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Elliott Sober, "The Design Argument" (Cambridge...
Sober’s book analyzes the various forms that design arguments for the existence of God can take and focuses primarily on two of these...
40 min
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Andrew R. Murphy, "William Penn: A Life" (Oxfor...
While William Penn’s name is one familiar to many Americans thanks to his founding of the Pennsylvania colony...
59 min
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Ashley D. Farmer, "New Perspectives of the Blac...
The field of African American intellectual history is enjoying a kind of renaissance at the moment...
48 min
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Robin Marie Averbeck, "Liberalism is not Enough...
Through ideological laden invocation of pluralism, the “culture of poverty,” and faith in the workings of democratic institutions, liberals shared with conservatives support for an individualistic and racist social order...
55 min
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Onur Ulas Ince, "Colonial Capitalism and the Di...
This text brings together a number of lenses through which to consider the writings and ideas of British liberal thinkers, especially John Locke, Edmund Burke, and Edward Gibbon Wakefield...
59 min
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Nicholas J. Moore, "Repetition in Hebrews: Plur...
s repetition always bad? The Letter to the Hebrews lies at the heart of a tradition that views repetition always negative...
23 min
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Omid Safi, “Radical Love: Teachings from the Is...
Its often touted that Rumi is one of the best-selling poets in the United States...
74 min
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Helena Rosenblatt, "The Lost History of Liberal...
How is it that “liberalism” is a word so ubiquitous and yet we can hardly seem to agree on its meaning?
49 min
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Alan Jacobs, "The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christ...
Drawing on interventions made at the height of global war by T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, C. S. Lewis, Simone Weil and Jacques Maritain, Jacobs shows how leading intellectuals worried about a world in crisis and how they imagined it might be set right...
47 min
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Andrew S. Curran, "Diderot and the Art of Think...
Denis Diderot has long been regarded as one of the leading figures of the French Enlightenment...
62 min
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Victoria Brownlee, "Biblical Readings and Liter...
Victoria Brownlee is the author of an exciting new contribution to discussions of early modern religion and literature...
35 min
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Audra J. Wolfe, "Freedom’s Laboratory: The Cold...
Science’s self-concept as politically neutral and dedicated to empirical observation free of bias has often been at odds with its collaboration with the purposes of the Cold War state...
58 min
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Perrin Selcer, "The Postwar Origins of the Glob...
Having been born into a world in which people knew about anthropogenic global warming, I grew up in the “global environment.”
63 min
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Matthew Gabriele, "Apocalypse and Reform from L...
Apocalypse and Reform from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages (Routledge, 2018) is a rich, comparative study, drawing on the scholarship of eleven authors who discuss topics in medieval cultural, intellectual, and ecclesial history...
38 min
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Harry O. Maier, "New Testament Christianity in ...
Maier’s study steps away from debates about the formation of early Christian belief to reconstruct the social world in which the new religious movement emerged and began to take shape...
37 min
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Suman Seth, "Difference and Disease: Medicine, ...
Suman Seth's new book Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2018) provides a new angle on the formation of modern ideas of race through the formation of the British Empire....
40 min
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Melanie V. Dawson and Meredith L. Goldsmith, "A...
As scholars and readers, we often view literary history in rigid, simplistic terms. We imagine that nineteenth-century aesthetic and thematic preoccupations withered away as 1899 became 1900, only to be replaced immediately by a new literature of the twentieth century...
50 min
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Dany Christopher, "The Appropriation of Passove...
Most studies on the theme of Passover in the Gospel of Luke have been confined to the story of the Last Supper (Luke 22:1-20)....
44 min
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Eric Helleiner, "Forgotten Foundations: Interna...
The story of Bretton Woods has been told by countless historians...
52 min
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Noenoe K. Silva, "Steel-Tipped Pen: Reconstruct...
The process of colonialism seeks to demean Indigenous intellect and destroy Indigenous literary traditions...
45 min
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Hüseyin Yılmaz, "Caliphate Redefined: The Mysti...
In Islamic intellectual history, it is generally assumed that the Ottomans did not contribute much to Islamic thought...
89 min
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McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One ...
McKenzie Wark’s new book offers 21 focused studies of thinkers working in a wide range of fields who are worth your attention...
61 min
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Peter Zinoman, “Vietnamese Colonial Republican:...
Over the course of the 1930s, Vietnamese author Vũ Trọng Phụng published eight novels, hundreds of works of narrative nonfiction, stories, plays, essays and articles. He was a best-selling writer in his own day who sharpened his acute literary talents,...
43 min
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Jonathon Earle, “Colonial Buganda and the End o...
In his book Colonial Buganda and the End of Empire: Political Thought and Historical Imagination in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Dr. Jonathon Earle illustrates the rich and diverse intellectual history of Buganda,
49 min
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Cairns Craig, “The Wealth of the Nation: Scotla...
Professor Cairns Craig’s new book, The Wealth of the Nation: Scotland, Culture and Independence (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), which has been shortlisted for the Saltire History Book of the Year Award,
67 min