436 Episodes

  1. The Best French Novel of the 20th Century

    Published: 6/11/2025
  2. Is this fascism?

    Published: 6/4/2025
  3. Close Readings: Nietzsche's 'Schopenhauer as Educator'

    Published: 5/28/2025
  4. Old Pope, New Pope

    Published: 5/21/2025
  5. In the Soviet Archives: a conversation with Sheila Fitzpatrick

    Published: 5/14/2025
  6. How They Built the Pyramids

    Published: 5/7/2025
  7. Cold War Pen-Pals

    Published: 4/30/2025
  8. Close Readings: 'Vanity Fair' by William Makepeace Thackeray

    Published: 4/23/2025
  9. Conceiving Pregnancy

    Published: 4/16/2025
  10. Trump’s War by Executive Order

    Published: 4/9/2025
  11. On Mavis Gallant

    Published: 4/2/2025
  12. Close Readings: ‘Wuthering Heights’ by Emily Brontë

    Published: 3/26/2025
  13. The Grimms’ Weird Tales

    Published: 3/19/2025
  14. Weaponising Antisemitism

    Published: 3/12/2025
  15. Who is Paul Marshall?

    Published: 3/5/2025
  16. Close Readings: 'Crotchet Castle' by Thomas Love Peacock

    Published: 2/26/2025
  17. Deaths in Custody

    Published: 2/19/2025
  18. Have we surrendered to climate breakdown?

    Published: 2/12/2025
  19. On Vigdis Hjorth

    Published: 2/5/2025
  20. Close Readings: ‘Mansfield Park’ by Jane Austen

    Published: 1/29/2025

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