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Episode Date
Alexander Vandewalle, "Characters and Characterization in Mythological Video Games" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Jun 18, 2026
Legacy of the Ancient Greeks: On Classical and Modern Democracy with Josiah Ober
Jun 17, 2026
Marinus De Jong, "A Church for a Secular World: The Development of Klaas Schilder's Ecclesiology" (Brill, 2025)
Jun 14, 2026
Pamela Walker Laird, "Self-Made: The Stories that Forged an American Myth" (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
Jun 14, 2026
Curtis Dozier, "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" (Yale UP, 2026)
Jun 13, 2026
Manasicha Akepiyapornchai, "Surrender to God Across Languages: Multilingual Intellectual History of Premodern India" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Jun 11, 2026
Natalia Rogach Alexander, "Growing People: The Enduring Legacy of John Dewey" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Jun 10, 2026
Arlene W. Saxonhouse, "Athenian Democracy: Modern Mythmakers and Ancient Theorists" (U Notre Dame Press, 2026)
Jun 10, 2026
Joanna Stalnaker, "The Rest Is Silence: Enlightenment Philosophers Facing Death" (Yale UP, 2025)
Jun 09, 2026
Susanna Drake, "Veiling in the Late Antique World" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Jun 08, 2026
Stephen C.E. Hopkins, "⁠Translating hell: Vernacular theology and apocrypha in the medieval North Sea"⁠ (Manchester UP, 2026)
Jun 08, 2026
Lawrence Douglas, "The Criminal State: War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jun 03, 2026
Steven Nadler, "Spinoza, Atheist" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jun 02, 2026
Alex Law, "The Roots of Sociology: Scottish Enlightenment and the Civilising Process" (Routledge, 2026)
Jun 02, 2026
Annette Gordon-Reed ed., "Jefferson on Race: A Reader" (Princeton UP, 2026)
May 30, 2026
Christos Lynteris, "How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)
May 30, 2026
H. A. Drake, "The Wisdom of the Ancients: Four Ideas That Changed the World" (Oxford UP, 2025)
May 28, 2026
Christopher S. Celenza, "The Evolution of Western Thought: Volume 1, From the Ancient World to Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
May 27, 2026
Timothy McCall, "Making the Renaissance Man: Masculinity in the Courts of Renaissance Italy" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
May 25, 2026
Matthieu Felt, "Meanings of Antiquity: Myth Interpretation in Premodern Japan" (Harvard UP, 2023)
May 25, 2026
Richard Elwes, "Huge Numbers: A Story of Counting Ambitiously, from 4 1/2 to Fish 7" (Basic Books, 2026)
May 22, 2026
An-Ting Yi, "From Erasmus to Maius: The History of Codex Vaticanus in New Testament Textual Scholarship" (de Gruyter, 2024)
May 21, 2026
Hugo Drochon, "Elites and Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2026)
May 20, 2026
Carlos Martins, "Fascism: Beyond Hitler and Mussolini" (Desassossego, 2022)
May 18, 2026
Paul Stob, "Empire of Skulls: Phrenology, the Fowler Family, and a New Nation's Quest to Unlock the Secrets of the Mind" (Counterpoint Publishing, 2026)
May 15, 2026
Martin Munro and Eliana Vagalau eds., "Jean-Claude Charles: A Reader's Guide" (Liverpool UP, 2022)
May 14, 2026
Chiara Libiseller, "Reconceptualizing War: The Rise and Fall of Fashionable Concepts in Strategic Studies" (Oxford UP, 2026)
May 12, 2026
Angus Burgin on the Rise of the Internet
May 11, 2026
Patrick Noonan, "Age of Disaffection: The Aesthetic Critique of Politics in 1960s Japan" (Columbia UP, 2025)
May 10, 2026
Siniša Malešević, "Nationalism as a Way of Life: The Rise and Transformation of Modern Subjectivities" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
May 04, 2026
Benjamin Y. Fong and Paul Prescod, "Rustin's Challenge" (2026)
May 04, 2026
James Q. Whitman, "Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands: The Transformation of Ownership in the Western World" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
May 04, 2026
Richard Ivan Jobs and Steven Van Wolputte, "In the Land of the Lacandón: A Graphic History of Adventure and Imperialism" (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2025)
May 02, 2026
D. Vance Smith, "Atlas’s Bones: The African Foundations of Europe" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
May 02, 2026
Mostafa Hussein, "Hebrew Orientalism: Jewish Engagement with Arabo-Islamic Culture in Late Ottoman and British Palestine" (Princeton UP, 2025)
May 01, 2026
Deirdre Loughridge & Thomas Patteson, "The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments" (Reaktion, 2026)
Apr 30, 2026
Stephen B. Young ed., "Adam Smith and Modern Economics: Reclaiming the Moral High Ground" (de Gruyter, 2026)
Apr 29, 2026
A Shakeup Is Coming for the Nation-State: A Conversation with Stephen Sims
Apr 27, 2026
Tiffany Jo Werth, "The Lithic Imagination from More to Milton" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Apr 25, 2026
Vin Nardizzi, "Marvellous Vegetables in the English Renaissance" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
Apr 24, 2026
Yair Mintzker, "I, Wandering Jew: A Five-Century History of Our Modern Condition" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Apr 23, 2026
The Crisis of American Political Economy: On the New Conservative Policy Agenda with Chris Griswold
Apr 22, 2026
Amanda Anderson and Simon During, "Humanities Theory" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Apr 18, 2026
Lewis Sage-Passant, "Beyond States and Spies: The Security Intelligence Services of the Private Sector" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
Apr 17, 2026
Audrey Borowski, "Leibniz in His World: The Making of a Savant" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Apr 17, 2026
Jason Welle, "Companionship and Virtue in Classical Sufism: The Contribution of al-Sulami" (I.B. Tauris, 2024)
Apr 16, 2026
Daniel A. Bell, "Why Ancient Chinese Political Thought Matters: Four Dialogues on China’s Past, Present, and Future" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Apr 15, 2026
Donald Sassoon, "Revolutions: A New History" (Verso Books, 2025)
Apr 14, 2026
Devika Dutt et al., "Decolonizing Economics: An Introduction" (Polity Press, 2025)
Apr 14, 2026
Jasper Bernes, "The Future of Revolution: Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising" (Verso Books, 2025)
Apr 12, 2026
Melissa Butcher, "The Trouble with Freedom: Love, Hate and America’s Future" (Manchester UP, 2026)
Apr 07, 2026
Amir Saemi, "Morality and Revelation in Islamic Thought and Beyond: A New Problem of Evil" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Apr 04, 2026
Peter E. Gordon, "Walter Benjamin: The Pearl Diver" (Yale UP, 2026)
Apr 03, 2026
What's Global about Sven Beckert's Capitalism (Paul Kramer, JP)
Apr 02, 2026
Jeanne-Marie Jackson, "The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Mar 31, 2026
Mark Pennington, "Foucault and Liberal Political Economy: Power, Knowledge, and Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Mar 30, 2026
Emmanuel Ofuasia, "Ìwà: the Process-Relational Dimension to African Metaphysics" (Springer, 2024)
Mar 29, 2026
Ainehi Edoro, "Forest Imaginaries: How African Novels Think" (Columbia UP, 2026)
Mar 29, 2026
The Philosophy of Hope: On Immanence and Transcendence with R.J. Snell
Mar 25, 2026
On Trump as a “World Historical Individual” with author John B. Judis
Mar 25, 2026
Susanne Vees-Gulani, 'Icon Dresden: Baroque City, Air War Symbol, Political Token" (U Michigan Press, 2026)
Mar 23, 2026
David Bather Woods, "Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy's Greatest Pessimist" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Mar 23, 2026
The Vilna Gaon and the Making of Modern Judaism
Mar 22, 2026
Philip C. Almond, "Noah and the Flood in Western Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Mar 21, 2026
Sunmin Kim, "The Unruly Facts of Race: The Politics of Knowledge Production in the Early Twentieth-Century Immigration Debate" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
Mar 19, 2026
H. S. Jones, "Liberal Worlds: James Bryce and the Democratic Intellect" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Mar 17, 2026
Alec Ryrie, "The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It" (Reaktion, 2025)
Mar 15, 2026
William H. F. Altman, "Ascent to the Good: The Reading Order of Plato’s Dialogues from Symposium to Republic" (Lexington, 2018)
Mar 14, 2026
Tristan J. Rogers, "Conservatism, Past and Present: A Philosophical Introduction" (Routledge, 2025)
Mar 14, 2026
Wendy Brown, "States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Mar 12, 2026
Jacob Stegenga, "Heart of Science: A Philosophy of Scientific Inquiry" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
Mar 10, 2026
Moulie Vidas, "The Rise of Talmud" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Mar 02, 2026
Martin Heidegger, "Being and Time: An Annotated Translation" (Yale UP, 2026)
Feb 23, 2026
Mark Thomas Edwards, "Walter Lippmann: American Skeptic, American Pastor" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Feb 21, 2026
Neilesh Bose, "Chips from a Calcutta Workshop: Comparative Religion in Nineteenth Century India" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Feb 19, 2026
W. Patrick McCray, "README: A Bookish History of Computing from Electronic Brains to Everything Machines" (MIT Press, 2025)
Feb 19, 2026
Shelley Puhak, "The Blood Countess: Murder, Betrayal, and the Making of a Monster" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Feb 17, 2026
Vanessa Rampton, "Making Medical Progress: History of a Contested Idea" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Feb 15, 2026
Laura K. Field, "Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Feb 12, 2026
Hang Tu, "Sentimental Republic: Chinese Intellectuals and the Maoist Past" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Feb 11, 2026
Daniel R. Langton, "Darwin in the Jewish Imagination: Jews' Engagement with Evolutionary Theory" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Feb 10, 2026
Kristin Roebuck, "Japan Reborn: Race and Eugenics from Empire to Cold War" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Feb 10, 2026
Alex Prichard, "Anarchism: a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 08, 2026
Jacob Mchangama, "Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media" (Basic Books, 2022)
Feb 08, 2026
Kevin Hart, "Lands of Likeness: For a Poetics of Contemplation" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Feb 07, 2026
Ann Komaromi, "Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Feb 07, 2026
Patricia Daley and Ian Klinke, "Human Geography: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Feb 05, 2026
164 Maurice Samuels: Jewish Assimilation, Integration and the Dreyfus Affair (JP)
Feb 05, 2026
Andrew Billing, "Animal Rhetoric and Natural Science in Eighteenth-century Liberal Political Writing" (Routledge, 2023)
Feb 04, 2026
Itohan I. Osayimwese, "Africa's Buildings: Architecture and the Displacement of Cultural Heritage" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Feb 03, 2026
Luca Cottini, "The Rise of Americanism in Italy, 1888-1919" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
Feb 02, 2026
Arnoud S. Q. Visser, "On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-it-All" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Feb 02, 2026
Danielle N. Boaz, "Voodoo: The History of a Racial Slur" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Feb 01, 2026
Peter Stansky, "The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Jan 31, 2026
Swapna Kona Nayudu, "The Nehru Years: An International History of Indian Non-Alignment" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Jan 29, 2026
Melissa Adler, "Peculiar Satisfaction: Thomas Jefferson and the Mastery of Subjects" (Fordham UP, 2025)
Jan 28, 2026
Brahim El Guabli, "Desert Imaginations: A History of Saharanism and Its Radical Consequences" (U California Press, 2025)
Jan 28, 2026
Duy Lap Nguyen, "Walter Benjamin and the Critique of Political Economy: A New Historical Materialism" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Jan 27, 2026
Karin Wulf, "Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Jan 27, 2026
Bradley R. Simpson, "The First Right: Self-Determination and the Transformation of International Order, 1941-2000" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Jan 25, 2026
Christian Raffensperger, "Authorship, Worldview, and Identity in Medieval Europe" (Routledge, 2022)
Jan 24, 2026
Michelle Henning, "A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog, and Empire" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
Jan 22, 2026
Michael P.M. Fox et al., eds., " Framing the First World War: How Divergent Views Shaped a Global Conflict" (UP of Kansas, 2025)
Jan 21, 2026
John Samuel Harpham, "Intellectual Origins of American Slavery: English Ideas in the Early Modern Atlantic World" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Jan 19, 2026
Duncan Kelly, "Worlds of Wartime: The First World War and the Reconstruction of Modern Politics" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Jan 19, 2026
Mark Christian Thompson, "Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Jan 18, 2026
Keidrick Roy, "American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jan 18, 2026
Catherine Clarke, "A History of England in 25 Poems" (Penguin, 2025)
Jan 17, 2026
Mary E. Stuckey, "Remembering Jefferson: Who He Was, Who We Are" (UP of Kansas, 2025)
Jan 17, 2026
Sheiba Kian Kaufman, "Persian Paradigms in Early Modern English Drama" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Jan 15, 2026
Miriam Udel, "Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Jan 14, 2026
Angie Hobbs, "Why Plato Matters Now" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Jan 14, 2026
Douglas Greene, "In Stalin's Shadow: Trotsky and the Legacy of the Moscow Trials" (Resistance Books, 2025)
Jan 14, 2026
Paul J. Gutacker, "The Old Faith in a New Nation: American Protestants and the Christian Past" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jan 13, 2026
