Welcome to The Playground, a space for self-mastery, spiritual exploration, and mysticism - all while having fun! Hosted by Shanila Sattar, author of Breathe, creatrix of FLOW Breathwork Facilitator Training, and the Healing Arts Academy. Connect: @shanila.sattar Discover your Healer Archetype: www.alwaysplay.org/healerarchetype Study the Healing Arts: www.alwaysplay.org
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Embodied Author Podcasts
Hosted by Therese Tucker - an intuitive artist, psychic medium, author and teacher of intuition.. Each podcast features topics around developing your intuition, moving through the Ascension process and all things Spirit from a Modern Mystic..
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Welcome to Season 2 of the Inner Integration Podcast, your guide to bridging the gap between trauma and purpose. Your host is Meredith Miller, holistic coach, author and speaker. If you’re ready to move beyond surface healing into embodied wholeness, this season is for you. For more information, visit InnerIntegration.com
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A new podcast by award winning author, trainer, speaker, Yoga Teacher, Certified Design Psychology Coach and Certified Feng Shui Consultant, Sherry Burton Steine, RYT 200, YTT. We will discuss everything home, lifestyle, yoga, Feng Shui and healthy living. I invite you to grow and enjoy this new experience.
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What if you could get more of what you want in life? But not through pushing, forcing, or pressure. You can. When it comes to money, time, and energy, no one’s gonna turn away more. And Kate Northrup, Bestselling Author of Money: A Love Story and Do Less and host of Plenty, is here to help you expand your capacity to receive all of the best. As a Money Empowerment OG who’s been at it for nearly 2 decades, Kate’s the abundance-oriented best friend you may not even know you’ve always needed. P ...
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A podcast to help you grow your somatic intelligence and navigate change with greater ease. Embrace your body's inner wisdom by tuning in here. Hosted by Cristy De La Cruz, a coach and certified/registered Soma Yoga instructor.
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LinkedIn tips, business tips, and marketing tips for coaches, consultants, speakers, authors, solopreneurs & small business owners: Enthusiastically Self-Employed
Brenda Meller
Enthusiastically Self-Employed is designed for you if you’re self-employed as a coach, consultant, speaker, author, solopreneur, or small business owner. Listen in for business, marketing, and LinkedIn tips, sprinkled in with stories along the way. Listen to Enthusiastically Self-Employed for education and insights to help you to be successful and support the love you have of your business, while also supporting your bottom line. That means growing your revenue, reducing your expenses, and o ...
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Embodied Jisms is a podcast that addresses real life situations through Poetry and healthy conversation! This podcast touches on love, life, sex, church, parenting, family, mental health, friends & so much more. Feel free to flow with me!
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Join Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, author, and survivor Britt Piper as she guides you through what it truly means to heal through the body. Known as @healwithbritt across social media, Britt’s mission is to help you come home to yourself using nervous system science, somatic tools, and lived experience. After losing her brother in high school and surviving an assault in her early twenties, Britt spent years searching for answers. What finally brought her lasting healing was reconnectin ...
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Welcome to Sex, Drugs, & Soul, where the sacred gets spicy, the growth gets real, and the self-discovery comes with a side of mischief. I’m Kristin Birdwell, author, host, & playful professional line-blurrer between the profane and the profound. On this podcast, we break the rules, shed the shame, and get intimate through vulnerable conversations, sensual explorations, aaaand the occasional existential crisis. I bring raw stories, deep wisdom, and unfiltered conversations with fellow seekers ...
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Hosted by therapist, author, and boundaries expert Molly Davis Moon, each episode of We Are The Compassionate Revolution is a love letter. This is the podcast for the humble leaders, everyday helpers, creative healers, and compassionate rebels who are choosing truth over people-pleasing… and creating a better world because of it. Here, we don’t just talk about compassionate empowerment, healing, and boundaries —we meet the humans who are living it. You’ll hear inspiring conversations with co ...
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The Aligned Powerhouse Podcast with Dr. Brittany McGeehan What if your power didn’t come from pushing—but from coming home to yourself? The Aligned Powerhouse Podcast is where high-achieving women unlearn the performance patterns that made them successful but left them disconnected. Hosted by psychologist and trauma-informed executive coach Dr. Brittany McGeehan, this podcast is for the woman who has everything on paper—but still feels like she’s holding her breath. Each episode blends nervo ...
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Sez' words are energetic apothecaries for emotional creatives, sensitive souls and nature lovers. Her podcast is a piece of lyrical artistry that will help you find the remedy to every soul-sickness you experience in life. Laced in non-duality, psychospirituality, somatic experiencing, and poetry, you will come home to your true, unbound, and deeply wild self. Hosted by author, poet & meditation guide, Sez Kristiansen. Find Sez's weekly private podcast on Substack.
