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History
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Genealogies of Modernity Episode 2: What Is Mod...
We often think of modernity as a distinct time period in history – one that is said to start at different places, but which always includes us. Yet people have been claiming to be modern since at least the third century BC.
36 min
902
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 1: Climbing th...
We all know many stories about how modernity came about. But what does it mean to be “modern”?
46 min
903
David McMahan on Rethinking Meditation
70 min
904
Jonathan D. Fitzgerald, "How the News Feels: Th...
An interview with Jonathan D. Fitzgerald
49 min
905
Barbara D. Savage, "Merze Tate: The Global Odys...
An interview with Barbara D. Savage
31 min
906
J. Christopher Edwards, "Crucified: The Christi...
An interview with J. Christopher Edwards
72 min
907
Daniel Jütte, "Transparency: The Material Histo...
An interview with Daniel Jütte
60 min
908
Poppy Corbett et al., "Creative Histories of Wi...
An interview with Poppy Corbett and William G. Pooley
60 min
909
Christian B. Miller, "Honesty: The Philosophy a...
An interview with Christian B. Miller
54 min
910
Jürgen Zimmerer, "Memory Wars: New German Histo...
An interview with Jürgen Zimmerer
58 min
911
Charles S. Maier, "The Project-State and Its Ri...
An interview with Charles S. Maier
48 min
912
Shuchen Xiang, "Chinese Cosmopolitanism: The Hi...
An interview with Shuchen Xiang
86 min
913
Tony Spawforth, "What the Greeks Did for Us" (Y...
An interview with Tony Spawforth
54 min
914
Ran Zwigenberg, "Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psycho...
An interview with Ran Zwigenberg
62 min
915
Roslyn Weiss, "Hasdai Crescas: Collected Writin...
An interview with Roslyn Weiss
69 min
916
Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of History" (Ind...
An interview with Jeremy Black
26 min
917
Jennifer Maclure, "The Feeling of Letting Die: ...
An interview with Jennifer Maclure
60 min
918
Nader Kadhem, "Africanism: Blacks in the Mediev...
An interview with Amir Al-Azraki
39 min
919
Ian Smith, "Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misr...
An interview with Ian Smith
67 min
920
The Idea of "Central Europe" from Naumann to Ku...
A Discussion with Martyn Rady and Alexander Watson
41 min
921
Greg Bailey, "The Brahmavaivarta Purana (Ganesa...
An interview with Greg Bailey
31 min
922
Biko Mandela Gray and Ryan J. Johnson, "Phenome...
An interview with Biko Mandela Gray and Ryan J. Johnson
49 min
923
Chris Cutrone, "The Death of the Millennial Lef...
An interview with Chris Cutrone
63 min
924
Christopher Lazarski, "Lord Acton for Our Time"...
An interview with Christopher Lazarski
52 min
925
Robert P. George's 'Making Men Moral': A 30th A...
An interview with J. Joel Alicea
58 min