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Matthew W. King, "Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood...
Matthew W. King tells the story of Zawa Damdin, one Mongolian monk’s efforts to defend Buddhist monasticism in revolutionary times, revealing an unexplored landscape of countermodern Buddhisms beyond old imperial formations and the newly invented national subject...
61 min
1502
Peter B. Josephson and R. Ward Holder, "Reinhol...
Josephson and Holder note that their “focus is Niebuhr himself and what the encounter between his own theology and his practical political experience might reveal in our contemporary situation.”
56 min
1503
Harold J. Cook, "The Young Descartes: Nobility,...
Harold J. Cook talks about the travels and trials of the young Descartes, a man who spent as much time traveling and fighting as he did studying philosophy...
31 min
1504
William Poole, "Milton and the Making of Paradi...
John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667) is widely recognised as the greatest epic poem in the English language...
45 min
1505
Nikolai Krementsov, "With and Without Galton: V...
Krementsov provides a fascinating analysis of the vicissitudes of Russian attempts to improve the human species...
79 min
1506
Joan Watts, "The Collected Letters of Alan Watt...
The second in a two-part interview about Alan Watts
55 min
1507
Jeffrey S. McDonald, "John Gerstner and the Ren...
One of the most important trends within evangelicalism over the last half-century has been a renewal of Reformed theology...
34 min
1508
Anne Watts, "The Collected Letters of Alan Watt...
The first in a two part interview about Alan Watts.
66 min
1509
Kenneth I. Helphand, "Lawrence Halprin" (Librar...
49 min
1510
Pu Wang, "The Translatability of Revolution: Gu...
Wang's is the first study of the whole life of Guo Moruo, the ‘writer, poet, dramatist, Marxist historian, paleographer . . . revolutionist and cultural fighter.'
63 min
1511
René Weis, "The Real Traviata: The Song of Mari...
Though she died in 1847 at a young age, Marie Duplessis inspired one of the greatest operas ever composed...
46 min
1512
Harold Holzer, "Monument Man: The Life and Art ...
Holzer chronicles the career of French, who became best known for his sculpture of Abraham Lincoln for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
64 min
1513
Anand Prahlad, "The Secret Life of a Black Aspi...
Anand Prahlad was born on a former plantation in Virginia in 1954. This memoir, vividly internal, powerfully lyric, and brilliantly impressionistic, is his story...
56 min
1514
Robert Matzen, "Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and ...
Audrey Hepburn was justly known for her long acting career, yet her early life is largely unknown...
55 min
1515
Kelly J. Beard, "An Imperfect Rapture" (Zone 3 ...
In a new book, Beard describes growing up in a community that required its members to participate in excessive tithing, among other practices designed to prey on those who had the least to give...
51 min
1516
Margaret Leslie Davis , "The Lost Gutenberg: Th...
Margaret Leslie Davis traces the journey of one copy of the Gutenberg Bible – known as Number 45 – over the course of two centuries as it changed hands through a succession of owners.
58 min
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Mickey and Dick Flacks, "Making History/Making ...
As active members of the Civil Rights movement and the anti-Vietnam War movement in the 1960s, and leaders in today’s social movements, the Flacks' stories are a first-hand account of progressive American activism from the 1960s to the present.
78 min
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Patrick Sharma, "Robert McNamara’s Other War: T...
Robert McNamara is best remembered today for his momentous term as Secretary of Defense in the 1960s. Often overlooked because of this is his even longer tenure as president of the World Bank...
55 min
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Bruce Van Orden, "We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout: T...
If you’re a Latter Day Saint, you’ve probably heard of W. W. Phelps, and no doubt, you’ve probably sung some of his hymns...
78 min
1520
Joseph Vogel, "James Baldwin and the 1980s: Wit...
By the 1980s, critics and the public alike considered James Baldwin irrelevant. Yet Baldwin remained an important, prolific writer until his death in 1987...
37 min
1521
Kurt Raaflaub, "The Landmark Julius Caesar: The...
That the Roman leader Gaius Julius Caesar is so well remembered today for his achievements as a general is largely due to his skills as a writer...
43 min
1522
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Op...
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...
29 min
1523
Kent Blansett, "A Journey to Freedom: Richard O...
Richard Oakes was a natural born leader whom people followed seemingly on instinct...
86 min
1524
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
1525
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