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    Ministry of Ideas

    Ministry of Ideas

    Ministry of Ideas

    ratings:
    Length:
    32 episodes
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Description

    A podcast about the ideas that shape our lives. Hosted by Zachary Davis and produced at Harvard Divinity School.

    Learn more at ministryofideas.org
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 10 of 32 episodes

    Title

    Genealogies of Modernity Episode 8: The Enemy of Morality Is Not Modernity, It’s Me

    The great English essayist and linguist Samuel Johnson was writing during the Enlighten...

    46 minutes
    		Dec 20, 2023

    Genealogies of Modernity Episode 7: A Genealogy of Gun Violence

    The problem of gun violence is as old as guns themselves. According to historian Priya ...

    53 minutes
    		Dec 13, 2023

    Genealogies of Modernity Episode 6: A Medieval Anti-Racist

    What if racism shared an origin with opposition to racism? What if the condemnation of ...

    53 minutes
    		Dec 06, 2023

    Genealogies of Modernity Episode 5: Picturing Race in Colonial Mexico

    Race is sometimes treated as a biological fact. It is actually a modern invention. But ...

    61 minutes
    		Nov 29, 2023

    Genealogies of Modernity Episode 4: Jamestown and the Myth of the Sovereign Family

    What is the “traditional American family?” Popular images from the colonial and pioneer...

    47 minutes
    		Nov 22, 2023

    Genealogies of Modernity Episode 3: What Is Genealogy?

    Genealogy, in Charles Darwin’s terms, is the study of “descent with modification.” Take...

    47 minutes
    		Nov 15, 2023

    Genealogies of Modernity Episode 2: What Is Modernity?

    We often think of modernity as a distinct time period in history – one that is said to ...

    37 minutes
    		Nov 13, 2023

    Genealogies of Modernity Episode 1: Climbing the Mountains of Modernity

    We all know many stories about how modernity came about. But what does it mean to be “m...

    48 minutes
    		Nov 09, 2023

    Illuminations Episode 10: Universal Knowledge

    At the dawn of European exploration, the Renaissance polymath Francis Bacon dreamed of ...

    34 minutes
    		Aug 02, 2023

    Illuminations Episode 9: Rituals for a Dying World

    Absorbing the full reality of climate change will require more than a scientific approa...

    24 minutes
    		Jun 22, 2023