New Books in Big Ideas

793 Episodes

1. Peter Allen, "How to Think about Politics: A Guide in Five Parts" (Oxford UP, 2025)

   Published: 5/28/2025
2. Dennis Ross, "Statecraft 2.0: What America Needs to Survive in a Multipolar World" (Oxford UP, 2025)

   Published: 5/18/2025
3. Rasheedah Phillips, "Dismantling the Master's Clock: On Race, Space, and Time" (AK Press, 2025)

   Published: 5/17/2025
4. Eric Heinze, "Coming Clean: The Rise of Critical Theory and the Future of the Left" (MIT Press, 2025)

   Published: 5/16/2025
5. Jeanne Sheehan, "American Democracy in Crisis: The Case for Rethinking Madisonian Government Post January 6" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)

   Published: 5/13/2025
6. Sandra Matz, "Mindmasters: The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior" (HBRP, 2025)

   Published: 5/7/2025
7. Time to Rethink Democracy: Participatory and More-Than-Human Perspectives

   Published: 5/6/2025
8. Stephen H. Legomsky, "Reimagining the American Union: The Case for Abolishing State Government" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

   Published: 5/5/2025
9. Laura Spinney, "Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

   Published: 4/27/2025
10. How to Found A College: A Conversation with University of Austin President Pano Kanelos

    Published: 4/26/2025
11. Philip V. McHarris, "Beyond Policing" (Legacy Lit, 2024)

    Published: 4/22/2025
12. Will AI Transform What it Means to be Human in the Next Ten Years?

    Published: 4/19/2025
13. David Wiles, "Democracy, Theatre and Performance: From the Greeks to Gandhi" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

    Published: 4/12/2025
14. Keith J. Hayward, "Infantilised: How Our Culture Killed Adulthood" (Constable & Robinson, 2025)

    Published: 4/11/2025
15. Christopher Key Chapple, "The SāṃKhya System: Accounting for the Real" (SUNY Press, 2024)

    Published: 4/10/2025
16. John Kay, "The Corporation in the 21st Century: Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told about Business Is Wrong" (Yale UP, 2025)

    Published: 4/9/2025
17. William Dalrymple, "The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

    Published: 4/8/2025
18. We Have Never Been Woke: A Conversation with Musa al-Gharbi

    Published: 4/2/2025
19. Andrew Canessa and Manuela Lavinas Picq, "Savages and Citizens: How Indigeneity Shapes the State" (U Arizona Press, 2025)

    Published: 3/30/2025
20. The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking

    Published: 3/27/2025