New Books in Big Ideas

807 Episodes

1. Shai Reshef: Founding President, University of the People

   Published: 5/31/2021
2. Linda Colley, "The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World" (Liveright, 2021)

   Published: 5/26/2021
3. William D. Nordhaus, "The Spirit of Green: The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World" (Princeton UP, 2021)

   Published: 5/24/2021
4. David R. Boyd, "The Rights of Nature: A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World" (ECW Press, 2017)

   Published: 5/18/2021
5. Bobby C. Lee, "The Promise of Bitcoin: The Future of Money and How It Can Work for You" (McGraw-Hill Education, 2021)

   Published: 5/18/2021
6. Michael D. Gordin, "On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience" (Oxford UP, 2021)

   Published: 5/17/2021
7. Simon Critchley, "Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us" (Vintage, 2020)

   Published: 5/14/2021
8. Tim Jackson, "Post Growth: Life after Capitalism" (Polity, 2021)

   Published: 5/7/2021
9. Peter Godfrey-Smith, "Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind" (FSG, 2020)

   Published: 5/3/2021
10. Melvin Konner, "Believers: Faith in Human Nature" (Norton, 2019)

    Published: 4/26/2021
11. Herbert Terrace, "Why Chimpanzees Can't Learn Language and Only Humans Can" (Columbia UP, 2019)

    Published: 4/21/2021
12. Matthew O. Jackson, "The Human Network: How Your Social Position Determines Your Power, Beliefs, and Behaviors" (Vintage, 2019)

    Published: 4/19/2021
13. Frank Ruda, "Abolishing Freedom: A Plea for a Contemporary Use of Fatalism" (U Nebraska Press, 2016)

    Published: 4/12/2021
14. Philip N. Howard, "Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives" (Yale UP, 2020)

    Published: 4/12/2021
15. Avi Loeb, "Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth" (Houghton Mifflin, 2021)

    Published: 4/6/2021
16. Edward Ashford Lee, "The Coevolution: The Entwined Futures of Humans and Machines" (MIT Press, 2020)

    Published: 4/2/2021
17. Eugenia Cheng, "x + y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender" (Basic Book, 2020)

    Published: 4/1/2021
18. Luke Russell, "Being Evil: A Philosophical Perspective" (Oxford UP, 2020)

    Published: 4/1/2021
19. John Durham Peters et al., "Action at a Distance" (Meson Press, 2020)

    Published: 3/26/2021
20. Eric Hayot, "Humanist Reason: A History. An Argument. A Plan" (Columbia UP, 2021)

    Published: 3/17/2021