New Books in Big Ideas

805 Episodes

1. Philip Pettit, "The State" (Princeton UP, 2023)

   Published: 5/20/2023
2. The Origins of the Modern Self: A Conversation with Carl Trueman

   Published: 5/18/2023
3. Carol Graham, "The Power of Hope: How the Science of Well-Being Can Save Us from Despair" (Princeton UP, 2023)

   Published: 5/15/2023
4. The Miraculous Mind (with Paul Bloom)

   Published: 5/11/2023
5. Karen Schrier, "We the Gamers: How Games Teach Ethics and Civics" (Oxford UP, 2021)

   Published: 5/11/2023
6. Ami Harbin, "Fearing Together: Ethics for Insecurity" (Oxford UP, 2023)

   Published: 5/7/2023
7. Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, "Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity" (PublicAffairs, 2023)

   Published: 5/5/2023
8. Jack Buffington, "Reinventing the Supply Chain: A 21st-Century Covenant with America" (Georgetown UP, 2023)

   Published: 5/5/2023
9. Peter Frankopan, "The Earth Transformed: An Untold History" (Knopf, 2023)

   Published: 5/4/2023
10. The Future of Germs: A Discussion with Jonathan Kennedy

    Published: 4/28/2023
11. Extraterrestrials

    Published: 4/27/2023
12. Alan Lightman, "The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science" (Pantheon, 2023)

    Published: 4/26/2023
13. Free Will as an Open Scientific Problem

    Published: 4/25/2023
14. Scott Newstok, "How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education" (Princeton UP, 2020)

    Published: 4/23/2023
15. Tom Hutton, "Hitler's Maladies and Their Impact on World War II" (Texas Tech UP, 2023)

    Published: 4/23/2023
16. Rachel Robison-Greene, "Edibility and in Vitro Meat: Ethical Considerations" (Lexington Books, 2022)

    Published: 4/21/2023
17. Doug Bates on the Ancient Greek Version of Buddhism

    Published: 4/17/2023
18. Paul Kenny, "Why Populism?: Political Strategy from Ancient Greece to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

    Published: 4/17/2023
19. Ben Shneiderman, "Human-Centered AI" (Oxford UP, 2022)

    Published: 4/4/2023
20. David Rothenberg, "Whale Music: Thousand Mile Songs in a Sea of Sound" (Terra Nova Press, 2023)

    Published: 4/4/2023