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Triauna Carey, "The Revolution Will Be Spotified: Music As a Rhetorical Mode of Resistance" (Lexington Books, 2024)
50 mins; July 18, 2025
Renay Richardson and Arisa Loomba, "Human Resources: Slavery and the Making of Modern Britain" (Profile Books, 2025)
64 hours 50 mins; July 15, 2025
Elizabeth Popp Berman, "Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy" (Princeton UP, 2022)
52 mins; July 14, 2025
On Bullshit in Politics
33 mins; July 12, 2025
Carl Rhodes, "Stinking Rich: The Four Myths of the Good Billionaire" (Policy Press, 2025)
54 mins; July 11, 2025
Noëlle McAfee, "Fear of Breakdown: Psychoanalysis and Politics" (Columbia UP, 2019)
58 mins; July 11, 2025
Robert G. Morrison, "Merchants of Knowledge: Intellectual Exchange in the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe" (Stanford UP, 2025)
62 hours 4 mins; July 10, 2025
Jyotsna G. Singh, "Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
76 hours 46 mins; July 09, 2025
Myles Lennon, "Subjects of the Sun: Solar Energy in the Shadows of Racial Capitalism" (Duke UP, 2025)
70 hours 47 mins; July 08, 2025
John Eldevik, "Reading Prester John: Cultural Fantasy and Its Manuscript Contexts" (Arc Humanities Press, 2024)
36 mins; July 06, 2025
Kevin Guyan, "Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers of Inclusion" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
55 mins; July 05, 2025
Daanika Kamal, "Domestic Violence in Pakistan: The Legal Construction of 'Bad' and 'Mad' Women" (Oxford UP, 2025)
53 mins; July 04, 2025
Angela Katrina Lewis-Maddox, "Disrupting Political Science: Black Women Reimagining the Discipline" (SUNY Press, 2025)
55 mins; July 03, 2025
153: What Hannah Arendt Has to Teach Us about Anticipatory Despair (JP)
26 mins; July 03, 2025
Michael Cook, "A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity" (Princeton UP, 2024)
79 hours 2 mins; July 02, 2025
Timothy Stacey, "Saving Liberalism from Itself: The Spirit of Political Participation" (Bristol UP, 2022)
58 mins; July 02, 2025
Cheryl Thompson, "Canada and the Blackface Atlantic: Performing Slavery, Conflict and Freedom, 1812-1895" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2025)
78 hours 32 mins; July 01, 2025
Sarah Bull, "Selling Sexual Knowledge: Medical Publishing and Obscenity in Victorian Britain" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
45 mins; June 30, 2025
Sarah Kenny, "Growing Up and Going Out: Youth Culture, Commerce, and Leisure Space in Post-War Britain" (Manchester UP, 2025)
43 mins; June 29, 2025
Nubar Hovsepian, "Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual" (AUC Press, 2025)
34 mins; June 26, 2025
Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire with Shaina Potts
47 mins; June 21, 2025
Dominik Zechner, "The Violence of Reading: Literature and Philosophy at the Threshold of Pain" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
43 mins; June 20, 2025
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays and Writings" (Harper, 2025)
44 mins; June 20, 2025
Andrew Hartman, "Karl Marx in America" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
52 mins; June 15, 2025
J. McKenzie Alexander, "The Open Society as an Enemy: A Critique of how Free Societies Turned Against Themselves" (LSE Press, 2024)
71 hours 26 mins; June 14, 2025
Jennifer Crane, "'Gifted Children' in Britain and the World: Elitism and Equality Since 1945" (Oxford UP, 2025)
37 mins; June 13, 2025
Alison Griffiths, "Nomadic Cinema: A Cultural Geography of the Expedition Film" (Columbia UP, 2025)
66 hours 25 mins; June 11, 2025
antonio c. cuyler, "Achieving Creative Justice in the U.S. Creative Sector" (Routledge, 2025)
42 mins; June 10, 2025
Kevin B. Anderson, "The Late Marx's Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism" (Verso, 2025)
64 hours 22 mins; June 09, 2025
Sladja BlaĆŸan, "Ghosts and Their Hosts: The Colonization of the Invisible World in Early America" (University of Virginia Press, 2025)
53 mins; June 08, 2025
