Excellent Excerpts: Moments in Compelling Nonfiction
The world is full of great, contemporary nonfiction that non-academics rarely hear about. In this podcast, I read excerpts from contemporary nonfiction works in history, politics, art, literary analysis, theology, philosophy and more in the hope of teasing you into pursuing the whole book.
Podcasting since 2020 • 6 episodes
Excellent Excerpts: Moments in Compelling Nonfiction
Latest Episodes
Episode 6 -- Quartz Pulsations, Castle Sieging, Basics of Critical Race Theory, and Elephant Resting
In this sixth episode, I read excerpts from the following texts:· *How We Got to Now: Six Innovation That Made the Modern World* by Steven Johnson· *Magna Carta: Th...
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Episode 5 -- Paranoia, Irony, Southern Triumph, and Wrestling with God
In the fifth episode, I read excerpts from the following texts:*The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory* by Jesse Walker*Ironic Life* by Richard Bernstein*How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Demo...
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Episode 4 -- Curiosity, Authoritarianism, Navajo hide out, Vodka Vodka
Episode 4In the fourth episode, I read excerpts from the following texts:*Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It,* by Ian Leslie – the ground of so much*Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lur...
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Episode 3 -- First Crusading, Working Fascism, Poetic Voice, Hawaiian Plantations, Gen. Washington's grief
In the third episode, I read excerpts from the following texts:*Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse,* by Jay Rubenstein – Christians out enemy-ing the enemy*How Fascism Works: The Politi...
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Episode 2 -- Democracies failing, Ballpark, Douglass, Victoria, Moby
In the second episode, I read excerpts from the following texts:*How Democracies Die* by Levitsky and Ziblatt -- here are the key signals for authoritarianism*Ballpark: Baseball in the American City* by Paul Goldber...
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