New Books in Big Ideas

807 Episodes

1. Time to Rethink Democracy: Participatory and More-Than-Human Perspectives

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Published: 4/10/2025
10. 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
11. William Dalrymple, "The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

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

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

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

    Published: 3/27/2025
15. Chris Skinner, "Intelligent Money: When Money Thinks for You" (Marshall Cavendish, 2024)

    Published: 3/25/2025
16. Peter D. Hershock, "Consciousness Mattering: A Buddhist Synthesis" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

    Published: 3/24/2025
17. Adam K. Webb, "The World's Constitution: Spheres of Liberty in the Future Global Order" (Routledge, 2025)

    Published: 3/23/2025
18. Paul Seabright, "The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People" (Princeton UP, 2024)

    Published: 3/19/2025
19. Bruce Hood, "The Science of Happiness: Seven Lessons for Living Well" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)

    Published: 3/15/2025
20. M. Chirimuuta, "The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience" (MIT Press, 2024)

    Published: 3/10/2025