Noam Sienna, "Jewish Books in North Africa: Between the Early Modern and Modern Worlds" (Indiana UP, 2025)
Jan 13, 2026
Shuchen Xiang, "Chinese Cosmopolitanism: The History and Philosophy of an Idea" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Jan 12, 2026
Matthijs Lok, "Europe Against Revolution: Conservatism, Enlightenment, and the Making of the Past" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jan 12, 2026
Tony Spawforth, "What the Greeks Did for Us" (Yale UP, 2023)
Jan 11, 2026
Jürgen Zimmerer, "Memory Wars: New German Historical Consciousness" (Reclam Verlag, 2023)
Jan 10, 2026
D. J. Taylor, "Orwell: The New Life" (Pegasus Books, 2023)
Jan 09, 2026
Moritz Föllmer, "The Quest for Individual Freedom: A Twentieth-Century European History" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Jan 09, 2026
Matt Dawson, "The Political Durkheim: Sociology, Socialism, Legacies" (Routledge, 2023)
Jan 08, 2026
Alison Stone, "Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jan 07, 2026
Jim Endersby, "The Arrival of the Fittest: Biology's Imaginary Futures, 1900-1935" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Jan 07, 2026
Mike Jay, "Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind" (Yale UP, 2023)
Jan 06, 2026
Richard Wolin, "Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology" (Yale UP, 2023)
Jan 05, 2026
Youshaa Patel, "The Muslim Difference: Defining the Line Between Believers and Unbelievers from Early Islam to the Present" (Yale UP, 2023)
Jan 04, 2026
Philip J. Stern, "Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Jan 04, 2026
Betty Milan, "Analyzed by Lacan: A Personal Account" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Jan 03, 2026
Andrew S. Curran, "Biography of a Dangerous Idea: A New History of Race from Louis XIV to Thomas Jefferson" (Other Press, 2026)
Jan 02, 2026
Baijayanti Roy, "The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jan 01, 2026
Martin Jay, "Immanent Critiques: The Frankfurt School under Pressure" (Verso, 2023)
Dec 30, 2025
Scott A. Mitchell, "The Making of American Buddhism" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Dec 30, 2025
Philippe Huneman, "Why?: The Philosophy Behind the Question" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Dec 29, 2025
Lisa Silverman, "The Postwar Antisemite: Culture and Complicity After the Holocaust" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Dec 28, 2025
Douglas Morris, "Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler's Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Dec 25, 2025
Lin Hongxuan, "Ummah Yet Proletariat: Islam, Marxism, and the Making of the Indonesian Republic" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Dec 25, 2025
Marcus Willaschek, "Kant: A Revolution in Thinking" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Dec 24, 2025
Zubeda Jalalzai, "Literary License and the West’s Romance with Afghanistan" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Dec 22, 2025
Johannes Zachhuber, "Gregory of Nyssa: on the Hexaemeron: Text, Translation, and Essays" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Dec 22, 2025
Kwame Nkrumah and Pan-Africanism’s High Tide: A Conversation with Howard W. French
Dec 20, 2025
Shiben Banerji, "Lineages of the Global City: Occult Modernism and the Spiritualization of Democracy" (U Texas Press, 2025)
Dec 18, 2025
Graham Harman, "Waves and Stones: The Continuous and the Discontinuous in Human Thought" (Allen Lane, 2025)
Dec 15, 2025
Mike Bird, "The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset" (Penguin, 2025)
Dec 14, 2025
Edward McPherson, "Look Out: The Delight and Danger of Taking the Long View" (Astra House, 2025)
Dec 13, 2025
Liang Qichao, "Thoughts from the Ice-Drinker’s Studio: Essays on China and the World" (Penguin Classics, 2023)
Dec 13, 2025
Negar Mansouri and Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín eds., "Ways of Seeing International Organisations: New Perspectives for International Institutional Law" (Cambridge UP, 2025
Dec 13, 2025
Dan Edelstein, "The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Dec 10, 2025
Éléna Choquette, "Land and the Liberal Project: Canada’s Violent Expansion" (UBC Press, 2024)
Dec 06, 2025
Adam Silverstein, "Haman" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Dec 05, 2025
Carolyn J. Eichner, "Feminism's Empire" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Dec 04, 2025
Elizabeth Chika Tippett, "The Master-Servant Doctrine: How Old Legal Rules Haunt the Modern Workplace" (U California Press, 2025)
Dec 04, 2025
The Renaissance of Marxist Studies: A Discussion with Babak Amini
Dec 03, 2025
Maria Bach, "Relocating Development Economics: The First Generation of Modern Indian Economists" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Dec 03, 2025
Philip Pettit, "The State" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Dec 02, 2025
John Kieschnick, "Buddhist Historiography in China" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Dec 01, 2025
Yoram Hazony, "Conservatism: A Rediscovery" (Regnery Publishing, 2022)
Nov 29, 2025
Sarah Ruden, "Vergil: The Poet's Life" (Yale UP, 2023)
Nov 28, 2025
Ithamar Theodor, "The Philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Nov 27, 2025
Jochen Hellbeck, "World Enemy No. 1: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews" (Penguin Group, 2025)
Nov 26, 2025
Maia Kotrosits, "After Transformation: Rewriting Time, Christian Late Antiquity, and the Present" (Duke UP, 2025)
Nov 25, 2025
Verena Halsmayer on Managing Growth in Miniature: Solow’s Model as an Artifact
Nov 24, 2025
Mary Edwards, "Sartre’s Existential Psychoanalysis: Knowing Others" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Nov 23, 2025
Faisal Devji, "Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam" (Yale UP, 2025)
Nov 22, 2025
David Chanoff, "Anthony Benezet: Quaker, Abolitionist, Anti-Racist" (U Georgia Press, 2025)
Nov 22, 2025
Yehudah Halper, "Averroes on Pathways to Divine Knowledge" (Academic Studies Press, 2025)
Nov 19, 2025
David Boyk, "Provincial Metropolis: Intellectuals and the Hinterland in Colonial India" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Nov 18, 2025
Bryan A. Banks, "Write to Return: Huguenot Refugees on the Frontiers of the French Enlightenment" (McGill-Queen's, 2024)
Nov 15, 2025
Lars Cornelissen, "Neoliberalism and Race" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Nov 11, 2025
Dag Nikolaus Hasse, "What Is European? On Overcoming Colonial and Romantic Modes of Thought" (Amsterdam UP, 2025)
Nov 11, 2025
Ellen Muehlberger, "Things Unseen: Essays on Evidence, Knowledge, and the Late Ancient World" (U California Press, 2025)
Nov 10, 2025
Amie Thomasson, "Rethinking Metaphysics" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Nov 10, 2025
Nerina Rustomji, "The Beauty of the Houri: Heavenly Virgins and Feminine Ideals" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Nov 09, 2025
Martha Biondi, "We Are Internationalists: Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight for African Liberation" (U California Press, 2025)
Nov 08, 2025
Yunxiang Gao, "Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2021)
Nov 08, 2025
The Technological Soul: Alex Priou on Modernity, Ideology, and the Limits of Reason
Nov 06, 2025
Joshua Castellino, "Calibrating Colonial Crime: Reparations and The Crime of Unjust Enrichment" (Policy Press, 2025)
Nov 04, 2025
Rebecca L. Davis, "Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America" (Norton, 2024)
Nov 03, 2025
Natasha Piano, "Democratic Elitism: The Founding Myth of American Political Science" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Nov 01, 2025
Adair Rounthwaite, "This Is Not My World: Art and Public Space in Socialist Zagreb" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Oct 29, 2025
Rick A López, "Rooted in Place: Botany, Indigeneity, and Art in the Construction of Mexican Nature, 1570-1914" (U Arizona Press, 2025)
Oct 28, 2025
Jeremy Swist, "Julian Augustus: Platonism, Myth and the Refounding of Rome" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Oct 27, 2025
Garrett Hardin’s Tragic Environmentalism
Oct 27, 2025
Michael Lazarus, "Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Oct 26, 2025
Mark Mazower, "On Antisemitism: A Word in History" (Penguin Press, 2025)
Oct 26, 2025
Hector Vera, "Yardstick Nation: The Metric System in America" (Vanderbilt UP, 2025)
Oct 25, 2025
Ashley D. Farmer, "Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore" (Pantheon, 2025)
Oct 25, 2025
Dagmar Wujastyk, "Indian Alchemy: Sources and Contexts" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Oct 23, 2025
Peter D. Blackmer, "Unleashing Black Power: Grassroots Organizing in Harlem and the Advent of the Long, Hot Summers" (UVA Press, 2025)
Oct 21, 2025
Massimo Modonesi, "The Antagonistic Principle: Marxism and Political Action​" (Haymarket, 2019)
Oct 20, 2025
Ladelle McWhorter, "Unbecoming Persons: The Rise and Demise of the Modern Moral Self" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Oct 20, 2025
David Bressoud, "Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Oct 19, 2025
Thomas Smith, "Rewriting the First Crusade: Epistolary Culture in the Middle Ages" (Boydell & Brewer, 2024)
Oct 16, 2025
Gianna Englert, "Democracy Tamed: French Liberalism and the Politics of Suffrage" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Oct 15, 2025
Justin Stover and George Woudhuysen, "The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Oct 14, 2025
Madeleine Chalmers, "French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
Oct 13, 2025
Ethan A. Everett, "The Investment Philosophers: Financial Lessons from the Great Thinkers" (Columbia Business School, 2025)
Oct 13, 2025
Aaron Sheehan-Dean, "Fighting with the Past: How Seventeenth-Century History Shaped the American Civil War" (UNC Press, 2025)
Oct 12, 2025
Matthias Egeler, "Elves and Fairies: A Short History of the Otherworld" (Yale UP, 2025)
Oct 11, 2025
What is Free Speech with Fara Dabhoiwala
Oct 09, 2025
Daniel J. Sherman, "Sensations: French Archaeology Between Science and Spectacle, 1890-1940" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Oct 09, 2025
Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, "Overdetermined: How Indian English Literature Becomes Ethnic, Postcolonial, and Anglophone" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Oct 08, 2025
David M. Whitford, "The Making of a Reformation Man: Martin Luther and the Construction of Masculinity" (Routledge, 2025)
Oct 05, 2025
Georgios Varouxakis, "The West: The History of an Idea" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Oct 04, 2025
Erin M.B. O'Halloran, "East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World Between the Wars" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Oct 02, 2025
Katharine Jenkins, "Feminist Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Oct 01, 2025
William H. F. Altman, "The Revival of Platonism in Cicero's Late Philosophy: Platonis Aemulus and the Invention of Cicero" (Lexington Books, 2016)
Sep 30, 2025
Matt Myers, "The Halted March of the European Left: The Working Class in Britain, France, and Italy, 1968-1989" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Sep 30, 2025
Todd McGowan, "The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Sep 29, 2025
Karen Stollznow, "Bitch: The Journey of a Word" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Sep 28, 2025
Carol Atack, "Plato: A Civic Life" (Reaktion, 2025)
Sep 27, 2025
Ecodefense: Dave Foreman and Earth First!’s Deep Ecology
Sep 25, 2025
Authoritarian Ideas, Old and New: From Schmitt to “JD”
Sep 24, 2025
Nicholas Bromell, "The Time is Always Now: Black Political Thought and the Transformation of U.S. Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2013)
Sep 23, 2025
Wendell Marsh, "Textual Life: Islam, Africa, and the Fate of the Humanities" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Sep 22, 2025
Jon Mills, "End of the World: Civilization and Its Fate" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
Sep 22, 2025
Jonathan White and Lucas Morel, "Measuring the Man: The Writings of Frederick Douglass on Abraham Lincoln" (Reedy Press, 2025)
Sep 20, 2025
Our Common Future: The Birth of Liberal Environmentalism
Sep 19, 2025
Jack Hartnell, "Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Sep 18, 2025
Zahi Zalloua, "Fanon, Žižek and the Violence of Resistance" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Sep 17, 2025
Vanessa Sinclair et al., "The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond" (Routledge, 2024)
Sep 17, 2025
Alex R. Tipei, "Unintended Nations: How French Liberals' Empire of Civilization Remade Southeast Europe and the Post-Napoleonic World" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025)
Sep 15, 2025
Spike Bucklow, "The Year: An Ecology of the Zodiac" (Reaktion Books, 2025)
Sep 15, 2025
Kevin Passmore, "The Maginot Line: A New History of the Fall of France" (Yale UP, 2025)
Sep 13, 2025
Matthew Benjamin Cole, "Fear the Future: Dystopia and Political Imagination in the Twentieth Century" (U of Michigan Press, 2025)
Sep 13, 2025
Dorothy Armstrong, "Threads of Empire: A History of the World in Twelve Carpets" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
Sep 10, 2025
Leah Hochman and Stanley M. Davids, "Re-forming Judaism: Moments of Disruption in Jewish Thought" (Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2023)
Sep 07, 2025
Lyndsey Stonebridge on Hannah Arendt's Lessons on Love and Disobedience (JP)
Sep 05, 2025
Santiago Zabala, "Signs from the Future: Philosophy of Warnings" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Sep 04, 2025
Diana Souhami, "No Modernism Without Lesbians" (Head of Zeus Book, 2020)
Sep 03, 2025
Oswyn Murray, "The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Sep 03, 2025
Lucy Delap, "Feminisms: A Global History" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Sep 02, 2025
