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So many talented young people receive a great education and set out to make a difference in the worl
Following the Great Depression, as the world searched for new economic models, Brazil and Portugal e
Today’s episode focuses on a major issue of enduring importance in Southeast Asia and in Southeast A
North, south, east and west: almost all societies use the four cardinal directions to orientate them
The essay "The Failed Concepts That Brought Israel to October 7" (Mosaic Magazine) by Shany Mor, dat
Today I talked to Matthew Ferrence about his book I Hate It Here, Please Vote for Me: Essays on Rura
In Experimental Histories: Interpolation and the Medieval British Past (Cornell University Press, 20
R. Murray Schafer recently passed away on August 14th 2021. If you’re someone who works with sound o
In A Boy Broken: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Mental Ilness, Loss, and a Search for Meaning
Political noise is as American as baseball and apple pie and in this election season it’s impossible
Kingmaker: Secrets, Lies, and the Truth about Five Prime Ministers (Ithaka, 2024) by Sir Graham Brad
The question of whether mental disorders are disorders of the brain has led to a long-running and co
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Salem Elzway, postdoctoral fellow in the Society o
When, where, and who gets to touch and be touched, and who decides? What do we learn through touch?
Freelance curator Joanne Rosenthal joins Jana Byars to talk about Sex: Jewish Positions (Hirmer, 202
In this podcast we meet Matt Segall, core faculty in the Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness Pro
Tim Ecott, who is well-known as a journalist and writer, has, in his last several books, turned his
Who deserves public assistance from the government? This age-old question has been revived by policy
In July 1950, Avi Shlaim, only five, and his family were forced into exile, fleeing from their belov
The Western Rising of 1549 was the most catastrophic event to occur in Devon and Cornwall between th
