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Matt Houlbrook, "Songs of Seven Dials: An Intimate History of 1920s and 1930s London" (Manchester UP, 2025)
53 mins; December 02, 2025
The Renaissance of Marxist Studies: A Discussion with Babak Amini
20 mins; December 01, 2025
Jean-Thomas Tremblay, "Breathing Aesthetics" (Duke UP, 2022)
63 hours 40 mins; November 30, 2025
Benjamin Balthaser, "Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left" (Verso Books, 2025)
76 hours 59 mins; November 30, 2025
Patrick Gamsby, "Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy and Modernity" (Routledge, 2025)
50 mins; November 30, 2025
Nicholas Gamso, "Art After Liberalism" (Columbia UP, 2022)
83 hours 31 mins; November 29, 2025
Jake Monaghan, "Just Policing" (Oxford UP, 2023)
61 hours 21 mins; November 28, 2025
Joe Greenwood-Hau," Capital, Privilege and Political Participation" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
45 mins; November 26, 2025
Joanna Merwood-Salisbury, "Barbarian Architecture: Thorstein Veblen’s Chicago" (MIT Press, 2024)
39 mins; November 26, 2025
Elizabeth Anne Davis, "The Time of the Cannibals: On Conspiracy Theory and Context" (Fordham UP, 2024)
90 hours 48 mins; November 25, 2025
Piotr Nowak, "After Jews: Essays on Political Theology, Shoah and the End of Man" (Anthem Press, 2025)
66 hours 56 mins; November 25, 2025
Amy Hughes, "An Actor's Tale: Theater, Culture, and Everyday Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
64 hours 14 mins; November 24, 2025
Sebastian Truskolaski, "Adorno and the Ban on Images" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
58 mins; November 24, 2025
Mary Edwards, "Sartre’s Existential Psychoanalysis: Knowing Others" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
107 hours 46 mins; November 23, 2025
Heather Davis, "Plastic Matter" (Duke UP, 2022)
61 hours 4 mins; November 23, 2025
Can Feminism be African?: A Conversation with Minna Salami
34 mins; November 20, 2025
160* Hannah Arendt's Refugee Politics (JP)
21 mins; November 20, 2025
Yehudah Halper, "Averroes on Pathways to Divine Knowledge" (Academic Studies Press, 2025)
42 mins; November 19, 2025
On Democracy and Bullshit with HĂ©lĂšne Landemore
66 hours 15 mins; November 18, 2025
Jemma Deer, "Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
45 mins; November 16, 2025
Rizvana Bradley, "Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form" (Stanford UP, 2023)
62 hours 9 mins; November 15, 2025
Sophie Bishop, "Influencer Creep: How Optimization, Authenticity, and Self-Branding Transform Creative Culture" (U California Press, 2025)
32 mins; November 12, 2025
Dag Nikolaus Hasse, "What Is European? On Overcoming Colonial and Romantic Modes of Thought" (Amsterdam UP, 2025)
67 hours 4 mins; November 11, 2025
Lars Cornelissen, "Neoliberalism and Race" (Stanford UP, 2025)
77 hours 23 mins; November 11, 2025
Joseph Stiglitz, "The Origins of Inequality" (Oxford UP, 2025)
39 mins; November 10, 2025
Mattin, "Social Dissonance" (MIT Press, 2022)
59 mins; November 07, 2025
brian bean, "Their End Is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition" (Haymarket, 2025)
60 hours 38 mins; November 04, 2025
Joshua Castellino, "Calibrating Colonial Crime: Reparations and The Crime of Unjust Enrichment" (Policy Press, 2025)
52 mins; November 04, 2025
James Scorer, "Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century: Transgressing the Frame" (U Texas Press, 2024)
41 mins; November 04, 2025
Rebecca van Laer, "Cat" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
28 mins; November 03, 2025
Natasha Piano, "Democratic Elitism: The Founding Myth of American Political Science" (Harvard UP, 2025)
56 mins; November 01, 2025
Aria Fani, "Reading Across Borders: Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism" (U Texas Press, 2024)
52 mins; October 31, 2025
Elif Kalaycioglu, "The Politics of World Heritage: Visions, Custodians, and Futures of Humanity" (Oxford UP, 2025)
58 mins; October 30, 2025
Gavin Flood, "The Concept of Mind in Hindu Tantra" (Routledge, 2024)
32 mins; October 30, 2025
Gilles Deleuze, "On Painting" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
99 hours 48 mins; October 26, 2025
Michael Lazarus, "Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx" (Stanford UP, 2025)
67 hours 3 mins; October 26, 2025