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The LYD podcast is a free, audio-only release of the standard foundational Human Design curriculum as taught by IHDS Certified LYD Guide, Kelsey Rose Tortorice. This transmission of Human Design fundamentals clarifies the basics, including core principles and mechanics, centers, aura type, strategy, authority, and profile. Kelsey demystifies these concepts so that listeners can understand how every piece is rooted in a clear, cosmic, mechanical system, as well as how they’re all synthesized ...
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The art and science of creativity, made simple. Through the lens of art therapy, neurocreativity, and cutting-edge research, you’ll learn not just why you create, but how to create with more freedom, intention, and joy. Dr. Amy Backos — author, art therapist, psychologist, professor and researcher, with 30+ years of experience — unpacks the evidence-based psychology behind creative living. Come for the science. Stay for the transformation.
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The Cathy Heller Podcast is the go-to podcast for identity-level transformation, manifestation that actually works, and stepping into your highest truth. This is not surface-level mindset work or spiritual fluff. This is where old identities dissolve and new lives begin. Cathy Heller is a bestselling author, top podcast host, and transformational coach known for helping people unblock what’s been holding them back and embody the version of themselves who naturally attracts more love, wealth, ...
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Ascension Alchemists™ Podcast: Assisting Conscious Entrepreneurs Align With God Presence & Embody The Eternal Truth To Live A Higher Health, Wealth, Joyous & Purposeful Life.
The Ascension Alchemists™ with HoniB & Michael Abramson
The Ascension Alchemists™ Podcast is created by Rev. HoniB & Michael as a much needed Community where Real Authentic Conversations takes place, from the every day walk of Embodying God ALMighty within to live a true healthy, wealthy & joyous life that is has already been GIVEN TO ALL. The purpose of these conversations is to Empower, Uplift & Restore Faith in Believers to live from Unweavering Trust. It is about being Bold while facing life challenges. It is to stay in Faith, where everythin ...
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If you're ready to step into the BIGGER version of yourself and your destiny, then you've found the right podcast, because we're about to have some BIG conversations about just that. Hosted by entrepreneur, author, manifestation coach and Forbes most influential speaker Haley Hoffman Smith, the Big Conversations Podcast helps people of all ages and backgrounds amp up their motivation, manifesting abilities, and subconscious breakthroughs. With content aimed at obliterating limitations, conne ...
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Sacred Healing & Enchantment is your space for alchemical transformation, deep dive healing, connection, & embodied leadership. Whether you are a seeker, a professional healer, or a coach, this podcast will support you through topics like collective care, archetypal shadow work, & ancient embodiment practices. Each episode offers tools and insights to help you expand both personally & professionally. I'm Melanie Monaco, a Priestess & Mentor who created the first ever and top rated Self-Love ...
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Victim 2 Victor: Healing Trauma & Building Real Love
Anu Verma : Victim 2 Victor - Advocate, Filmmaker & Healer
Welcome to Victim 2 Victor - the space where healing from trauma becomes lived, embodied change. I’m Anu Verma - trauma-informed coach, podcaster, executive producer, author, and survivor of childhood and relational trauma. Through my work, I support people who are ready to stop repeating painful relationship patterns and start building lives - and love - rooted in safety, self-trust, and confidence. Inside this podcast and my coaching work, I help you: • Understand how trauma shapes attract ...
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The Seeking Wild Beauty Podcast explores the inner landscapes of our souls. For all of you empaths, writers, and creatives with roaring hearts looking to unearth your soul medicine/gifts – get cozy and have your journal nearby. Each episode will be deep conversations with other writers, artists, poets, and healers about the creative process, authentic expression, spiritual practice, embodied intuition, and more.
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Cain Carroll is an American speaker and author in the fields of self-healing and embodied spiritual practice. He is author of The Four Dignities, Mudras of India, Partner Yoga, and creator of three instructional DVDs: Pain-Free Joints, Heal Neck & Shoulder Pain, and Digestive Power. More at http://www.caincarroll.com/
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The Embodied Alchemist is a podcast for women who are ready to reclaim their power, reconnect with their truth, and rise from a place of authenticity. Hosted by trauma-informed coach and author Kelly Bramblet, each episode offers honest conversations, practical tools, and soul-deep reflections to support your healing, growth, and spiritual embodiment. This is your space to remember that transformation doesn't have to be perfect; it just has to be real.
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Brave New Girls podcast champions Women Rebel Raisers Moving Mountains for the Wellbeing of People and the Planet. Brave New Girls podcast ranks in top 2.5% globally, and No 7 in the "45 Best UK Women's Podcasts to Listen to, in 2024", with Host Lou Hamilton, artist, author & wellbeing coach. Thank you for listening and please subscribe to keep up to date on new episodes as they're released. Sign up to our emails for inspiration, support & growth and LOU'S LIFE LAB free downloadable guide ht ...
