New Books in Intellectual History

2781 Episodes

1. Brando Simeo Starkey, "Their Accomplices Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System" (Doubleday, 2025)

   Published: 6/6/2025
2. Questions: A Discussion with Leslie Butler and Holly Case

   Published: 6/6/2025
3. Christoph Schuringa, "Karl Marx and the Actualization of Philosophy" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

   Published: 6/4/2025
4. Jack Ashby, "Nature's Memory: Behind the Scenes at the World’s Natural History Museums" (Penguin, 2025)

   Published: 6/1/2025
5. Catriona M.M. MacDonald, "The Caledoniad: The Making of Scottish History" (John Donald, 2024)

   Published: 5/31/2025
6. Derek J. Penslar, "Zionism: An Emotional State" (Rutgers UP, 2023)

   Published: 5/30/2025
7. Yitzhak Conforti, "Zionism and Jewish Culture: A Study in the Origins of a National Movement" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)

   Published: 5/29/2025
8. Dan Sperrin, "State of Ridicule: A History of Satire in English Literature" (Princeton UP, 2025)

   Published: 5/28/2025
9. Kirsten Macfarlane, "Lay Learning and the Bible in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World" (Oxford UP, 2024)

   Published: 5/27/2025
10. Anne C. Klein on Becoming a Buddha & Being Human too

    Published: 5/26/2025
11. Book Talk 66: Political Hope, with Loren Goldman

    Published: 5/24/2025
12. Jennifer T. Roberts, "Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture" (Princeton UP, 2024)

    Published: 5/24/2025
13. Yosie Levine, "Hakham Tsevi Ashkenazi and the Battlegrounds of the Early Modern Rabbinate" (Littman Library, 2024)

    Published: 5/23/2025
14. Jon Shelton, "The Education Myth: How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy" (Cornell UP, 2023)

    Published: 5/22/2025
15. David Kraemer, "Embracing Exile: The Case for Jewish Diaspora" (Oxford UP, 2025)

    Published: 5/21/2025
16. Quentin Skinner, "Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

    Published: 5/20/2025
17. Richard Calis, "The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter, and Belief in the Mediterranean World of Martin Crusius" (Harvard UP, 2025)

    Published: 5/19/2025
18. Rasheedah Phillips, "Dismantling the Master's Clock: On Race, Space, and Time" (AK Press, 2025)

    Published: 5/18/2025
19. Eric Heinze, "Coming Clean: The Rise of Critical Theory and the Future of the Left" (MIT Press, 2025)

    Published: 5/17/2025
20. Marc Shapiro, "Renewing the Old, Sanctifying the New: The Unique Vision of Rav Kook" (Littman Library, 2025)

    Published: 5/16/2025