Podcast In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio August 19, 2021 Is there an ideal portfolio of investment assets, one that perfectly balances risk and reward?聽In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio聽examines this question by profiling and interviewing ten of the most prominent figures in the finance world. Read More
Podcast 脡migr茅s: French Words That Turned English July 16, 2021 Richard Scholar examines the continuing history of untranslated French words in English and asks what these words reveal about the fertile but fraught relationship that England and France have long shared. Read More
Podcast What do the ancients have to teach us? July 15, 2021 Marshall Poe recently had a fascinating conversation with聽Rob Tempio, the talented editor behind the聽Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers series.聽The聽books in this series present聽the timeless and timely ideas of classical thinkers in lively new translations. Read More
Podcast We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women鈥檚 Lives July 09, 2021 What role do women play in the perpetuation of patriarchy? On the one hand, popular media urges women to be independent, outspoken, and career-minded. Yet, this same media glorifies a specific, sometimes voluntary, female submissiveness as a source of satisfaction. Read More
Podcast The Spirit of Green: The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World June 26, 2021 Solving the world鈥檚 biggest problems鈥攆rom climate catastrophe and pandemics to wildfires and corporate malfeasance鈥攔equires, more than anything else, coming up with new ways to manage the powerful interactions that surround us. Read More
Podcast Taken for Granted: The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable June 20, 2021 Why is the term 鈥渙penly gay鈥� so widely used but 鈥渙penly straight鈥� is not? What are the unspoken assumptions behind terms like 鈥渕ale nurse,鈥� 鈥渨orking mom,鈥� and 鈥渨hite trash鈥�?聽 Read More
Podcast Things Fall Together: A Guide to the New Materials Revolution June 03, 2021 Things in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Personal items deteriorate. Yet today鈥檚 researchers are exploiting newly understood properties of matter to program materials that physically sense, adapt, and fall together instead of apart. Read More
Podcast After Callimachus: Poems May 19, 2021 Callimachus may be the best-kept secret in all of ancient poetry. Loved and admired by later Romans and Greeks, his funny, sexy, generous, thoughtful, learned, sometimes elaborate, and always articulate lyric poems, hymns, epigrams, and short stories in verse have gone without a contemporary poetic champion, until now. Read More
Podcast American feminists and the global fight for democratic equality May 03, 2021 Reclaiming social democracy as one of the central threads of American feminism, Dorothy Sue Cobble offers a bold rewriting of twentieth-century feminist history and documents how forces, peoples, and ideas worldwide shaped American politics. Read More
Podcast Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton April 27, 2021 John Milton (1608鈥�1674) has a unique claim on literary and intellectual history as the author of both聽Paradise Lost, the greatest narrative poem in English, and prose defences of the execution of Charles I that influenced the French and American revolutions. Read More
Podcast Can we fix social media? April 16, 2021 We use social media as a mirror to decipher our place in society but, as Chris Bail explains, it functions more like a prism that distorts our identities, empowers status-seeking extremists, and renders moderates all but invisible. Read More
Podcast The water crisis on the High Plains April 12, 2021 The Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less than a century of unsustainable irrigation farming has taxed much of the aquifer beyond repair. Read More
Podcast On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done March 24, 2021 Why is it hard to text and drive at the same time? How do you resist eating that extra piece of cake? Why does staring at a tax form feel mentally exhausting? Why can your child expertly fix the computer and yet still forget to put on a coat? Read More
Podcast Dying from despair in the USA March 16, 2021 Life expectancy in the United States has recently fallen for three years in a row鈥攁 reversal not seen since 1918 or in any other wealthy nation in modern times. Read More
Podcast The life of Geoffrey Chaucer March 02, 2021 Uncovering important new information about Chaucer鈥檚 travels, private life, and the circulation of his writings, Marion Turner reconstructs in unprecedented detail the cosmopolitan world of Chaucer鈥檚 adventurous life, focusing on the places and spaces that fired his imagination. Read More
