1527 Episodes

  1. Jessica Calarco, "Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net" (Portfolio, 2024)

    Published: 6/15/2024
  2. Benjamin Breen, "Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science" (Grand Central, 2024)

    Published: 6/14/2024
  3. Duana Fullwiley, "Tabula Raza: Mapping Race and Human Diversity in American Genome Science" (U California Press, 2024)

    Published: 6/13/2024
  4. Carl Elliott, "The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No" (Norton, 2024)

    Published: 6/12/2024
  5. Laura Gómez, "Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism" (The New Press, 2020)

    Published: 6/11/2024
  6. Stephanie Ternullo, "How the Heartland Went Red: Why Local Forces Matter in an Age of Nationalized Politics" (Princeton UP, 2024)

    Published: 6/10/2024
  7. Elisa Camiscioli, "Selling French Sex: Prostitution, Trafficking, and Global Migrations" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

    Published: 6/9/2024
  8. Jason Read, "The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work" (Verso, 2024)

    Published: 6/8/2024
  9. Asaf Elia-Shalev, "Israel's Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation's Founding Myth" (U California Press, 2024)

    Published: 6/7/2024
  10. Aaron Eddens, "Seeding Empire: American Philanthrocapital and the Roots of the Green Revolution in Africa" (U California Press, 2024)

    Published: 6/6/2024
  11. Matthew D. Morrison, "Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States" (U California Press, 2024)

    Published: 6/5/2024
  12. Mark Robert Rank, "The Random Factor: How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World Around Us" (U California Press, 2024)

    Published: 6/4/2024
  13. Eleanor Medhurst, "Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion" (Hurst, 2024)

    Published: 6/3/2024
  14. Sarah Nooter, "How to Be Queer: An Ancient Guide to Sexuality" (Princeton UP, 2024)

    Published: 6/2/2024
  15. Gretchen McCulloch, "Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language" (Riverhead Books, 2020)

    Published: 6/1/2024
  16. Anne Kim, "Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich off America’s Poor" (The New Press, 2024)

    Published: 5/30/2024
  17. Tom Mueller, "How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine" (Norton, 2023)

    Published: 5/29/2024
  18. Chris Haufe, "Do the Humanities Create Knowledge?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

    Published: 5/28/2024
  19. Carola Binder, "Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

    Published: 5/27/2024
  20. Jesse McCarthy, "The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

    Published: 5/26/2024

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