Anne Lawrence-Mathers, "Medieval Meteorology: Forecasting the Weather from Aristotle to the Almanac" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Sep 01, 2025
David Edmonds, "Death in a Shallow Pond: A Philosopher, a Drowning Child, and Strangers in Need" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Sep 01, 2025
Ḥannā Diyāb, "The Book of Travels" (NYU Press, 2022): A Conversation with Johannes Stephan
Sep 01, 2025
Chris Millington, "A History of Fascism in France: From the First World War to the National Front" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Aug 31, 2025
Daniel Wortel-London, "The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865–1981" (U of Chicago Press, 2025)
Aug 30, 2025
Tom Arnold-Forster, "Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Aug 27, 2025
Ian Scoones, "Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World" (Polity, 2024)
Aug 27, 2025
Francesca Stavrakopoulou, "God: An Anatomy" (Knopf, 2022)
Aug 25, 2025
Omid Safi, “Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition” (Yale UP, 2018)
Aug 24, 2025
Nick Spencer, "The Landscapes of Science and Religion: What Are We Disagreeing About?" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Aug 24, 2025
Barbara H. Rosenwein, "Winter Dreams: A Historical Guide to Old Age" (Reaktion, 2025)
Aug 23, 2025
Michelle P. Brown, "Bede and the Theory of Everything" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
Aug 23, 2025
Vinay Lal, "Gandhi, Truth, and Nonviolence: The Politics of Engagement in Post-Truth Times" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Aug 21, 2025
Catherine Malabou, "Stop Thief!: Anarchism and Philosophy" (Polity Books, 2023)
Aug 20, 2025
Marla Segol, "Kabbalah and Sex Magic: A Mythical-Ritual Genealogy" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2022)
Aug 20, 2025
Joshua Nall, "News from Mars: Mass Media and the Forging of a New Astronomy, 1860-1910" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2019)
Aug 19, 2025
Rob Goodman, "Words on Fire: Eloquence and Its Conditions" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Aug 19, 2025
Raphael Cormack, "Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age: A Forgotten History of the Occult" (Norton, 2025)
Aug 18, 2025
José Vergara, "All Future Plunges to the Past: James Joyce in Russian Literature" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Aug 18, 2025
Isabella M. Weber, "How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate" (Routledge, 2021)
Aug 17, 2025
Nabil Yasien Mohamed, "Ghazālī’s Epistemology: A Critical Study of Doubt and Certainty" (Routledge, 2024)
Aug 17, 2025
Thomas Kemple, “Intellectual Work and the Spirit of Capitalism: Weber’s Calling” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
Aug 16, 2025
Enrique Dussel, "The Theological Metaphors of Marx" (Duke UP, 2024)–A Conversation with Camilo Pérez-Bustillo and Eduardo Mendieta
Aug 16, 2025
Liz Fischer, "Network Analysis for Book Historians: Digital Labour and Data Visualization Techniques" (Arc Humanities Press, 2025)
Aug 15, 2025
Vinay Lal, "India and Its Intellectual Traditions: of Love, Advaita, Power, and Other Things" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Aug 14, 2025
David Theo Goldberg, "The War on Critical Race Theory: Or, The Remaking of Racism" (Polity Press, 2023)
Aug 14, 2025
Eli Zaretsky, “Political Freud: A History” (Columbia UP, 2015)
Aug 12, 2025
Alan M. Wald, "Bohemian Bolsheviks: Dispatches from the Culture and History of the Left" (Brill, 2025)
Aug 11, 2025
Federico Marcon, "Fascism: The History of a Word" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Aug 11, 2025
Russell Shorto, “Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom” (Norton, 2017)
Aug 10, 2025
Neil Roberts, “A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass” (UP of Kentucky, 2018)
Aug 09, 2025
Margaret C. Jacob, "The Secular Enlightenment" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Aug 08, 2025
Maxim Samson, "Earth Shapers: How Humans Mastered Geography and Remade the World" (Profile Books, 2025)
Aug 07, 2025
Daniel José Gaztambide, "Decolonizing Psychoanalytic Technique: Putting Freud on Fanon's Couch" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
Aug 06, 2025
Murad Idris, "War for Peace: Genealogies of a Violent Ideal in Western and Islamic Thought" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Aug 04, 2025
Alexander Douglas, "Against Identity: The Wisdom of Escaping the Self" (Random House, 2025)
Aug 03, 2025
William Marx, "Libraries of the Mind" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Aug 03, 2025
Chris Washington, "Nonbinary Jane Austen" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
Aug 02, 2025
Hanno Sauer, "The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality " (Oxford UP, 2024)
Aug 02, 2025
Philip Cunliffe, "The National Interest: Politics After Globalization" (Polity Press, 2025)
Aug 02, 2025
John Givens, "The Image of Christ in Russian Literature: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Pasternak" (Northern Illinois UP, 2018)
Aug 01, 2025
Martin Shuster, "Critical Theory: The Basics" (Routledge, 2024)
Aug 01, 2025
Martin Shuster, "Critical Theory: The Basics" (Routledge, 2024)
Aug 01, 2025
Thomas M. Kemple, "Marx's Wager: Das Kapital and Classical Sociology" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Jul 31, 2025
Jeremy DeWaal, "Geographies of Renewal: Heimat and Democracy in West Germany, 1945-1990" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Jul 30, 2025
Book Talk 67 : The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science
Jul 29, 2025
Christopher Ocker, "Luther, Conflict, and Christendom: Reformation Europe and Christianity in the West" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Jul 29, 2025
Aline Nardo, "Evolutionary Theory and Education" (Brill, 2025)
Jul 29, 2025
Christy Pichichero, "The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon" (Cornell UP, 2018)
Jul 28, 2025
Marion Bower, "The Life and Work of Joan Riviere: Freud, Klein and Female Sexuality" (Routledge, 2018)
Jul 27, 2025
Christopher T. Fleming, "Equity and Trusts in Sanskrit Jurisprudence" (British Academy, 2025)
Jul 23, 2025
Marc Herman, "After Revelation: The Rabbinic Past in the Medieval Islamic World" (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
Jul 21, 2025
Joseph Kellner, "The Spirit of Socialism: Culture and Belief at the Soviet Collapse" (Cornell UP, 2025)
Jul 21, 2025
How ClioVis is Transforming Education and Historical Research
Jul 19, 2025
Elizabeth Popp Berman, "Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Jul 14, 2025
Alexander Lian, "Stereoscopic Law: Oliver Wendell Holmes and Legal Education" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Jul 13, 2025
Samuel Kline Cohn, "Popular Protest and Ideals of Democracy in Late Renaissance Italy" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jul 11, 2025
Robert G. Morrison, "Merchants of Knowledge: Intellectual Exchange in the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Jul 10, 2025
Andrew Hartman, "Karl Marx in America" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Jul 05, 2025
153: What Hannah Arendt Has to Teach Us about Anticipatory Despair (JP)
Jul 03, 2025
Hans Joas and Matthias Bormuth eds., "The Anthem Companion to Karl Jaspers" (Anthem Press, 2025)
Jul 01, 2025
Yonatan Y. Brafman, "Critique of Halakhic Reason: Divine Commandments and Social Normativity" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jun 30, 2025
Nubar Hovsepian, "Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual" (AUC Press, 2025)
Jun 26, 2025
Kevin J. Hayes, "Undaunted Mind: The Intellectual Life of Benjamin Franklin" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Jun 23, 2025
Bernd Roeck, "The World at First Light: A New History of the Renaissance" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Jun 22, 2025
David Crystal, "Bookish Words and Their Surprising Stories" (Bodleian Library, 2025)
Jun 20, 2025
Emmanuel Akyeampong, "Independent Africa: The First Generation of Nation Builders" (Indiana UP, 2023)
Jun 19, 2025
Frederick Reece, "Forgery in Musical Composition: Aesthetics, History, and the Canon" (Oxford University Press, 2025)
Jun 17, 2025
Mark Somos, Matthew Cleary, Pablo Dufour, Edward Jones Corredera, and Emanuele Salerno, "The Unseen History of International Law" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Jun 17, 2025
Brook Ziporyn, "Experiments in Mystical Atheism: Godless Epiphanies from Daoism to Spinoza and Beyond" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Jun 16, 2025
Introducing The Critical Edition of the Works of C. G. Jung
Jun 16, 2025
J. McKenzie Alexander, "The Open Society as an Enemy: A Critique of how Free Societies Turned Against Themselves" (LSE Press, 2024)
Jun 14, 2025
J. McKenzie Alexander, "The Open Society as an Enemy: A Critique of how Free Societies Turned Against Themselves" (LSE Press, 2024)
Jun 14, 2025
Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab, "Contemporary Arab Thought: Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Jun 11, 2025
Brando Simeo Starkey, "Their Accomplices Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System" (Doubleday, 2025)
Jun 06, 2025
Questions: A Discussion with Leslie Butler and Holly Case
Jun 06, 2025
Christoph Schuringa, "Karl Marx and the Actualization of Philosophy" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Jun 04, 2025
Jack Ashby, "Nature's Memory: Behind the Scenes at the World’s Natural History Museums" (Penguin, 2025)
Jun 01, 2025
Catriona M.M. MacDonald, "The Caledoniad: The Making of Scottish History" (John Donald, 2024)
May 31, 2025
Derek J. Penslar, "Zionism: An Emotional State" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
May 30, 2025
Yitzhak Conforti, "Zionism and Jewish Culture: A Study in the Origins of a National Movement" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
May 29, 2025
Dan Sperrin, "State of Ridicule: A History of Satire in English Literature" (Princeton UP, 2025)
May 28, 2025
Kirsten Macfarlane, "Lay Learning and the Bible in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World" (Oxford UP, 2024)
May 27, 2025
Anne C. Klein on Becoming a Buddha & Being Human too
May 26, 2025
Book Talk 66: Political Hope, with Loren Goldman
May 24, 2025
Jennifer T. Roberts, "Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture" (Princeton UP, 2024)
May 24, 2025
Yosie Levine, "Hakham Tsevi Ashkenazi and the Battlegrounds of the Early Modern Rabbinate" (Littman Library, 2024)
May 23, 2025
Jon Shelton, "The Education Myth: How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy" (Cornell UP, 2023)
May 22, 2025
David Kraemer, "Embracing Exile: The Case for Jewish Diaspora" (Oxford UP, 2025)
May 21, 2025
Quentin Skinner, "Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
May 20, 2025
Richard Calis, "The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter, and Belief in the Mediterranean World of Martin Crusius" (Harvard UP, 2025)
May 19, 2025
Rasheedah Phillips, "Dismantling the Master's Clock: On Race, Space, and Time" (AK Press, 2025)
May 18, 2025
Eric Heinze, "Coming Clean: The Rise of Critical Theory and the Future of the Left" (MIT Press, 2025)
May 17, 2025
Marc Shapiro, "Renewing the Old, Sanctifying the New: The Unique Vision of Rav Kook" (Littman Library, 2025)
May 16, 2025
Myka Tucker-Abramson, "Cartographies of Empire: The Road Novel and American Hegemony" (Stanford UP, 2025)
May 15, 2025
Daniel Behar, "Syrian Poets and Vernacular Modernity" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
May 14, 2025
Globalization's Backlash: Echoes of the Interwar Era in Today’s World
May 10, 2025
Nancy M. Rourke, "Ecological Moral Character: A Catholic Model" (Georgetown UP, 2024)
May 09, 2025
Aaron Robertson, "The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America" (FSG, 2024)
May 08, 2025
Paul Chrystal, "Miracula: Weird and Wonderful Stories of Ancient Greece and Rome" (Reaktion, 2025)
May 07, 2025
Matthew Daniel Eddy, "Media and the Mind: Art, Science, and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700-1830" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
May 06, 2025
Timothy Twining, "The Limits of Erudition: The Old Testament in Post-Reformation Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
May 05, 2025
Judith Vitale, "The Historical Writing of the Mongol Invasions in Japan" (Harvard UP, 2024)
May 04, 2025
Tithi Bhattacharya, "Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal" (Duke UP, 2024)
May 03, 2025
Donald S. Prudlo, "Stimulus Pastorum: A Charge to Pastors" (St. Augustine's Press, 2022)
May 02, 2025
Nat Dyer, "Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray" (Bristol UP, 2024)
May 01, 2025
Laura Spinney, "Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Apr 30, 2025
Jeff Sebo, "The Moral Circle: Who Matters, What Matters, and Why" (Norton, 2025)
Apr 29, 2025
Russell Blackford, "How We Became Post-Liberal: The Rise and Fall of Toleration" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Apr 28, 2025
Franck Billé, "Somatic States: On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity" (Duke UP, 2025)
Apr 27, 2025
Mehrdad Alipour, "Negotiating Homosexuality in Islam: A Legal-hermeneutical Examination of Modern Shīʿī Discourse" (Brill, 2024)
Apr 27, 2025
Udi Greenberg, "The End of the Schism: Catholics, Protestants, and the Remaking of Christian Life in Europe, 1880s-1970s" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Apr 26, 2025
Christopher Harding, "The Light of Asia: A History of Western Fascination with the East" (Allen Lane, 2024)
Apr 25, 2025
Geoffrey Roberts, "Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books" (Yale UP, 2022)
Apr 24, 2025
Fernanda Gallo, "Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Apr 23, 2025
Shushma Malik, "The Nero-Antichrist: Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Apr 22, 2025
Margherita Zanasi, "Economic Thought in Modern China: Market and Consumption, c.1500–1937" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Apr 21, 2025
