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episode 23: Wilson Chacko Jacob, "For God or Empire: Sayyid Fadl and the Indian Ocean World" (Stanford UP, 2019)
Sayyid Fadl, a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, led a unique life—one that spanned much of the nineteenth century and connected India, Arabia, and the Ottoman Empire...
episode 819: Joan Scott, "On the Judgment of History" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Scott challenges us to question the persistence of structures of power and the very idea of the nation-state, while encouraging us to rethink whether there truly is such a thing as the judgment of history...
episode 5: Mark Bevir and Jason Blakely, "Interpretive Social Science: An Anti-Naturalist Approach" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Bevir and Blakely make a case for why interpretivism is the most philosophically cogent approach currently on offer in the social sciences, and for anti-naturalism as the best option among interpretivist alternatives..
episode 97: Ian Haney López, "Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America" (The New Press, 2019)
Greedy elites are purposefully stoking racial division and laughing all the way to the bank.
episode 73: A. B. Cox and C. M. Rodríguez, "The President and Immigration Law" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Who truly controls immigration law in the United States?
episode 12: Fernando Domínguez Rubio, "Still Life: Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the Art Museum" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
How do you keep the cracks in Starry Night from spreading?
episode 34: Yvonne Rainer, "Revisions: Essays by Apollo Musagète, Yvonne Rainer, and Others" (No Place Press, 2020)
Yvonne Rainer is one of the most influential living choreographers...
episode 23: Rory Sutherland, "Alchemy: the Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life" (William Morrow, 2019)
What are the limitations of relying on logic as an upfront filter in pursuing ideas?
episode 29: Joseph E. David, "Kinship, Law and Politics: An Anatomy of Belonging" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Why are we so concerned with belonging? In what ways does our belonging constitute our identity?
episode 2: Scholarly Communication: An Interview with Joerg Heber of PLOS
Open Access is spelled with a capital O and a capital A at the Public Library of Science (or PLOS, for short), a nonprofit Open Access publisher...