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Joshua Nall, "News from Mars: Mass Media and th...
Nall shows us that a blurry boundary between science and journalism was a key feature—not a bug—of the emergence of modern astronomy....
61 min
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José Vergara, "All Future Plunges to the Past: ...
An interview with José Vergara
54 min
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Raphael Cormack, "Holy Men of the Electromagnet...
40 min
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Nabil Yasien Mohamed, "Ghazālī’s Epistemology: ...
77 min
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Isabella M. Weber, "How China Escaped Shock The...
An interview with Isabella M. Weber
49 min
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Thomas Kemple, “Intellectual Work and the Spiri...
69 min
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Enrique Dussel, "The Theological Metaphors of M...
51 min
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Liz Fischer, "Network Analysis for Book Histori...
44 min
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Vinay Lal, "India and Its Intellectual Traditio...
65 min
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David Theo Goldberg, "The War on Critical Race ...
71 min
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Eli Zaretsky, “Political Freud: A History” (Col...
53 min
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Federico Marcon, "Fascism: The History of a Wor...
89 min
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Alan M. Wald, "Bohemian Bolsheviks: Dispatches ...
95 min
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Russell Shorto, “Revolution Song: A Story of Am...
59 min
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Neil Roberts, “A Political Companion to Frederi...
74 min
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Margaret C. Jacob, "The Secular Enlightenment" ...
Jacob, reveals how this newly secular outlook was not a wholesale rejection of Christianity but rather a new mental space in which to encounter the world on its own terms.
60 min
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Maxim Samson, "Earth Shapers: How Humans Master...
71 min
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Daniel José Gaztambide, "Decolonizing Psychoana...
56 min
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Murad Idris, "War for Peace: Genealogies of a V...
Idris traces the concept of peace, and the way it is often insinuated with other words and concepts, over more than 2000 years of political thought...
63 min
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William Marx, "Libraries of the Mind" (Princeto...
63 min
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Alexander Douglas, "Against Identity: The Wisdo...
64 min
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Philip Cunliffe, "The National Interest: Politi...
54 min
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Chris Washington, "Nonbinary Jane Austen" (U Mi...
66 min
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Hanno Sauer, "The Invention of Good and Evil: A...
67 min
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John Givens, "The Image of Christ in Russian Li...
These texts and others, Givens suggests, portray Christ apophatically: that is, by showing who Christ was not, in order to illuminate who Christ therefore must be...
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