Talia Mae Bettcher, "Beyond Personhood: An Essay in Trans Philosophy" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
Apr 20, 2025
Samuel Ross, "Qur’an Commentary and the Biblical Turn: A History of Muslim Exegetical Engagement with the Biblical Text" (de Gruyter, 2024)
Apr 19, 2025
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, "The Idea of the City in Late Antiquity: A Study in Resilience" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Apr 16, 2025
Henry Jenkins, "Where the Wild Things Were: Boyhood and Permissive Parenting in Postwar America" (NYU Press, 2025)
Apr 14, 2025
David Wiles, "Democracy, Theatre and Performance: From the Greeks to Gandhi" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Apr 13, 2025
Stephen J. Campbell, "Leonardo da Vinci: An Untraceable Life" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Apr 12, 2025
Richard Alfred Muller, "Predestination in Early Modern Reformed Theology" (Reformation Heritage Books, 2024)
Apr 11, 2025
Matthew D'Auria et al., "The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Apr 10, 2025
Benjamin M. Studebaker, "Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
Apr 09, 2025
Bruno Leipold, "Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Apr 08, 2025
Eli Rubin, "Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity: An Existential History of Chabad Hasidism" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Apr 07, 2025
Katherine Hallemeier, "African Literature and US Empire: Postcolonial Optimism in Nigerian and South African Writing" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
Apr 06, 2025
Benjamin P. Davis, "Choose Your Bearing: Édouard Glissant, Human Rights, and Decolonial Ethics" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Apr 05, 2025
Julia Jarcho, "Throw Yourself Away: Writing and Masochism" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Apr 04, 2025
Andrew Canessa and Manuela Lavinas Picq, "Savages and Citizens: How Indigeneity Shapes the State" (U Arizona Press, 2025)
Apr 03, 2025
Sam Klug, "The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Apr 02, 2025
Letizia Osti, "History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate: Writing the Past in Medieval Arabic Literature" (I. B. Tauris, 2024)
Apr 01, 2025
Sarah Bassett, "Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Mar 31, 2025
Hannan Hever, "Hasidism, Haskalah, Zionism: Chapters in Literary Politics" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
Mar 30, 2025
Rune Nyord, "Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Mar 29, 2025
William Max Nelson, "Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Mar 28, 2025
William H. F. Altman, "Ascent to the Beautiful: Plato the Teacher and the Pre-Republic Dialogues from Protagoras to Symposium" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020)
Mar 26, 2025
Joshua Ehrlich, "The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Mar 24, 2025
Surekha Davies, "Humans: A Monstrous History" (U California Press, 2025)
Mar 23, 2025
Peter Sloterdijk Knows it All
Mar 23, 2025
Andrew Clapham, "War" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Mar 22, 2025
David D. Grafton, "Muhammad in the Seminary: Protestant Teaching about Islam in the Nineteenth Century" (NYU Press, 2024)
Mar 21, 2025
Marilyn Nissim-Sabat and Neil Roberts, "Creolizing Hannah Arendt" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
Mar 20, 2025
Mick Brown, "The Nirvana Express: How the Search for Enlightenment Went West" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Mar 20, 2025
Simon Rabinovitch, "Sovereignty and Religious Freedom: A Jewish History" (Yale UP, 2024)
Mar 19, 2025
Andrew Janiak, "The Enlightenment's Most Dangerous Woman: Émilie Du Châtelet and the Making of Modern Philosophy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Mar 18, 2025
Chance E. Bonar, "The Author in Early Christian Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Mar 17, 2025
Kobi Kabalek, "Rescue and Remembrance: Imagining the German Collective After Nazism" (U Wisconsin Press, 2025)
Mar 16, 2025
Nima Bassiri, "Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Mar 13, 2025
Ken Frieden, "Travels in Translation: Sea Tales at the Source of Jewish Fiction" (Syracuse UP, 2016)
Mar 12, 2025
Gregory Soderberg, "John Brown of Haddington on Frequent Communion" (Wipf & Stock, 2024)
Mar 11, 2025
Emma Borg and Sarah A. Fisher, "Meaning: a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Mar 09, 2025
Anthony Grafton, "Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Mar 08, 2025
Ethan Kleinberg, "Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic Turn: Philosophy and Jewish Thought" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Mar 08, 2025
Jeffrey A. Lenowitz, "Constitutional Ratification Without Reason" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Mar 04, 2025
Erik Baker, "Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Mar 02, 2025
David N. Livingstone, "The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Mar 02, 2025
Ellen Fenzel Arnold, "Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, C. 300-1100" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Mar 01, 2025
Wan-Chuan Kao, "White before Whiteness in the Late Middle Ages" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Feb 28, 2025
Gregory Castle et al., "The Irish Bildungsroman" (Syracuse UP, 2025)
Feb 26, 2025
Christina Kiaer, "Collective Body: Aleksandr Deineka at the Limit of Socialist Realism" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Feb 26, 2025
Religious Freedom: A Conversation on the Conservative Tradition with John D. Wilsey
Feb 26, 2025
Rhiannon Stephens, "Poverty and Wealth in East Africa: A Conceptual History" (Duke UP, 2022)
Feb 22, 2025
Amit Levy, "A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel" (Brandeis UP, 2024)
Feb 21, 2025
William M. Paris, "Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Feb 20, 2025
Peter Wien, "Arab Nationalism: The Politics of History and Culture in the Modern Middle East" (Routledge, 2017)
Feb 19, 2025
Asheesh Kapur Siddique, "The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World" (Yale UP, 2024)
Feb 19, 2025
Melinda Cooper, "Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance" (Zone Books, 2024)
Feb 18, 2025
Kathryn Taylor, "Ordering Customs: Ethnographic Thought in Early Modern Venice" (U Delaware Press, 2023)
Feb 18, 2025
Ruby Lowe on John Milton’s Definition of Free Speech
Feb 17, 2025
Marcel Elias, "English Literature and the Crusades: Anxieties of Holy War, 1291-1453" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Feb 16, 2025
Jacqueline M. Burek, "Literary Variety and the Writing of History in Britain's Long Twelfth Century" (York Medieval Press, 2023)
Feb 16, 2025
Trevor Wilson, "Alexandre Kojève and the Specters of Russian Philosophy" (Northwestern UP, 2024)
Feb 15, 2025
Peter Burke, "Ignorance: A Global History" (Yale UP, 2024)
Feb 14, 2025
Marie-France Fortin, "The King Can Do No Wrong: Constitutional Fundamentals, Common Law History, and Crown Liability" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Feb 14, 2025
Patricia Owens, "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Feb 13, 2025
Randall Fuller, "Bright Circle: Five Remarkable Women in the Age of Transcendentalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Feb 13, 2025
Ada Palmer, "Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Feb 13, 2025
William Sweet, "Before and After Democracy: Philosophy, Religion, and Politics" (Peeters, 2023)
Feb 12, 2025
Frank Gerits, "The Ideological Scramble for Africa: How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity Shaped a Postcolonial Order, 1945-1966" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Feb 12, 2025
Iain D. Thomson, "Rethinking Death in and after Heidegger" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Feb 12, 2025
Edward Simon, "The Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Heavenly Virtues: A Visual History" (Cernunnos, 2024)
Feb 10, 2025
Josef Stern, "Maimonides' "Guide of the Perplexed" in Translation: A History from the Thirteenth Century to the Twentieth" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Feb 09, 2025
Peter J. Bowler, "Evolution for the People: Shaping Popular Ideas from Darwin to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Feb 09, 2025
Bruce Robbins, "Atrocity: A Literary History" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Feb 09, 2025
Our History with AI is (much) Longer than You Think (with Kevin LaGrandeur)
Feb 08, 2025
Richard Rorty, "What Can We Hope For?: Essays on Politics" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Feb 08, 2025
Zahi Zalloua, "The Politics of the Wretched: Race, Reason, and Ressentiment" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Feb 07, 2025
Davide Panagia, "Sentimental Empiricism: Politics, Philosophy, and Criticism in Postwar France" (Fordham UP, 2024)
Feb 06, 2025
We Are Free to Change the World: A Conversation on Hannah Arendt with Lyndsay Stonebridge
Feb 05, 2025
Vittorio Bufacchi, "Why Cicero Matters" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Feb 04, 2025
Ayesha Jalal, "Muslim Enlightened Thought in South Asia" (Routledge, 2025)
Feb 04, 2025
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Jan 21, 2025
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Bernard J. Dobski, "Mark Twain’s Joan of Arc: Political Wisdom, Divine Justice, and the Origins of Modernity" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024)
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Victoria Harms, "The Making of Dissidents: Hungary’s Democratic Opposition and its Western Friends, 1973-1998" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2024)
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Jan 07, 2025
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Jan 03, 2025
The Hyphen Unites: Avi Shlaim on Arab-Jewish Life
Jan 03, 2025
I. Augustus Durham, "Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius" (Duke UP, 2023)
Jan 02, 2025
Camille Robcis, "Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Jan 02, 2025
Eric Storm, "Nationalism: A World History" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jan 01, 2025
Kent Michael Shaw, "Missiology Reimagined: The Missions Theology of the Nineteenth-Century African American Missionary" (Pickwick, 2024)
Jan 01, 2025
Frederick Crews, "Freud: The Making of an Illusion" (Picador, 2018)
Dec 31, 2024
Nicholas R. Jones, "Cervantine Blackness" (Penn State UP, 2024)
Dec 30, 2024
Emily Herring, "Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People" (Basic Books, 2024)
Dec 29, 2024
Robert Darnton, "Pirating and Publishing: The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Dec 29, 2024
Harvey J. Kaye, "The British Marxist Historians" (Zero Book, 2022)
Dec 29, 2024
Kit Kowol, "Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Dec 28, 2024
Peter Salmon, "An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida" (Verso, 2020)
Dec 28, 2024
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Larry S. Temkin, "Being Good in a World of Need" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Dec 25, 2024
Jess A. Goldberg, "Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Dec 24, 2024
Hartley Lachter, "Kabbalah and Catastrophe: Historical Memory in Premodern Jewish Mysticism" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Dec 21, 2024
Kevin D. Pham, "The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Dec 21, 2024
Ariel Evan Mayse, "Laws of the Spirit: Ritual, Mysticism, and the Commandments in Early Hasidism" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Dec 19, 2024
Stephen Jackson, "The Patchwork of World History in Texas High Schools" (Routledge, 2022)
Dec 18, 2024
Kenny Cupers, "The Earth That Modernism Built: Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Dec 17, 2024
Zygmunt Bauman, "Theory and Society" (Polity, 2024)
Dec 16, 2024
Margaret Ziolkowski, "Mega-Dams in World Literature: Literary Responses to Twentieth-Century Dam Building" (U of Wyoming Press, 2024)
Dec 15, 2024
Renée Bergland, "Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Dec 13, 2024
David J. Collins, SJ, "Disenchanting Albert the Great: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Magician" (Penn State UP, 2024)
Dec 12, 2024
Samuel Hodgkin, "Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Dec 12, 2024
Marissa Greenberg and Rachel Trubowitz, "Milton's Moving Bodies" (Northwestern UP, 2024)
Dec 10, 2024
Caroline Winterer, "How the New World Became Old: The Deep Time Revolution in America" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Dec 10, 2024
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, "Did It Happen Here?: Perspectives on Fascism and America" (W. W. Norton, 2024)
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Dec 06, 2024
George Steinmetz, "The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Dec 06, 2024
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, "Women and the Reformations: A Global History" (Yale UP, 2024)
Dec 06, 2024
Simin Fadaee, "Global Marxism: Decolonisation and Revolutionary Politics" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Dec 05, 2024
Geneviève Rousselière, "Sharing Freedom: Republicanism and Exclusion in Revolutionary France" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Dec 04, 2024
Theara Thun, "Epistemology of the Past: Texts, History, and Intellectuals of Cambodia, 1855–1970" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
Dec 02, 2024
Sidney A. Shapiro and Joseph P. Tomain, "How Government Built America" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Dec 01, 2024
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Dec 01, 2024
Elliot R. Wolfson, "Nocturnal Seeing: Hopelessness of Hope and Philosophical Gnosis in Susan Taubes, Gillian Rose, and Edith Wyschogrod" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Nov 30, 2024