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Fáilte! Welcome! I'm Eve Menezes Cunningham, a trauma survivor, AuDHDer, columnist, author of 365 Ways to Feel Better: Self-care Ideas for Embodied Wellbeing, trauma therapist, senior accredited supervisor, and self-care coach at Feel Better Every Day (selfcarecoaching.net). Through solo and interview episodes, I share trauma-informed and neuro-affirming (especially for ADHD and AuDHD) self-care and Self care (for that highest, wisest, truest, wildest, most joyful, brilliant and miraculous p ...
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Transforming faith after fracture The Untidy Faith podcast is where we have honest conversations and gentle encouragement for when following Jesus gets messy. Join your host, Kate Boyd - author, speaker, and gentle guide for Christians who are disentangling their faith from culture, rebuilding their relationship with Scripture, and desiring to find joy in following Jesus again - each week to find your life and faith after deconstruction. kateboyd.substack.com
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Chat Off The Mat: Energy, Empowerment & Transformation for Women Welcome to Chat Off The Mat, the podcast where women stop shrinking and start rising. Hosted by Rose Wippich—Energy Alchemist, Reiki Master, qigong instructor, yoga teacher, and author of EMPRESS RISING: Own Your Energy, Trust Your Wisdom & Rewrite the Rules of Aging—this show is your weekly dose of feminine empowerment, holistic healing, and unapologetic truth-telling. If you're a woman over 45 who's tired of feeling invisible ...
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Founder & CEO of THE BALANCE RehabClinic | Book Author & Podcast Host of "Living a Life in Balance" | Global Expert in Mental Health & Wellbeing I lead one of the world’s most exclusive mental health and addiction treatment brands, helping global leaders, creatives, and high-net-worth individuals find deep healing and personal transformation. Through my podcast, I explore the intersection of psychology, purpose, and wellbeing. This Podcast is dedicated to meaningful conversations about menta ...
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Welcome to the Entheogenic Evolution Podcast, hosted by author Martin W. Ball, Ph.D. This podcast is dedicated to the discussion of the nondual and unitary nature of being as revealed by conscious entheogenic energetic awakening as well as hosting long-form conversations on diverse and broad topics in psychedelics, therapy, philosophy, science, and culture. Featuring interviews, lectures, and conversations with leading figures in psychedelic research and culture as well as those who are new ...
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Padma Gordon is a Spiritual Guide, Embodied Mindfulness Counselor, Movement Educator, Author of Being Together: Practical Wisdom for Loving Yourself and Your Partner (published August 2020), mother and lover of life who skillfully invites people to deepen their connection to body, heart, and soul.
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Hades & Persephone Teach: Divine Masculine & Feminine Union is a podcast for seekers, healers, and couples who want to transform pain into power and reclaim love after trauma. Hosted by husband-and-wife duo Ty & Kara Barlow, the show blends myth, psychology, and spirituality to guide you into deeper connection with yourself, your partner, and the divine. Through the lens of the Hades and Persephone myth, Ty and Kara explore the sacred dance of the divine masculine and feminine, showing how t ...
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We go DEEP on the Room to Grow™ Podcast. Curiously exploring relationships, connection, and the nuances and complexities of the human experience, every episode combines a unique blend of wisdom & humour along with rare levels of openness & honesty. Join host/founder Emily Gough, a relationship coach, author & speaker, as we explore how to take ownership of your life, revolutionize your relationship to yourself and learn to communicate while creating thriving connections with others. With bot ...
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Toxic family is real. Toxic parents are real. Smear campaigns are real. Toxic in-laws are real. You are not alone. On this podcast, you have a voice. On this podcast, Dr. Sherrie Campbell will help you learn more about your family dynamics, unconscious patterns that drive toxic human behavior, and ways to deal with your trauma. And most importantly, you will embark on a journey that will help you know yourself and love yourself more. Dr. Sherrie is a nationally recognized expert clinical psy ...
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Hey, friends! My name is Robert. I am a neuropsychologist and self-help author. In this podcast, I interview fascinating individuals and provide information about psychology, mental health, neuroscience, relationships, and more. I have been told that I ask amazing questions and that I am talented at breaking down complex science into digestible information. Come have a listen and let me know if you agree!
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Thank you for four years of listening! SCS is officially retired as my personal journey has shifted. Please enjoy these episodes and I hope they meet you where you are.
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In this episode, Bevan Pfeiffer sits down with Johnson Chong. Shamanic practitioner, author, and transformational guide, for a profound exploration of what it really means to wake up. Together, they navigate the terrain where ancient wisdom meets modern psychology, asking what it takes to live, heal, and grow in a time of deep collective change. Johnson opens up about his journey from a traditional upbringing to becoming a bridge between worlds, weaving together shamanic traditions, yogic in ...
