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Amos C. Fox, "Conflict Realism: Understanding the Causal Logic of Modern War and Warfare" (Howgate, 2024)
91 hours 23 mins; September 30, 2024
William T. Taylor, "Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History" (U California Press, 2024)
63 hours 56 mins; September 29, 2024
Jeff Schuhrke, "Blue Collar Empire: Labor Internationalism, the Global Cold War, and the Untold History of the AFL-CIA" (Verso, 2024)
69 hours 0 mins; September 27, 2024
Jack A. Goldstone, "Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2023)
65 hours 14 mins; September 27, 2024
David L. Swartz, "The Academic Trumpists: Radicals Against Liberal Diversity" (Routledge, 2024)
63 hours 35 mins; September 26, 2024
Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman, "Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite" (Harvard UP, 2024)
44 mins; September 25, 2024
Steve Tibble, "Crusader Criminals: The Knights Who Went Rogue in the Holy Land" (Yale UP, 2024)
56 mins; September 24, 2024
David M. Driesen, "The Specter of Dictatorship: Judicial Enabling of Presidential Power" (Stanford UP, 2021)
57 mins; September 23, 2024
Ilias Alami and Adam D. Dixon, "The Spectre of State Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)
69 hours 35 mins; September 22, 2024
Michael David-Fox, "The Secret Police and the Soviet System: New Archival Investigations" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)
56 mins; September 21, 2024
Michael Livingston, "Agincourt: Battle of the Scarred King" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
67 hours 33 mins; September 20, 2024
Jack Margolin, "The Wagner Group: Inside Russia’s Mercenary Army" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
52 mins; September 19, 2024
William H. F. Altman, "The German Stranger: Leo Strauss and National Socialism" (Lexington Books, 2010)
132 hours 4 mins; September 18, 2024
Neil Van Leeuwen, "Religion As Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity" (Harvard UP, 2023)
77 hours 12 mins; September 17, 2024
Kevin J. McMahon, "A Supreme Court Unlike Any Other: The Deepening Divide Between the Justices and the People" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
59 mins; September 16, 2024
Mikhail Zygar, "War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine" (Scribner, 2023)
67 hours 18 mins; September 15, 2024
Meg Rithmire, "Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia" (Oxford UP, 2023)
56 mins; September 14, 2024
Lynn M. Tesser, "Rethinking the End of Empire: Nationalism, State Formation, and Great Power Politics" (Stanford UP, 2024)
55 mins; September 13, 2024
Marilynne Robinson, "Reading Genesis" (FSG, 2024)
33 mins; September 12, 2024
Melissa Osborne, "Polished: College, Class, and the Burdens of Social Mobility" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
47 mins; September 11, 2024
Josh Cowen, "The Privateers: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers" (Harvard Education Press, 2024)
41 mins; September 10, 2024
Anthony Michael Kreis, "Rot and Revival: The History of Constitutional Law in American Political Development" (U California Press, 2024)
65 hours 3 mins; September 09, 2024
Yakov Feygin, "Building a Ruin: The Cold War Politics of Soviet Economic Reform" (Harvard UP, 2024)
66 hours 55 mins; September 08, 2024
Terrence G. Peterson, "Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency" (Cornell UP, 2024)
49 mins; September 07, 2024
James M. Scott, "Black Snow: Curtis Lemay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb" (Norton, 2024)
57 mins; September 06, 2024
Dan Stone, "Fate Unknown: Tracing the Missing after World War II and the Holocaust" (Oxford UP, 2023)
69 hours 27 mins; September 05, 2024
E. J. Fagan, "The Thinkers: The Rise of Partisan Think Tanks and the Polarization of American Politics" (Oxford UP, 2024)
52 mins; September 04, 2024
Jonathan Gienapp, "Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique" (Yale UP, 2024)
81 hours 26 mins; September 03, 2024
Brian Clegg, "Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe" (MIT Press, 2021)
52 mins; September 02, 2024
Manuela Moschella, "Unexpected Revolutionaries: How Central Banks Made and Unmade Economic Orthodoxy" (Cornell UP, 2024)
46 mins; September 01, 2024
Mel Stanfill, "Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture" (NYU Press, 2024)
48 mins; August 31, 2024
