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Recognized for his work on philosophy, religion and politics, Dr. Sweet talks at length about Before
A companion piece to Pandemonium: A Visual History of Demonology and Elysium: A Visual History of An
Mass violence did not always have a name. Like conquest, atrocity was not always seen as violating a
From Darwin's The Origin of Species to the twenty-first century, Peter Bowler reinterprets the long
There is a common misconception that the Jewish religion does not believe in an afterlife. While it’
Today I talked to Chris Voparil about What Can We Hope For?: Essays on Politics (Princeton UP, 2023)
It’s the UConn Popcast, and when did we really start dreaming about the promise, and the danger, of
The Politics of the Wretched: Race, Reason, and Ressentiment (Bloomsbury 2024) argues for ressentime
Political Theorist Davide Panagia (UCLA) has two new books out focusing on the broader themes and id
In this episode of Madison’s Notes, we sit down with Lindsay Stonebridge, author of We Are Free to C
In Ayesha Jalal’s latest work Muslim Enlightened Thought in South Asia (Routledge, 2024) readers are
Why Cicero Matters (Bloomsbury, 2023) shows us how the Roman philosopher and statesman Marcus Tulliu
The Ethics of Karbala: Myths, Modernity, and Virtues of Nobility (Routledge, 2024) investigates the
Sara Burdorff joins Jana Byars to talk about her new book, Maternity, Monstrosity and Heroic (Im)mor
Shifting Sovereignties: A Global History of a Concept in Practice (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025) expl
From one of the world’s leading historians comes the first substantial study of environmentalism set
Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time: Waiting for Now (Edinburgh University Press, 2022) by Dr. Am
Where is the "life" in scholarly life? Is it possible to find in academic writing, so often abstract
In this episode, we explore the profound philosophical and theological dimensions of J.R.R. Tolkien'
George Orwell is sometimes read as disinterested in (if not outright hostile) to philosophy. Yet a f