Anne B. Rodrick, "Lecturing the Victorians: Knowledge-Based Culture and Participatory Citizenship" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Nov 28, 2024
Yii-Jan Lin, "Immigration and Apocalypse: How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration" (Yale UP, 2024)
Nov 28, 2024
Denys Turner, "Dante the Theologian" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Nov 27, 2024
Sandipto Dasgupta, "Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Nov 26, 2024
Julia Kelto Lillis, "Virgin Territory: Configuring Female Virginity in Early Christianity" (U California Press, 2022)
Nov 25, 2024
Steve J. Shone, "Dangerous Anarchist Strikers" (Brill, 2023)
Nov 25, 2024
Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay, "Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction" (Northwestern UP, 2024)
Nov 23, 2024
Ken Krimstein, "Einstein in Kafkaland: How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up with the Universe" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Nov 23, 2024
Liliana M. Naydan, "Flat-World Fiction: Digital Humanity in Early Twenty-First-Century America" (U Georgia Press, 2021)
Nov 23, 2024
Jordan S. Carroll, "Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Nov 22, 2024
Joan L. Bryant, "Reluctant Race Men: Black Challenges to the Practice of Race in Nineteenth-century America" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Nov 21, 2024
Julian Hanna, "Island" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Nov 21, 2024
Erica Benner, "Adventures in Democracy: The Turbulent World of People Power" (Penguin, 2024)
Nov 21, 2024
Owen Ware, "Indian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany" (Routledge, 2023)
Nov 20, 2024
Masha Kirasirova, "The Eastern International: Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union's Anticolonial Empire" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Nov 19, 2024
Ian Miller, "Self-Esteem: An American History" (Polity Press, 2024)
Nov 17, 2024
Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, "In Search of Jonathan: Jonathan Between the Bible and Modern Fiction" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Nov 17, 2024
Nicholas Baer, "Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism" (U California Press, 2024)
Nov 16, 2024
Erin Lee Mock, "Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II" (U Virginia Press, 2024)
Nov 16, 2024
J. Arch Getty and Lewis H. Siegelbaum, "Reflections on Stalinism" (Northern Illinois UP, 2024)
Nov 16, 2024
Adam Bobbette, "The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java" (Duke UP, 2023)
Nov 15, 2024
Laure Astourian, "The Ethnographic Optic: Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and the Turn Inward in 1960s French Cinema" (Indiana UP, 2024)
Nov 14, 2024
Vaughn Scribner, "Merpeople: A Human History" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
Nov 13, 2024
The Disappearance and Return of Inequality Studies in Economics
Nov 13, 2024
Janusz Korczak, "How to Love a Child and Other Selected Works" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2018)
Nov 12, 2024
Alison Stone, "Women on Philosophy of Art: Britain 1770-1900" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Nov 12, 2024
Conor McCabe, "The Lost and Early Writings of James Connolly, 1889-1898" (Iskra Books, 2024)
Nov 11, 2024
Matthew Elia, "The Problem of the Christian Master: Augustine in the Afterlife of Slavery" (Yale UP, 2024)
Nov 11, 2024
Anthony Grasso, "Dual Justice: America's Divergent Approaches to Street and Corporate Crime" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Nov 11, 2024
Mary Lindemann and Deanna Shemek, "Redreaming the Renaissance: Essays on History and Literature in Honor of Guido Ruggiero" (U Delaware Press, 2024)
Nov 10, 2024
Amín Pérez, "Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle" (Polity Press, 2023)
Nov 09, 2024
Roni Henig, "On Revival: Hebrew Literature Between Life and Death" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Nov 07, 2024
Roberto Morales-Harley, "The Embassy, the Ambush, and the Ogre: Greco-Roman Influence in Sanskrit Theater” (Open Book, 2024)
Nov 07, 2024
Doyle D. Calhoun, "The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire" (Duke UP, 2024)
Nov 06, 2024
Jerry Brotton, "Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2024)
Nov 05, 2024
Hannah Weaver, "Experimental Histories: Interpolation and the Medieval British Past" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Nov 04, 2024
Salem Elzway and Jason Resnikoff on Automation
Nov 04, 2024
Simeon Koole, "Intimate Subjects: Touch and Tangibility in Britain's Cerebral Age" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Nov 04, 2024
Avi Shlaim, "Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew" (Oneworld, 2024)
Nov 03, 2024
Thinking Machines: The First AI Takeover Story
Nov 02, 2024
Robert A. Schneider, "The Return of Resentment: The Rise and Decline and Rise Again of a Political Emotion" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Nov 02, 2024
Nicholas Spencer, "Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion" (Oneworld, 2024)
Nov 01, 2024
Georgia Henley, "Reimagining the Past in the Borderlands of Medieval England and Wales" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Nov 01, 2024
Dariusz Wojcik et al., "Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money" (Yale UP, 2024)
Oct 31, 2024
Lennard J. Davis, "Poor Things: How Those with Money Depict Those Without It" (Duke UP, 2024)
Oct 30, 2024
Bihani Sarkar, "Classical Sanskrit Tragedy: The Concept of Suffering and Pathos in Medieval India" (I. B. Tauris, 2021)
Oct 30, 2024
The Wisdom of Our Ancestors
Oct 30, 2024
Sarah Dimick, "Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Oct 29, 2024
Peter Harrison, "Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Oct 29, 2024
Eric Helleiner, "The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Oct 29, 2024
Toni Alimi, "Slaves of God: Augustine and Other Romans on Religion and Politics" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Oct 28, 2024
Simon Kuznets and the Invention of the Economy
Oct 27, 2024
Eve Dunbar, "Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction: Black Women Writing Under Segregation" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Oct 27, 2024
Derek Hook, “Six Moments in Lacan: Communication and Identification in Psychology and Psychoanalysis” (Routledge, 2018)
Oct 25, 2024
Himanshu Upadhyaya, "Critical Insights on Colonial Modes of Seeing Cattle in India (1850–1980)" (Springer, 2024)
Oct 25, 2024
Deborah Valenze, "The Invention of Scarcity: Malthus and the Margins of History" (Yale UP, 2023)
Oct 24, 2024
Seth Kimmel, "The Librarian's Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Oct 23, 2024
Benjamin Bergholtz, "Swallowing a World: Globalization and the Maximalist Novel" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
Oct 21, 2024
Vanessa Christina Wills, "Marx's Ethical Vision" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Oct 21, 2024
Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, "Sea Level: A History" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Oct 21, 2024
Sonja Stojanovic, "Mind the Ghost: Thinking Memory and the Untimely Through Contemporary Fiction in French" (Liverpool UP, 2023)
Oct 20, 2024
Lois Peters Agnew, "Fitter, Happier: The Eugenic Strain in Twentieth-Century Cancer Rhetoric" (U Alabama Press, 2024)
Oct 19, 2024
Christopher Smith, "Samurai with Telephones: Anachronism in Japanese Literature" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
Oct 18, 2024
Anne Higonnet, "Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution" (Norton, 2024)
Oct 18, 2024
Beth Blum on Self-Help, Dale Carnegie to Today (JP)
Oct 17, 2024
The Social Contract in the Ruins: A Conversation with Dr. Paul DeHart
Oct 16, 2024
Oumelbanine Nina Zhiri, "Beyond Orientalism: Ahmad Ibn Qasim Al-Hajari Between Europe and North Africa" (U California Press, 2023)
Oct 16, 2024
Jane Lydon, "Anti-Slavery and Australia: No Slavery in a Free Land?" (Routledge, 2021)
Oct 15, 2024
Jacques Bertrand, "Winning by Process: The State and Neutralization of Ethnic Minorities in Myanmar" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Oct 15, 2024
Theo Williams, "Making the Revolution Global: Black Radicalism and the British Socialist Movement before Decolonisation" (Verso, 2022)
Oct 13, 2024
Rochelle Gurstein, "Written in Water: The Ephemeral Life of the Classic in Art" (Yale UP, 2024)
Oct 13, 2024
Helena Taylor, "Women Writing Antiquity: Gender and Learning in Early Modern France" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Oct 13, 2024
Chris Cutrone, "Marxism and Politics: Essays on Critical Theory 2006-2024" (Sublation Media, 2024)
Oct 12, 2024
Satoru Hashimoto, "Afterlives of Letters: The Transnational Origins of Modern Literature in China, Japan, and Korea" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Oct 11, 2024
Michael Tilton Williams, "Existence and Perception in Medieval Vedānta: Vyāsatīrtha's Defence of Realism in the Nyāyāmṛta" (de Gruyter, 2024)
Oct 10, 2024
Roberta L. Millstein, "The Land Is Our Community: Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Oct 10, 2024
Luke Clossey, "Jesus and the Making of the Modern Mind, 1380-1520" (Open Book, 2024)
Oct 09, 2024
Critique, Wonder, and Chinese Anatomy, with Lan A. Li
Oct 08, 2024
A Deep Dive on Karl Marx's "Capital"
Oct 07, 2024
Kyle Falcon, "Haunted Britain: Spiritualism, Psychical Research and the Great War" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Oct 06, 2024
Iris Jamahl Dunkle, "Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb" (U California Press, 2024)
Oct 06, 2024
Michael J. Thompson, "Descent of the Dialectic: Phronetic Criticism in an Age of Nihilism" (Routledge, 2024)
Oct 05, 2024
Faisal Devji, "Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea" (Harvard UP, 2013)
Oct 04, 2024
Sean McMeekin, "To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism" (Basic Books, 2024)
Oct 04, 2024
Alexandre Lefebvre, "Liberalism as a Way of Life" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Oct 04, 2024
William Cook Miller, "The Enthusiast: Anatomy of the Fanatic in Seventeenth-Century British Culture" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Oct 03, 2024
Camille Owens, "Like Children: Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America" (NYU Press, 2024)
Oct 03, 2024
From Tribalism to Common Humanity: A Conversation with Dr. John Ellis
Oct 02, 2024
Julia Caterina Hartley, "Iran and French Orientalism: Persia in the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-Century France" (Bloomsbury. 2023)
Oct 02, 2024
Naomi Seidman, "In the Freud Closet: Psychoanalysis and Jewish Languages" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Oct 02, 2024
Paola Bertucci, "In the Land of Marvels: Science, Fabricated Realities, and Industrial Espionage in the Age of the Grand Tour" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Oct 01, 2024
Samuel Ely Bagg, "The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Oct 01, 2024
Jerome E. Copulsky, "American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order" (Yale UP, 2024)
Oct 01, 2024
Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav, "Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas of Nationhood" (India Viking, 2024)
Sep 29, 2024
Estelle Tarica, "Holocaust Consciousness and Cold War Violence in Latin America" (SUNY Press, 2022)
Sep 29, 2024
J. C. D. Clark, "The Enlightenment: An Idea and Its History" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Sep 28, 2024
Jack A. Goldstone, "Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Sep 27, 2024
David L. Swartz, "The Academic Trumpists: Radicals Against Liberal Diversity" (Routledge, 2024)
Sep 26, 2024
Alessandra Russo, "A New Antiquity: Art and Humanity as Universal, 1400-1600" (Penn State UP, 2024)
Sep 26, 2024
William H. F. Altman, "Plato the Teacher: The Crisis of the Republic" (Lexington, 2012)
Sep 24, 2024
Rafal K. Stepien, "Buddhism Between Religion and Philosophy: Nāgārjuna and the Ethics of Emptiness" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Sep 24, 2024
Jason A. Josephson Storm, "The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences" (U Chicago Press, 2017)
Sep 23, 2024
Ilias Alami and Adam D. Dixon, "The Spectre of State Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Sep 22, 2024
Jack Palmer, "Zygmunt Bauman and the West: A Sociology of Intellectual Exile" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
Sep 22, 2024
Gergely Gosztonyi, "Censorship from Plato to Social Media: The Complexity of Social Media’s Content Regulation and Moderation Practices" (Springer, 2023)
Sep 22, 2024
Tom Navon, "Radical Assimilation in the Face of the Holocaust: Otto Heller (1897–1945)" (SUNY Press, 2024)
Sep 21, 2024
Amir Alexander, "Liberty's Grid: A Founding Father, a Mathematical Dreamland, and the Shaping of America" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Sep 21, 2024
Sarah Lewis, "The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Sep 21, 2024
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, "Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde" (FSG, 2024)
Sep 19, 2024
William H. F. Altman, "The German Stranger: Leo Strauss and National Socialism" (Lexington Books, 2010)
Sep 18, 2024
Zrinka Stahuljak, "Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Sep 18, 2024
Kevin J. McMahon, "A Supreme Court Unlike Any Other: The Deepening Divide Between the Justices and the People" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Sep 16, 2024
Karl Marx, "Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Sep 16, 2024
Michael D. Hattem, "The Memory of '76: The Revolution in American History" (Yale UP, 2024)
Sep 15, 2024
Theodore Papakostas, "How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator" (William Collins, 2024)
Sep 14, 2024
Lynn M. Tesser, "Rethinking the End of Empire: Nationalism, State Formation, and Great Power Politics" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Sep 13, 2024