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Meet Patrick Jones Patrick Jones is a speaker, bestselling author, and master sales trainer known for transforming salespeople and leaders into high-performing, purpose-driven men. He went from broke, overweight, and lost, battling addiction, avoidance, and self-sabotage, to becoming one of the most dominant high-ticket closers in the world. Patrick has personally closed over $25 million in sales, earned more than $2 million in personal commissions, and hit a record-breaking $192,000 in W2 c ...
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Julie Piatt is the leader of the Water Tiger online community and the founder of SriMu artisan, plant-based not-cheese @SriMu. She is the author of books including The Plant Powered Way, with her husband Rich Roll, and This Cheese is Nuts. Her podcast offers spiritual musings on living a life embodied in our true, unique blueprint.
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Welcome to the Cultural Curriculum Chat™ Podcast — where culture meets curriculum, and conversations spark real change. Hosted by author, educator, DEI consultant, and cultural storyteller Jebeh Edmunds, this show is your weekly guide to creating inclusive spaces where every voice is seen, valued, and celebrated. Whether you're an educator, leader, DEI practitioner, or a lifelong learner committed to equity, you’ll find empowering dialogue here. We dive into multicultural education, workplac ...
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HEIRESS™ | Identity Activation for Christian Women Entrepreneurs Called to Build, Lead & Prosper | Nervous System Regulation, Kingdom Stewardship, Wealth, Mindset, Faith & Neuroscience
Skye Edmonds
Business Built on Faith, Favor & Full Inheritance You weren’t called to hustle for your inheritance—you were called to embody it. Welcome to Heiress™, the podcast for faith-driven women who are done striving and ready to build a business with Kingdom strategy, nervous system mastery, and unshakable identity. If God gave you the vision, He also gave you the capacity to hold it. Inside, you’ll learn how to: ✔ Anchor your nervous system in Kingdom safety—so visibility, wealth, and leadership fe ...
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Welcome to Somatics with Sarai. Together we’ll journey from stress, overwhelm, and survival mode to regulation, resilience, and embodied freedom. This podcast is about nervous system regulation and somatic practices that create real change in the body. Before this evolution, the show began as The Multidimensional Journey, where I explored plant medicine and spirituality. That legacy remains an important foundation — and now the path continues here, rooted in the body.
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Enneagram Mapmakers explores the interior landscape of the ego through conversations with legacy teachers such as Richard Rohr, Helen Palmer and Russ Hudson. Hosted by Christopher Heuertz, author of The Sacred Enneagram and The Enneagram of Belonging, this podcast journeys to the origins of an ancient and often misunderstood system designed to help us live a more embodied and integrated life. Transcend the temptation to fixate on a specific number and discover how to embrace all types within ...
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Welcome to the Embody Your Soul podcast. Your host, Alexandra Shelly, also known as The Modern Medium, invites you to get comfy and talk about how we can connect to our True Self, our divine calling, in order to embody your soul, through spiritual connection and best practices. Topics will include her work in Psychic Mediumship, Reiki, Channeling, spiritual modalities, Intuition, all while embracing the messiness of existence. Alexandra welcomes guests of various industry expertise and chang ...
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Join Award Winning Author + Sales Expert Ursula Mentjes and her guests as they share exactly what they did to grow their business exponentially and how to experience more freedom, joy and peace in your business and in your life!
