Podcast So Simple a Beginning March 11, 2022 The form and function of a sprinting cheetah are quite unlike those of a rooted tree. A human being is very different from a bacterium or a zebra. Read More
Podcast American Shtetl February 17, 2022 Settled in the mid-1970s by a small contingent of Hasidic families, Kiryas Joel is an American town with few parallels in Jewish history鈥攂ut many precedents among religious communities in the United States. Read More
Podcast Getting Something to Eat in Jackson February 06, 2022 Getting Something to Eat in Jackson uses food鈥攚hat people eat and how鈥攖o explore the interaction of race and class in the lives of African Americans in the contemporary urban South. Read More
Podcast Grief: A Philosophical Guide January 28, 2022 Experiencing grief at the death of a person we love or who matters to us鈥攁s universal as it is painful鈥攊s central to the human condition. Surprisingly, however, philosophers have rarely examined grief in any depth. Read More
Podcast The January 6th Capitol insurrection one year on January 06, 2022 Hate crimes. Misinformation and conspiracy theories. Foiled white-supremacist plots. The signs of growing far-right extremism are all around us, and communities across America and around the globe are struggling to understand how so many people are being radicalized and why they are increasingly attracted to violent movements.聽 Read More
Podcast 鈥淏ambi鈥� isn鈥檛 about what you think it鈥檚 about January 05, 2022 Most of us think we know the story of Bambi鈥攂ut do we?聽The Original Bambi聽is an all-new, illustrated translation of a literary classic that presents the story as it was meant to be told. Read More
Podcast Billy Wilder on Assignment December 19, 2021 Before Billy Wilder became the screenwriter and director of iconic films like Sunset Boulevard and Some Like It Hot, he worked as a freelance reporter, first in Vienna and then in Weimar Berlin. Read More
Podcast Why Trust Science? December 14, 2021 Are doctors right when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global warming? Why should we trust science when so many of our political leaders don鈥檛? Read More
Podcast When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People November 22, 2021 There is an epidemic of bad thinking in the world today. An alarming number of people are embracing crazy, even dangerous ideas. Read More
Podcast Career and Family: Women鈥檚 Century-Long Journey toward Equity October 21, 2021 Renowned economic historian, Claudia Goldin traces women鈥檚 journey to close the gender wage gap and sheds new light on the continued struggle to achieve equity between couples at home. Read More
Podcast What Makes Us Smart: The Computational Logic of Human Cognition October 08, 2021 At the heart of human intelligence rests a fundamental puzzle: How are we incredibly smart and stupid at the same time? No existing machine can match the power and flexibility of human perception, language, and reasoning. Read More
Podcast Pedias: Beautiful, short books about big, important subjects September 22, 2021 In this podcast, Marshall Poe talks to Robert Kirk, the publisher of the Pedia book series.聽Encyclopedic in nature and miniature in form, these books explore the wonders of the natural world, from A to Z. Read More
Podcast Ice Rivers: A Story of Glaciers, Wilderness, and Humanity September 16, 2021 A riveting blend of cutting-edge research and tales of encounters with polar bears and survival under the midnight sun,聽Ice Rivers聽is an unforgettable portrait of鈥攁nd love letter to鈥攐ur vanishing icy聽wildernesses. Read More
Podcast The Book Proposal Book: A Guide for Scholarly Authors September 15, 2021 The scholarly book proposal may be academia鈥檚 most mysterious genre. You have to write one to get published, but most scholars receive no training on how to do so鈥攁nd you may have never even seen a proposal before you鈥檙e expected to produce your own.聽 Read More
Podcast Moving Up without Losing Your Way August 24, 2021 Upward mobility through higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college students. While this path usually entails financial sacrifices and hard work, little attention has been paid to the personal compromises such students make as they enter worlds vastly different from their own. Read More