Whitney Barlow Robles, "Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History" (Yale UP, 2023)
Sep 13, 2024
Isaac Nakhimovsky, "The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Sep 12, 2024
Geoffrey D. Claussen, "Modern Musar: Contested Virtues in Jewish Thought" (Jewish Publication Society, 2022)
Sep 11, 2024
Morgane Cadieu, "On Both Sides of the Tracks: Social Mobility in Contemporary French Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Sep 10, 2024
Anthony Michael Kreis, "Rot and Revival: The History of Constitutional Law in American Political Development" (U California Press, 2024)
Sep 09, 2024
Yaacob Dweck, "Dissident Rabbi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Sep 08, 2024
Ana Stevenson, "The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth-Century American Social Movements" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
Sep 08, 2024
Sara E. Johnson, "Encyclopédie Noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World" (Omohundro Institute and UNC Press, 2023)
Sep 07, 2024
Magdalena J. Zaborowska, "Me and My House: James Baldwin's Last Decade in France" (Duke UP, 2018)
Sep 06, 2024
Beri Marusic on Grief and other Expiring Emotions (Katie Elliott, JP)
Sep 05, 2024
S4E4 In Defense of Bad Science and the Philosophy of Being
Sep 04, 2024
Julia Kindt, "The Trojan Horse and Other Stories: Ten Ancient Creatures That Make Us Human" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Sep 04, 2024
E. J. Fagan, "The Thinkers: The Rise of Partisan Think Tanks and the Polarization of American Politics" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Sep 04, 2024
Andrea Moudarres, "The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic: Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso" (U Virginia Press, 2019)
Sep 03, 2024
Kostas Kampourakis, "Darwin Mythology: Debunking Myths, Correcting Falsehoods" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Sep 03, 2024
Jonathan Gienapp, "Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique" (Yale UP, 2024)
Sep 03, 2024
David Lay Williams, "The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Sep 03, 2024
Elizabeth A. Williams, "Appetite and Its Discontents: Science, Medicine, and the Urge to Eat, 1750-1950" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Sep 02, 2024
Violet Moller, "The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found" (Doubleday, 2019)
Sep 02, 2024
Sanjay Lal, "Gandhi's Thought and Liberal Democracy" (Lexington Books, 2019)
Sep 02, 2024
Lise Butler, "Michael Young, Social Science, and the British Left, 1945-1970" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Aug 30, 2024
Ronnie Grinberg, "Write like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Aug 30, 2024
Mark Valeri, "The Opening of the Protestant Mind: How Anglo-American Protestants Embraced Religious Liberty" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 29, 2024
Laura Robson and Arie Dubnov, "Partitions: A Transnational History of Twentieth-Century Territorial Separatism" (Stanford UP, 2019)
Aug 29, 2024
Ludovico Silva, "Marx's Literary Style" (Verso, 2023)
Aug 28, 2024
Sumana Roy, "Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries" (Yale UP, 2024)
Aug 24, 2024
Nazmul Sultan, "Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Aug 24, 2024
Lost in Ideology: A Conversation with Jason Blakely
Aug 21, 2024
Joachim C. Häberlen, "Beauty Is in the Street: Protest and Counterculture in Post-War Europe" (Penguin, 2023)
Aug 21, 2024
Rama Sundari Mantena, "Provincial Democracy: Political Imaginaries at the End of Empire in Twentieth-century South India" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Aug 20, 2024
Devonya N. Havis, "Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Aug 20, 2024
Maria Dimova-Cookson, "Rethinking Positive and Negative Liberty" (Routledge, 2019)
Aug 19, 2024
Ahreum Kim, "The Countercultural Victory of 1 John in Greco-Roman Context: Conquering the World" (T&T Clark, 2023)
Aug 18, 2024
Sudhir Kakar, "The Indian Jungle: Psychoanalysis and Non-Western Civilizations" (Karnac, 2024)
Aug 17, 2024
Stuart Elden, "The Birth of Territory" (U Chicago Press, 2013)
Aug 17, 2024
Maria Taroutina and Allison Leigh, "Russian Orientalism in a Global Context: Hybridity, Encounter, and Representation, 1740-1940" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Aug 17, 2024
Lauren Benton, "They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Aug 16, 2024
Lesley Smith, "Fragments of a World: William of Auvergne and His Medieval Life" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Aug 16, 2024
Shaul Magid, "Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Aug 15, 2024
Decoloniality
Aug 15, 2024
Noah Heringman, "Deep Time: A Literary History" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Aug 14, 2024
James Madison and the Spirit of Self-Government: A Conversation with Colleen Sheehan
Aug 14, 2024
Heather Murray, "Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Aug 13, 2024
Sara J. Charles, "The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
Aug 12, 2024
Peter Charles Hoffer, "The Supreme Court Footnote: A Surprising History" (NYU Press, 2024)
Aug 12, 2024
Marissa Nicosia, "Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 11, 2024
Marc Redfield, "Shibboleth: Judges, Derrida, Celan" (Fordham UP, 2020)
Aug 10, 2024
Cordelia Heß, "The Medieval Archive of Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century Sweden" (de Gruyter, 2021)
Aug 10, 2024
Gavin Steingo, "Interspecies Communication: Sound and Music Beyond Humanity" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Aug 10, 2024
Daniel Kahneman’s Forgotten Legacy: Investigating Exxon-Funded Psychological Research
Aug 09, 2024
Dora Osborne, "What Remains: The Post-Holocaust Archive in German Memory Culture" (Camden House, 2020)
Aug 09, 2024
Jacob Soll, "Free Market: The History of an Idea" (Basic Books, 2022)
Aug 08, 2024
Samuel Ely Bagg, "The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 07, 2024
Alexandra Popoff, "Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success" (Yale UP, 2024)
Aug 06, 2024
Jason Blakely, "Lost in Ideology: Interpreting Modern Political Life" (Agenda Publishing, 2023)
Aug 06, 2024
Emily Cousens, "Trans Feminist Epistemologies in the US Second Wave" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Aug 06, 2024
Edward Shanks, "The People of the Ruins" (MIT Press, 2024)
Aug 06, 2024
Douglas Greene, "The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky: The Renegade's Revenge" (Routledge, 2024)
Aug 04, 2024
Laura Beers. "Orwell’s Ghosts Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century" (Norton, 2024)
Aug 03, 2024
Edward Kaplan, "The End of Victory: Prevailing in the Thermonuclear Age" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Aug 02, 2024
Shaul Magid on the Jewish Radicalism of Meir Kahane (JP, Eugene Sheppard)
Aug 01, 2024
Pawel Armada, "Humanism As Realism: Three Essays Concerning the Thought of Paul Elmer More and Irving Babbitt" (St. Augustine's Press, 2023)
Jul 31, 2024
Steven E. Lindquist, "The Literary Life of Yājñavalkya" (SUNY Press, 2024)
Jul 30, 2024
Tim Cooper, "When Christians Disagree: Lessons from the Fractured Relationship of John Owen and Richard Baxter" (Crossway, 2024)
Jul 30, 2024
Robin Darling Young et al, "Evagrius of Pontus: The Gnostic Trilogy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jul 28, 2024
Gilad Sharvit, "Dynamic Repetition: History and Messianism in Modern Jewish Thought" (Brandeis UP, 2022)
Jul 27, 2024
Hannah Freed-Thall, "Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Jul 25, 2024
Ebony Nilsson, "Displaced Comrades: Politics and Surveillance in the Lives of Soviet Refugees in the West" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Jul 24, 2024
Quantifying the American Mind: George Gallup, and the Promise of Political Polling
Jul 24, 2024
Nancy M. Bradbury, "Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales" (Penn State UP, 2024)
Jul 23, 2024
Mark Letteney, "The Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity: Intellectual and Material Transformations" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jul 22, 2024
Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Janet Ward, "Fascism in America: Past and Present" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jul 22, 2024
Breanne Fahs, "Burn It Down: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution" (Verso, 2020)
Jul 21, 2024
Francine Banner, "Beyond Complicity: Why We Blame Each Other Instead of Systems" (U California Press, 2024)
Jul 21, 2024
Stephen Harris, "Buddhist Ethics and the Bodhisattva Path: Santideva on Virtue and Well-Being" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Jul 20, 2024
Jeremiah Coogan, "Eusebius the Evangelist: Rewriting the Fourfold Gospel in Late Antiquity" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jul 18, 2024
Mahjabeen Dhala, "Feminist Theology and Social Justice in Islam: A Study on the Sermon of Fatima" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Jul 17, 2024
Michael Willrich, "American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century" (Basic Books, 2023)
Jul 16, 2024
Yosefa Raz, "The Poetics of Prophecy: Modern Afterlives of a Biblical Tradition" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jul 16, 2024
Jonathan Marc Gribetz, "Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jul 15, 2024
Huan Jin, "The Collapse of Heaven: The Taiping Civil War and Chinese Literature and Culture, 1850-1880" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Jul 13, 2024
Viren Murthy, "Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Jul 13, 2024
Walaa Quisay, "Neo-Traditionalism in Islam in the West" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Jul 12, 2024
Anri Yasuda, "Beauty Matters: Modern Japanese Literature and the Question of Aesthetics, 1890-1930" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Jul 12, 2024
Wendy Matsumura, "Waiting for the Cool Moon: Anti-Imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan's Empire" (Duke UP, 2024)
Jul 11, 2024
Monika Krause, "Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Jul 10, 2024
Sasha Warren, "Storming Bedlam: Madness, Mental Health, and Revolt" (Common Notions, 2024)
Jul 10, 2024
Ed Simon, "Devil's Contract: A History of the Faustian Bargain" (Melville House, 2024)
Jul 09, 2024
Rachel Z. Feldman, "Messianic Zionism in the Digital Age: Jews, Noahides, and the Third Temple Imaginary" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
Jul 09, 2024
Benjamin J. B. Lipscomb, "The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jul 09, 2024
Andrew S. Jacobs, "Gospel Thrillers: Conspiracy, Fiction, and the Vulnerable Bible" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jul 08, 2024
Jonathan Judaken, "Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Jul 07, 2024
Russell Sandberg and Daniel Newman, "Law and Humanities" (Anthem Press, 2024)
Jul 07, 2024
The (ir)Rational Rainbow (the DSM & the Fight to Depathologize Homosexuality)
Jul 06, 2024
Timothy Grieve-Carlson, "American Aurora: Environment and Apocalypse in the Life of Johannes Kelpius" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jul 06, 2024
Pierre Sokolsky, "Clock in the Sun: How We Came to Understand Our Nearest Star" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Jul 05, 2024
Ben Wright, "Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism" (LSU Press, 2020)
Jul 02, 2024
Alexandre Lefebvre, "Liberalism as a Way of Life" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jul 01, 2024
Kehbuma Langmia, "Black 'Race' and the White Supremacy Saga" (Anthem Press, 2024)
Jul 01, 2024
Michael Sonenscher, "Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Jun 30, 2024
David Zeitlyn, "An Anthropological Toolkit: Sixty Useful Concepts" (Berghahn Books, 2022)
Jun 30, 2024
Pandemic Perspectives 14: A Classical Approach to Improving Communication
Jun 30, 2024
The (ir)Rational Mob: On the Life and Legacy of Gustave Le Bon
Jun 29, 2024
Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, "An Impossible Friendship: Group Portrait, Jerusalem Before and After 1948" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Jun 29, 2024
Joshua Schuster, "What Is Extinction?: A Natural and Cultural History of Last Animals" (Fordham UP, 2023)
Jun 28, 2024
Post-Orientalism Revisited: A Conversation with Salman Sayyid
Jun 27, 2024
Jeremy Schipper, "Denmark Vesey's Bible: The Thwarted Revolt That Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Jun 27, 2024
Shyam Ranganathan, "Yoga - Anticolonial Philosophy: An Action-Focused Guide to Practice" (Singing Dragon, 2024)
Jun 27, 2024
Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī and Abū ʿAlī Miskawayh, "The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century" (NYU Press, 2019/22)
Jun 26, 2024
Faith, Business, and the Nature of Desire: Luke Burgis on René Girard and Mimetic Desire
Jun 26, 2024
Peter Hill, "Prophet of Reason: Science, Religion and the Origins of the Modern Middle East" (Oneworld Academic, 2024)
Jun 26, 2024
Shuchi Kapila, "Postmemory and the Partition of India: Learning to Remember" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024)
Jun 24, 2024
Adrian Johnston, "Infinite Greed: The Inhuman Selfishness of Capital" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Jun 22, 2024
Stephanie DeGooyer, "Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
Jun 22, 2024
Malcolm Schofield, "How Plato Writes: Perspectives and Problems" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jun 21, 2024
Paulina Rowinska, "Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers" (Pan Macmillan, 2024)
Jun 19, 2024
Nathaniel Gray Sutanto and Cory Brock, "T&T Clark Handbook of Neo-Calvinism" (T&T Clark, 2023)
Jun 19, 2024
Aziz Rana, "The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Jun 19, 2024
Nietzsche Now! With Glenn Wallis
Jun 18, 2024
Tahera Qutbuddin, trans., "Nahj al-Balāghah: The Wisdom and Eloquence of ʿAlī" (Brill, 2024)
Jun 17, 2024
Madman in the White House?