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Jacob Bricca, "How Documentaries Work" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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1:05:43Previous guest Jacob Bricca (Documentary Editing: Principles and Practice) is a professional film editor and director, specializing in documentaries. In his new book, he breaks down the hidden conventions of the documentary film in accessible language for film students and documentary enthusiasts alike. Chapters on Narrative and Meaning show how do…
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Jolyon Baraka Thomas and Matthew D. McMullen, "The New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
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1:00:26For nearly two decades, the Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions (U Hawaii Press, 2024) has served as a valuable resource for students and scholars of religion in Japan. This exciting update expands the audience to include non-specialists of Japan while also complicating the notions of "Japan" and "religion." Asking the provocative question "why stud…
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Matthew Pawlak, "Sarcasm in Paul's Letters" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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31:38In this recent monograph Sarcasm in Paul's Letters (Cambridge University Press 2023, Matthew Pawlak offers the first treatment of sarcasm in New Testament studies. He provides an extensive analysis of sarcastic passages across the undisputed letters of Paul, showing where Paul is sarcastic, and how his sarcasm affects our understanding of his rheto…
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Lisa Silverman, "The Postwar Antisemite: Culture and Complicity After the Holocaust" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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1:09:29In his influential Anti-Semite and Jew, French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre observed "If the Jew did not exist, the anti-Semite would invent him." In doing so he articulated the figure of an Antisemite responsible for imagining the Jew in a formulation that has lasted for decades. This figure became an indispensable trope in the period immediately …
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Abigail Bainbridge, "Conservation of Books" (Routledge, 2023)
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32:10Editor Abigail Bainbridge and contributing author Sonja Schwoll join this discussion of Conservation of Books (Routledge 2023), the highly anticipated reference work on global book structures and their conservation. Offering the first modern, comprehensive overview on this subject, this volume takes an international approach. Written by over 70 spe…
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Divine Materialism and Integral Cosmology: Consciousness, Science, and the Spiritual Turn with Marco Masi
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1:24:31In this episode, we explore Marco Masi’s article “The Integral Cosmology of Sri Aurobindo: An Introduction from the Perspective of Consciousness Studies.” Marco’s work sits at the intersection of the hard sciences and spirituality, advancing the provocative notion of “divine materialism.” We examine the limitations of contemporary philosophy of min…
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Thomas David DuBois, "China in Seven Banquets: A Flavourful History" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
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1:13:58In this episode of New Books Network, Laura Goldberg speaks with Thomas David DuBois, Professor at Beijing Normal University, about his book China in Seven Banquets, which traces Chinese history through seven extraordinary meals. Gastronomy and dining rituals offer a revealing historical framework: they make visible social order, ethical values, an…
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Andrew Porwancher, "American Maccabee: Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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30:31A scion of the Protestant elite, Theodore Roosevelt was an unlikely ally of the waves of impoverished Jewish newcomers who crowded the docks at Ellis Island. Yet from his earliest years he forged ties with Jews never before witnessed in a president. American Maccabee traces Roosevelt’s deep connection with the Jewish people at every step of his daz…
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Jack Z. Bratich, "On Microfascism: Gender, War, and Death" (Common Notions, 2022)
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1:05:45In On Microfascism: Gender, War, and Death (Common Notions, 2022) Dr. Jack Z. Bratich explores the cultural elements in American society that support fascism. Microfascism appears in many aspects of culture engaging consumers to think of others and their own self in ways that extend fascism into everyday life while constantly adapting to cultural a…
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Daniel M. Herskowitz, "The Judeo-Christian Thought of Franz Rosenzweig" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
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1:10:08The Judeo-Christian Thought of Franz Rosenzweig (Liverpool UP, 2025) offers a new interpretation of Franz Rosenzweig's magnum opus The Star of Redemption, commonly treated as one of the high points of modern Jewish thought, and demonstrates its profound immersion in the Protestant conceptuality of its time. It argues that appreciating the decisive …
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Alastair McClure, "Trials of Sovereignty: Mercy, Violence, and the Making of Criminal Law in British India, 1857-1922" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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57:44Trials of Sovereignty: Mercy, Violence, and the Making of Criminal Law in British India, 1857-1922 (Cambridge UP, 2024) offers the first legal history of mercy and discretion in nineteenth and twentieth-century India. Through a study of large-scale amnesties, the prerogative powers of pardon, executive commutation, and judicial sentencing practices…
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Andrea Gevurtz Arai ed., "Spaces of Creative Resistance: Social Change Projects in Twenty-First-Century East Asia" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
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1:22:45An exciting collection of stories of change that most people don’t usually hear from the bottom up, from the grassroots, about what’s happening in East Asia. Spaces of Creative Resistance: Social Change Projects in Twenty-First-Century East Asia (Rutgers UP, 2025) brings together an exciting cross-regional interdisciplinary group of scholars, schol…
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Sean Minogue, "Prodigals" (Latitude 46 Publishing, 2025)