Aleksander Pluskowski, "The Teutonic Knights: Rise and Fall of a Religious Corporation" (Reaktion, 2024)
56 mins; August 30, 2024
Mark Valeri, "The Opening of the Protestant Mind: How Anglo-American Protestants Embraced Religious Liberty" (Oxford UP, 2023)
49 mins; August 29, 2024
Ludovico Silva, "Marx's Literary Style" (Verso, 2023)
68 hours 3 mins; August 28, 2024
Joanna Wuest, "Born This Way: Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
57 mins; August 27, 2024
Hope Bohanec, "The Humane Hoax: Essays Exposing the Myth of Happy Meat, Humane Dairy, and Ethical Eggs" (Lantern Publishing, 2023)
74 hours 9 mins; August 26, 2024
Phil Haun, "Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War: Explaining Effectiveness in Modern Air Warfare" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
43 mins; August 25, 2024
Wesley G. Phelps, "Before Lawrence v. Texas: The Making of a Queer Social Movement" (U Texas Press, 2023)
60 hours 23 mins; August 24, 2024
Christopher Beckman, "Twist in the Tail: How the Humble Anchovy Flavoured Western Cuisine" (Hurst, 2024)
44 mins; August 23, 2024
Rachel Kousser, "Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great" (Mariner Books, 2024)
46 mins; August 22, 2024
Joachim C. Häberlen, "Beauty Is in the Street: Protest and Counterculture in Post-War Europe" (Penguin, 2023)
79 hours 17 mins; August 21, 2024
Peter Allen, “The Political Class: Why It Matters Who Our Politicians Are” (Oxford UP, 2018)
41 mins; August 20, 2024
Maria Dimova-Cookson, "Rethinking Positive and Negative Liberty" (Routledge, 2019)
43 mins; August 19, 2024
Gerarldo Cadava, "The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump" (Ecco, 2020)
65 hours 33 mins; August 18, 2024
Sudhir Kakar, "The Indian Jungle: Psychoanalysis and Non-Western Civilizations" (Karnac, 2024)
55 mins; August 17, 2024
Lauren Benton, "They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence" (Princeton UP, 2024)
51 mins; August 16, 2024
Shaul Magid, "Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical" (Princeton UP, 2021)
64 hours 11 mins; August 15, 2024
Miguel Montalva Barba, "White Supremacy and Racism in Progressive America: Race, Place, and Space" (Policy Press, 2024)
53 mins; August 14, 2024
Craig Gent, "Cyberboss: The Rise of Algorithmic Management and the New Struggle for Control at Work" (Verso, 2024)
56 mins; August 13, 2024
Benjamin C. Waterhouse on "One Day I'll Work for Myself: The Dream and Delusion That Conquered America"
85 hours 35 mins; August 12, 2024
David L. Hoffmann, "The Stalinist Era" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
69 hours 5 mins; August 11, 2024
Gavin Steingo, "Interspecies Communication: Sound and Music Beyond Humanity" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
58 mins; August 09, 2024
Claudia Strauss, "What Work Means: Beyond the Puritan Work Ethic" (ILR Press, 2024)
61 hours 6 mins; August 09, 2024
Jacob Soll, "Free Market: The History of an Idea" (Basic Books, 2022)
89 hours 37 mins; August 08, 2024
Samuel Ely Bagg, "The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
81 hours 53 mins; August 07, 2024
Jason Blakely, "Lost in Ideology: Interpreting Modern Political Life" (Agenda Publishing, 2023)
40 mins; August 06, 2024
Gregory A. Daddis, "Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
59 mins; August 05, 2024
Douglas Greene, "The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky: The Renegade's Revenge" (Routledge, 2024)
86 hours 14 mins; August 04, 2024
Laura Beers. "Orwell’s Ghosts Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century" (Norton, 2024)
46 mins; August 03, 2024
Edward Kaplan, "The End of Victory: Prevailing in the Thermonuclear Age" (Cornell UP, 2022)
66 hours 4 mins; August 02, 2024
Oliver Traldi, "Political Beliefs: A Philosophical Introduction" (Routledge, 2024)
70 hours 49 mins; August 01, 2024
Bernard E. Harcourt. "Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory" (Columbia UP, 2023)
72 hours 28 mins; July 31, 2024
Benjamin Nathans, "To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement" (Princeton UP, 2024)
74 hours 35 mins; July 30, 2024
Jan Eeckhout, "The Profit Paradox: How Thriving Firms Threaten the Future of Work" (Princeton UP, 2021)
70 hours 33 mins; July 29, 2024
Musa al-Gharbi, "We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite" (Princeton UP, 2024)
39 mins; July 28, 2024
Robyn Hitchcock, "1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left" (Akashic Books, 2024)
