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Jonathan D. Cohen, "Losing Big: America's Dangerous Sports Gambling Boom" (Columbia Global Reports, 2025)
59 mins; April 20, 2025
Jennifer Clapp, "Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters" (MIT Press, 2025)
64 hours 57 mins; April 19, 2025
Chitra Nagarajan, "The World Was in Our Hands: Voices from the Boko Haram Conflict" (Cassava Republic, 2025)
77 hours 40 mins; April 18, 2025
Richard Overy, "Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan" (Norton, 2025)
39 mins; April 17, 2025
Serhiy Kudelia, "Seize the City, Undo the State: The Inception of Russia's War on Ukraine" (Oxford UP, 2015)
60 hours 43 mins; April 16, 2025
Gabe Henry, "Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell" (Dey Street, 2025)
46 mins; April 15, 2025
Neil Kraus, "The Fantasy Economy: Neoliberalism, Inequality, and the Education Reform Movement" (Temple UP, 2023)
75 hours 23 mins; April 14, 2025
Ysabel Gerrard, "The Kids Are Online: Confronting the Myths and Realities of Young Digital Life" (U California Press, 2025)
40 mins; April 13, 2025
Engage and Evade in 2025: Asad L. Asad on Latino Immigrants in America
51 mins; April 12, 2025
Keith J. Hayward, "Infantilised: How Our Culture Killed Adulthood" (Constable & Robinson, 2025)
41 mins; April 11, 2025
Ryan M. Nefdt, "The Philosophy of Theoretical Linguistics: A Contemporary Outlook" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
67 hours 56 mins; April 10, 2025
Lesley J. Gordon, "Dread Danger: Cowardice and Combat in the American Civil War" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
41 mins; April 09, 2025
Stephen J. Campbell, "Leonardo da Vinci: An Untraceable Life" (Princeton UP, 2025)
46 mins; April 08, 2025
Paddy Walker, "War Without Oversight: Why We Need Humans on the Battlefield" (Howgate, 2025)
96 hours 29 mins; April 07, 2025
Bruno Leipold, "Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2024)
55 mins; April 06, 2025
Becky Yang Hsu, "The Extraordinary in the Mundane: Family and Forms of Community in China" (Columbia UP, 2024)
49 mins; April 05, 2025
Julie Malnig, "Dancing Black, Dancing White: Rock 'n' Roll, Race, and Youth Culture of the 1950s and Early 1960s" (Oxford UP, 2023)
48 mins; April 04, 2025
Jonathan Rauch, "Cross Purposes: Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy" (Yale UP, 2025)
53 mins; April 03, 2025
Sally King, "Menstrual Myth Busting: The Case of the Hormonal Female" (Policy Press, 2025)
47 mins; April 02, 2025
Ian Rapley, "Green Star Japan: Esperanto and the International Language Question, 1880–1945" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
67 hours 12 mins; April 01, 2025
Walls, Warnings, and the War on Fentanyl: Peter Andreas on Trump’s Border Politics
35 mins; March 31, 2025
Peder Anker, "For The Love of Bombs: The Trail of Nuclear Suffering" (Anthem Press, 2025)
44 mins; March 30, 2025
Jason L. Newton, "Cutover Capitalism: The Industrialization of the Northern Forest" (West Virginia UP, 2024)
55 mins; March 29, 2025
William Max Nelson, "Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
72 hours 31 mins; March 28, 2025
Amy Adamczyk, "Fetal Positions: Understanding Cross-National Public Opinion about Abortion" (Oxford UP, 2025)
60 hours 20 mins; March 27, 2025
Sex and Love with Robots and Chatbots
65 hours 45 mins; March 26, 2025
Kiran Mehta, "To Detain or to Punish: Magistrates and the Making of the London Prison System, 1750–1840" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025)
70 hours 46 mins; March 25, 2025
James M. O’Toole, "For I Have Sinned: The Rise and Fall of Catholic Confession in America" (Harvard UP, 2025)
64 hours 25 mins; March 24, 2025
Surekha Davies, "Humans: A Monstrous History" (U California Press, 2025)
69 hours 9 mins; March 23, 2025
Tracie Canada, "Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football" (U California Press, 2025)
74 hours 16 mins; March 22, 2025
Andrew Clapham, "War" (Oxford UP, 2021)
63 hours 6 mins; March 21, 2025
Richard Reichbart, "The Anatomy of a Psychotic Experience: A Personal Account of Psychosis and Creativity" (Ipbooks, 2022)
71 hours 29 mins; March 20, 2025
Rahul Rao, "The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire" (Pluto Press, 2025)
60 hours 48 mins; March 19, 2025
Bryan Caplan, "Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing" (Cato Institute, 2024)
43 mins; March 18, 2025
