New Books in Big Ideas

807 Episodes

1. Jeremy England, "Every Life is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things" (Basic Books, 2020)

   Published: 10/5/2020
2. R. Pollin and N. Chomsky, "Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet" (Verso, 2020)

   Published: 9/15/2020
3. David Haig, "From Darwin to Derrida: Selfish Genes, Social Selves, and the Meanings of Life" (MIT Press, 2020)

   Published: 9/10/2020
4. Matthew Yglesias, "One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger" (Portfolio, 2020)

   Published: 9/8/2020
5. David J. Hand, "Dark Data: Why What You Don't Know Matters" (Princeton UP, 2020)

   Published: 9/4/2020
6. Jered Rubin, "Rulers, Religion, and Riches: Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

   Published: 8/19/2020
7. Christopher Newfield, "The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2016)

   Published: 8/12/2020
8. Saqib Iqbal Qureshi, "The Broken Contract: Making Our Democracies Accountable, Representative, and Less Wasteful" (Lioncrest, 2020)

   Published: 7/31/2020
9. Justin Tosi and Brandon Warmke, "Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk" (Oxford UP, 2020)

   Published: 7/1/2020
10. Eric Holthaus, "The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What’s Possible in the Age of Warming" (HarperOne, 2020)

    Published: 6/30/2020
11. George Lawson, "Anatomies of Revolution" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

    Published: 6/19/2020
12. Nathan G. Alexander, "Race in a Godless World: Atheism, Race, and Civilization, 1850–1914" (NYU Press, 2019)

    Published: 6/17/2020
13. James C. Scott, "Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States" (Yale UP, 2017)

    Published: 6/4/2020
14. Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)

    Published: 6/2/2020
15. B. Earp and J. Savulescu, "Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Relationships" (Stanford UP, 2020) )

    Published: 5/11/2020
16. Yael Tamir, "Why Nationalism?" (Princeton UP, 2019)

    Published: 5/4/2020
17. Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)

    Published: 4/28/2020
18. Wade Roush, "Extraterrestrials" (MIT Press, 2020)

    Published: 4/27/2020
19. Valerie Hansen, "The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World -- and Globalization Began" (Scribner, 2020)

    Published: 4/24/2020
20. Thomas Piketty, "Capital and Ideology" (Harvard UP, 2020)

    Published: 4/21/2020