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38:17In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Sean Minogue about this play, Prodigals (Latitude 46 Publishing, 2025). When a big-city dreamer from a small northern Ontario city returns to his hometown to testify in a murder trial, he faces old uncovered wounds in his circle of friends and discovers that his missed opportunities are more than…
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Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, "Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
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59:59Hello, this is Eric LeMay, a host on the New Books Network. Today, I speak with Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, author of the new artist’s biography Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist (Simon & Schuster, 2025). The book was recently named one of NPR’s Books We Loved for 2025. Pollack-Pelzner is a cultural historian, theater critic, and teacher a…
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David Newheiser et al., "Art-Making as Spiritual Practice: Rituals of Embodied Understanding" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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1:28:44Art-Making as Spiritual Practice: Rituals of Embodied Understanding (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2025), edited by Professor David Newheiser, is a new collection asks if it’s possible to consider art-making as a spiritual practice independent of explicit religious belief or content. Where earlier research has focused on the religious significance of …
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Ruby Oram, "Home Work: Gender, Child Labor, and Education for Girls in Urban America, 1870-1930" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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57:54In Home Work: Gender, Child Labor, and Education for Girls in Urban America, 1870-1930 (U Chicago Press, 2025) historian Ruby Oram tells the story of how middle-class, white women reformers lobbied the state to implement various public education reforms to shape the lives of girls and women in industrial cities between 1870 and 1930. Women such as …
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How to Fix Baseball with author Jane Leavy
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58:27For hard-core baseball folks, for anyone who cares for the future of the game, veteran baseball writer Jane Leavy compels attention with her provocative book, Make Me Commissioner: I Know What’s Wrong With Baseball And How To Fix It (Grand Central, 2025). Our conversation focuses on her proposed solutions to the core problem of a sport in the destr…
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Aaron G. Fountain Jr., "High School Students Unite! Teen Activism, Education Reform, and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America" (UNC Press, 2025)
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44:33In High School Students Unite! Teen Activism, Education Reform, and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America (UNC Press, 2025), Aaron G. Fountain Jr. highlights the crucial impact of high school activists in the 1960s and 1970s. Mid-twentieth-century student activism is a pivotal chapter in American history. While college activism has been well document…
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Henrike Kohpeiß, "Bourgeois Coldness" (Divided Publishing, 2025)
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50:57Bourgeois Coldness (Divided Publishing, 2025) refers to an affective strategy that offers an explanation for how self-preservation works. Bourgeois coldness is one of the most advanced affective and aesthetic forms of preserving the structure of the colonial status quo. It creates an affective shelter in the world, unencroached upon by the immediat…
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Member Spotlight: Zoom Audit Service by Christopher G. Johnson - Ep 197
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31:51Boost Your Virtual Events & Meetings with a Zoom Audit by Christopher G. Johnson This podcast episode features a member spotlight from my Marketing with Meller membership and learning community. I interviewed Christopher G. Johnson, who discussed his Zoom audit service, a new offering aimed at improving the efficiency of virtual meetings. Born from…
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Season 8 Episode #10 The Quiet Storm: The Rise, Power & Legacy of Black R&B Groups with Amani Roberts
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29:02Send us a text In this powerful episode of the Cultural Curriculum Chat™ Podcast, host Jebeh Edmunds sits down with DJ, professor, and author Amani Roberts to explore the history, influence, and cultural impact of Black R&B groups from the 1950s through the early 2000s. Amani’s new book, The Quiet Storm, unpacks: ✔️ The rise of over 60 iconic R&B g…
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Jonathan Sumption, "The Challenges of Democracy: And the Rule of Law" (Profile Books, 2026)
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29:59Across the globe, democracy is in crisis - in the UK alone, it has been rocked by Brexit, the pandemic and successive attempts by governments to bypass legal norms. But how did this happen, and where might we go from here? Jonathan Sumption cuts through the political noise with acute analysis of the state of democracy today - from the vulnerabiliti…
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Andrew W. Bernstein, "Fuji: A Mountain in the Making" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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1:01:37Fuji: A Mountain in the Making (Princeton UP, 2025) is A panoramic biography of Japan's iconic mountain from the Ice Age to the present Mount Fuji is everywhere recognized as a wonder of nature and enduring symbol of Japan. Yet behind the picture-postcard image is a history filled with conflict and upheaval. Violent eruptions across the centuries w…
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Paul Kelly, "Against Postliberalism: Why ‘Family, Faith and Flag’ is a Dead End for the Left" (Polity, 2025)
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40:20Post-liberalism is all the rage on the American right, finding a common cause between legal theorists like Adrian Vermeule and Patrick Deneen and rising political stars like J.D. Vance, the serving vice president. In the UK, on the other hand, the movement has been pioneered by left-wing thinkers seeking to return lost working-class voters to the L…
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Joel S. Wit, "Fallout: The Inside Story of America's Failure to Disarm North Korea" (Yale UP, 2025)
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49:23After nearly four decades of negotiations, sanctions, summits, threats, and backdoor channels, the United States has failed to stop North Korea's nuclear program which now has the capability to strike American cities with weapons of mass destruction. In Fallout: The Inside Story of America's Failure to Disarm North Korea (Yale UP, 2025), Joel S. Wi…
