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The Intellectual
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A curated playlist of the best new podcasts on arts & culture. Powered by The Syllabus. (To see the articles, books, reports and videos that are also part of The Intellectual, check out our site: the-syllabus.com)
Episodes
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Biological existence and its theoretical complexities.
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...
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Naza and the Function of Perpetrator Cinema
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...
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Episode 218: Peter Verovsek - Juergen Habermas
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...
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What’s the point of literary criticism?
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…
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Mélanie Lamotte, "By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire" (Harvard UP, 2026)
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...
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The Rise & Fall of Babylon
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…
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Clare Follman on Humans in Nature and How We Imagine Belonging
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…
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Raiders of the lost art
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…
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Corn Syrup: Brian Leech does local history, regional history, labor history, technological history, environmental history, and food history
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...
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“Cisgender” with Perry Zurn
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...
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The Ethics of Knowledge
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…
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Rachel Silveri, "The Art of Living in Avant-Garde Paris: Ethics and Self-Making in Dada, Simultanism, and Surrealism" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
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...
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Design for the Ineffable: Crafting a Flourishing world with Dr Jenna Mikus
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…
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How Egypt Used Theater to Fight British Occupation | Prof. Carmen Gitre
Podcast: The afikra Podcast (LS 42 · 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...
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Karl Whittington, "Queer Making: On Artists and Desire in Medieval Europe" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2025)
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...
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Do plants have personalities?
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...
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Abbas Akhavan – Season 9, Episode 5
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...
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Conquistadors and Culture Wars
Podcast: The Sobremesa Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?) Episode: Conquistadors and Culture Wars Pub date: 2026-06-06 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…
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Nayantara Srinivasan, "The Brick-and-Mortar Bookstore in Contemporary India" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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...
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The slow cancellation of the future: A Mark Fisher primer
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....
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The 1990s Golden Era of Black Sitcoms
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...
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Science Fiction and the Far Right
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...
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Dadaism
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....
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Comyns, Murdoch, du Maurier, and the Gothic Podcast
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...
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How deeply was the British Crown involved in the transatlantic slave trade? With author of The Crown’s Silence, Brooke Newman
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...
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Why Did The Salem Witch Trials Happen? (with Stacy Schiff)
Podcast: Ivory Tower Boiler Room (LS 30 · TOP 5% 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!...
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The Ethics of Seeing in Susan Sontag’s “On Photography” (Part 2)
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...
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Nicholas Fox Weber on Anni Albers
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…
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Paramount, Warner Bros. and How Monopolies Ruin Everything
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…
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Episode 134: Non-Boring History
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...
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S09E11 Performing Knowledge- Pedagogy, Institutions, and Speculative Frameworks PART 2
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…
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Areum Jeong, "K-Pop Fandom: Performing Deokhu from the 1990s to Today" (U Michigan Press, 2026)
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...
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Xica Manicongo
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,...
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Is Culture Stuck?
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,...
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Quantum History w/ Slavoj Žižek
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…
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127 | Hayden White's Forms of History
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...
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Episode 194: David Wiens - From the Best to the Rest
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...
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The Stiliagi
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...
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Ikarie XB-1: 1963 Communist Utopia in Space
Podcast: Every Single Sci-Fi Film Ever* (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?) Episode: Ikarie XB-1: 1963 Communist Utopia in Space Pub date: 2025-12-07 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization As always there are spoilers ahead! We've discussed Czech scifi...
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Joana Vasconcelos: Mask of mirrors
Podcast: The Documentary Podcast (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?) Episode: Joana Vasconcelos: Mask of mirrors Pub date: 2025-12-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos is renowned for her large-scale…
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Adam Przeworski Asks Who Decides What is Democratic
Podcast: Democracy Paradox (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?) Episode: Adam Przeworski Asks Who Decides What is Democratic Pub date: 2025-11-26 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The biggest disappointment is that democracies do not reduce social…
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Producing Knowledge on Palestine feat. Dana El Kurd
Podcast: It Could Happen Here (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?) Episode: Producing Knowledge on Palestine feat. Dana El Kurd Pub date: 2025-11-20 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Dana El Kurd speaks with professor, author, historian, and...
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Indigenous filmmaking and futures
Podcast: University of Minnesota Press (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?) Episode: Indigenous filmmaking and futures Pub date: 2025-11-05 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization What lives in the spaces between dreams and apocalypse? Two authors discuss...
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Surrealism and selfhood
Podcast: University of Minnesota Press (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?) Episode: Surrealism and selfhood Pub date: 2025-10-28 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In interwar Paris, the encounter between surrealism and the nascent discipline of...
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Alice Lovejoy, "Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War" (U California Press, 2025)
Podcast: New Books in the History of Science (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?) Episode: Alice Lovejoy, "Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War" (U California Press, 2025) Pub date: 2025-10-23 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and...
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The Frankfurt Book Fair
Podcast: Ones and Tooze (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?) Episode: The Frankfurt Book Fair Pub date: 2025-10-17 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Adam is attending the Frankfurt Book Fair this week. He and Cameron discuss the history of the fair…
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José Miguel Palacios on Transnational Cinema Solidarity: Chilean Exile Film and Video after 1973
Podcast: Conversations in Atlantic Theory Episode: José Miguel Palacios on Transnational Cinema Solidarity: Chilean Exile Film and Video after 1973 Pub date: 2025-10-07 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Dr.José Miguel Palacios is an Assistant...
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EP. 797: WHY AMERICA STILL NEEDS PUNK ROCK ft. GRANT WONG
Podcast: THIS IS REVOLUTION ＞podcast (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?) Episode: EP. 797: WHY AMERICA STILL NEEDS PUNK ROCK ft. GRANT WONG Pub date: 2025-10-02 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Read Grant's article here:...
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The rise of Indigenous cinema
Podcast: Unreserved (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?) Episode: The rise of Indigenous cinema Pub date: 2025-09-19 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Tired of the “leather and feather roles” of Hollywood, Eva Thomas headed home to Canada where she…
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POP LIFE EP. 53: A CRITIQUE OF DESIRE w/ RUSSELL SBRIGLIA
Podcast: THIS IS REVOLUTION ＞podcast (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?) Episode: POP LIFE EP. 53: A CRITIQUE OF DESIRE w/ RUSSELL SBRIGLIA Pub date: 2025-09-18 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Listen to Misconstruity here:...
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