445 Episodes

  1. The Psychology of Tennis

    Published: 8/13/2025
  2. Why you should care about golf

    Published: 8/6/2025
  3. Close Readings: ‘Frankenstein’ by Mary Shelley

    Published: 7/30/2025
  4. Rat Universes

    Published: 7/23/2025
  5. Pinochet and the Nazis

    Published: 7/16/2025
  6. Israel's War of Opportunity

    Published: 7/9/2025
  7. Close Readings: Mikhail Bulgakov and James Hogg

    Published: 7/2/2025
  8. The Best-Paid Woman in NYC

    Published: 6/25/2025
  9. Silicon Valley Warriors

    Published: 6/18/2025
  10. The Best French Novel of the 20th Century

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 4/23/2025
  18. Conceiving Pregnancy

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

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

    Published: 4/2/2025

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