New Books in Intellectual History

2835 Episodes

1. Yitzhak Conforti, "Zionism and Jewish Culture: A Study in the Origins of a National Movement" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)

   Published: 5/29/2025
2. Dan Sperrin, "State of Ridicule: A History of Satire in English Literature" (Princeton UP, 2025)

   Published: 5/28/2025
3. Kirsten Macfarlane, "Lay Learning and the Bible in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World" (Oxford UP, 2024)

   Published: 5/27/2025
4. Anne C. Klein on Becoming a Buddha & Being Human too

   Published: 5/26/2025
5. Book Talk 66: Political Hope, with Loren Goldman

   Published: 5/24/2025
6. Jennifer T. Roberts, "Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture" (Princeton UP, 2024)

   Published: 5/24/2025
7. Yosie Levine, "Hakham Tsevi Ashkenazi and the Battlegrounds of the Early Modern Rabbinate" (Littman Library, 2024)

   Published: 5/23/2025
8. Jon Shelton, "The Education Myth: How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy" (Cornell UP, 2023)

   Published: 5/22/2025
9. David Kraemer, "Embracing Exile: The Case for Jewish Diaspora" (Oxford UP, 2025)

   Published: 5/21/2025
10. Quentin Skinner, "Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

    Published: 5/20/2025
11. Richard Calis, "The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter, and Belief in the Mediterranean World of Martin Crusius" (Harvard UP, 2025)

    Published: 5/19/2025
12. Rasheedah Phillips, "Dismantling the Master's Clock: On Race, Space, and Time" (AK Press, 2025)

    Published: 5/18/2025
13. Eric Heinze, "Coming Clean: The Rise of Critical Theory and the Future of the Left" (MIT Press, 2025)

    Published: 5/17/2025
14. Marc Shapiro, "Renewing the Old, Sanctifying the New: The Unique Vision of Rav Kook" (Littman Library, 2025)

    Published: 5/16/2025
15. Myka Tucker-Abramson, "Cartographies of Empire: The Road Novel and American Hegemony" (Stanford UP, 2025)

    Published: 5/15/2025
16. Daniel Behar, "Syrian Poets and Vernacular Modernity" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)

    Published: 5/14/2025
17. Globalization's Backlash: Echoes of the Interwar Era in Today’s World

    Published: 5/10/2025
18. Nancy M. Rourke, "Ecological Moral Character: A Catholic Model" (Georgetown UP, 2024)

    Published: 5/9/2025
19. Aaron Robertson, "The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America" (FSG, 2024)

    Published: 5/8/2025
20. Paul Chrystal, "Miracula: Weird and Wonderful Stories of Ancient Greece and Rome" (Reaktion, 2025)

    Published: 5/7/2025