Ep. 47 – A Cultural History of Extraordinary Bodies
February 15, 2018
How have we used size to judge people over time? What is the history of size in popular culture? Lynne Vallone discusses how bodies both big and small influence our… READ MORE
Category: Humanities
Workers of the World
February 13, 2018
Niall Kishtainy— A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of communism.’ This is the first line of The Communist Manifesto, which was written in the middle of the nineteenth century and… READ MORE
Leaving Gracefully
February 12, 2018
Mark C. Taylor— Far too many people today have forgotten how to leave, and so stay on, and on, and on until they become a burden to others. Though leaving… READ MORE
The Other Middle East
February 10, 2018
Franck Salameh— Middle East specialists of a hundred years ago have traditionally been philologists trained in a dozen or more Middle Eastern languages, including Latin and Greek, but also the… READ MORE
Stephen Mitchell on Translation and Beowulf
February 4, 2018
Stephen Mitchell— I backed into translation. As a young man at Yale Graduate School, dealing with a first heartbreak, I became fascinated with the Book of Job. What thrilled and… READ MORE
Cold War Maps to “Wake Up” Southeast Asian Buddhists
December 22, 2017
Eugene Ford— It took me a year to sort through volumes of Thai religious journals in the sometimes sweltering halls of Bangkok’s monastic libraries, where the few Western researchers sat… READ MORE
How Do We Know What’s True?
November 28, 2017
Janna R. White & Wendy Hasenkamp— In May 2016 the Wall Street Journal published an interactive online tool called “Blue Feed, Red Feed” that allowed one to see the dueling… READ MORE
The Skin of Chaos —The Letters of Adonis and Adel Abdessemed (part 3)
November 21, 2017
This is part three of a three-part series. Read part one and two. World-renowned poet Adonis and award-winning artist Adel Abdessemed present a record of their passionate conversations in Paris in… READ MORE
Inside Our Awakening Universe
November 17, 2017
John F. Haught— Scientists now know that the universe is a story still unfolding. Geology, biology, cosmology, and other sciences have demonstrated that our Big Bang universe is almost 14… READ MORE
The Skin of Chaos —The Letters of Adonis and Adel Abdessemed (part 2)
November 14, 2017
This is part two of a three-part series. Read part one and three. World-renowned poet Adonis and award-winning artist Adel Abdessemed present a record of their passionate conversations in Paris in… READ MORE
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