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  • #973
    Friday · 56 min

    Save a Seat For Me: Notes on American Fatherhood with Mark Anthony Neal (Simon & Schuster, 2026)

    From the preeminent scholar on Black masculinity in America, Save a Seat for Me: Notes on American Fatherhood (Simon & Schuster, 2026) is Mark Anthony Neal’s attempt to bring his scholarship on fatherhood to a broader audience. Save a Seat for Me embraces the nuances of how contemporary frameworks of masculinity informed by unprecedented advances in women and LGBTQ communities have necessitated a reimagining of the societal expectations a father plays in the public and private sectors of their h

  • #1015
    Friday · 1 hr 1 min

    Radio ReOrient 15:4: Islamophobia and Freedom of Speech with Asim Qureshi, hosted by Chella Ward

    In this episode, Chella Ward interviews Dr Asim Qureshi about the relationship between Islamophobia, the counter-terror framework and freedom of speech. Asim is the Research Director at CAGE International, and the author of numerous important books and articles about Islamophobia, racism and political prisoners including I Refuse to Condemn and A Virtue of Disobedience. His conversation with Chella took place as part of the Islamophobia Awareness Month events at the Open University in 2026. 

  • #958
    Friday · 40 min

    How Was Authoritarianism Defeated in Brazil and Serbia and What Comes Next?

    This is a special episode that we recorded a week after elections in both Brazil and Serbia saw the defeat of authoritarian forces. In this preview episode of the RESISTANCE research project, host Licia Cianetti is joined by Brazilian and Serbian colleagues Déborah Monte and Aleksrandra Krstić to talk about what happened in their respective countries and what made anti-authoritarian mobilisation successful against the odds. They talk about how, in both countries, online and offline mobilisation

  • #1024
    Friday · 27 min

    Almost True: Stories from Jerusalem

    Most people know Israel through headlines. In Almost True: Stories From Jerusalem, Tal Shalev invites readers to discover it through stories. Set in Jerusalem and across Israel, these twenty-two stories introduce unforgettable characters navigating friendship, marriage, family, love, loss, and the quiet absurdities of everyday life. A wedding guest faces an impossible social dilemma. A husband struggles to save his marriage. Neighbors misunderstand one another, while parents and children search

  • #992
    Friday · 57 min

    Assembling Religion: The Ford Motor Company and the Transformation of Religion in America with Kati Curts (NYU Press, 2025)

    How Henry Ford institutionalized a social gospel Henry Ford did not just mass produce cars. As a member of the Episcopal Church, reader of New Thought texts, believer in the “gospel of reincarnation,” mass marketer of antisemitic material, and employer who institutionalized a social gospel, Henry Ford’s contributions to American models of business were informed by and produced for an America he understood to be broadly Christian. Though Ford’s efforts at the head of the Ford Motor Company have

  • #1010
    Friday · 42 min

    Dependency Politics: How Foreign Aid Shapes Electoral Behavior with Ryan Jablonski (Cambridge UP, 2026)

    Dependency Politics: How Foreign Aid Shapes Electoral Behaviour (Cambridge UP, 2026), by Ryan Jablonski, examines how democracy operates in countries dependent on foreign aid. Drawing on over six years of fieldwork, the book investigates the relationships between international donors and domestic politicians, exploring how aid dependency shapes policymaking and influences voters’ assessments of political performance. Challenging the assumption that voters simply reward politicians for attracting

  • #1020
    November 5 · 1 hr 9 min

    Agents of Inertia: Business, Urban Crisis, and Economic Decline in Twentieth-Century Calcutta with Gaurav C. Garg (Cambridge UP, 2026)

    In the first half of the twentieth century, Asia's colonial trade, commerce, and enterprise pivoted on five cities- Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Calcutta, and Bombay. Today, among these, only Calcutta no longer plays a significant role in the Asian or global economy. Why? Agents of Inertia: Business, Urban Crisis, and Economic Decline in Twentieth-Century Calcutta (Cambridge UP, 2026) answers this question by investigating how Calcutta's British and Indian businesses have engaged with the cit

  • #1016
    November 5 · 29 min

    So=Called Soft Skills Constitute the Ultimate Hard Skills Set

    Dov Baron is also the author of Fiercely Loyal and One Red Thread. He’s one of the world’s foremost authorities on authentic leadership and cultural transformation. He’s been ranked among the top 30 Global Leadership Gurus and honored by Inc. magazine as one of the top 100 leadership speakers. What do our formative years deliver each of us? The answer is an emotive “source code” that takes “hidden wounds” that magnifies them when we’re under stress on the job or elsewhere. What adds to workers’

