24 RTB Books in Dark Times 1: Alex Star (JP)
“Books In Dark Times” takes its inspiration from Hannah Arendt’s Men in Dark Times, which proposes “That even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination, and that such illum...
26 Mars 202026min
23 Recall This Buck 1: Chris Desan on Making Money (EF, JP)
This is the first of several RTB episodes about the history of money. We are ranging from the earliest forms of labor IOUs to the modern world of bitcoin and electronically distributed value. Our idea...
20 Mars 202044min
9* Women in Political Power, with Manduhai Buyandelger (Rebroadcast, in honor of Elizabeth Warren)
As we prepare our mini-season on the history of money (Recall This Buck) we dive back into the archives for our very first Rebroadcast. And our first asterisk, too: was that the right symbol to use? T...
15 Mars 202041min
22 Ajantha Subramanian: Meritocracy, Caste, and Class (EF, JP)
Ajantha Subramanian‘s new book The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India is much more than simply an historical and ethnographic study of the elite Indian Institutes of Technology. John and E...
7 Feb 202047min
21 Silvia Bottinelli: Food, Art, Food Art!
Not long after Maurizio Cattelan taped a banana to the wall, John and Elizabeth met with Silvia Bottinelli from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts to talk about food as art and art as food. Silvia ...
17 Jan 202036min
20 The Drama of Celebrity with Sharon Marcus (JP)
John sits down with Columbia University professor Sharon Marcus to discuss her latest book, The Drama of Celebrity, a tour-de-force argument about how stars are born, publicized, and in time devoutly ...
19 Dec 201930min
19 Scientists, collaboration, and groupthink with Albion Lawrence (EF, JP)
In this episode John and Elizabeth sit down with Brandeis string theorist Albion Lawrence to discuss cooperation versus solitary study across disciplines. They sink their teeth into the question, “Why...
5 Dec 201936min
18 Fictional Empathy. Rita Felski and Namwali Serpell (with JP)
John travelled to Odense, Denmark for a conference called “Love Etc.” (RTB is for it…) and fell into this conversation about empathy, identification and “uncritical reading” with the novelist Namwali ...
15 Nov 201923min
