Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, "The Quantified Scholar: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences" (Columbia UP, 2022)
How do metrics and quantification shape social science? In The Quantified Scholar: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences (Columbia UP, 2022), Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, an Ass...
26 Sep 202242min
NBN Classic: Theodor Adorno, "The Authoritarian Personality" (Verso, 2019)
This episode proved remarkably popular, so we're reposting it as an NBN classic for those who missed it the first time. 70 years ago, the philosopher Theodore Adorno and a team of scholars released a ...
25 Sep 20221h 14min
NBN Classic: Zahi Zalloua, "Žižek on Race: Towards an Anti-Racist Future" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
This episode proved remarkably popular, so we're reposting it as an NBN classic for those who missed it the first time. The Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek’s prolific quips on v...
25 Sep 202239min
NBN Classic: Adrian Johnston, "A New German Idealism: Hegel, Žižek and Dialectical Materialism" (Columbia UP, 2018)
This episode proved remarkably popular, so we're reposting it as an NBN classic for those who missed it the first time. In 2012, the world-renowned philosopher, psychoanalyst and cultural critic Slavo...
24 Sep 20221h 58min
NBN Classic: Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
This episode proved remarkably popular, so we're reposting it as an NBN classic for those who missed it the first time. How does the world of book reviews work? In Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Rev...
24 Sep 202242min
On Karl Marx's "The Communist Manifesto"
1848 was the Year of Revolutions in Europe. It was also the year that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published The Communist Manifesto, proposing a new, classless society. As revolutions erupted acros...
23 Sep 202230min
Doug Greene, "Failure of Vision: Michael Harrington and the Limits of Democratic Socialism" (Zero Books, 2022)
The Democratic Socialists of America have exploded in the last few years, going from just a couple thousand members to close to a hundred thousand. This was from a combination of factors; two insurgen...
23 Sep 20221h 12min
Yarimar Bonilla ed. et al., "Trouillot Remixed: The Michel-Rolph Trouillot Reader" (Duke UP, 2021)
Throughout his career, the internationally renowned Haitian anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot unsettled key concepts in anthropology, history, postcolonial studies, Black studies, Caribbean studie...
23 Sep 20221h 4min