Luca Trenta, "The President's Kill List: Assassination and Us Foreign Policy Since 1945" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
63 hours 17 mins; March 17, 2025
Kobi Kabalek, "Rescue and Remembrance: Imagining the German Collective After Nazism" (U Wisconsin Press, 2025)
58 mins; March 16, 2025
Mark Neocleous, "Pacification: Social War and the Power of Police" (Verso, 2025)
85 hours 0 mins; March 15, 2025
Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, "Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana" (UNC Press, 2023)
65 hours 57 mins; March 14, 2025
Selena Wisnom, "The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
38 mins; March 13, 2025
Adrian Keith Perkel, "Unlocking the Nature of Human Aggression: A Psychoanalytic and Neuroscientific Approach" (Routledge, 2023)
70 hours 58 mins; March 12, 2025
Martha Bayless, "Entertainment, Pleasure, and Meaning in Early England" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
37 mins; March 11, 2025
M. Chirimuuta, "The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience" (MIT Press, 2024)
Kimberly Clausing, "Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital" (Harvard UP, 2019)
62 hours 54 mins; March 08, 2025
Gary Griggs, "California Catastrophes: The Natural Disaster History of the Golden State" (U California Press, 2024)
69 hours 18 mins; March 07, 2025
Manu Pillai, "Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity" (Allen Lane, 2025)
62 hours 51 mins; March 06, 2025
Vera Tiesler, "Ancient Maya Teeth: Dental Modification, Cosmology, and Social Identity in Mesoamerica" (U Texas Press, 2024)
47 mins; March 05, 2025
Michael Visontay, "Noble Fragments: The Gripping Story of the Antiquarian Bookseller Who Broke Up a Gutenberg Bible" (Scribe, 2024)
60 hours 33 mins; March 04, 2025
Webb Keane, "Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination" (Princeton UP, 2025)
58 mins; March 03, 2025
David N. Livingstone, "The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea" (Princeton UP, 2024)
51 mins; March 02, 2025
Dawn Day Biehler, "Animating Central Park: A Multispecies History" (U Washington Press, 2024)
54 mins; March 01, 2025
Daniel Silverman, "Seeing Is Disbelieving: Why People Believe Misinformation in War, and When They Know Better" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
46 mins; February 28, 2025
Laureen D. Hom, "The Power of Chinatown: Searching for Spatial Justice in Los Angeles" (U California Press, 2024)
86 hours 7 mins; February 27, 2025
Mike Sielski, "Magic in the Air: The Myth, the Mystery, and the Soul of the Slam Dunk" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
58 mins; February 26, 2025
Giampaolo Conte, "A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms" (Routledge, 2024)
24 mins; February 25, 2025
Kelly Alexander, "Truffles and Trash: Recirculating Food in a Social Welfare State" (UNC Press, 2024)
67 hours 10 mins; February 24, 2025
Benjamin Heber Johnson, "Texas: An American History" (Yale UP, 2025)
70 hours 21 mins; February 23, 2025
Mary Flannery, "Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
63 hours 22 mins; February 22, 2025
Eugene W. Holland, "Perversions of the Market: Sadism, Masochism, and the Culture of Capitalism" (SUNY Press, 2024)
109 hours 29 mins; February 21, 2025
Claire C. Robison, "Bringing Krishna Back to India" (Oxford UP, 2024)
49 mins; February 20, 2025
The Anxious Generation: A Conversation with Jonathan Haidt
57 mins; February 19, 2025
Yoni Appelbaum, "Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of Prosperity" (Random House, 2025)
28 mins; February 18, 2025
Ray Brescia, "The Private Is Political: Identity and Democracy in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism" (NYU Press, 2025)
58 mins; February 17, 2025
Jessica A. Brockmole, "Pink Cars and Pocketbooks: How American Women Bought Their Way Into the Driver's Seat" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)
66 hours 58 mins; February 16, 2025
Glen L. Thompson, "Jingjiao: The Earliest Christian Church in China" (Eerdmans, 2024)
67 hours 45 mins; February 15, 2025
Paul Podolsky, "The Uncomfortable Truth About Money: How to Live with Uncertainty and Learn to Think for Yourself" (Harriman House, 2024)
47 mins; February 14, 2025
Ada Palmer, "Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
54 mins; February 13, 2025
Rebecca Haw Allensworth, "The Licensing Racket: How We Decide Who Is Allowed to Work, and Why It Goes Wrong" (Harvard UP, 2025)