Kevin Potter, "Poetics of the Migrant: Migrant Literature and the Politics of Motion" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
67 hours 22 mins; June 06, 2025
Quinn Slobodian and Philip J. Stern on Political Economy
63 hours 52 mins; June 05, 2025
Christoph Schuringa, "Karl Marx and the Actualization of Philosophy" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
51 mins; June 04, 2025
Anthony C. Infanti, "The Human Toll: Taxation and Slavery in Colonial America" (NYU Press, 2025)
66 hours 47 mins; June 03, 2025
Katie Beswick, "Slags on Stage: Class, Sex, Art and Desire in British Culture" (Routledge, 2025)
43 mins; May 31, 2025
Nneka D. Dennie, "Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth Century Black Radical Feminist" (Oxford UP, 2023)
62 hours 32 mins; May 30, 2025
Peter Allen, "How to Think about Politics: A Guide in Five Parts" (Oxford UP, 2025)
38 mins; May 28, 2025
Jaleh Mansoor, "Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction: A Counterhistory" (Duke UP, 2025)
83 hours 13 mins; May 22, 2025
Tamara Lea Spira, "Queering Families: Reproductive Justice in Precarious Times" (U California Press, 2025)
66 hours 9 mins; May 19, 2025
Rasheedah Phillips, "Dismantling the Master's Clock: On Race, Space, and Time" (AK Press, 2025)
58 mins; May 18, 2025
Lucia Soriano, "Embodying Normalcy: Women's Work in Neoliberal Times" (Lexington Books, 2024)
55 mins; May 17, 2025
Eric Heinze, "Coming Clean: The Rise of Critical Theory and the Future of the Left" (MIT Press, 2025)
74 hours 54 mins; May 16, 2025
Myka Tucker-Abramson, "Cartographies of Empire: The Road Novel and American Hegemony" (Stanford UP, 2025)
59 mins; May 15, 2025
Robert F. Darden and Stephen M. Newby, "Soon and Very Soon: The Transformative Music and Ministry of Andraé Crouch" (Oxford UP, 2025)
51 mins; May 14, 2025
Maron E. Greenleaf, "Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon" (Duke UP, 2024)
49 mins; May 10, 2025
Seulghee Lee, "Other Lovings: An Afroasian American Theory of Life" (Ohio State UP, 2025)
42 mins; May 09, 2025
Jake Monaghan, "Just Policing" (Oxford UP, 2023)
64 hours 21 mins; May 08, 2025
MaĂŻa Pal, "Jurisdictional Accumulation: An Early Modern History of Law, Empires, and Capital" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
45 mins; May 07, 2025
Eunji Kim, "The American Mirage: How Reality TV Upholds the Myth of Meritocracy" (Princeton UP, 2025)
39 mins; May 06, 2025
Ipek A. Celik Rappas, "Filming in European Cities: The Labor of Location" (Cornell UP, 2025)
44 mins; May 04, 2025
Martin Thomas, "The End of Empires and a World Remade: A Global History of Decolonization" (Princeton UP, 2024)
48 mins; May 03, 2025
Maliha Safri et al., "Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation" (U of Minnesota Press, 2025)
66 hours 18 mins; May 02, 2025
Laleh Khalili, "Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy" (Profile Books, 2025)
75 hours 6 mins; May 01, 2025
No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
55 mins; April 30, 2025
Franck Billé, "Somatic States: On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity" (Duke UP, 2025)
51 mins; April 29, 2025
Nat Dyer, "Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray" (Bristol UP, 2024)
81 hours 22 mins; April 28, 2025
Philip V. McHarris, "Beyond Policing" (Legacy Lit, 2024)
46 mins; April 27, 2025
Emma Casey, "The Return of the Housewife: Why Women Are Still Cleaning Up" (Manchester UP, 2025)
36 mins; April 26, 2025
Russell Blackford, "How We Became Post-Liberal: The Rise and Fall of Toleration" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
80 hours 48 mins; April 25, 2025
Steven Hahn, "Illiberal America: A History" (Norton, 2024)
51 mins; April 24, 2025
Sophie Lewis, "Enemy Feminisms: Terfs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation" (Haymarket Books, 2025)
92 hours 59 mins; April 23, 2025
Pil Ho Kim, "Polarizing Dreams: Gangnam and Popular Culture in Globalizing Korea" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
69 hours 43 mins; April 22, 2025
Michael Rosino, "Democracy Is Awkward: Grappling with Racism Inside American Grassroots Political Organizing" (UNC Press, 2025)
