Podcast The Struggle for the People鈥檚 King January 12, 2024 In the post鈥揷ivil rights era, wide-ranging groups have made civil rights claims that echo those made by Black civil rights activists of the 1960s, from people with disabilities to women鈥檚 rights activists and聽LGBTQ聽coalitions. Read More
Podcast Chinese Cosmopolitanism January 08, 2024 Historically, the Western encounter with difference has been catastrophic: the extermination and displacement of aboriginal populations, the transatlantic slave trade, and colonialism. Read More
Podcast How We Age January 05, 2024 All of us would like to live longer, or to slow the debilitating effects of age. In聽How We Age, Coleen Murphy shows how recent research on longevity and aging may be bringing us closer to this goal. Read More
Podcast Our Compelling Interests December 14, 2023 It is clear that in our society today, issues of diversity and social connectedness remain deeply unresolved and can lead to crisis and instability. The major demographic changes taking place in America make discussions about such issues all the more imperative. Read More
Podcast The Dialectic Is in the Sea November 30, 2023 Beatriz Nascimento (1942鈥�1995) was a poet, historian, artist, and political leader in Brazil鈥檚 Black movement, an innovative and creative thinker whose work offers a radical reimagining of gender, space, politics, and spirituality around the Atlantic and across the Black diaspora. Read More
Podcast The Career Arts November 27, 2023 Young people coming out of high school today can expect to hold many jobs over the course of their lives, which is why they need a range of essential skills.聽 Read More
Podcast American Classicist November 03, 2023 Edith Hamilton (1867鈥�1963) didn鈥檛 publish her first book until she was sixty-two. But over the next three decades, this former headmistress would become the twentieth century鈥檚 most famous interpreter of the classical world. Read More
Podcast Free Agents October 11, 2023 Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of decision making, many conclude that agency鈥攐r free will鈥攊s an illusion. Read More
Podcast To Build a Black Future October 10, 2023 When #BlackLivesMatter emerged in 2013, it animated the most consequential Black-led mobilization since the civil rights and Black power era. Today, the hashtag turned rallying cry is but one expression of a radical reorientation toward Black politics, protest, and political thought. Read More
Podcast Fool: In Search of Henry VIII鈥檚 Closest Man September 28, 2023 In some portraits of Henry聽VIII聽there appears another, striking figure鈥攁 gaunt and morose-looking man with a shaved head and, in one case, a monkey on his shoulder. Read More
Podcast How Uber disrupted Washington, D.C. September 11, 2023 The first city to fight back against Uber, Washington, D.C., was also the first city where such resistance was defeated. It was here that the company created a playbook for how to deal with intransigent regulators and to win in the realm of local politics. Read More
Podcast In Praise of Good Bookstores September 07, 2023 Jeff Deutsch鈥攖he director of Chicago鈥檚 Seminary Co-op Bookstores, one of the finest bookstores in the world鈥攑ays loving tribute to one of our most important and endangered civic institutions. Read More
Podcast 24/7 Politics September 07, 2023 As television began to overtake the political landscape in the 1960s, network broadcast companies, bolstered by powerful lobbying interests, dominated screens across the nation. Read More
Podcast Virtuous Bankers August 07, 2023 The eighteenth-century Bank of England was an institution that operated for the benefit of its shareholders鈥攁nd yet came to be considered, as Adam Smith described it, 鈥渁 great engine of state.鈥� Read More
Podcast Pleasure and Efficacy July 30, 2023 Grace Lavery investigates gender transition as it has been experienced and represented in the modern period. Considering examples that range from the novels of George Eliot to the psychoanalytic practice of Sigmund Freud to marriage manuals by Marie Stopes, Lavery explores the skepticism found in such works about whether it is truly possible to change one鈥檚 sex. Read More
