The Intellectual

Podcast : University of Minnesota Press (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : Biological existence and its theoretical complexities. Pub date : 2026-09-11 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Evolutionary biologist Richard Lewontin argued that organisms do not adapt to their environments, but rather that organisms and environments c...

Podcast : On the Nose (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : Naza and the Function of Perpetrator Cinema Pub date : 2026-10-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Naza , a film by Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, features interviews with 24 members of elite intelligence units in the Israeli military describing the me...

Podcast : The Political Theory Review (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : Episode 218: Peter Verovsek - Juergen Habermas Pub date : 2026-09-23 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization A conversation with Peter Verovsek about his recent book "Juergen Habermas: Public Intellectual and Engaged Critical Theorist" (Columbia UP). The podcast...

Podcast : The LRB Podcast (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : What’s the point of literary criticism? Pub date : 2026-09-18 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization As universities are cutting English degree programmes and ever fewer people are taking English A-level, Colin Burrow isn't the only one asking ‘what’s the point of litera...

Podcast : New Books in Law (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : Mélanie Lamotte, "By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire" (Harvard UP, 2026) Pub date : 2026-09-07 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization From the beginning of the seventeenth century, French colonies and trading posts sprawled across t...

Podcast : Dan Snow's History Hit (LS 76 · TOP 0.01% what is this? ) Episode : The Rise & Fall of Babylon Pub date : 2026-09-03 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Babylon has a PR problem, and it's 2,600 years in the making. The Bible remembers it as the ultimate city of sin, the place that crushed Jerusalem and dragged the Jewish peopl...

Podcast : The Final Straw Radio (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : Clare Follman on Humans in Nature and How We Imagine Belonging Pub date : 2026-08-02 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization This week we're sharing a conversation with Clare Follman, a writer, activist and gardener with a masters in environmental science about her 20...

Podcast : The Documentary Podcast (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : Raiders of the lost art Pub date : 2026-08-18 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization What do the stolen love letters of John Keats have to do with homicide on the streets of New York? Prosecuting both crimes falls under the remit of assistant district attorney M...

Podcast : Historically Thinking (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this? ) Episode : Corn Syrup: Brian Leech does local history, regional history, labor history, technological history, environmental history, and food history Pub date : 2026-07-29 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In early 1965, three executives boarded a plane in Japan, bound...

Podcast : Queer Lit (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : “Cisgender” with Perry Zurn Pub date : 2026-07-20 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Who coined the term cis and why are some people calling it a slur? Amazing return guest Perry Zurn joins me to discuss what the concept of cis does, why it’s helpful to look at its origins a...

Podcast : Free Thinking (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : The Ethics of Knowledge Pub date : 2026-07-10 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Do we have a responsibility to inform ourselves about the state of the world? Is the experience of some people valued more highly than that of others? Matthew Sweet investigates the ethics...

Podcast : New Books in Literary Studies (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this? ) Episode : Rachel Silveri, "The Art of Living in Avant-Garde Paris: Ethics and Self-Making in Dada, Simultanism, and Surrealism" (U Chicago Press, 2026) Pub date : 2026-07-04 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization With  The Art of Living in Avant-Garde Paris: Ethics an...

Podcast : Accidental Gods - The Thrutopian Podcast (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Design for the Ineffable: Crafting a Flourishing world with Dr Jenna Mikus Pub date : 2026-07-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization How do we encourage human flourishing? How, in fact, do we make the thriving of all 8 billion humans and the M...

Podcast : The afikra Podcast (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this? ) Episode : How Egypt Used Theater to Fight British Occupation | Prof. Carmen Gitre Pub date : 2026-06-22 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Theatrical stages often mirror the intricate evolution of the societies that build them. Professor Carmen Gitre explores the burgeoning...

Podcast : New Books in Gender (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : Karl Whittington, "Queer Making: On Artists and Desire in Medieval Europe" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2025) Pub date : 2026-06-15 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Karl Whittington joins Jana Byars to talk about his new book,   Queer Making: On Artists and Desire in...

Podcast : CrowdScience (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Do plants have personalities? Pub date : 2026-06-05 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization CrowdScience listener George is showing Alex Lathbridge around a small, dark, and extremely hot shed, just outside the city of Accra in Ghana. Inside are row after row of shelves, sta...

Podcast : Momus: The Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this? ) Episode : Abbas Akhavan – Season 9, Episode 5 Pub date : 2026-05-27 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization This episode features Abbas Akhavan , a Tehran-born artist based between Montreal and Berlin, who is representing Canada at this year’s Venice Biennale. In a conversation re...

Podcast : The Sobremesa Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this? ) Episode : Conquistadors and Culture Wars Pub date : 2026-05-28 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Last month Madrid’s right wing regional premier Isabel Ayuso took it upon herself to travel to Mexico on an official visit so as to lecture the Mexican public about their own...

Podcast : New Books in Business, Management, and Marketing Episode : Nayantara Srinivasan, "The Brick-and-Mortar Bookstore in Contemporary India" (Cambridge UP, 2025) Pub date : 2026-05-17 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The Brick-and-Mortar Bookstore in Contemporary India  (Cambridge UP, 2025) explores the landscape of anglophone trade bo...

Podcast : The Culture Journalist (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : The slow cancellation of the future: A Mark Fisher primer Pub date : 2026-05-08 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization CUJO is a podcast about culture in the age of platforms. Episodes drop every other week, but if you want the full experience, we recommend signing...

Podcast : After Words (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : The 1990s Golden Era of Black Sitcoms Pub date : 2026-05-03 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization PBS Newshour co-anchor Geoff Bennett talks about the history of Black comedy in America and its impact on culture and politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone....

Podcast : KPFA - Against the Grain (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : Science Fiction and the Far Right Pub date : 2026-04-27 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Fiction that imagines alternate futures is often associated with the left — with writers like Octavia Butler and Ursula LeGuin. But the tropes of science fiction are wel...

Podcast : In Our Time (LS 74 · TOP 0.01% what is this? ) Episode : Dadaism Pub date : 2026-04-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Misha Glenny and guests discuss the provocative artistic phenomenon that first startled audiences in 1916 in Zurich. There, at the Cabaret Voltaire at the Holländische Meierei on the Spiegelgasse, Emmy Hen...

Podcast : The Iris Murdoch Society podcast (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : Comyns, Murdoch, du Maurier, and the Gothic Podcast Pub date : 2026-04-04 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode Miles discusses the mid-twentieth century gothic novel with a particular focus on Daphne du Maurier, Barbara Comyns and, of cou...

Podcast : Intelligence Squared (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : How deeply was the British Crown involved in the transatlantic slave trade? With author of The Crown’s Silence, Brooke Newman Pub date : 2026-03-29 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization How deeply was the British Crown involved in the transatlantic slave trade? New...