42 Podcast Episodes
Mae Ngai, "The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
Mae Ngai, "The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
Between 1848 and 1899, miners extracted more gold from the earth than in the previous 3,000 years of human history combi... Read more
4 Jul 2022
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50mins
Frans de Waal, "Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
Frans de Waal, "Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
In Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist (W. W. Norton, 2022), world-renowned primatologist Frans de Waa... Read more
27 Jun 2022
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54mins
Jennifer D. Sciubba, "8 Billion and Counting: How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
Jennifer D. Sciubba, "8 Billion and Counting: How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
As the world nears 8 billion people, the countries that have led the global order since World War II are becoming the mo... Read more
22 Jun 2022
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57mins
Jennifer D. Sciubba, "8 Billion and Counting: How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
Jennifer D. Sciubba, "8 Billion and Counting: How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
As the world nears 8 billion people, the countries that have led the global order since World War II are becoming the mo... Read more
22 Jun 2022
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57mins
Rachel E. Gross, "Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
Rachel E. Gross, "Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
A camera obscura reflects the world back but dimmer and inverted. Similarly, science has long viewed woman through a war... Read more
30 Mar 2022
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46mins
Rachel E. Gross, "Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
Rachel E. Gross, "Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
Vagina Obscura: an anatomical voyage by Rachel E. GrossA myth-busting voyage into the female body.A camera obscura refle... Read more
30 Mar 2022
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46mins
Benjamin T. Smith, "The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
Benjamin T. Smith, "The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
For over a century Mexico has been embroiled in a drug war dictated by the demands of their neighbor to the north. In Th... Read more
6 Aug 2021
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45mins
Benjamin T. Smith, "The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
Benjamin T. Smith, "The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
For over a century Mexico has been embroiled in a drug war dictated by the demands of their neighbor to the north. In Th... Read more
6 Aug 2021
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45mins
Benjamin T. Smith, "The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
Benjamin T. Smith, "The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
For over a century Mexico has been embroiled in a drug war dictated by the demands of their neighbor to the north. In Th... Read more
6 Aug 2021
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45mins
Rafia Zakaria, "Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
Rafia Zakaria, "Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
Elite white women have branded feminism, promising an apolitical individual empowerment along with sexual liberation and... Read more
27 Jul 2021
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53mins