Best Robyn O Podcasts (2025)

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Book Talk 67 : The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science 1:10:01

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What is reliable knowledge? Listen to philosopher Michael Strevens, author of The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science, to understand how science discovers the truth. At the current moment, when expertise is under attack and the idea of truth is contested from all sides, Strevens explains the remarkable success of science’s “…

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Foluke Taylor, "Unruly Therapeutic: Black Feminist Writings and Practices in Living Room" (Norton, 2023) 1:06:33

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In 1977, The Combahee River Collective, a group of Black American feminists issued a statement communicating the harrowing following: “The psychological toll of being a Black woman…can never be underestimated. There is a low value placed on Black women’s psyches in this society, which is both racist and sexist. We are dispossessed psychologically a…

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Jess Reia, "Urban Music Governance: What Busking Can Teach Us about Data, Policy and Our Cities" (Intellect, 2025) 35:40

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What happens when precarious urban cultural laborers take data collection, laws, and policymaking into their own hands? Buskers have been part of our cities for hundreds of years, but they remain invisible to governments and in datasets. From nuisance to public art, this cultural practice can help us understand the politics of data collection, arch…

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Religion in the Lands That Became America 1:10:08

27m ago1:10:08

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Until now, the standard narrative of American religious history has begun with English settlers in Jamestown or Plymouth and remained predominantly Protestant and Atlantic. Driven by his strong sense of the historical and moral shortcomings of the usual story, Thomas A. Tweed offers a very different narrative in this ambitious new history. He begin…

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Alexander Douglas, "Against Identity: The Wisdom of Escaping the Self" (Random House, 2025) 1:10:43

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In Against Identity, philosopher Alexander Douglas seeks an alternative wisdom. Searching the work of three thinkers – ancient Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi, Dutch Enlightenment thinker Benedict de Spinoza, and 20th Century French theorist René Girard – he explores how identity can be a spiritual violence that leads us away from truth. Through their…

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Shani Adia Evans, "We Belong Here: Gentrification, White Spacemaking, and a Black Sense of Place" (U Chicago Press, 2025) 33:37

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Although Portland, Oregon, is sometimes called “America’s Whitest city,” Black residents who grew up there made it their own. The neighborhoods of Northeast Portland, also called “Albina,” were a haven for and a hub of Black community life. But between 1990 and 2010, Albina changed dramatically—it became majority White. In We Belong Here, sociologi…

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Michael Vorenberg, "Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War" (Random House, 2023) 1:37:56

1h ago1:37:56

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More than a century and a half after Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant, historians are still searching for exactly when the U.S. Civil War ended. Was it ten weeks afterward, in Galveston, where a federal commander proclaimed Juneteenth the end of slavery? Or perhaps in August of 1866, when President Andrew Johnson simply declared “the i…

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Benoit Berthelier and Immanuel Kim, "Hidden Heros: Anthology of North Korean FIction" (Anthem, 2025) 46:15

27m ago46:15

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Hidden Heroes (Anthem Press, 2025) offers a rare and intimate glimpse into the lives of ordinary North Koreans through a collection of short stories by renowned DPRK authors. Spanning from the 1980s to the present, these works explore the theme of the “hidden hero,” a popular moniker in the DPRK to describe the average citizen who navigates the com…

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Aline Nardo, "Evolutionary Theory and Education" (Brill, 2025) 1:08:16

27m ago1:08:16

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How has evolutionary theory shaped educational thinking over the past two centuries? ‘Evolutionary Theory and Education: The Influence of Evolutionary Thinking on Educational Theory and Philosophy’ (Brill, 2025) explores the considerable but under-appreciated influence of evolutionary ideas on educational theory and the philosophy of education. The…

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Darwin’s Lord Mayor Kon Vatskalis says he’s angry about free Palestine graffiti at the Nightcliff jetty and foreshore on heritage signs, which is proving challenging to remove, also adding that patrols ... 6:22

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Corrections Commissioner Matthew Varley and Deputy Commissioner of Youth Justice Sasha Dennis provide more detail on the expansion of G4S contractors and the government’s Youth Justice Reforms 16:22

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See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By 360 with Katie Woolf

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Opposition Leader Selena Uibo says Labor has had a briefing on the government’s Youth Justice Reforms and supports consequences for offending and understands the new spithoods for youth are quite different ... 15:19

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Glenn Richardson, "WOLSEY" (Routledge, 2020) 46:15

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Through a thematic and broadly chronological approach, WOLSEY (Routledge, 2020) offers a fascinating insight into the life and legacy of a man who was responsible for building Henry VIII’s reputation as England’s most impressive king. The book reviews Thomas Wolsey’s record as the realm’s leading Churchman, Lord Chancellor and political patron and …

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Bulent Gokay and Lily Hamourtziadou, "Human Costs of War: 21st Century Human (In)Security from 2003 Iraq to 2022 Ukraine" (Routledge, 2024) 31:35

