New Books in Big Ideas

795 Episodes

1. Antonio A. Casilli, "Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

   Published: 1/31/2025
2. James Boyle, "The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood" (MIT Press, 2024)

   Published: 1/27/2025
3. Brigid Schulte, "Over Work: Transforming the Daily Grind in the Quest for a Better Life" (Henry Holt, 2024)

   Published: 1/20/2025
4. Mariam Motamedi Fraser, "Dog Politics: Species Stories and the Animal Sciences" (Manchester UP, 2024)

   Published: 1/15/2025
5. Cordelia Fine, "Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society" (Norton, 2018)

   Published: 1/11/2025
6. David G. Hunter et al., "Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity: Authors, Texts, and Ideas" (Brill, 2024)

   Published: 1/8/2025
7. Brandon Keim, "Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-Human World" (Norton, 2024)

   Published: 1/1/2025
8. Michael Fuerstein, "Experiments in Living Together: How Democracy Drives Social Progress" (Oxford UP, 2024)

   Published: 1/1/2025
9. Frederick Crews, "Freud: The Making of an Illusion" (Picador, 2018)

   Published: 12/31/2024
10. Charles Foster, "Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness" (Metropolitan Books, 2021)

    Published: 12/29/2024
11. Marc Schuilenburg, "Hysteria: Crime, Media, and Politics" (Routledge, 2021)

    Published: 12/29/2024
12. Kit Kowol, "Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War" (Oxford UP, 2024)

    Published: 12/28/2024
13. Leah Downey, "Our Money: Monetary Policy as If Democracy Matters" (Princeton UP, 2024)

    Published: 12/25/2024
14. Markus Vinzent, "Christ's Torah: The Making of the New Testament in the Second Century" (Routledge, 2023)

    Published: 12/25/2024
15. Nick Couldry, "The Space of the World: Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media and What If It Can't?" (Polity, 2024)

    Published: 12/23/2024
16. Josh Spodek, "Sustainability Simplified: The Definitive Guide to Solving All (Yes, All) Our Environmental Problems" (Amplify, 2025)

    Published: 12/23/2024
17. Erich Hatala Matthes, "What to Save and Why: Identity, Authenticity, and the Ethics of Conservation" (Oxford UP, 2024)

    Published: 12/19/2024
18. Paul Pierson and Eric Schickler, "Partisan Nation: The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

    Published: 12/17/2024
19. Yaacov Yadgar, "To Be a Jewish State: Zionism as the New Judaism" (NYU Press, 2024)

    Published: 12/16/2024
20. Andrea Scarantino, "Emotion Theory: The Routledge Comprehensive Guide" (Routledge, 2024)

    Published: 12/10/2024