Jun 16, 2024
Todd H. Weir, "Red Secularism: Socialism and Secularist Culture in Germany 1890 to 1933" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jun 16, 2024
Robert D. Heaton, "The Shepherd of Hermas As Scriptura Non Grata: From Popularity in Early Christianity to Exclusion from the New Testament Canon" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
Jun 16, 2024
Benjamin Breen, "Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science" (Grand Central, 2024)
Jun 14, 2024
Christopher William England, "Land and Liberty: Henry George and the Crafting of Modern Liberalism" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Jun 14, 2024
Cory C. Brock and Nathaniel Gray Sutanto, "Neo-Calvinism: A Theological Introduction" (Lexham Press, 2023)
Jun 14, 2024
Gordon C. Chang, "Revolution and Witchcraft: The Code of Ideology in Unsettled Times" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Jun 14, 2024
Matthew Robertson, "Puruṣa: Personhood in Ancient India" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jun 13, 2024
Gale L. Kenny, "Christian Imperial Feminism: White Protestant Women and the Consecration of Empire" (NYU Press, 2024)
Jun 13, 2024
Carl Elliott, "The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No" (Norton, 2024)
Jun 12, 2024
Peter Bergamin, "The Making of the Israeli Far-Right: Abba Ahimeir and Zionist Ideology” (I. B. Tauris, 2019)
Jun 10, 2024
Cameron J. Buckner, "From Deep Learning to Rational Machines" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jun 10, 2024
Catherine Michael Chin, "Life: The Natural History of an Early Christian Universe" (U California Press, 2024)
Jun 09, 2024
Joseph A. Skloot, "First Impressions: Sefer Hasidim and Early Modern Hebrew Printing" (Brandeis UP, 2023)
Jun 08, 2024
Jason Read, "The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work" (Verso, 2024)
Jun 08, 2024
Alan H. McGowan, "The Political Activism of Anthropologist Franz Boas, Citizen Scientist" (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2024)
Jun 07, 2024
Citizen Soldiers, Republican Virtues, and the Roman Way of War
Jun 06, 2024
Nicholas Tampio, ed., "Democracy and Education" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Jun 05, 2024
Glenn Dynner, "The Light of Learning: Hasidism in Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jun 05, 2024
Linda Hopkins and Steven Kuchuck, eds., "Diary of a Fallen Psychoanalyst: The Work Books of Masud Khan 1967-1972" (Karnac, 2022)
Jun 03, 2024
Claire Weeda, "Ethnicity in Medieval Europe 950-1250: Medicine, Power and Religion" (Boydell and Brewer, 2021)
Jun 02, 2024
The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present
Jun 02, 2024
Matthew Kadane, "The Enlightenment and Original Sin" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Jun 01, 2024
Daniel Matt et al., "The Zohar: Pritzker Edition" (Stanford UP, 2004-2017)
May 29, 2024
Vartan Matiossian, "The Politics of Naming the Armenian Genocide: Language, History and 'Medz Yeghern'" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
May 28, 2024
David S. Richeson, "Tales of Impossibility: The 2000-Year Quest to Solve the Mathematical Problems of Antiquity" (Princeton UP, 2019)
May 28, 2024
Eileen M. Hunt, "The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
May 28, 2024
Chris Haufe, "Do the Humanities Create Knowledge?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
May 28, 2024
Jesse McCarthy, "The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
May 26, 2024
Adi Mahalel, "The Radical Isaac: I. L. Peretz and the Rise of Jewish Socialism" (SUNY Press, 2023)
May 26, 2024
Nicholas Taylor-Collins, "Shakespeare, Memory, and Modern Irish Literature" (Manchester UP, 2022)
May 24, 2024
Bernardo Kastrup, "Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell: A Straightforward Summary of the 21st Century's Only Plausible Metaphysics" (Iff Books, 2024)
May 24, 2024
Stephen Phillips, "The Metaphysics of Meditation: Sri Aurobindo and Adi-Sakara on the Isa Upanisad" (Bloombury, 2024)
May 23, 2024
Christine Abigail L. Tan, "Freedom's Frailty: Self-Realization in the Neo-Daoist Philosophy of Guo Xiang's Zhuangzhi" (SUNY Press, 2024)
May 21, 2024
Jason A. Kerr, "Milton's Theological Process: Reading de Doctrina Christiana and Paradise Lost" (Oxford UP, 2023)
May 21, 2024
Assaf Tamari, "God as Patient: The Medical Discourse of Lurianic Kabbalah" (Magnes Press, 2023)
May 20, 2024
Daniel R. Schwartz, "Ancient Jewish Historians and the German Reich: Seven Studies" (de Gruyter, 2024)
May 19, 2024
Shakespeare in America
May 18, 2024
Todd Mcgowan, "Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves" (Repeater, 2024)
May 18, 2024
Wei Wu, "Esoteric Buddhism in China: Engaging Japanese and Tibetan Traditions, 1912–1949" (Columbia UP, 2023)
May 17, 2024
Ambereen Dadabhoy, "Shakespeare Through Islamic Worlds" (Routledge, 2023)
May 17, 2024
Jennifer Dorothy Lee, "Anxiety Aesthetics: Maoist Legacies in China, 1978-1985" (U California Press, 2024)
May 16, 2024
Kunal M. Parker, "The Turn to Process: American Legal, Political, and Economic Thought, 1870-1970" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
May 16, 2024
Sari Nusseibeh, "Avicenna's Al-Shifā': Oriental Philosophy" (Routledge, 2018)
May 16, 2024
Christopher Tounsel, "Bounds of Blackness: African Americans, Sudan, and the Politics of Solidarity" (Cornell UP, 2024)
May 15, 2024
Lauren Horn Griffin, "Fabricating Founders in Early Modern England: History, Rhetoric, and the Origins of Christianity" (Brill, 2023)
May 14, 2024
Liliana Doganova, "Discounting the Future: The Ascendancy of a Political Technology" (Princeton UP, 2024)
May 14, 2024
Sony Coráñez Bolton, "Crip Colony: Mestizaje, US Imperialism, and the Queer Politics of Disability in the Philippines" (Duke UP, 2023)
May 14, 2024
Inhuman
May 14, 2024
Siân E. Grønlie, "The Old Testament in Medieval Icelandic Texts: Translation, Exegesis and Storytelling" (Boydell & Brewer, 2024)
May 13, 2024
Cecily N. Zander, "The Army under Fire: The Politics of Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era" (LSU Press, 2024)
May 12, 2024
Yasmine Ramadan, "Space in Modern Egyptian Fiction" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
May 12, 2024
Y. Tzvi Langermann, "Before Maimonides: A New Philosophical Dialogue in Hebrew" (Brill, 2023)
May 11, 2024
Mark Dooley, "Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
May 09, 2024
Sean Griffin, "The Liturgical Past in Byzantium and Early Rus" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
May 07, 2024
Rustam Alexander, "Gay Lives and ‘Aversion Therapy’ in Brezhnev’s Russia, 1964–1982" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
May 06, 2024
Francesca Trivellato, "The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society" (Princeton UP, 2019)
May 05, 2024
Richard M. Jaffe, "Seeking Sakyamuni: South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
May 05, 2024
Zahra Ayubi, "Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society" (Columbia UP, 2019)
May 04, 2024
Shu Yang, "Untamed Shrews: Negotiating New Womanhood in Modern China" (Cornell UP, 2023)
May 02, 2024
Nietzsche Now! with Glenn Wallis
May 01, 2024
Renée Bergland, "Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science" (Princeton UP, 2024)
May 01, 2024
Jaume Aurell, "What Is a Classic in History?: The Making of a Historical Canon" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Apr 30, 2024
Christopher Cameron, "Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism" (Northwestern UP, 2019)
Apr 29, 2024
Ariella Aisha Azoulay, "Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism" (Verso, 2019)
Apr 28, 2024
Kristin M. Franseen, "Imagining Musical Pasts: The Queer Literary Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson" (Clemson UP, 2023)
Apr 27, 2024
Stefanos Geroulanos on "The Invention of Prehistory"
Apr 26, 2024
Alexander Statman, "A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Apr 25, 2024
Crawford Gribben, "J. N. Darby and the Roots of Dispensationalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Apr 24, 2024
Michael Scott and Michael Collins, "Christian Shakespeare?: A Collection of Essays on Shakespeare in His Christian Context" (Vernon Press, 2022)
Apr 23, 2024
Gary S. Cross, "Free Time: The History of an Elusive Ideal" (NYU Press, 2024)
Apr 23, 2024
Nora E. H. Parr, "Novel Palestine: Nation Through the Works of Ibrahim Nasrallah" (U California Press, 2023)
Apr 23, 2024
On the History and Evolution of Zionism
Apr 22, 2024
Steven Nadler, "Spinoza: A Life" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Apr 22, 2024
Vaia Touna and Richard Newton, "Fieldnotes in the Critical Study of Religion: Revisiting Classical Theorists" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Apr 21, 2024
Debby Koren, "Responsa in a Historical Context: A View of Post-Expulsion Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Communities Through 16th- And 17th-Century Responsa" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)
Apr 18, 2024
Plutarch as Philosopher and Political Thinker: A Conversation with Hugh Liebert
Apr 18, 2024
D. J. Taylor, "Who Is Big Brother?: A Reader's Guide to George Orwell" (Yale UP, 2024)
Apr 17, 2024
Thor Rydin, "The Works and Times of Johan Huizinga (1872-1945): Writing History in the Age of Collapse" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
Apr 17, 2024
Melvin L. Rogers, "The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Apr 15, 2024
Betty Milan, "Analyzed by Lacan: A Personal Account" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Apr 15, 2024
Kevin Lambert, "Symbols and Things: Material Mathematics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
Apr 15, 2024
Miriam Piilonen, "Theorizing Music Evolution: Darwin, Spencer, and the Limits of the Human" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Apr 15, 2024
R. J. Boutelle, "The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny" (UNC Press, 2023)
Apr 13, 2024
Seamus O'Malley, "Irish Culture and 'The People': Populism and Its Discontents" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Apr 11, 2024
Hume, the Epicureans, and the Origins of Liberalism
Apr 10, 2024
Charles William Johns, "Hegel and Speculative Realism" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
Apr 10, 2024
Eric Hoffer's "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements" (1951)
Apr 10, 2024
Matthew Robertson, "Puruṣa: Personhood in Ancient India" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Apr 09, 2024
James McElvenny, "A History of Modern Linguistics: From the Beginnings to World War II" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
Apr 09, 2024
Eric Calderwood, "On Earth Or in Poems: The Many Lives of Al-Andalus" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Apr 08, 2024
Christopher Michael Blakley, "Empire of Brutality: Enslaved People and Animals in the British Atlantic World" (Louisiana State UP, 2023)
Apr 08, 2024
Enactivism, Embodiment, and the Gorier Stuff with Marilyn Stendera
Apr 07, 2024
Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, "The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market" (Bloomsbury. 2023)
Apr 05, 2024
Stefanos Geroulanos, "The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins" (Liveright, 2024)
Apr 04, 2024
Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, "Merits of the Plague" (Penguin, 2023)
Apr 02, 2024
Alexej Lochmatow, "Public Knowledge in Cold War Poland: Scholarly Battles and the Clash of Virtues, 1945–1956" (Routledge, 2023)
Apr 01, 2024
Huaping Lu-Adler, "Kant, Race, and Racism: Views from Somewhere" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Mar 31, 2024
W. B. Allen, "Montesquieu's 'The Spirit of the Laws': A Critical Edition" (Anthem Press, 2023)
Mar 31, 2024
Aleksandar Bosković and Steven Teref, "Zenithism (1921-1927): A Yugoslav Avant-Garde Anthology" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)
Mar 29, 2024
Jeanelle K. Hope and Bill V. Mullen, "The Black Antifascist Tradition: Fighting Back from Anti-Lynching to Abolition" (Haymarket Books, 2024)
Mar 29, 2024
Robin Waterfield, "Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Mar 28, 2024
Jeffrey R. Di Leo, "Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: An Overview" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Mar 27, 2024
Michael Ortiz, "Anti-Colonialism and the Crises of Interwar Fascism" (Bloombury, 2023)
Mar 27, 2024
Chia-ling Yang, "Appropriating Antiquity for Modern Chinese Painting" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Mar 27, 2024
William Bain, "Political Theology of International Order" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Mar 26, 2024
Colleen Taylor, "Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Mar 26, 2024
Aaron Clift, "Anticommunism in French Society and Politics, 1945-1953" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Mar 25, 2024
Maarten Couttenier, "Anthropology and Race in Belgium and the Congo (1839-1922)" (Routledge, 2023)
Mar 24, 2024
Marc-William Palen, "Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Mar 23, 2024
Isaac Deutscher, "Lenin's Childhood" (Verso, 2024)
Mar 20, 2024
Stephanie Li, "Ugly White People: Writing Whiteness in Contemporary America" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Mar 20, 2024
Stephen Phillips, "The Metaphysics of Meditation: Sri Aurobindo and Adi-Sakara on the Isa Upanisad" (Bloombury, 2024)
Mar 20, 2024
How to Be a Good Statesman: Johnny Burtka on Political Leadership from Xenophon to Churchill
Mar 19, 2024
Rachel Gordan, "Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Mar 18, 2024
Ashok Gopal, "A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B.R. Ambedkar" (Navayana Press, 2023)
Mar 18, 2024
SherAli Tareen, "Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Mar 15, 2024
Pankaj Jain and Jeffery D. Long, "Indian and Western Philosophical Concepts in Religion" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023)
Mar 14, 2024
Janine Giordano Drake, "The Gospel of Church: How Mainline Protestants Vilified Christian Socialism and Fractured the Labor Movement" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Mar 13, 2024
Korey Garibaldi, "Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Mar 13, 2024
Travis Rieder, "Catastrophe Ethics: How to Choose Well in a World of Tough Choices" (Dutton, 2024)
Mar 13, 2024
Sofia Rehman, "Gendering the Hadith Tradition: Recentering the Authority of Aisha, Mother of the Believers" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Mar 12, 2024
Daniel Tutt, "How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche" (Repeater, 2024)
Mar 12, 2024
Surya Parekh, "Black Enlightenment" (Duke UP, 2023)
Mar 12, 2024
Lorraine Daston, "Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate" (Columbia Global Reports, 2023)
Mar 10, 2024
Brian Merchant, "Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech" (LIttle, Brown, 2023)
Mar 10, 2024
Myrto Garani et al., "The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Mar 09, 2024
Dariusz Tołczyk, "Blissful Blindness: Soviet Crimes under Western Eyes" (Indiana UP, 2023)
Mar 08, 2024
Patrick Olivelle, "Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King" (Yale UP, 2024)
Mar 08, 2024
Carmen Fracchia, "'Black But Human': Slavery and Visual Arts in Hapsburg Spain, 1480-1700" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Mar 08, 2024
The Reeducation of Race with Sonali Thakkar (JP)
Mar 07, 2024
Murray Dick, "The Infographic: A History of Data Graphics in News and Communications" (MIT Press, 2020)
Mar 07, 2024
Angie Chau, "Paris and the Art of Transposition: Early Twentieth Century Sino-French Encounters" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
Mar 06, 2024
