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976
Tyler Dalton McNabb and Erik Baldwin, "Classica...
An interview with Tyler Dalton McNabb and Erik Baldwin
65 min
977
Katlyn Marie Carter, "Democracy in Darkness: Se...
48 min
978
Gary Saul Morson, "Wonder Confronts Certainty: ...
An interview with Gary Saul Morson
46 min
979
Jackson Lears, "Animal Spirits: The American Pu...
An interview with Jackson Lears
62 min
980
Peter Brown, "Journeys of the Mind: A Life in H...
An interview with Peter Brown
61 min
981
Pankaj Jain, "Modern Jainism: A Historical Appr...
An interview with Pankaj Jain
45 min
982
Tristan G. Brown, "Laws of the Land: Fengshui a...
An interview with Tristan G. Brown
54 min
983
Stephen Legg, "Round Table Conference Geographi...
An interview with Stephen Legg
49 min
984
Paul Crosthwaite et al., "Invested: How Three C...
An interview with Paul Crosthwaite and Helen Paul
47 min
985
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 6: A Medieval ...
What if racism shared an origin with opposition to racism?
52 min
986
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 5: Picturing R...
Race is sometimes treated as a biological fact. It is actually a modern invention.
60 min
987
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
988
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
989
David McMahan on Rethinking Meditation
70 min
990
Jonathan D. Fitzgerald, "How the News Feels: Th...
An interview with Jonathan D. Fitzgerald
49 min
991
Barbara D. Savage, "Merze Tate: The Global Odys...
An interview with Barbara D. Savage
31 min
992
J. Christopher Edwards, "Crucified: The Christi...
An interview with J. Christopher Edwards
72 min
993
Daniel Jütte, "Transparency: The Material Histo...
An interview with Daniel Jütte
60 min
994
Poppy Corbett et al., "Creative Histories of Wi...
An interview with Poppy Corbett and William G. Pooley
60 min
995
Christian B. Miller, "Honesty: The Philosophy a...
An interview with Christian B. Miller
54 min
996
Jürgen Zimmerer, "Memory Wars: New German Histo...
An interview with Jürgen Zimmerer
58 min
997
Charles S. Maier, "The Project-State and Its Ri...
An interview with Charles S. Maier
48 min
998
Shuchen Xiang, "Chinese Cosmopolitanism: The Hi...
An interview with Shuchen Xiang
86 min
999
Tony Spawforth, "What the Greeks Did for Us" (Y...
An interview with Tony Spawforth
54 min
1000
Roslyn Weiss, "Hasdai Crescas: Collected Writin...
An interview with Roslyn Weiss
69 min