28 mins; April 21, 2025
Talia Mae Bettcher, "Beyond Personhood: An Essay in Trans Philosophy" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
52 mins; April 20, 2025
Mary Bosworth, "Supply Chain Justice: The Logistics of British Border Control" (Princeton UP, 2024)
58 mins; April 19, 2025
Jina B. Kim, "Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-Of-Color Writing" (Duke UP, 2025)
53 mins; April 18, 2025
Anita Say Chan, "Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future" (U California Press, 2025)
46 mins; April 17, 2025
Neil Kraus, "The Fantasy Economy: Neoliberalism, Inequality, and the Education Reform Movement" (Temple UP, 2023)
75 hours 23 mins; April 16, 2025
Mingwei Huang, "Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism: South Africa in the Chinese Century" (Duke UP, 2024)
65 hours 34 mins; April 15, 2025
What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions
53 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
Mimi Thi Nguyen, "The Promise of Beauty" (Duke UP, 2024)
92 hours 5 mins; April 12, 2025
Rebecca Zorach, "Temporary Monuments: Art, Land, and America's Racial Enterprise" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
64 hours 41 mins; April 11, 2025
"Queer Jews, Queer Muslims" with Adi Saleem and Shanon Shah
68 hours 43 mins; April 10, 2025
StÄle Holgersen, "Against the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World" (Verso, 2024)
54 mins; April 09, 2025
Sam Wetherell, "Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
53 mins; April 08, 2025
What it Means to Forget
47 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
Atiya Husain, "No God But Man: On Race, Knowledge, and Terrorism" (Duke UP, 2025)
69 hours 8 mins; April 05, 2025
Populism, Power, and the Crisis of Globalism: A Conversation with Wolfgang Streeck
39 mins; April 04, 2025
We Have Never Been Woke: A Conversation with Musa al-Gharbi
45 mins; April 03, 2025
Tiffany D. Joseph, "Not All In: Race, Immigration, and Health Care Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)
69 hours 4 mins; April 02, 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
Alisha Ali et al., "Mad Studies Reader: Interdisciplinary Innovations in Mental Health" (Routledge, 2024)
55 mins; March 26, 2025
Anita Say Chan, "Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future" (U California Press, 2025)
77 hours 10 mins; March 25, 2025
Peter Sloterdijk Knows it All
72 hours 1 min; March 24, 2025
Matt Mahmoudi, "Migrants in the Digital Periphery: New Urban Frontiers of Control" (U California Press, 2025)
57 mins; March 23, 2025
Amanda M. Greenwell, "The Child Gaze: Narrating Resistance in American Literature" (UP of Mississippi, 2024)
41 mins; March 22, 2025
Rahul Rao, "The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire" (Pluto Press, 2025)
60 hours 48 mins; March 21, 2025
Colby Gordon, "Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
56 mins; March 20, 2025
Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, "Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana" (UNC Press, 2023)
65 hours 57 mins; March 19, 2025
Mark Neocleous, "Pacification: Social War and the Power of Police" (Verso, 2025)
85 hours 0 mins; March 18, 2025
Action Without Hope
21 mins; March 17, 2025
Maggie M. Cao, "Painting US Empire: Nineteenth-Century Art and Its Legacies" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
42 mins; March 16, 2025
Harriet Atkinson, "Showing Resistance: Propaganda and Modernist Exhibitions in Britain, 1933-53" (Manchester UP, 2024)
37 mins; March 15, 2025
Tahrir Hamdi, "Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
53 mins; March 14, 2025
Karl Berglund, "Reading Audio Readers: Book Consumption in the Streaming Age" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
38 mins; March 13, 2025
Nima Bassiri, "Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
72 hours 2 mins; March 12, 2025
Abby Innes, "Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
95 hours 2 mins; March 09, 2025
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