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Robin F. Hansen, "Prison Born: Incarceration and Motherhood in the Colonial Shadow" (U Regina Press, 2024)
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40:11With rigorous scrutiny and deep care, Robin Hansen's Prison Born: Incarceration and Motherhood in the Colonial Shadow (U Regina Press, 2024) offers crucial insight into the intersections of ongoing colonial harms facing Indigenous mothers in Canada. Building from an unplanned call to Hansen from a pregnant, incarcerated Indigenous woman in 2016, Pr…
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Anna Hájková, "People without History are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
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33:45Queerness remains one of the most stigmatized and overlooked aspects of Holocaust history, often erased due to the lingering homophobia of survivors. People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust (U Toronto Press, 2025) challenges this silence, weaving together compelling stories of German, Dutch, Czech, and Polish Jewish Holocaust…
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Nicholas L. Caverly, "Demolishing Detroit: How Structural Racism Endures" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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49:56In this episode, Nick Caverly talks about his new book, Demolishing Detroit: How Structural Racism Endures (Stanford UP, 2025). For decades, Detroit residents, politicians, planners, and advocacy organizations have campaigned for the elimination of empty buildings from city neighborhoods. Leveling these structures, many argue, is essential to makin…
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Elizabeth Suhay, "Debating the American Dream: How Explanations for Inequality Polarize Politics" (Russell Sage Foundation, 2025)
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31:15Faith in the American Dream—the idea that anyone who works hard can achieve success—has waned in the 21st century. Decreases in economic mobility, increases in the wealth gap, and other economic shifts have undoubtedly influenced this decline. Politics, however, are an overlooked contributor to confidence, or lack of confidence, in the American Dre…
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Martin Herskovitz, "Son of the Shoah: Poems from a Second-Generation Holocaust Survivor" (McFarland, 2025)
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33:18As a third generation Holocaust survivor, this was an important conversation with a second generation survivor. Marty has been conducting workshops on writing memory for quite a while and that's where we met - in his workshops with Jewish Ethiopians in Israel. Son of the Shoah: Poems from a Second-Generation Holocaust Survivor is his emotional reck…
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The 3 Steps to Manifesting With Ease - Minisode
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11:39Cathy teaches you three powerful steps to manifesting with flow: lowering urgency, trusting divine order, and consciously shifting into a new timeline - so you can stop forcing outcomes and start living from alignment, faith, and inner sovereignty. - Get a one-week trial of Cathy's membership This Abundant Life for just $1 at cathyheller.com/life…
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E34H&M: Merry Christmas Message: Reflection On Presence, Family, And Light
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7:39Send us a text The hour before midnight has a softness that asks us to listen. We sat down in our matching pajamas after dinner, cookies, and movies to share a simple truth that keeps shining through the season: presence is the gift that makes every other gift make sense. Not the wrapped boxes, but the way you look at someone you love. Not the perf…
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Douglas Morris, "Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler's Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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1:03:35During the mid-1930s, Germans opposed to Adolf Hitler had only a limited range of options available to them for resisting the Nazi regime. One of the most creative and successful challengers in this effort was Ernst Fraenkel, who as an attorney sought to use the law as a means of opposing Nazi oppression. In Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler…
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Trymaine Lee, "A Thousand Ways to Die: The True Cost of Violence on Black Life in America" (St. Martins, 2025)
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52:30A few years ago, Trymaine Lee, though fit and only 38, nearly died of a heart attack. When his then five-year-old daughter, Nola, asked her daddy why, he realized that to answer her honestly, he had to confront what almost killed him—the weight of being a Black man in America; of bearing witness, as a journalist, to relentless Black death; and of a…
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Lin Hongxuan, "Ummah Yet Proletariat: Islam, Marxism, and the Making of the Indonesian Republic" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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46:44In contemporary Indonesia the idea that Islam and Marxism are inherently incompatible has become deeply entrenched. However, as Lin Hongxuan's work Ummah Yet Proletariat: Islam, Marxism, and the Making of the Indonesian Republic (Oxford University Press, 2023) shows, the relationship between them in Indonesian history is deeply intertwined. Based o…
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Sven Beckert, "Capitalism: A Global History" (Allen Lane, 2025)
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1:00:59No other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisively as capitalism. It structures how we live and work, how we think about ourselves and others, how we organize our politics. Sven Beckert, author of the Bancroft Prize–winning Empire of Cotton, places the story of capitalism within the largest conceivable geographical and historical framework,…
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Tracy Pintchman ed., "Engaging Hindu Narratives and Practices in the Contemporary World" (2025)
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39:48"Engaging Hindu Narratives and Practices in the Contemporary World" Special Issue of the International Journal of Hindu Studies: Volume 29, Issue 2 (August 2025) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network…
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Suraj Milind Yengde, "Caste: A Global Story" (Hurst, 2025)
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47:03Caste has been a huge topic of conversation in modern India. Yet debates and activism around caste discrimination have spread beyond South Asia. Caste activists looked to African-American literature and leaders to connect their fight with the battle against racism in the U.S. And as Indians moved around the world–to America, to elsewhere in Asia, a…
