Episodes

Ethan Warren

161 One Battle After Another: A West Newton Cinema Discussion with Peter Coviello and Ethan Warren (JP)

December 4, 2025

Hannah Arendt

160* Hannah Arendt’s Refugee Politics (JP)

November 20, 2025

David Cunningham

159 Glenn Patterson: You Can Choose Who You Are (JP, DC)

October 30, 2025November 7, 2025

Ben Fountain

158* Ben Fountain in Dark Times (JP)

October 16, 2025November 20, 2025

Benjamin Mangrum

157 Mangrum’s Comical Computation (JP)

October 2, 2025November 20, 2025

Merve Emre

156* Recall This B-Side: Merve Emre on Natalia Ginzburg’s “The Dry Heart”

September 19, 2025October 16, 2025

ethnonationalism

155 Lyndsey Stonebridge on Hannah Arendt’s Lessons on Love and Disobedience (JP)

September 4, 2025October 16, 2025

Novel Dialogue

154* Planetary Boundaries are Non-Negotiable: Kim Stanley Robinson (Elizabeth Miller, JP)

August 7, 2025October 16, 2025

Hannah Arendt

153. What Hannah Arendt Has to Teach Us about Anticipatory Despair (JP)

July 4, 2025October 16, 2025

academe

152 Why I Paneled: A Backwards Glance by Kristin Mahoney and Nasser Mufti (JP)

June 7, 2025October 16, 2025

academe

151 Why I Panel, Part One: Kristin Mahoney, Nasser Mufti (JP)

June 5, 2025June 6, 2025

Brandeis Colleagues in conversation

150* Steve McCauley on Barbara Pym: The Comic Novel Explored and Adored (JP)

May 15, 2025

ethnonationalism

149 “I have not Finished…” Rokhaya Diallo on being Black, Muslim, and frequently interrupted (Emilie Diouf, JP)

May 2, 2025May 2, 2025

Albion Lawrence conversation

148* Albion Lawrence: Scientists Cooperate while Humanists Ruminate (EF, JP)

April 17, 2025

Anthropology

147 Ieva Jusionyte on U.S. Guns in Mexico: Exit Wounds [EF, JP]

April 3, 2025April 3, 2025

Ancient History

146* Peter Brown on wealth, charity and managerial bishops in early Christianity (JP)

March 20, 2025April 18, 2025

Ajantha Subramanian

145 Violent Majorities 2.3 Long-Distance Ethnonationalism Roundup (LA, AS, JP)

March 6, 2025April 18, 2025

Ajantha Subramanian

144 Violent Majorities 2.2 Subir Sinha on Hindutva as Long-Distance Ethnonationalism

February 20, 2025April 18, 2025

Ajantha Subramanian

143 Violent Majorities 2.1: Peter Beinart on long-distance Israeli ethnonationalism (LA, AS) 

February 6, 2025April 18, 2025

#Greg Childs

142* Greg Childs on seditious conspiracy (EF, JP)

January 23, 2025April 18, 2025

Avi Shlaim

141 The Hyphen Unites: Avi Shlaim on Arab-Jewish Life (Yuval Evri, JP)

January 3, 2025April 18, 2025

Animal Studies

140* Octopus World: Other Minds with Peter Godfrey-Smith (EF, JP)

December 19, 2024April 18, 2025

Animal Studies

139 Recall This Story: Ivan Kreilkamp on Sylvia Townsend Warner’s “Foxcastle” (JP)

December 5, 2024April 18, 2025

David Cunningham

138c. What Just Happened? David Cunningham (Herbert Hoover gave us Woody Guthrie)

November 23, 2024December 6, 2024

sociology

138b. What Just Happened? Vincent Brown (Ronald Reagan Gave Us Punk Rock)

November 22, 2024December 6, 2024

Mark Byth

138a. What Just Happened? Mark Blyth (An Existential Fight between Green and Carbon Assets)

November 21, 2024December 6, 2024

Animal Studies

137 David Peña-Guzmán: Animals dream, which makes them morally considerable (JP)

October 31, 2024December 6, 2024

Beth Blum and Self-Help

136* Beth Blum on Self-Help, Dale Carnegie to Today (JP)

October 17, 2024October 29, 2024

Linda Schlossberg

135.2 Recall This Story: Part 2 of Linda Schlossberg on Alice Munro’s “Miles City, Montana” (JP)

October 4, 2024October 29, 2024

Linda Schlossberg

135.1 Recall This Story: Part 1 of Linda Schlossberg reading and discussing Alice Munro’s “Miles City, Montana” (JP)

October 3, 2024October 29, 2024

Anne Enright

134* Etherized: Anne Enright in a Novel Dialogue conversation (Paige Reynolds, JP)

September 19, 2024October 29, 2024

Beri Marusic

133 Beri Marusic on Grief and other Expiring Emotions (Katie Elliott, JP)

September 5, 2024October 29, 2024

Brandeis Colleagues in conversation

132* Policing and White Power with David Cunningham and Daniel Kryder

August 15, 2024September 10, 2024

ethnonationalism

131 Shaul Magid on the Jewish Radicalism of Meir Kahane (JP, Eugene Sheppard)

August 1, 2024September 10, 2024

Adaner Usmani

130* Adaner Usmani, Racism as Power Relation (EF, JP)

July 5, 2024September 10, 2024

Anthropology

129* Vince Brown, Vectors ( EF, JP)

June 6, 2024September 10, 2024

Author interviews

128 Recall This Story: Steve McCauley excavates John Cheever’s “The Five-Forty-Eight” (JP)

May 9, 2024June 8, 2024

Helena De Bres

127* Helena De Bres on Life-Writing (JP, EF)

