Episodes
Tuesday Apr 11, 2023
Alan Mikhail - Ottoman Empire
Tuesday Apr 11, 2023
Tuesday Apr 11, 2023
Alan Mikhail is a professor of history at Yale, and the author of God's Shadow: The Ottoman Sultan Who Shaped the Modern World.
Wednesday Mar 15, 2023
Steve Fuller - AI & The MetaVerse
Wednesday Mar 15, 2023
Wednesday Mar 15, 2023
Steve Fuller is a professor of sociology at the University of Warwick. He is the author of several books, including Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game.
Sunday Feb 26, 2023
David Yaffe - Joni Mitchell
Sunday Feb 26, 2023
Sunday Feb 26, 2023
David Yaffe is a professor of humanities at Syracuse University and the author of Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell. His Substack is: https://davidyaffe.substack.com/
Sunday Feb 12, 2023
Adam Hochshild - Red Scares
Sunday Feb 12, 2023
Sunday Feb 12, 2023
Adam Hochshild is a historian and the author of, American Midnight: The Great War, A Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis.
Tuesday Jan 17, 2023
Dave Andrews - Christian Anarchy
Tuesday Jan 17, 2023
Tuesday Jan 17, 2023
Dave Andrews is an activist and the author of several books, including Christi-Anarchy: Discovering a Radical Spirituality of Compassion.
Thursday Dec 29, 2022
Bev Stohl - Chomsky’s Assistant
Thursday Dec 29, 2022
Thursday Dec 29, 2022
Bev Stohl was formerly the assistant of Noam Chomsky for over 20 years. She recently wrote a book called, Chomsky and Me: A Memoir.
Monday Dec 12, 2022
William Deresiewicz - Death of the Artist?
Monday Dec 12, 2022
Monday Dec 12, 2022
William Deresiewicz taught English at Yale University and is the author of Death of the Artist: How Creatives are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech and most recently, The End of Solitude: Selected Essays on Culture and Society.
Monday Nov 21, 2022
James S. Curl - Bad Architecture
Monday Nov 21, 2022
Monday Nov 21, 2022
James Stevens Curl is an architect and historian, and the author of a book about Modern architecture, Making Dystopia: The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism.
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
Malachi O’Doherty - Troubles in Ireland
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
Malachi O'Doherty is a journalist in Northern Ireland, and the author of several books, including The Telling Year: Belfast 1972.
Monday Oct 31, 2022
Marc Levinson - Shipping Containers
Monday Oct 31, 2022
Monday Oct 31, 2022
Marc Levinson is an economist and author of, "The Box: How Shipping Containers Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger."