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episode 106: Robert W. Tomlinson, "The Influence of Foreign Wars on U.S. Domestic Military Policy: The Case of the Yom Kippur War" (Lexington, 2022)
An interview with Robert W. Tomlinson
episode 304: James Steinhoff, "Automation and Autonomy: Labour, Capital and Machines in the Artificial Intelligence Industry" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
An interview with James Steinhoff
episode 192: Thomas S. Kidd, "Benjamin Franklin: The Religious Life of a Founding Father" (Yale UP, 2017)
An interview with Thomas S. Kidd
episode 8: Koch Block My Campus: How Big Money Corrupts Academia
Why is so much right-wing money being funnelled at such a furious pace into universities across the US? Libertarian-minded billionaires like the Kochs and their partners have funded scholars and think tanks across the US, and similar things go on in Canada too. The money shows us that the right spends it because they care about education, for their own ideological reasons - and universities are all too happy to sell out...
episode 270: Judith Berlowitz, "Home So Far Away: A Novel" (She Writes Press, 2022)
An interview with Judith Berlowitz
episode 57: Felix Schniz, "Genre and Video Game: Introducing an Impossible Taxonomy" (Springer, 2021)
An interview with Felix Schniz
episode 206: Kecia Ali, ed., "Tying the Knot: A Feminist/Womanist Guide to Muslim Marriage in America" (Open BU, 2021)
A Discussion with Kecia Ali
episode 30: Margarita R. Ochoa and Sara V. Guengerich, "Cacicas: The Indigenous Women Leaders of Spanish America, 1492-1825" (U Oklahoma Press, 2021)
The term cacica was a Spanish linguistic invention, the female counterpart to caciques, the Arawak word for male indigenous leaders in Spanish America. But the term’s meaning was adapted and manipulated by natives, creating a new social stratum where it previously may not have existed. This book explores that transformation, a conscious construction and reshaping of identity from within...
episode 49: Alice Elliott Dark, "Fellowship Point: A Novel" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
An interview with Alice Elliott Dark