April 19, 2024May 12, 2024

Author interviews

126 E.G. Condé / Steve Gonzalez on Hurricanes, Fiction, and Speculative Ethnography (EF)

April 4, 2024May 12, 2024

Uncategorized

125*David Ferry, Roger Reeves, and the Underworld

March 21, 2024May 12, 2024

ethnonationalism

124 The Reeducation of Race with Sonali Thakkar (JP)

March 7, 2024May 12, 2024

Author interviews

123* Sheila Heti speaks about awe with Sunny Yudkoff (JP)

February 16, 2024

Brandeis Colleagues in conversation

122 The Culture Trap, with sociologist Derron Wallace (EF, JP)

February 1, 2024May 12, 2024

Ajantha Subramanian

121* Ajantha Subramanian on the Caste of Merit (EF,JP)

January 18, 2024June 8, 2024

Ajantha Subramanian

120 Violent Majorities Roundup (Ajantha, Lori, JP)

January 4, 2024June 8, 2024

Ajantha Subramanian

119 Violent Majorities, Indian and Israeli Ethnonationalism. Episode 2: Natasha Roth-Rowland (with Lori, Ajantha)

December 14, 2023June 8, 2024

Ajantha Subramanian

118 Violent Majorities, Indian and Israeli Ethnonationalism. Episode 1: Balmurli Natrajan (with Lori Allen and Ajantha Subramanian)

December 7, 2023June 8, 2024

Global Policing

117* Laurence Ralph Reckons With Police Violence (EF, JP)

November 16, 2023June 8, 2024

Anthropology

116 “We are all latecomers”: Martin Puchner’s Culture (JP, EF)

November 2, 2023June 8, 2024

Rebroadcast

115* Sanjay Krishnan on V. S. Naipaul: To make the Deformation the Formation (JP)

October 19, 2023June 8, 2024

Book History

114 John Guillory Professes Criticism (JP, Nick Dames)

October 5, 2023June 8, 2024

Brandeis Colleagues in conversation

113* David Cunningham, January 6th and Asymmetrical Policing (JP, EF)

September 21, 2023June 8, 2024

Anthropology

112 Earthsea, and other realms: Ursula Le Guin as social inactivist (EF, JP, [UKL])

September 7, 2023June 8, 2024

Author interviews

111* Samuel R Delany, Nevèrÿon and beyond (JP)

August 17, 2023June 8, 2024

Author interviews

110* Novel Dialogue: Joshua Cohen (JP, Eugene Sheppard)

August 4, 2023August 17, 2023

Adaner Usmani

109* Recall This Buck with Thomas Piketty (JP, Adaner)

July 20, 2023August 17, 2023

Chris Desan

108* Desan on Making Money (Recall This Buck )

July 6, 2023July 21, 2023

Art

107* Electro-Library with Jared Green (EF, JP)

June 15, 2023July 21, 2023

Collaboration

106 Musical Collaboration: Francisco del Pino (JP)

June 1, 2023June 8, 2023

Books In Dark Times

105* David Plotz: Books in Dark Times (JP)

May 18, 2023June 8, 2023

Collaboration

104 Steve Fainaru and Mark Fainaru-Wada: Journalistic Collaboration (JP)

May 4, 2023June 8, 2023

Books In Dark Times

103* Elizabeth Bradfield in Dark Times (JP)

April 20, 2023May 7, 2023

Podcast

102 Sassan Tabatabai: poetry, observation, and form (EF, JP)

April 6, 2023April 13, 2023

Anthropology

101* Chris Walley on Deindustrialization (EF, JP)

March 9, 2023April 13, 2023

Anthropology

100 Nuclear Ghosts: Ryo Morimoto (EF, JP)

March 2, 2023April 13, 2023

data visualization

99* Gael McGill Visualizes Data (JP)

February 16, 2023April 13, 2023

data visualization

98 Horton’s Cosmic Zoom Room (EF, JP)

February 2, 2023April 13, 2023

Books In Dark Times

97* Lorraine Daston Books In Dark Times (JP)

January 19, 2023April 13, 2023

History of Science

96 Lorraine Daston Rules the World (EF, JP)

January 5, 2023January 19, 2023

Author interviews

95* Kim Stanley Robinson, Books in Dark Times (JP)

December 15, 2022January 19, 2023

Uncategorized

94 Elizabeth Kolbert on the Nature of the Future (GT, JP,NS, HY)

December 2, 2022January 19, 2023

populism

93* Quinn Slobodian on Ethnonationalism since 1973 (JP, EF)

November 17, 2022January 19, 2023

Anthropology

92 Janet McIntosh on “Let’s Go Brandon,” QAnon and alt-right language (EF, JP)

November 3, 2022January 19, 2023

Uncategorized

91* Leah Price on Children’s Books: Turning Back the Clock on “Adulting” (EF, JP)

October 20, 2022November 15, 2022

Uncategorized

90 Virtual Reality as Immersive Enclosure, with Paul Roquet (EF, JP)

October 6, 2022November 15, 2022

Author interviews

89* Charles Yu with Chris Fan: The Work of Inhabiting a Role (Novel Dialogue Crossover, JP)

September 15, 2022November 15, 2022

Filmmakers

88 Underwater Eye: Margaret Cohen explores the Film Aquatic (JP)

September 1, 2022September 15, 2022

Filmmakers

*87 In Focus: Mike Leigh (JP)

August 18, 2022September 15, 2022

Author interviews

86 Dana Stevens Keaton (JP EF)

August 4, 2022September 15, 2022

Author interviews

*85 Pu Wang and JP unpack their Cixin Liu interview

July 21, 2022August 16, 2022