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episode 55: Jonathan Robker, "Balaam in Text and Tradition" (Mohr Siebeck, 2019)


Balaam plays a prominent role in the book of Numbers, but who was he?


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 October 14, 2019  29m
 
 
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 October 14, 2019  1h2m
 
 

episode 378: T. L. Bunyasi and C. W. Smith, "Stay Woke: A People’s Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter" (NYU Press, 2019)


Bunyasi and Smith compile social science research and data to explain the current situation for white citizens, African-American citizens, Latinx citizens, and citizens of other races in the United States...


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 October 14, 2019  1h1m
 
 

episode 627: Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of Spain" (Robinson, 2019)


A leitmotif running from Columbus's first voyage in 1492 was Spain's trans-oceanic empire which was central to the country's global impact and to a degree self-understanding...


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 October 14, 2019  52m
 
 

episode 53: Wendy Brown, "In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West" (Columbia UP, 2019)


Neoliberalism is one of those fuzzy words that can mean something different to everyone...


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 October 14, 2019  42m
 
 

episode 626: Michitake Aso, "Rubber and the Making of Vietnam: An Ecological History, 1897-1975" (UNC Press, 2018)


How can the history of rubber be used as a way to understand the history of 20th-century Vietnam?


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 October 11, 2019  1h23m
 
 

episode 13: Lucas Richert, “Strange Trips: Science, Culture, and the Regulation of Drugs” (McGill-Queens UP, 2018)


Richert investigates the myths, meanings, and boundaries of recreational drugs, palliative care drugs, and pharmaceuticals, as well as struggles over product innovation, consumer protection, and freedom of choice in the medical marketplace...


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 October 11, 2019  51m
 
 

episode 82: Alan Bradley, "The Flavia de Luce Mystery Series" (Random House, 2009-19)


Flavia de Luce, who lives in an enormous manor house in England, with her widowed father and two sisters. It’s 1950, and England is still rebuilding itself after WWII...


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 October 11, 2019  32m
 
 

episode 606: Maria Nugent, "Captain Cook Was Here" (Cambridge UP, 2009)


Nugent talks about Aboriginal Australians first encounter with Captain Cook at Botany Bay,..


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 October 11, 2019  36m
 
 

episode 113: Amy Allen and Mari Ruti, "Critical Theory Between Klein and Lacan: A Dialogue," Part 2 (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)


Part 2 of a two part interview with Allen and Ruti about Klein, Lacan, and Critical Theory...


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 October 11, 2019  1h2m