All Episodes

The Subversive Power of Literature

Where America Begins

America’s Fundamental Myths and Narratives

Injured Innocence and Violent Nostalgia

"We should pay more attention to perspectives."

“How Will We Know…That the Baltimore Police Department Has Turned a Corner?”

[Re-Release] “Why are you talking about this essay that you never talk about?”

"I always knew I loved you, E. B. White."

The First Black Woman to Become a Federal Judge

The Private Investigator Behind America’s First Title IX Case

Piranesi & Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“For what, for what, for what?”

What Neanderthals and Other Ancient Hominins Teach Us About Being Human

How do you write a trailblazing woman back into history after her iconic colleagues wrote her out?

Why Is a Great Gray Owl like a Victorian Ear Trumpet?

The “Bad and Putrid” Disneyfication of Bambi

“A Burning Desire to Know What Happens Next”

The Most Critically Acclaimed Cookbook of the Year

The “Morally Fraught Endeavor” of War

What Makes Us Human?