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We interview Dr. Joel Whitebook, philosopher and psychoanalyst about his book Freud: An Intellectual
If the United States has been so hostile to Marxism, what accounts for Marxism's recurrent attractiv
Based on an understanding of scholasticism as a cross-cultural phenomenon, undertaken by rabbinic, G
In Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns: The Catholic Conflict Over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central Amer
Amy Aronson is an Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Fordham University and form
Joseph Smith, the nineteenth-century American prophet who founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latt
The great political ideas and movements of the modern world were founded on a promise of universal e
Avi Shlaim is a celebrated "New Historian” whose earlier work established him as an influential hist
What were the key ideas and influences on Michel Foucault’s early career? In The Early Foucault (Pol
On this episode, J.J. Mull interviews scholar and historian Camille Robcis. In her most recent book,
In Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius (Duke UP, 2023), I. Augustus Durham examines melanch
In Missiology Reimagined: The Missions Theology of the Nineteenth-Century African American Missionar
The current rise of nationalism across the globe is a reminder that we are not, after all, living in
The figure of Sigmund Freud has captivated the Western imagination like few others. One hundred and
There is no shortage of Black characters in Miguel de Cervantes’s works, yet there has been a profou
In the late-18th century, a group of publishers in what historian Robert Darnton calls the "Fertile
Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People (Basic Books, 2024) i
Who is Jacques Derrida? For some, he is the originator of a relativist philosophy responsible for th
We think we know all there is to know about Britain's Second World War. We don't.This radical re-int
This episode is based upon three readings: Alan Turing’s Computing Machinery and Intelligence aka Th
