New Books in Big Ideas

807 Episodes

1. Jeremy DeSilva, "First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human" (Harper, 2021)

   Published: 3/12/2021
2. Roland T. Rust and Ming-Hui Huang, "The Feeling Economy: How Artificial Intelligence Is Creating the Era of Empathy" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)

   Published: 3/4/2021
3. Ronald J. Deibert, "Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society" (House of Anansi, 2020)

   Published: 2/26/2021
4. Simon Baron-Cohen, "The Pattern Seekers: A New Theory of Human Invention" (Allen Lane, 2020)

   Published: 1/26/2021
5. Emmanuel Kreike, "Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime Against Humanity and Nature" (Princeton UP, 2021)

   Published: 1/25/2021
6. R. A. Woldoff and R. C. Litchfield, "Digital Nomads: In Search of Freedom, Community, and Meaningful Work in the New Economy" (Oxford UP, 2021)

   Published: 1/21/2021
7. Michael J. Sandel, "The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?" (FSG, 2020)

   Published: 1/8/2021
8. Daniel Oberhaus, "Extraterrestrial Languages" (MIT Press, 2019)

   Published: 1/6/2021
9. Robert Baker, "The Structure of Moral Revolutions: Studies of Changes in the Morality of Abortion, Death, and the Bioethics Revolution" (MIT Press, 2019)

   Published: 1/6/2021
10. Paul Davies, "The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life" (U Chicago Press, 2020)

    Published: 12/24/2020
11. Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, "Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)

    Published: 12/17/2020
12. Ian Ayres and Fredrick E. Vars, "Weapon of Choice: Fighting Gun Violence While Respecting Gun Rights" (Harvard UP, 2020)

    Published: 12/16/2020
13. Carl R. Trueman, "The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution" (Crossway, 2020)

    Published: 12/7/2020
14. Richard Seymour, "The Twittering Machine" (Verso, 2020)

    Published: 12/3/2020
15. Glenn Sauer, "Points of Contact: Science, Religion, and the Search for Truth" (Orbis Books, 2020)

    Published: 12/2/2020
16. Andrew Liu, "Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India" (Yale UP, 2020)

    Published: 11/4/2020
17. Michael E. McCullough, "The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code" (Basic Books, 2020)

    Published: 10/29/2020
18. Philip Jenkins, "Fertility and Faith: The Demographic Revolution and the Transformation of World Religions" (Baylor UP, 2020)

    Published: 10/27/2020
19. Joan Scott, "On the Judgment of History" (Columbia UP, 2020)

    Published: 10/15/2020
20. Margaret Heffernan, "Uncharted: How to Map and Navigate the Future Together" (Simon and Schuster, 2020)

    Published: 10/12/2020