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Our book is: The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn (University of North Ca
In Indian languages from Sanskrit to Marathi, yoga has an enormous range of meanings, though most of
Ada Palmer joins Jana Byars to talk about her new book, Inventing the Renaissance (U Chicago Press,
The academic field of international relations presents its own history as largely a project of elite
An ethnographic exploration of anthropological failures through the Mapuche archetypes of witch, clo
The idea that there is a distinct phenemenology of thought – that there is thinking experience just
Four years ago, on Feb. 1 2021, the Burmese military overthrew the fledgling democratic government i
Agriculture remains a key sector of the economies of most Southeast Asian countries. It is supposed
“Brain Rot,” the 2024 Oxford word of the year captures the essence of our new podcast that is being
In November 1839, a group of young women in Boston formed a conversation society "to answer the grea
The Incarcerations: Bk-16 and the Search for Democracy in India (OR Books, 2024) pulls back the curt
When we think about "red tape" and the cost of regulation it's hard to overstate the impact of profe
In this episode, Amina Easat-Daas interviews Houria Bouteldja on decolonial activism and Islamophobi
We are coming up on the centenary of Heidegger’s Being and Time, a text that radically reshaped the
Recognized for his work on philosophy, religion and politics, Dr. Sweet talks at length about Before
Ian Fleishman develops the concept of failed passing in his new book Flamboyant Fictions, which reim
In this episode, Henry Louis Gates and Robert P. George share a powerful conversation about their un
In The Ideological Scramble for Africa, Frank Gerits examines how African leaders in the 1950s and 1
Dr. Seungsook Moon’s Civic Activism in South Korea: The Intertwining of Democracy and Neoliberalism
The pub is an English institution. Yet its history has been obscured by myth and nostalgia. In Pub (
