Podcast What to Expect When You鈥檙e Dead June 19, 2025 Robert Garland explores the fascinating death-related beliefs and practices of a wide range of ancient cultures and traditions鈥擬esopotamian, Egyptian, Hindu, Jewish, Zoroastrian, Etruscan, Greek, Roman, Early Christian, and Islamic. Read More
Podcast Sex Is a Spectrum June 18, 2025 Being human entails an astonishingly complex interplay of biology and culture, and while there are important differences between women and men, there is a lot more variation and overlap than we may realize. Read More
Podcast Engage and Evade June 06, 2025 Engage and Evade examines how undocumented immigrants navigate complex dynamics of surveillance and punishment, providing an extraordinary portrait of fear and hope on the margins. Read More
Podcast The Girl in the Middle June 03, 2025 Spinning a spellbinding historical tale from a single enigmatic image, The Girl in the Middle reveals how the American nation grappled with what kind of country it would be as it expanded westward in the aftermath of the Civil War. Read More
Podcast Rare Tongues May 29, 2025 Languages and cultures are becoming increasingly homogenous, with the resulting loss of a rich linguistic tapestry reflecting unique perspectives and ways of life. Read More
Podcast Looking for a Story May 19, 2025 Looking for a Story is a complete reader鈥檚 guide to McPhee鈥檚 vast published work, documenting much rarely seen or connected with McPhee, including remarkable early writing for Time magazine published without his name. Read More
Podcast Citizen Marx May 19, 2025 In Citizen Marx, Bruno Leipold argues that, contrary to certain interpretive commonplaces, Karl Marx鈥檚 thinking was deeply informed by republicanism. Read More
Podcast Memory Lane May 09, 2025 Memory Lane introduces readers to the cutting-edge science of human memory, revealing how our recollections of the past are constantly adapting and changing, and why a faulty memory isn鈥檛 always a bad thing. Read More
Podcast Steadfast Democrats, Five Years Later May 01, 2025 An innovative explanation for why Black Americans continue in political lockstep, Steadfast Democrats sheds light on the motivations consolidating an influential portion of the American electoral population. Read More
Podcast Leonardo da Vinci: An Untraceable Life April 30, 2025 Stephen J. Campbell examines the strangeness of Leonardo鈥檚 words and works, and the distinctive premodern world of artisans and thinkers from which he emerged. Far from being a solitary genius living ahead of his time, Leonardo inhabited a vibrant network of artistic, technological, and literary exchange. Read More
Podcast Attention, Shoppers! April 24, 2025 Attention, Shoppers! traces the origins and evolution of American retail capitalism from the late nineteenth century to today, uncovering the roots of a bitter equilibrium where large low-cost retailers dominate and vast numbers of low-income families now rely on them to make ends meet. Read More
Podcast In Covid鈥檚 Wake, Part II April 22, 2025 With In Covid鈥檚 Wake, Macedo and Lee offer the first comprehensive鈥攁nd candid鈥攑olitical assessment of how our institutions fared during the pandemic. They describe how, influenced by Wuhan鈥檚 lockdown, governments departed from their existing pandemic plans. Read More
Podcast In Covid鈥檚 Wake, Part I April 17, 2025 The Covid pandemic quickly led to the greatest mobilization of emergency powers in human history. By early April 2020, half the world鈥檚 population鈥�3.9 billion people鈥攚ere living under quarantine. Read More
Podcast Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men March 11, 2025 In Erased, Patricia Owens shows that, since its beginnings in the early twentieth century, international relations relied on the intellectual labour of women and their expertise on such subjects as empire and colonial administration, anticolonial organising, non-Western powers, and international organisations. Read More
Podcast After 1177 B.C. March 05, 2025 In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened after the Bronze Age collapsed鈥攚hy some civilizations endured, why some gave way to new ones, and why some disappeared forever. Read More