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Human Costs of War: 21st Century Human (In)Security from 2003 Iraq to 2022 Ukraine (Taylor & Francis, 2024) documents and analyses the direct and indirect toll that war takes on civilians and their livelihoods, taking a human security approach exploring personal, economic, political and community security in Afghanistan, Iraq and Ukraine, in the co…

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Caroline Johnson Hodge, "The God of This House: Christian Domestic Cult Before Constantine" (Penn State UP, 2025) 1:06:45

21h ago1:06:45

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Christianity is often thought of as a tradition of belief, interpretation, teachings, and texts. However, a scholarly focus on ideas overlooks how early Christian doctrine interacted with social exchanges in lay spaces. Author Caroline Johnson Hodge fills this gap, shifting our attention from liturgical settings to religion as it was lived outside …

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Hanno Sauer, "The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality " (Oxford UP, 2024) 1:13:03

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In this sweeping new history of humanity, told through the prism of our ever-changing moral norms and values, Hanno Sauer shows how modern society is just the latest step in the long evolution of good and evil and everything in between. What makes us moral beings? How do we decide what is good and what is evil? And has it always been that way? Hann…

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Kurt D. Fausch, "A Reverence for Rivers: Imagining an Ethic for Running Waters" (OSU Press, 2025) 35:28

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In A Reverence for Rivers: Imagining an Ethic for Running Waters (OSU Press, 2025), Kurt Fausch draws on his experience as a stream ecologist, his interest in Indigenous cultures, and a thoughtful consideration of environmental ethics to explore human values surrounding freshwater ecosystems. Focusing on seven rivers across the globe—from the Salmo…

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Matthew V. Novenson, "Paul and Judaism at the End of History" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 1:03:09

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The apostle Paul was a Jew. He was born, lived, undertook his apostolic work, and died within the milieu of ancient Judaism. And yet, many readers have found, and continue to find, Paul's thought so radical, so Christian, even so anti-Jewish – despite the fact that it, too, is Jewish through and through. This paradox, and the question how we are to…

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Michael Stauch, "Wildcat of the Streets: Detroit in the Age of Community Policing" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025) 1:07:09

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The criminalization of Black youth was central to policing in urban America during the civil rights era and continued in Detroit even after the rise of Black political control in the 1970s. Wildcat of the Streets documents how the “community policing” approach of Mayor Coleman Young (1974–1993)—including neighborhood police stations, affirmative ac…

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Richard W. Harrison, "The Soviet Army's High Commands in War and Peace, 1941–1992" (Casemate Academic, 2022) 1:46:21

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Richard W. Harrison's The Soviet Army's High Commands in War and Peace, 1941-1992 (Casemate Academic, 2022) is the first full treatment of the unique phenomenon of High Commands in the Soviet Army during World War II and the Cold War. The war on the Eastern Front during 1941–45 was an immense struggle, running from the Barents Sea to the Caucasus M…

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Jessica Ratcliff, "Monopolizing Knowledge: The East India Company and Britain's Second Scientific Revolution" (Cambridge UP, 2025)) 1:29:51

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In the book Monopolizing Knowledge: The East India Company and Britain’s Second Scientific Revolution (Cambridge UP, 2025), author Jessica Ratcliff traces the changing practices of knowledge accumulation and management at the British East India Company, focusing on the Company’s library, museum, and colleges in Britain. Although these institutions …

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Frank Jacob, "Japanese War Crimes during World War II: Atrocity and the Psychology of Collective Violence" (Praeger, 2018) 1:08:07

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When you mention Japanese War crimes in World War Two, you’ll often get different responses from different generations. The oldest among us will talk about the Bataan Death March. Younger people, coming of age in the 1990s, will mention the Rape of Nanking or the comfort women forced into service by the Japanese army. Occasionally, someone will men…

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Hockey NT CEO Jason Butcher says the NT Government has committed $200,000 to support the Territory Stingers return to the Malaysian Hockey League next year, with an extra $50,000 going towards lighting ... 9:15

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See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By 360 with Katie Woolf

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NT Health Public Health Physician Dr Ashish Yadav says efforts are underway to notify Territorians at-risk of measles after someone with the highly infectious illness travelled through the NT including ... 8:31

16h ago8:31

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See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By 360 with Katie Woolf

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Superintendent Paul Morrissey says there was a history of conflict between the two boys involved in the stabbing at Royal Darwin Show, with the victim still in ICU after undergoing surgery 6:37

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See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By 360 with Katie Woolf

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Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro responds to a stabbing at the Royal Darwin Show and points to Youth Justice reforms that are set to be introduced on urgency to NT parliament this week 18:16

17h ago18:16

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See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By 360 with Katie Woolf

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John Givens, "The Image of Christ in Russian Literature: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Pasternak" (Northern Illinois UP, 2018) 1:08:36

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In The Image of Christ in Russian Literature: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Pasternak (Northern Illinois University Press, 2018), Dr. John Givens of the University of Rochester discusses classics of Russian literature such as The Brothers Karamazov and Dr. Zhivago, as well as texts of less renown to English-speaking audiences, such as Tolstoy’s Re…

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Chiara Formichi, "Islam and Asia: A History" (Cambridge UP, 2020) 1:11:31

