Podcast Breaking the Mold July 05, 2024 The whole world has a stake in India鈥檚 future, and that future hinges on whether India can develop its economy and deliver for its population鈥攏ow the world鈥檚 largest鈥攚hile staying democratic. Read More
Podcast How to Be Queer June 14, 2024 How to Be Queer is an infatuating collection of these writings about desire, love, and lust between men, between women, and between humans and gods, in lucid and lively new translations. Read More
Podcast Puerto Rico May 24, 2024 Jorell Mel茅ndez-Badillo provides a new history of Puerto Rico that gives voice to the archipelago鈥檚 people while offering a lens through which to understand the political, economic, and social challenges confronting them today. Read More
Podcast Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America May 23, 2024 A compelling history that mixes seriousness and humor, Slouch is a unique and provocative account of the unexpected origins of our largely unquestioned ideas about bad posture. Read More
Podcast Natural Magic May 20, 2024 Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known as natural philosophy, a pastime for poets, priests, and schoolgirls. Read More
Podcast The Beauty of Falling April 19, 2024 While many of us presume to know gravity quite well, the brightest scientists in history have yet to fully answer the simple question: what exactly is gravity? De Rham reveals how great minds鈥攆rom Newton and Einstein to Stephen Hawking, Andrea Ghez, and Roger Penrose鈥攍ed her to the edge of knowledge about this fundamental force. Read More
Podcast AI Needs You March 12, 2024 Artificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AI鈥檚 power grows, so does the need to figure out what鈥攁nd who鈥攖his technology is really for. AI Needs You argues that it is critical for society to take the lead in answering this urgent question and ensuring that AI fulfills its promise. Read More
Podcast A Real Right to Vote February 21, 2024 Throughout history, too many Americans have been disenfranchised or faced needless barriers to voting. Part of the blame falls on the Constitution, which does not contain an affirmative right to vote. Read More
Podcast Making Democracy Count February 16, 2024 What鈥檚 the best way to determine what most voters want when multiple candidates are running? What鈥檚 the fairest way to allocate legislative seats to different constituencies? What鈥檚 the least distorted way to draw voting districts? Read More
Podcast Words and Distinctions for the Common Good February 12, 2024 Social scientists do research on a variety of topics鈥攇ender, capitalism, populism, and race and ethnicity, among others. They make descriptive and explanatory claims about empathy, intelligence, neoliberalism, and power. Read More
Podcast How to Be Healthy January 22, 2024 The second-century Greek physician Galen鈥攖he most famous doctor in antiquity after Hippocrates鈥攊s a central figure in Western medicine. Read More
Podcast The Struggle for the People鈥檚 King January 12, 2024 In the post鈥揷ivil rights era, wide-ranging groups have made civil rights claims that echo those made by Black civil rights activists of the 1960s, from people with disabilities to women鈥檚 rights activists and聽LGBTQ聽coalitions. Read More
Podcast Chinese Cosmopolitanism January 08, 2024 Historically, the Western encounter with difference has been catastrophic: the extermination and displacement of aboriginal populations, the transatlantic slave trade, and colonialism. Read More
Podcast How We Age January 05, 2024 All of us would like to live longer, or to slow the debilitating effects of age. In聽How We Age, Coleen Murphy shows how recent research on longevity and aging may be bringing us closer to this goal. Read More
Podcast Our Compelling Interests December 14, 2023 It is clear that in our society today, issues of diversity and social connectedness remain deeply unresolved and can lead to crisis and instability. The major demographic changes taking place in America make discussions about such issues all the more imperative. Read More