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Sustainability, Identity, Artisans and Designers
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55:40Long before the fashion industry formally addressed questions of sustainability and advocated for “slow fashion,” a husband-and-wife design duo were working to create handcrafted leather-goods and functional women’s sportswear that could be worn for decades. Active from the 1940s to the late 1960s, the Phelps quickly won acclaim, attracting a broad…
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Suvi Rautio, "The Invention of Tradition in China: Story of a Village and a Nation Remade" (Springer Nature, 2024)
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1:18:40Today, anthropologist Professor Anru Lee is joining NBN as a guest host to interview me, Suvi Rautio, on my new book, The Invention of Tradition in China: Story of a Village and a Nation Remade published by Palgrave in 2024. In China, heritage projects are sprouting across the countryside carrying the promise of Xi Jinping’s “Chinese dream” as a ca…
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Shlomo Pereira, "Monuments de Papel E Pergaminho: Hebrew Printing in Portugal at the End of the 15th Century" (Chabad Portugal Press, 2025)
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51:39Rabbi Professor Shomo Pereira discussed his book "Monuments of Paper and Parchment: Hebrew Printing in Portugal in the Late 15th Century." He explained that while Portugal lacks physical Jewish monuments due to natural disasters, earthquakes, and persecution, the book highlights the country's rich Jewish history through its manuscript and printing …
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Filip Kovacevic, "KGB Literati: Spy Fiction and State Security in the Soviet Union" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
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51:57KGB Literati: Spy Fiction and State Security in the Soviet Union (University of Toronto Press, 2025) offers a first-ever glimpse into the mysterious and long-ignored world and work of Soviet spies- and counterspies-turned-writers. Once out of active service, many former spies have turned to writing spy fiction. They drop the dagger and pick up the …
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Colin Williamson, "Drawn to Nature: American Animation in the Age of Science" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
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51:40What do technical renderings of plant cells in trees have to do with Disney’s animated opus Fantasia? Quite a bit, as it turns out: such emergent scientific models and ideas about nature were an important inspiration for Disney’s groundbreaking animated realism. In Drawn to Nature: American Animation in the Age of Science (University of Minnesota P…
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Jeremiah Joven Joaquin and James Franklin eds., "The Necessities Underlying Reality: Connecting Philosophy of Mathematics, Ethics and Probability" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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55:15The Necessities Underlying Reality: Connecting Philosophy of Mathematics, Ethics and Probability (Bloomsbury, 2025) is an open access book that covers four decades of work by the leading Australian philosopher, mathematician and historian of ideas, James Franklin. These interlinking essays are connected by a core theme: the necessary structures in …
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Thomas Manuel Ortiz, "Why We Struggle to Go Green: Hard Truths about the Clean Energy Transition" (Texas A&M Press, 2025)
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45:01Clean energy won’t save us from the effects of climate change. Amid corporate Net Zero campaigns, the politics of the Green New Deal, and the calls to abandon fossil fuels for renewable technology — or vice versa — lies a troubling truth: No clean technological solutions can solve the problem of human-induced climate change. To find a credible path…
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Brittany Michelle Friedman, "Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons" (UNC Press, 2025)
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1:04:30It is impossible to deny the impact of lies and white supremacy on the institutional conditions in US prisons. There is a particular power dynamic of racist intent in the prison system that culminates in what Brittany Friedman terms "carceral apartheid." Prisons are a microcosm of how carceral apartheid operates as a larger governing strategy to de…
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Weila Gong, "Implementing a Low-Carbon Future: Climate Leadership in Chinese Cities" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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42:49This episode explores what China’s subnational climate experiments tell us about the possibilities and limits of climate leadership in an era of intensified geopolitics. We discuss how China’s domestic governance dynamics matter for international climate cooperation and competition, especially as Chinese actors become central in the global low-carb…
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Scott D. Seligman, "The Great Christmas Boycott Of 1906: Antisemitism and the Battle Over Christianity in the Public Schools" (U Nebraska Press, 2025)
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39:08Today’s battles over Christianity in U.S. public schools have deep roots. In the nineteenth century, disputes were largely between Protestants and later-arriving Catholics, but in 1905 Jews entered the conflict in a dramatic way. That Christmas, Frank Harding, a Presbyterian principal in Brooklyn, urged his Jewish students to be more like Jesus. Fo…
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Samuel Helfont, "The Iraq Wars: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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1:02:15American wars in Iraq were a defining feature of global politics for almost thirty years. The Gulf War of 1991, the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, and the campaign against the Islamic State beginning in 2014 each had their own logic. Each occurrence was a distinct conflict; however they must not only be considered in isolation. The United State…
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Andrea Maraschi and Francesca Tasca, "Food, Heresies, and Magical Boundaries in the Middle Ages (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
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51:22In Food, Heresies, and Magical Boundaries in the Middle Ages (Amsterdam UP, 2024) by Dr. Andrea Maraschi & Dr. Francesca Tasca, readers will find stories about medieval heresies and “magic” from an unusual perspective: that of food studies. The time span ranges from Late Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages, while the geographical scope includes regio…
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