  • #1012
    November 5 · 49 min

    Applied History in the US Department of State

    I sat down with Lydia Sizer to chat about her experience developing applied history initiatives at the US Department of State’s Office of the Historian. We talked about what it’s like to collaborate with policymakers and what it means to negotiate productive tensions between political science and historical methodologies. Lydia talks about her doctoral dissertation, in which she drew on political science, history, and her own experience at the State Department’s Libya Desk to analyze how diplom

  • #1008
    November 5 · 44 min

    11.3 “Thank god for editors”: Imbolo Mbue and Sarah Dimick (RB)

    In this episode, novelist Imbolo Mbue and critic Sarah Dimick dive into the literary ecosystem from an author’s perspective. Imbolo recalls her formative experiences in public libraries when she first emigrated from Cameroon to the United States, and how her encounters with American literature, especially Oprah’s Book Club picks, shaped her sense of literary possibility. Imbolo’s first novel, Behold the Dreamers, was itself an Oprah’s Book Club selection. In a conversation that moves across Imbo

  • #969
    November 5 · 36 min

    Freedom Round the Globe: A World History of the American Revolution with Sarah M. S. Pearsall (Doubleday, 2026)

    THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE In a groundbreaking global exploration of the ideas that drove the American Revolution, a prize-winning historian shines a light on the defiance of marginalized peoples all over the world. In her powerful new history of the American Revolution, Sarah M. S. Pearsall argues that the American Founding Fathers did not have a unique claim on the revolutionary spirit. The thirteen colonies that became the United States, she reminds us, were not even ha

  • #964
    November 5 · 42 min

    The Resurrected with Joost Hiltermann (Afsana Press, 2026)

    Anfal is an Arabic word from the Quran meaning "the spoils of war." Saddam Hussein gave the name to his 1988 campaign against Iraq's Kurds — eight stages of chemical attack, mass arrest and mass execution that killed some hundred thousand people, and that a later tribunal would call genocide. Joost Hiltermann helped document the genocide for Human Rights Watch. His first novel, The Resurrected (Afsana Press, 2026), is a fictionalized version of those events. It follows two men who survived a ma

  • #960
    November 5 · 49 min

    The Last Human Job

    Today’s book is: The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World (Princeton UP, 2024), by Dr. Allison Pugh, which explores the human connections that underlie our work, arguing that what people do for each other is valuable and worth preserving. Drawing on in-depth interviews and observations with people in a broad range of professions—from physicians, teachers, and coaches to chaplains, therapists, caregivers, and hairdressers—Dr. Pugh develops the concept of “connective labo

  • #948
    November 5 · 57 min

    The Phoenix Rises: On Restoring Notre Dame Cathedral with Philippe Villeneuve

    Philippe Villeneuve has been chief architect of Notre Dame Cathedral since 2013. On the night of the shocking 2019 fire, he learned by phone that the building he had loved since boyhood, and modeled in miniature at just 16, was burning. In this conversation with host Ryan Schinkel, he traces how a career spent restoring fire-damaged monuments prepared him for the five-year effort to bring the cathedral back, and explains why he describes the result not as a restoration but as a restitution. Al

  • #954
    November 5 · 56 min

    We Saw You Can See Everything

    You Can See Everything is the new documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of biotech startup Theranos, who was convicted of fraud and is currently serving a federal prison sentence. Or is it a work of performance art starring Nathan Fielder, the comedian behind Nathan for You, The Rehearsal, and The Curse? It's about truth, psychology, shame, simulacra, Silicon Valley, and a million other things besides. And we're going to get into it all.

  • #1025
    November 4 · 55 min

    Holocaust Distortion in Poland: A Comparative European Perspective

    Holocaust distortion in Poland involves reshaping or minimizing facts about the Holocaust, often emphasizing Polish victimhood while obscuring instances of local collaboration, participation, or indifference. It appears in political rhetoric, memory laws, public commemorations, and attacks on critical scholarship. YIVO’s Poland vs. Holocaust History series examines these dynamics and situates the Polish case within a broader European context. This lecture by Jan Grabowski will examine the pheno

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