Podcasts with Authors about their New Books
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episode 154: Farhat Haq, "Shariʿa and the State in Pakistan: Blasphemy Politics" (Routledge, 2019)
Few doctrinal and political issues are more controversial in Pakistan today than that of blasphemy...
episode 628: Eric D. Weitz, "A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Who has the right to have rights?
episode 41: Joshua Tallis, "The War for Muddy Waters: Pirates, Terrorists, Traffickers, and Maritime Security" (Naval Institute Press, 2019)
Tallis uses the “broken windows” theory of policing to reexamine the littorals, developing a multidimensional view of the maritime threat environment...
episode 40: David D. Vail, "Chemical Lands: Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America’s Grasslands since 1945" (U Alabama Press, 2019)
Over fifty years ago, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) scolded the agricultural industry for its profligate spread of “poison” and pesticides “indiscriminately from the skies"...
episode 218: Elizabeth DeLoughrey, "Allegories of the Anthropocene" (Duke UP, 2019)
DeLoughrey argues that the cosmopolitan position on Global Warming is in truth a provincial one limited to privileged circles in the Global North...
episode 88: Jason Bayani, "Locus" (Omnidawn Publishing, 2019)
"Poetry gave me back a way to find my culture, my history,” says Jason Bayani...
episode 217: Oren Harman, "Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World" (FSG, 2018)
Harman takes scientific facts, as we know them today, and weaves them into narratives that have the tone, grace and drama of myth...
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?
episode 14: Thomas Hager, "Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine" (Abrams Press, 2019)
Behind every landmark drug is a story...
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...