Tim Beasley-Murray, "Critical Games: On Play and Seriousness in Academia, Literature and Life" (Manchester UP, 2025)
42 mins; October 25, 2025
What Do You Want Out of Life? A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters
64 hours 41 mins; October 23, 2025
Joanna Woronkowicz, "Artists at Work: Rethinking Policy for Artistic Careers" (Stanford UP, 2025)
40 mins; October 23, 2025
Eva Meijer, "Multispecies Assemblies" (Vine Press, 2025)
64 hours 56 mins; October 21, 2025
Massimo Modonesi, "The Antagonistic Principle: Marxism and Political Action​" (Haymarket, 2019)
43 mins; October 20, 2025
Bill V. Mullen, "James Baldwin: Living in Fire" (Pluto Press, 2019)
59 mins; October 19, 2025
Gianna Englert, "Democracy Tamed: French Liberalism and the Politics of Suffrage" (Oxford UP, 2024)
73 hours 5 mins; October 15, 2025
Hamid Dabashi, "After Savagery: Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization" (Haymarket, 2025)
37 mins; October 15, 2025
Mahboob Qirvanian and Behnaz Mirzai, "Life of an Enslaved African in the Ottoman Empire and Iran" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
60 hours 38 mins; October 14, 2025
Kevin M. Schultz, "Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals): A History" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
86 hours 39 mins; October 10, 2025
Will Kitchen, "Culture, Capital and Carnival: Modern Media and the Representation of Work" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
41 mins; October 10, 2025
Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, "Overdetermined: How Indian English Literature Becomes Ethnic, Postcolonial, and Anglophone" (Columbia UP, 2025)
71 hours 58 mins; October 08, 2025
Vincent Pak, "Queer Correctives: Discursive Neo-homophobia, Sexuality and Christianity in Singapore" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
53 mins; October 03, 2025
Madison Schramm, "Why Democracies Fight Dictators" (Oxford UP, 2025)
54 mins; October 03, 2025
Katharine Jenkins, "Feminist Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2025)
58 mins; October 01, 2025
William H. F. Altman, "The Revival of Platonism in Cicero's Late Philosophy: Platonis Aemulus and the Invention of Cicero" (Lexington Books, 2016)
119 hours 48 mins; September 30, 2025
Matt Myers, "The Halted March of the European Left: The Working Class in Britain, France, and Italy, 1968-1989" (Oxford UP, 2025)
73 hours 3 mins; September 30, 2025
Carol Atack, "Plato: A Civic Life" (Reaktion, 2025)
72 hours 55 mins; September 27, 2025
Natacha Chetcuti-Osorovitz and Sara Garbagnoli "La Pensée Wittig: Une Introduction" (Payot, 2025)
43 mins; September 26, 2025
Constance Bailey, "Conversations with Kiese Laymon" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)
67 hours 26 mins; September 24, 2025
Robert F. Carley, "Culture and Tactics: Gramsci, Race, and the Politics of Practice" (SUNY Press, 2019)
48 mins; September 23, 2025
Kenja McCray, "Essential Soldiers: Women Activists and Black Power Movement Leadership" (NYU Press, 2025)
69 hours 54 mins; September 22, 2025
Marcus Rediker, "Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea" (Penguin Group, 2025)
64 hours 57 mins; September 20, 2025
Paying Attention with Anya Daly
32 mins; September 19, 2025
Zahi Zalloua, "Fanon, ĆœiĆŸek and the Violence of Resistance" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
68 hours 36 mins; September 17, 2025
Matthew Benjamin Cole, "Fear the Future: Dystopia and Political Imagination in the Twentieth Century" (U of Michigan Press, 2025)
108 hours 38 mins; September 13, 2025
Laura Garbes, "Listeners Like Who?: Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry" (Princeton UP, 2025)
42 mins; September 13, 2025
Simon James Copland, "The Male Complaint: The Manosphere and Misogyny Online" (Polity, 2025)
71 hours 32 mins; September 12, 2025
Anna Strhan and Rachael Shillitoe, "Growing Up Godless: Non-Religious Childhoods in Contemporary England" (Princeton UP, 2025)
38 mins; September 10, 2025
Ariel Colonomos, "Pricing Lives: The Political Art of Measurement" (Oxford UP, 2023)
44 mins; September 09, 2025
Lyndsey Stonebridge on Hannah Arendt's Lessons on Love and Disobedience (JP)
56 mins; September 05, 2025
Santiago Zabala, "Signs from the Future: Philosophy of Warnings" (Columbia UP, 2025)
53 mins; September 04, 2025
