New Books in Big Ideas

796 Episodes

1. Dmitri Alperovitch, "World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the 21st Century" (PublicAffairs, 2024)

   Published: 7/6/2024
2. Tara Ward, "Appreciation Post: Towards an Art History of Instagram" (U California Press, 2024)

   Published: 7/5/2024
3. Eve Herold, "Robots and the People Who Love Them: Holding on to Our Humanity in an Age of Social Robots" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)

   Published: 7/4/2024
4. Jason Hannan, "Trolling Ourselves to Death: Democracy in the Age of Social Media" (Oxford UP, 2023)

   Published: 7/2/2024
5. John Thomas Maier, "The Disabled Will: A Theory of Addiction" (Routledge, 2024)

   Published: 6/26/2024
6. A Psychoanalytic Overview of Racism in America

   Published: 6/24/2024
7. Adrian Johnston, "Infinite Greed: The Inhuman Selfishness of Capital" (Columbia UP, 2024)

   Published: 6/22/2024
8. Aziz Rana, "The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

   Published: 6/19/2024
9. Daniel Scott Souleles et al., "People before Markets: An Alternative Casebook" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

   Published: 6/16/2024
10. Allison J. Pugh, "The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World" (Princeton UP, 2024)

    Published: 6/15/2024
11. Gordon C. Chang, "Revolution and Witchcraft: The Code of Ideology in Unsettled Times" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

    Published: 6/14/2024
12. Nivedita Menon, "Secularism As Misdirection: Critical Thought from the Global South" (Duke UP, 2024)

    Published: 6/13/2024
13. Timothy Morton, "Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology" (Columbia UP, 2024)

    Published: 6/12/2024
14. Jason Read, "The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work" (Verso, 2024)

    Published: 6/8/2024
15. Mark Robert Rank, "The Random Factor: How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World Around Us" (U California Press, 2024)

    Published: 6/4/2024
16. AI and the Humanities: Nina Beguš DIscusses "Artificial Humanities"

    Published: 6/3/2024
17. Weh Yeoh, "Redundant Charities: Escaping the Cycle of Dependence" (Koan Press, 2023)

    Published: 6/2/2024
18. Chris Haufe, "Do the Humanities Create Knowledge?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

    Published: 5/28/2024
19. Bernardo Kastrup, "Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell: A Straightforward Summary of the 21st Century's Only Plausible Metaphysics" (Iff Books, 2024)

    Published: 5/24/2024
20. Mark Moyar, "Triumph Regained: The Vietnam War, 1965-1968" (Encounter, 2023)

    Published: 5/22/2024