Leona Toker, "Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps: An Intercontexual Reading" (Indiana UP, 2019)
Mar 06, 2024
Baidik Bhattacharya, "Colonialism, World Literature, and the Making of the Modern Culture of Letters" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Mar 05, 2024
Jean-Manuel Roubineau, "The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Mar 04, 2024
Roseen Giles, "Monteverdi and the Marvellous: Poetry, Sound, and Representation" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Mar 04, 2024
Yaniv Feller, "The Jewish Imperial Imagination: Leo Baeck and German-Jewish Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Mar 03, 2024
Marchella Ward, "Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres: Towards New Ways of Looking and Looking Back" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Mar 01, 2024
Ryan Wolfson-Ford, "Forsaken Causes: Liberal Democracy and Anticommunism in Cold War Laos" (U Wisconsin Press, 2024)
Mar 01, 2024
Erin Elizabeth Greer, "Fiction, Philosophy and the Ideal of Conversation" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Feb 29, 2024
Dominique Scarfone, "The Reality of the Message: Psychoanalysis in the Wake of Jean Laplanche" (Unconscious in Translation, 2023)
Feb 29, 2024
Christian R. Burset, "An Empire of Laws: Legal Pluralism in British Colonial Policy" (Yale UP, 2023)
Feb 29, 2024
Till Van Rahden, "Multiplicity: Jewish History and the Ambivalences of Universalism" (Hamburger Editionen, 2022)
Feb 24, 2024
Michael Johnston, "The Middle English Book: Scribes and Readers, 1350-1500" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Feb 24, 2024
Isabella Alexander, "Copyright and Cartography: History, Law, and the Circulation of Geographical Knowledge" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Feb 22, 2024
Katharina Pistor, "The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Feb 22, 2024
Harriet Lyon, "Memory and the Dissolution of the Monasteries in Early Modern England" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Feb 22, 2024
T. Corey Brennan, "The Fasces: A History of Ancient Rome's Most Dangerous Political Symbol" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 21, 2024
Robert Louis Wilken, "Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom" (Yale UP, 2019)
Feb 20, 2024
Ricky W. Law, "Transnational Nazism: Ideology and Culture in German Japanese Relations, 1919-1936" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Feb 20, 2024
Torsa Ghosal, "Out of Mind: Mode, Mediation, and Cognition in Twenty-First-Century Narrative" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
Feb 20, 2024
Todd McGowan, "Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Feb 19, 2024
Isabel B. Taylor, "The Crown and Its Records: Archives, Access, and the Ancient Constitution in Seventeenth-Century England" (De Gruyter, 2023)
Feb 19, 2024
Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, "Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Feb 18, 2024
Lawrence Glickman, "Free Enterprise: An American History" (Yale UP, 2019)
Feb 18, 2024
Ed Simon, "Relic" (Bloomsbury. 2024)
Feb 15, 2024
Alison M. Downham Moore, "The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women's Ageing" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 14, 2024
Jewish War Ethics, Ancient to Contemporary: A Conversation with Rabbi Shlomo Brody
Feb 14, 2024
Patrick Gamsby, "The Discourse of Scholarly Communication" (Lexington Books, 2023)
Feb 14, 2024
Anthony Kaldellis, "Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Feb 13, 2024
Andrius Gališanka, "John Rawls: The Path to a Theory of Justice" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Feb 12, 2024
Paul Mendes-Flohr, "Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent" (Yale UP, 2019)
Feb 12, 2024
Devin Griffiths and Deanna Kreisel, "After Darwin: Literature, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Feb 10, 2024
Michael Devitt, "Biological Essentialism" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Feb 10, 2024
Seth Zuiho Segall, "The House We Live in: Virtue, Wisdom, and Pluralism" (Equinox, 2023)
Feb 08, 2024
Jeffery D. Long, "Discovering Indian Philosophy: An Introduction to Hindu, Jain and Buddhist Thought" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Feb 08, 2024
Gregory Wallance, "Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)
Feb 08, 2024
The Future of the Future: A Discussion with Jonathan White
Feb 07, 2024
Daniel Capper, "Roaming Free Like a Deer: Buddhism and the Natural World" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Feb 05, 2024
Nicholas Dames, "The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Feb 05, 2024
Greg Ellermann, "Thought's Wilderness: Romanticism and the Apprehension of Nature" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Feb 03, 2024
Beatrice Heuser, "War: A Genealogy of Western Ideas and Practices" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 03, 2024
Bedross Der Matossian, "The Armenian Social Democrat Hnchakian Party: Politics, Ideology and Transnational History" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Feb 03, 2024
Jon Paul Sydnor and Anthony J. Watson, "Nondualism: An Interreligious Exploration" (Lexington Books, 2023)
Feb 01, 2024
Joshua Ehrlich, "The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Feb 01, 2024
Alberto Toscano, "Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis" (Verso, 2023)
Jan 31, 2024
Colorblindness and the Classics: A Conversation with Andre Archie
Jan 30, 2024
Holly A. Baggett, "Making No Compromise: Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, and the Little Review" (Northern Illinois UP, 2023)
Jan 30, 2024
Ankhi Mukherjee and Ato Quayson, "Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jan 28, 2024
John J. Michalczyk et al.. "Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ and the Holocaust: A Prelude to Genocide" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Jan 27, 2024
Hillel Goldberg, "Across the Expanse of Jewish Thought: From the Holocaust to Halakhah and Beyond" (Ktav, 2022)
Jan 27, 2024
Renée Fox, "The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
Jan 27, 2024
Stephen Harris, "Buddhist Ethics and the Bodhisattva Path: Santideva on Virtue and Well-Being" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Jan 26, 2024
Caleb Wellum, "Energizing Neoliberalism: The 1970s Energy Crisis and the Making of Modern America" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Jan 26, 2024
Eugenio Refini, "Staging the Soul: Allegorical Drama as Spiritual Practice in Baroque Italy" (Legenda, 2022)
Jan 25, 2024
Amar Sohal, "The Muslim Secular: Parity and the Politics of India's Partition" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jan 24, 2024
Camillo Leonardi, "Speculum Lapidum: A Renaissance Treatise on the Healing Properties of Gemstones" (Penn State UP, 2023)
Jan 23, 2024
Catherine Powell-Warren, "Gender and Self-Fashioning at the Intersection of Art and Science: Agnes Block, Botany, and Networks in the Dutch 17th Century" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
Jan 22, 2024
Guido Parietti, "On the Concept of Power: Possibility, Necessity, Politics" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jan 22, 2024
On Zionism and the Left: A Discussion with Author and Cultural Critic Susie Linfield
Jan 22, 2024
Cassander L. Smith, "Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic" (LSU Press, 2023)
Jan 21, 2024
Jakob Norberg, "The Brothers Grimm and the Making of German Nationalism" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Jan 21, 2024
The Future of Images of Human Evolution
Jan 20, 2024
Jan Westerhoff, "Candrakirti's Introduction to the Middle Way: A Guide" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jan 20, 2024
Kyle Gervais et al., "Lucan and Flavian Epic" (Brill, 2023)
Jan 19, 2024
Veena R. Howard, "Gandhi's Global Legacy: Moral Methods and Modern Challenges" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Jan 18, 2024
Karen C. Pinto, "Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
Jan 16, 2024
Geoffrey Levin, "Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978" (Yale UP, 2023)
Jan 16, 2024
Alexandra Filindra, "Race, Rights, and Rifles: The Origins of the NRA and Contemporary Gun Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Jan 15, 2024
Miles P. Grier, "Inkface: Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
Jan 15, 2024
Douglas S. Duckworth, "Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy of Mind and Nature" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jan 15, 2024
Stéphane Jettot, "Selling Ancestry: Family Directories and the Commodification of Genealogy in Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jan 13, 2024
Patrick R. O'Malley, "The Irish and the Imagination of Race: White Supremacy Across the Atlantic in the Nineteenth Century" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
Jan 11, 2024
Krista K. Thomason, "Dancing with the Devil: Why Bad Feelings Make Life Good" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jan 10, 2024
Jennifer Thomson, "The Wild and the Toxic: American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health" (UNC Press, 2019)
Jan 10, 2024
Ofer Ashkenazi, "Anti-Heimat Cinema: The Jewish Invention of the German Landscape" (U Michigan Press, 2020)
Jan 09, 2024
Sandro R. Barros et al., "The Dissidence of Reinaldo Arenas: Queering Literature, Politics, and the Activist Curriculum" (U Florida Press, 2022)
Jan 09, 2024
Christian Coseru on Perceiving Reality
Jan 08, 2024
Emma Kuby, "Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps After 1945" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Jan 07, 2024
Sara Rahnama, "The Future Is Feminist: Women and Social Change in Interwar Algeria" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Jan 07, 2024
Eileen Botting, "The Wollstonecraftian Mind" (Routledge, 2019)
Jan 06, 2024
Roland Allen, "The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper" (Profile Books, 2023)
Jan 06, 2024
Pavel Khazanov, "The Russia that We Have Lost: Pre-Soviet Past as Anti-Soviet Discourse" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
Jan 06, 2024
Martyn Whittock, "American Vikings: How the Norse Sailed into the Lands and Imaginations of America" (Pegasus Books, 2023)
Jan 05, 2024
Kate Kirkpatrick, "Becoming Beauvoir: A Life" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
Jan 05, 2024
Plot
Jan 04, 2024
Claire Myers Owens and the Banned Book
Jan 04, 2024
Marcy Norton, "The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Jan 04, 2024
Jack Glazier, "Anthropology and Radical Humanism: Native and African American Narratives and the Myth of Race" (MSU Press, 2020)
Jan 04, 2024
Katherine M. Marino, "Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement" (UNC Press, 2019)
Jan 03, 2024
Noel Malcolm, "Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jan 03, 2024
Martha C. Nussbaum, "Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility" (Simon & Schuster, 2022)
Jan 02, 2024
Lenny A. Ureña Valerio, "Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities: Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840-1920" (Ohio UP, 2019
Jan 02, 2024
Khurram Hussain, "Islam as Critique: Sayyid Ahmad Khan and the Challenge of Modernity" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
Jan 01, 2024
Patrick Ffrench, "Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism and Poetics" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Jan 01, 2024
Jason Read, "The Politics of Transindividuality" (Haymarket Books, 2017)
Dec 31, 2023
Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan, "The Cultural Roots of Slow Food: Peasants, Partisans, and the Landscape of Italian Resistance" (Lexington Books, 2023)
Dec 30, 2023
Erika Dyck, "Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2018)
Dec 30, 2023
Michael Braddick, "The Common Freedom of the People: John Lilburne and the English Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Dec 30, 2023
Nature-Study
Dec 29, 2023
Grammar, Identity, and Ideology in Early 20th-Century Japan
Dec 29, 2023
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 8: The Enemy of Morality Is Not Modernity, It’s Me
Dec 29, 2023
Matthieu Felt, "Meanings of Antiquity: Myth Interpretation in Premodern Japan" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Dec 29, 2023
Kristian Petersen, “Interpreting Islam in China: Pilgrimage, Language, and Scripture in the Han Kitab” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Dec 28, 2023
Joshua W. Jipp, "The Messianic Theology of the New Testament" (Eerdmans, 2020)
Dec 27, 2023
Stuart Elden, “Foucault: The Birth of Power” (Polity Press, 2017)
Dec 26, 2023
Edward J. Watts, "The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Dec 25, 2023
Timothy McCall, "Making the Renaissance Man: Masculinity in the Courts of Renaissance Italy" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
Dec 25, 2023
Anne E. Linton, "Unmaking Sex: The Gender Outlaws of Nineteenth-Century France" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Dec 22, 2023
Olga V. Solovieva, "The Russian Kurosawa: Transnational Cinema, Or the Art of Speaking Differently" (Oxford UP. 2023)
Dec 22, 2023
David M. Freidenreich, "Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy" (U California Press, 2023)
Dec 21, 2023
Ricardo Sousa Silvestre et al., "Vaiṣṇava Concepts of God: Philosophical Perspectives" (Routledge, 2024)
Dec 21, 2023
Tyler Dalton McNabb and Erik Baldwin, "Classical Theism and Buddhism: Connecting Metaphysical and Ethical Systems" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Dec 20, 2023
Katlyn Marie Carter, "Democracy in Darkness: Secrecy and Transparency in the Age of Revolutions" (Yale UP, 2023)
Dec 19, 2023
Gary Saul Morson, "Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Dec 17, 2023
Jackson Lears, "Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality from Camp Meeting to Wall Street" (FSG, 2023)
Dec 17, 2023
Pankaj Jain, "Modern Jainism: A Historical Approach" (Springer, 2023)
Dec 14, 2023
Peter Brown, "Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Dec 14, 2023
Tristan G. Brown, "Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Dec 11, 2023
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 6: A Medieval Anti-Racist
Dec 10, 2023
Stephen Legg, "Round Table Conference Geographies: Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Dec 10, 2023
Paul Crosthwaite et al., "Invested: How Three Centuries of Stock Market Advice Reshaped Our Money, Markets, and Minds" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Dec 10, 2023
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 5: Picturing Race in Colonial Mexico
Dec 09, 2023
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 2: What Is Modernity?
Dec 06, 2023
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 1: Climbing the Mountains of Modernity
Dec 05, 2023
David McMahan on Rethinking Meditation
Dec 04, 2023
Jonathan D. Fitzgerald, "How the News Feels: The Empathic Power of Literary Journalists" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
Dec 04, 2023
Barbara D. Savage, "Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar" (Yale UP, 2023)
Dec 03, 2023
J. Christopher Edwards, "Crucified: The Christian Invention of the Jewish Executioners of Jesus" (Fortress Press, 2023)
Dec 02, 2023
Daniel Jütte, "Transparency: The Material History of an Idea" (Yale UP, 2023)
Dec 01, 2023
Christian B. Miller, "Honesty: The Philosophy and Psychology of a Neglected Virtue" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Nov 30, 2023
Poppy Corbett et al., "Creative Histories of Witchcraft: France, 1790–1940" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Nov 30, 2023