New Books in Big Ideas

807 Episodes

1. Madness & Acute Religious Experiences, with Richard Saville-Smith

   Published: 9/4/2025
2. Anthony Bonato, "Dots and Lines: Hidden Networks in Social Media, AI, and Nature" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)

   Published: 9/3/2025
3. David Edmonds, "Death in a Shallow Pond: A Philosopher, a Drowning Child, and Strangers in Need" (Princeton UP, 2025)

   Published: 9/1/2025
4. Donald G. Nieman, "The Path to Paralysis: How American Politics Became Nasty, Dysfunctional, and a Threat to the Republic" (Anthem Press, 2024)

   Published: 8/27/2025
5. Mark L. Haas, "The Geriatric Peace: Population Aging and the Decline of War" (Oxford UP, 2025)

   Published: 8/27/2025
6. Nick Spencer, "The Landscapes of Science and Religion: What Are We Disagreeing About?" (Oxford UP, 2025)

   Published: 8/26/2025
7. Walter Scheidel, "What Is Ancient History?" (Princeton UP, 2025)

   Published: 8/25/2025
8. Jack Buffington, "Environmental Innovation: An Action Plan for Saving the Economy and the Planet by 2050" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)

   Published: 8/24/2025
9. Mario Livio and Jack Szostak, "Is Earth Exceptional?: The Quest for Cosmic Life" (Basic Books, 2024)

   Published: 8/21/2025
10. Thomas Christian Bächle and Jascha Bareis eds., "The Realities of Autonomous Weapons (Bristol UP, 2025)

    Published: 8/19/2025
11. Todd Mcgowan, "Pure Excess: Capitalism and the Commodity" (Columbia UP, 2024)

    Published: 8/18/2025
12. Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman, "Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century" (Princeton UP, 2022)

    Published: 8/14/2025
13. Every Purchase Matters: How Fair Trade Farmers, Companies, and Consumers are Changing the World

    Published: 8/12/2025
14. Vijay Selvam, "Principles of Bitcoin: Technology, Economics, Politics, and Philosophy" (Columbia UP, 2025)

    Published: 8/11/2025
15. David J. Helfand, "The Universal Timekeepers: Reconstructing History Atom by Atom" (Columbia UP, 2023)

    Published: 8/7/2025
16. Ben Zweibelson, "Reconceptualizing War" (Helion, 2025)

    Published: 8/7/2025
17. Zack Cooper, "Tides of Fortune: The Rise and Decline of Great Militaries" (Yale UP, 2025)

    Published: 8/6/2025
18. Lizzie Wade, "Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures" (Harper, 2025)

    Published: 8/4/2025
19. Judith Grisel, "Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction" (Doubleday, 2019)

    Published: 8/4/2025
20. William Marx, "Libraries of the Mind" (Princeton UP, 2025)

    Published: 8/3/2025