (...
Beauvior is now celebrated, but during her life she was a controversial figure both by conventional and feminists’ standards...
52 min
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Chiara Russo Krauss, "Wundt, Avenarius and Scie...
At the start of the 19th century, the field we now call psychology was still the branch of philosophy that studied the soul...
63 min
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Anne M. Kornhauser, "Debating the American Stat...
The New Deal left a host of political, institutional, and economic legacies...
48 min
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Matthew Crow, "Thomas Jefferson, Legal History,...
Crow studies how Jefferson’s association with legal history was born out of America’s long history as part of an early modern empire and the political thought which preceded him...
60 min
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Charles King, "Gods of the Upper Air: How A Cir...
King's book is a reminder of the central ideas of Boasian anthropology: a recognition that gender roles and racial assumptions are cultural constructions and not biological facts...
59 min