New Books in Big Ideas

796 Episodes

1. Jason A. Josephson Storm, "The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences" (U Chicago Press, 2017)

   Published: 9/23/2024
2. Ilias Alami and Adam D. Dixon, "The Spectre of State Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)

   Published: 9/22/2024
3. William H. F. Altman, "The German Stranger: Leo Strauss and National Socialism" (Lexington Books, 2010)

   Published: 9/18/2024
4. Neil Van Leeuwen, "Religion As Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity" (Harvard UP, 2023)

   Published: 9/17/2024
5. Danny Sriskandarajah, "Power to the People: Use Your Voice, Change the World" (Headline Press, 2024)

   Published: 9/17/2024
6. Kevin J. McMahon, "A Supreme Court Unlike Any Other: The Deepening Divide Between the Justices and the People" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

   Published: 9/16/2024
7. Lynn M. Tesser, "Rethinking the End of Empire: Nationalism, State Formation, and Great Power Politics" (Stanford UP, 2024)

   Published: 9/13/2024
8. Are We Experiencing a Crisis of Culture?

   Published: 9/10/2024
9. Michael Gavin, "Literary Mathematics: Quantitative Theory for Textual Studies" (Stanford UP, 2022)

   Published: 9/9/2024
10. Yakov Feygin, "Building a Ruin: The Cold War Politics of Soviet Economic Reform" (Harvard UP, 2024)

    Published: 9/8/2024
11. Terrence G. Peterson, "Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency" (Cornell UP, 2024)

    Published: 9/7/2024
12. Jordan Magnuson, "Game Poems: Videogame Design as Lyric Practice" (Amherst College Press, 2023)

    Published: 9/4/2024
13. Sarah Malanowski and Nicholas R. Baima, "Why It's Ok to Be a Gamer" (Routledge, 2024)

    Published: 9/3/2024
14. Brian Clegg, "Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe" (MIT Press, 2021)

    Published: 9/2/2024
15. John V. Pavlik, "Journalism and the Metaverse" (Anthem Press, 2024)

    Published: 8/30/2024
16. Bhaskar Sunkara, "The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality" (Basic Books, 2020)

    Published: 8/29/2024
17. Mark Valeri, "The Opening of the Protestant Mind: How Anglo-American Protestants Embraced Religious Liberty" (Oxford UP, 2023)

    Published: 8/29/2024
18. The Human Advantage: A Conversation with Jay Richards

    Published: 8/28/2024
19. Nick Chater, "The Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain" (Yale UP, 2019)

    Published: 8/24/2024
20. Devonya N. Havis, "Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy" (Lexington Books, 2022)

    Published: 8/20/2024