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Challenging the geographical narrative of the history of Islam, Chiara Formichi’s new book Islam and Asia: A History (Cambridge University Press, 2020), helps us to rethink how we tell the story of Islam and the lived expressions of Muslims without privileging certain linguistic, cultural, and geographic realities. Focusing on themes of reform, pol…

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Ünver Rüstem, "Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul" (Princeton UP, 2019) 1:14:03

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In Istanbul, there is a mosque on every hill. Cruising along the Bosphorus, either for pleasure, or like the majority of Istanbul’s denizens, for transit, you cannot help but notice that the city’s landscape would be dramatically altered without the mosques of the city. In Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanb…

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Sarah Teasley, "Designing Modern Japan" (Reaktion Books, 2022) 1:45:12

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Sarah Teasley's Designing Modern Japan (Reaktion, 2022) unpicks the history of Japanese design from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth, focusing on continuities and disruptions within communities and practices of design. Designing Modern Japan explores design in the unfolding contexts of modernization, empire and war, defeat and…

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Book Talk 67 : The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science 1:10:01

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Foluke Taylor, "Unruly Therapeutic: Black Feminist Writings and Practices in Living Room" (Norton, 2023) 1:06:33

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Jess Reia, "Urban Music Governance: What Busking Can Teach Us about Data, Policy and Our Cities" (Intellect, 2025) 35:40

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Religion in the Lands That Became America 1:10:08

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Alexander Douglas, "Against Identity: The Wisdom of Escaping the Self" (Random House, 2025) 1:10:43

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Shani Adia Evans, "We Belong Here: Gentrification, White Spacemaking, and a Black Sense of Place" (U Chicago Press, 2025) 33:37

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Michael Vorenberg, "Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War" (Random House, 2023) 1:37:56

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Benoit Berthelier and Immanuel Kim, "Hidden Heros: Anthology of North Korean FIction" (Anthem, 2025) 46:15

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Aline Nardo, "Evolutionary Theory and Education" (Brill, 2025) 1:08:16

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Darwin’s Lord Mayor Kon Vatskalis says he’s angry about free Palestine graffiti at the Nightcliff jetty and foreshore on heritage signs, which is proving challenging to remove, also adding that patrols ... 6:22

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Corrections Commissioner Matthew Varley and Deputy Commissioner of Youth Justice Sasha Dennis provide more detail on the expansion of G4S contractors and the government’s Youth Justice Reforms 16:22

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Opposition Leader Selena Uibo says Labor has had a briefing on the government’s Youth Justice Reforms and supports consequences for offending and understands the new spithoods for youth are quite different ... 15:19

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Glenn Richardson, "WOLSEY" (Routledge, 2020) 46:15

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Bulent Gokay and Lily Hamourtziadou, "Human Costs of War: 21st Century Human (In)Security from 2003 Iraq to 2022 Ukraine" (Routledge, 2024) 31:35

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Caroline Johnson Hodge, "The God of This House: Christian Domestic Cult Before Constantine" (Penn State UP, 2025) 1:06:45

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Hanno Sauer, "The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality " (Oxford UP, 2024) 1:13:03

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Kurt D. Fausch, "A Reverence for Rivers: Imagining an Ethic for Running Waters" (OSU Press, 2025) 35:28

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Matthew V. Novenson, "Paul and Judaism at the End of History" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 1:03:09

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Michael Stauch, "Wildcat of the Streets: Detroit in the Age of Community Policing" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025) 1:07:09

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Richard W. Harrison, "The Soviet Army's High Commands in War and Peace, 1941–1992" (Casemate Academic, 2022) 1:46:21

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Jessica Ratcliff, "Monopolizing Knowledge: The East India Company and Britain's Second Scientific Revolution" (Cambridge UP, 2025)) 1:29:51

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Frank Jacob, "Japanese War Crimes during World War II: Atrocity and the Psychology of Collective Violence" (Praeger, 2018) 1:08:07

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Hockey NT CEO Jason Butcher says the NT Government has committed $200,000 to support the Territory Stingers return to the Malaysian Hockey League next year, with an extra $50,000 going towards lighting ... 9:15

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NT Health Public Health Physician Dr Ashish Yadav says efforts are underway to notify Territorians at-risk of measles after someone with the highly infectious illness travelled through the NT including ... 8:31

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Superintendent Paul Morrissey says there was a history of conflict between the two boys involved in the stabbing at Royal Darwin Show, with the victim still in ICU after undergoing surgery 6:37

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Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro responds to a stabbing at the Royal Darwin Show and points to Youth Justice reforms that are set to be introduced on urgency to NT parliament this week 18:16

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John Givens, "The Image of Christ in Russian Literature: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Pasternak" (Northern Illinois UP, 2018) 1:08:36

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Chiara Formichi, "Islam and Asia: A History" (Cambridge UP, 2020) 1:11:31

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Ünver Rüstem, "Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul" (Princeton UP, 2019) 1:14:03

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Sarah Teasley, "Designing Modern Japan" (Reaktion Books, 2022) 1:45:12

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