Context with Brad Harris

By Brad Harris, Historian

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Subscribers: 302
Reviews: 3
Episodes: 31

Mason
 Feb 19, 2021
Thought provoking

George
 Oct 27, 2019
a lot of insightful historical analysis with deep implications for today and the near future. Wish there was more podcasts like this.

Greg Karney
 Dec 1, 2018
this is the exact content podcasts are designed for. learn with real depth of content. I'm better because things like this podcast exist.

Description

What led to the rise of the modern world? How have we made so much progress, and what are its consequences? What are humanity's best ideas? Join award-winning historian Brad Harris as he engages these fundamental questions and interprets the biggest historical forces that shape their answers, from the rise of civilization and the development of modern science to the spread of disease and the growth of globalization.

Episode Date
Into the Trenches Once More
May 17, 2023
Urban Versus Rural
Jun 01, 2021
Notes On Tribalism
Apr 26, 2021
The Fate of Universities
Feb 24, 2021
Explaining Postmodernism: A Conversation with Stephen Hicks
Jan 25, 2021
Escaping the Cycle of History
Dec 21, 2020
Reflections from A Distant Mirror
Oct 26, 2020
2+2=5
Sep 14, 2020
All Things Being Equal
Aug 25, 2020
Approximating Perfection
Jul 08, 2020
Science as a Candle in the Dark
Jun 05, 2020
What If Our Ignorance Outgrows Our Potential?
Aug 05, 2019
A Battle Against Medieval Barbarism
Jul 01, 2019
What's True?
Jun 03, 2019
The Closing of the American Mind, by Allan Bloom
May 02, 2019
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, by Joseph Ellis
Apr 04, 2019
Applied Perspective: A Conversation with Niall Ferguson
Mar 07, 2019
The Square and the Tower, by Niall Ferguson
Feb 07, 2019
Why the West Rules - For Now, by Ian Morris
Jan 09, 2019
The Fall of Rome, and the End of Civilization
Dec 12, 2018
The Two Cultures, by C. P. Snow
Nov 21, 2018
Merchants of Doubt, by Naomi Oreskes & Erik Conway
Oct 30, 2018
Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science, by Peter Atkins
Oct 08, 2018
Evolution's Other Narrative
Sep 17, 2018
Plagues and Peoples, by William McNeill
Sep 05, 2018
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, by Charles Mann
Aug 20, 2018
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, by Jack Weatherford
Aug 06, 2018
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas Kuhn
Jul 24, 2018
Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West, by Margaret Jacob
Jul 10, 2018
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, by David Landes
Jun 26, 2018
Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond
Jun 06, 2018