55 mins; February 12, 2025
Michael Albertus, "Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn't, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies" (Basic Books, 2025)
40 mins; February 11, 2025
Edward Simon, "The Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Heavenly Virtues: A Visual History" (Cernunnos, 2024)
46 mins; February 10, 2025
Bruce Robbins, "Atrocity: A Literary History" (Stanford UP, 2025)
72 hours 38 mins; February 09, 2025
Hiroshi Motomura, "Borders and Belonging: Toward a Fair, Realistic, and Sustainable Immigration Policy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
68 hours 9 mins; February 08, 2025
Zai Liang. "From Chinatown to Every Town: How Chinese Immigrants Have Expanded the Restaurant Business in the United States" (U California Press, 2023)
63 hours 16 mins; February 07, 2025
Jonathan Haslam, "Hubris: The American Origins of Russia's War against Ukraine" (Harvard UP, 2025)
68 hours 36 mins; February 06, 2025
Sheila Fitzpatrick, "Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War" (Princeton UP, 2024)
65 hours 8 mins; February 05, 2025
Ann Schmiesing, "The Brothers Grimm: A Biography" (Yale UP, 2024)
51 mins; February 04, 2025
Marijam Did, "Everything to Play For: An Insider's Guide to How Videogames are Changing Our World" (Verso, 2024)
55 mins; February 03, 2025
Blessin Adams, "Thou Savage Woman: Female Killers in Early Modern Britain" (HarperCollins, 2025)
32 mins; February 02, 2025
Helen Louise Cowie, "Animals in World History" (Routledge, 2024)
53 mins; February 01, 2025
Antonio A. Casilli, "Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
55 mins; January 31, 2025
Tolkien, Philosopher of War: A Conversation with Graham McAleer
50 mins; January 30, 2025
Peter Brian Barry, "George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality" (Oxford UP, 2023)
68 hours 39 mins; January 29, 2025
Philip Rathgeb, "How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA" (Oxford UP, 2024)
56 mins; January 28, 2025
James Boyle, "The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood" (MIT Press, 2024)
74 hours 47 mins; January 27, 2025
Susan C. I. Grunewald, "From Incarceration to Repatriation: German Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union" (Cornell UP, 2024)
68 hours 39 mins; January 26, 2025
Michael Sonenscher, "After Kant: The Romans, the Germans, and the Moderns in the History of Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2023)
70 hours 22 mins; January 26, 2025
Richard Bourke, "Hegel’s World Revolutions" (Princeton UP, 2023)
70 hours 4 mins; January 25, 2025
Terrence C. Petty, "Nazis at the Watercooler: War Criminals in Postwar German Government Agencies" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
60 hours 53 mins; January 24, 2025
"Kazuo Ishiguro is Not Writing World Literature"
54 mins; January 23, 2025
Truth Matters: A Conversation with Robert P. George and Cornel West
48 mins; January 22, 2025
Jan Abram, "The Surviving Object: Psychoanalytic Clinical Essays on Psychic Survival-Of-The-Object" (Routledge, 2021)
71 hours 59 mins; January 21, 2025
Brigid Schulte, "Over Work: Transforming the Daily Grind in the Quest for a Better Life" (Henry Holt, 2024)
63 hours 39 mins; January 20, 2025
Bruce Lieberman and Niles Eldredge, "Macroevolutionaries: Reflections on Natural History, Paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould" (Columbia UP, 2024)
40 mins; January 19, 2025
Eva Payne, "Empire of Purity: The History of Americans' Global War on Prostitution" (Princeton UP, 2024)
69 hours 3 mins; January 18, 2025
Valentina N. Glajar, "The Secret Police Dossier of Herta Müller: A "File Story" of Cold War Surveillance" (Camden House, 2023)
100 hours 18 mins; January 17, 2025
Frank Trentmann, "Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022" (Knopf, 2024)
57 mins; January 16, 2025
Mariam Motamedi Fraser, "Dog Politics: Species Stories and the Animal Sciences" (Manchester UP, 2024)
65 hours 34 mins; January 15, 2025
Isaac Stanley-Becker, "Europe Without Borders: A History" (Princeton UP, 2025)
45 mins; January 14, 2025
Nancy Reddy, "The Good Mother Myth: Unlearning Our Bad Ideas About How to Be a Good Mom" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
51 mins; January 13, 2025
Susan A. Brewer, "The Best Land: Four Hundred Years of Love and Betrayal on Oneida Territory" (Three Hills, 2024)
