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Gregory Dawes, "Galileo and the Conflict betwee...
Open conflict between religion and science may not be inevitable, but a germ of discord resides in some of the fundamental commitments of both...
44 min
2927
Kellie Carter Jackson, "Force and Freedom: Blac...
"Force and Freedom" explores why for many Black abolitionists, slavery could only be obliterated through violent means.
55 min
2928
Andrew Sobanet, "Generation Stalin: French Wri...
How did Rolland, and other French leftists, come to celebrate and actively promote the authoritarian regime of Joseph Stalin?
54 min
2929
Prakash Shah, "Western Foundations of the Caste...
The Indian caste system is an ancient, pervasive institution of social organization within the subcontinent – or is it?
58 min
2930
Richard Drake, "Charles Austin Beard: The Retur...
Richard Drake traces the development of Beard’s ideas in this area and his involvement in the contemporary discourse over current events...
50 min
2931
Whitney G. Gamble, "Christ and the Law: Antinom...
The Westminster Assembly (1643-53) was one of the most important ecclesiastical councils in the history of Reformed Protestantism, but until very recently it had received little in the way of scholarly attention...
33 min
2932
David Colander and Craig Freedman, "Where Econo...
If you are reading this, you have probably run into the "Chicago" model at some point or another,..
40 min
2933
Darren Barany, "The New Welfare Consensus: Ideo...
The 1996 repeal of Aid to Families with Dependent Children -- the New Deal-era relief program for poor women with children -- was a seminal moment in the modern history of the US welfare state...
33 min
2934
Susan Carlile, "Charlotte Lennox: An Independen...
Though not as well known today as some of her literary contemporaries, Charlotte Lennox wrote numerous works during the mid-18th century that won her critical acclaim...
64 min
2935
Joyce Antler, "Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices ...
The book demonstrates the rich contribution of Jewish values and identity had on the women’s liberation movement and how in turn they changed Jewish life in America...
49 min
2936
Michael Ruse, "The Problem of War: Darwinism, C...
What accounts for the antagonism between Christianity and Darwinism?
55 min
2937
Chet Van Duzer, "Henricus Martellus’s World Map...
The 1491 world map by Henricus Martellus has long been deemed “an essentially unstudiable object"...
58 min
2938
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, "The Ideas that Mad...
Ratner-Rosenhagen offers a sweeping examination of the key ideas that have infused American society...
62 min
2939
Matthew Bowman, "Christian: The Politics of a W...
The intersection of religion and politics in the United States is one of the nation's most enduring conversations...
58 min
2940
Matthew Bingham, "Orthodox Radicals: Baptist Id...
Bingham argues against several centuries of historical interpretation of the new religious movement that emerged in London in the late 1630s and now numbers around 35 million adherents worldwide...
35 min
2941
Alexandre Kojève, "Atheism," trans by Jeff Love...
Ranging across Heidegger, Buddhism, Christianity, German idealism, Russian literature, and mathematics, Kojève advances a novel argument about freedom and authority...
75 min
2942
Matthew C. Godfrey, ed., "The Joseph Smith Pape...
Joseph Smith, the nineteenth-century American prophet who founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, can, at times, be considered an elusive historical figure...
78 min
2943
Adriaan C. Neele, "Before Jonathan Edwards: Sou...
Jonathan Edwards is by now widely recognised as America’s most important early philosopher and theologian...
35 min
2944
Ethan Mills, "Three Pillars of Skepticism in Cl...
The existence of skepticism in Indian Philosophy has long been neglected in favor of dogmatic positions...
64 min
2945
Gil Ben-Herut, "Śiva’s Saints: The Origins of D...
Studies of Hindu saints tend to focus primarily on the saints themselves—their words, teachings, and practices—rather than tending to the often complex and complicated world of texts and traditions about those saints...
68 min
2946
Samuel Hayim Brody, "Martin Buber's Theopolitic...
Martin Buber is known as one of the 20th century's greatest Jewish scholars and thinkers, but he is less well known for his political theory and activism...
37 min
2947
Stefanos Geroulanos, "Transparency in Postwar F...
In France as nowhere else, transparency was a particular type of problem...
54 min
2948
Adrienne Mayor, "Gods and Robots: Myths, Machin...
The first robot to walk the earth was a bronze giant called Talos...
39 min
2949
B.R. Ambedkar, "Annihilation of Caste: The Anno...
This landmark speech by Dr. B.R. Ambedakar is the pinnacle of his scholarly work and cements his legacy alongside Mahatma Gandhi in Indian politics...
67 min
2950
Andrew R. Holmes, "The Irish Presbyterian Mind:...
Andrew surveys the period in which Irish Presbyterians came together as a community, to debate different ways of being conservative...
34 min