52 mins; July 27, 2024
Tim Sweijs and Jeffrey H. Michaels, "Beyond Ukraine: Debating the Future of War" (Oxford UP, 2024)
74 hours 5 mins; July 26, 2024
Steven Powell, "Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
60 hours 37 mins; July 25, 2024
Jonathan Dimbleby, "Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won the War" (Oxford UP, 2024)
44 mins; July 24, 2024
Anne Applebaum, "Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World" (Doubleday Books, 2024)
45 mins; July 23, 2024
Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Janet Ward, "Fascism in America: Past and Present" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Ujju Aggarwal, "Unsettling Choice: Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
39 mins; July 20, 2024
Alessandra Montalbano, "Ransom Kidnapping in Italy: Crime, Memory, and Violence" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
52 mins; July 19, 2024
Seth A. Berkowitz, "Equal Care: Health Equity, Social Democracy, and the Egalitarian State" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
28 mins; July 18, 2024
Mahjabeen Dhala, "Feminist Theology and Social Justice in Islam: A Study on the Sermon of Fatima" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
74 hours 48 mins; July 17, 2024
Michael Willrich, "American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century" (Basic Books, 2023)
71 hours 58 mins; July 16, 2024
Jonathan Marc Gribetz, "Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy" (Princeton UP, 2024)
28 mins; July 15, 2024
Carl Öhman, "The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
41 mins; July 14, 2024
Mark L. Haas, "Frenemies: When Ideological Enemies Ally" (Cornell UP, 2022)
47 mins; July 13, 2024
Heidi Honeycutt, "I Spit on Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies" (Headpress, 2024)
49 mins; July 12, 2024
Maya Pagni Barak, "The Slow Violence of Immigration Court: Procedural Justice on Trial" (NYU Press, 2023)
49 mins; July 11, 2024
Shannon Vallor, "The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking" (Oxford UP, 2024)
66 hours 36 mins; July 10, 2024
Neil J. Young, "Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
61 hours 37 mins; July 09, 2024
Miranda Melcher, "Securing Peace in Angola and Mozambique: The Importance of Specificity in Peace Treaties" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
75 hours 56 mins; July 08, 2024
Jonathan Judaken, "Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism" (Columbia UP, 2024)
76 hours 29 mins; July 07, 2024
Dmitri Alperovitch, "World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the 21st Century" (PublicAffairs, 2024)
48 mins; July 06, 2024
Tara Ward, "Appreciation Post: Towards an Art History of Instagram" (U California Press, 2024)
42 mins; July 05, 2024
Eve Herold, "Robots and the People Who Love Them: Holding on to Our Humanity in an Age of Social Robots" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
51 mins; July 04, 2024
Daniel Susskind, "Growth: A History and a Reckoning" (Harvard UP, 2024)
66 hours 23 mins; July 03, 2024
Jason Hannan, "Trolling Ourselves to Death: Democracy in the Age of Social Media" (Oxford UP, 2023)
47 mins; July 02, 2024
Adam Phillips, "On Giving Up" (FSG, 2024)
41 mins; July 01, 2024
Michael Sonenscher, "Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word" (Princeton UP, 2022)
51 mins; June 30, 2024
Michelle Gordon and Rachel O ́Sullivan, "Colonial Paradigms of Violence: Comparative Analysis of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Mass Killing" (Wallstein, 2022)
67 hours 8 mins; June 29, 2024
Erin Lin, "When the Bombs Stopped: The Legacy of War in Rural Cambodia" (Princeton UP, 2024)
53 mins; June 28, 2024
Jeremy Schipper, "Denmark Vesey's Bible: The Thwarted Revolt That Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial" (Princeton UP, 2022)
73 hours 48 mins; June 27, 2024
John Thomas Maier, "The Disabled Will: A Theory of Addiction" (Routledge, 2024)
49 mins; June 26, 2024
Donald Stoker, "Purpose and Power: US Grand Strategy from the Revolutionary Era to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
46 mins; June 25, 2024
Matthijs Lok, "Europe Against Revolution: Conservatism, Enlightenment, and the Making of the Past" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
56 mins; June 24, 2024
Hank Willenbrink, "Performing for the Don: Theatres of Faith in the Age of Trump" (Routledge, 2024)
