The Intellectual

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...

Podcast : Ivory Tower Boiler Room (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : Why Did The Salem Witch Trials Happen? (with Stacy Schiff) Pub date : 2026-03-22 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Watch this episode ad-free by joining the ITBR Patreon! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ----- Re-release time!...

Podcast : Subtext: Conversations about Classic Books and Films (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : The Ethics of Seeing in Susan Sontag’s “On Photography” (Part 2) Pub date : 2026-03-23 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Photography is a technology of contradictions. It is at once mechanical and mysterious, even magical. It furni...

Podcast : The Great Women Artists (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Nicholas Fox Weber on Anni Albers Pub date : 2026-03-11 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization TODAY on the GWA Podcast: the renowned art historian and writer, Nicholas Fox Weber discussing ANNI ALBERS! A graduate of Columbia College and Yale University, who rece...

Podcast : It Could Happen Here (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : Paramount, Warner Bros. and How Monopolies Ruin Everything Pub date : 2026-03-05 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Mia is joined by writer and activist Vicky Osterweil to talk about Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery and the grim, shocking...

Podcast : The Way of Improvement Leads Home: American History, Religion, Politics, and Academic life. (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this? ) Episode : Episode 134: Non-Boring History Pub date : 2026-02-25 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Annette Laing, a "proper historian" with a Ph. D. in the field, wants to dispel the myth that history...

Podcast : CAA Conversations (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : S09E11 Performing Knowledge- Pedagogy, Institutions, and Speculative Frameworks PART 2 Pub date : 2026-02-14 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In the second episode of this two-part conversation for CAA Conversations, multidisciplinary artists Lineadeluz (Darleen Ma...

Podcast : New Books Network (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : Areum Jeong, "K-Pop Fandom: Performing Deokhu from the 1990s to Today" (U Michigan Press, 2026) Pub date : 2026-02-10 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization K-Pop Fandom: Performing Deokhu from the 1990s to Today  (U Michigan Press, 2026) insists that K-pop fan practices...

Podcast : Historias Unknown (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : Xica Manicongo Pub date : 2026-02-05 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Xica Manicongo was one of the first to be targeted by the Brazilian inquisition and a trans woman. At least, today she is seen as a trans woman. She’s also known as Franscisco or Fransisca . She...

Podcast : Decoder Ring (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : Is Culture Stuck? Pub date : 2026-01-28 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization It’s a weird time for culture. There is more of it than ever before, it’s more accessible than ever before, but so little of it feels original. New movies are based on old stories, new songs are...

Podcast : Žižek And So On (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this? ) Episode : Quantum History w/ Slavoj Žižek Pub date : 2026-01-19 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK is back on the show to talk about his new book Quantum History: A New Materialist Philosophy. We’re talking Quantum Variations, Superposition, Wave Collapse, Catastr...

Podcast : What's Left of Philosophy (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : 127 | Hayden White's Forms of History Pub date : 2026-01-14 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode, we discuss the work of historian Hayden White. His provocative claim is that the practice is inescapably the practice of narrative forms to give...

Podcast : The Political Theory Review (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : Episode 194: David Wiens - From the Best to the Rest Pub date : 2026-01-06 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization A conversation with David Wiens about his recent book, "From the Best to the Rest: Idealistic Thinking in a Non-Ideal World" (Oxford UP). The podca...

Podcast : The Eurasian Knot (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : The Stiliagi Pub date : 2025-12-15 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization A new youth subculture emerged in the Soviet Union in the late 1940s and early 1950s–the Stiliagi. Roughly translated as “the stylish,” these youths, the majority of whom were men, wore flashy hair...