David McNally, "Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History" (U California Press, 2025)
43 mins; September 03, 2025
Maddalena Cerrato, "Michel Foucault's Practical Philosophy: A Critique of Subjectivation Processes" (SUNY Press, 2025)
54 mins; September 02, 2025
Cordelia Fine, "Patriarchy Inc.: What We Get Wrong About Gender Equality – and Why Men Still Win at Work" (W.W. Norton, 2025)
69 hours 31 mins; September 01, 2025
David Edmonds, "Death in a Shallow Pond: A Philosopher, a Drowning Child, and Strangers in Need" (Princeton UP, 2025)
55 mins; September 01, 2025
Pauwke Berkers and Yosha Wijngaarden, "A Sociology of Awkwardness: On Social Interactions Going Wrong" (Taylor & Francis, 2025)
33 mins; August 30, 2025
Patrice D. Douglass, "Engendering Blackness: Slavery and the Ontology of Sexual Violence" (Stanford UP, 2025)
79 hours 39 mins; August 29, 2025
Ian Scoones, "Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World" (Polity, 2024)
64 hours 0 mins; August 27, 2025
Aaron Hammes, "TransGenre" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
59 mins; August 26, 2025
Michelle P. Brown, "Bede and the Theory of Everything" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
74 hours 55 mins; August 23, 2025
Kathleen Wilson, "Strolling Players of Empire: Theater and Performances of Power in the British Imperial Provinces, 1656–1833" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
55 mins; August 21, 2025
Todd Mcgowan, "Pure Excess: Capitalism and the Commodity" (Columbia UP, 2024)
65 hours 20 mins; August 18, 2025
Alyssa Battistoni, "Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature" (Princeton UP, 2025)
91 hours 59 mins; August 18, 2025
Enrique Dussel, "The Theological Metaphors of Marx" (Duke UP, 2024)–A Conversation with Camilo PĂ©rez-Bustillo and Eduardo Mendieta
55 mins; August 15, 2025
David Theo Goldberg, "The War on Critical Race Theory: Or, The Remaking of Racism" (Polity Press, 2023)
75 hours 23 mins; August 14, 2025
Bryon L. Garner, "Black Veteranality: Military Service and the Illusion of Inclusive Patriotism" (Routledge, 2025)
56 mins; August 13, 2025
JirĂ­ Anger, "Towards a Film Theory from Below: Archival Film and the Aesthetics of the Crack-Up" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
61 hours 34 mins; August 12, 2025
Alan M. Wald, "Bohemian Bolsheviks: Dispatches from the Culture and History of the Left" (Brill, 2025)
100 hours 37 mins; August 11, 2025
Alexandra Freidus, "Unequal Lessons: School Diversity and Educational Inequality in New York City" (NYU Press, 2025)
28 mins; August 10, 2025
Irvin Weathersby Jr., "In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space" (Viking, 2025)
68 hours 53 mins; August 09, 2025
Eli Zaretsky, “Political Freud: A History” (Columbia UP, 2015)
56 mins; August 08, 2025
Daniel José Gaztambide, "Decolonizing Psychoanalytic Technique: Putting Freud on Fanon's Couch" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
60 hours 42 mins; August 04, 2025
William Marx, "Libraries of the Mind" (Princeton UP, 2025)
65 hours 38 mins; August 03, 2025
Sarah E. K. Smith, "Trading on Art: Cultural Diplomacy and Free Trade in North America" (UBC Press, 2025)
35 mins; August 02, 2025
Chris Washington, "Nonbinary Jane Austen" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
71 hours 55 mins; August 02, 2025
Philip Cunliffe, "The National Interest: Politics After Globalization" (Polity Press, 2025)
58 mins; August 02, 2025
Martin Shuster, "Critical Theory: The Basics" (Routledge, 2024)
44 mins; August 01, 2025
Dan-el Padilla Peralta, "Classicism and Other Phobias" (Princeton UP, 2025)
50 mins; July 31, 2025
Thomas M. Kemple, "Marx's Wager: Das Kapital and Classical Sociology" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
70 hours 0 mins; July 30, 2025
Michael Stauch, "Wildcat of the Streets: Detroit in the Age of Community Policing" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
67 hours 9 mins; July 28, 2025
Ela Przybylo, "Ungendering Menstruation" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
41 mins; July 21, 2025
Dayna Bowen Matthew, "Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America" (NYU Press, 2022)
47 mins; July 19, 2025
Sabrina L. Hom, "Critical Mixed Race Philosophy: Rethinking Kinship and Identity" (Lexington Books, 2025)
90 hours 39 mins; July 19, 2025
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