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Context with Brad Harris

Context with Brad Harris

28 episodes

What led to the rise of the modern world? How have we made so much progress, and what are its consequences? What are humanity's best ideas? Join award-winning historian Brad Harris as he engages these fundamental questions and interprets the biggest historical forces that shape their answers, from the rise of civilization and the development of modern science to the spread of disease and the growth of globalization.

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Into the Trenches Once More

Published: May 17, 2023, 3:24 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 31 seconds

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Urban Versus Rural

Published: June 1, 2021, 9 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 41 seconds

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Notes On Tribalism

Published: April 26, 2021, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 30 seconds

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The Fate of Universities

Published: Feb. 24, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 21 seconds

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Explaining Postmodernism: A Conversation with Stephen Hicks

Published: Jan. 25, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 19 seconds

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Escaping the Cycle of History

Published: Dec. 21, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 49 seconds

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Reflections from A Distant Mirror

Published: Oct. 26, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 52 seconds

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2+2=5

Published: Sept. 14, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 45 seconds

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All Things Being Equal

Published: Aug. 25, 2020, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 36 seconds

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Approximating Perfection

Published: July 8, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 58 seconds

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Science as a Candle in the Dark

Published: June 5, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 53 seconds

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What If Our Ignorance Outgrows Our Potential?

Published: Aug. 5, 2019, 9 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 18 seconds

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A Battle Against Medieval Barbarism

Published: July 1, 2019, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 33 seconds

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What's True?

Published: June 3, 2019, 9 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes

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The Closing of the American Mind, by Allan Bloom

Published: May 2, 2019, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 28 seconds

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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, by Joseph Ellis

Published: April 4, 2019, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 52 seconds

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Applied Perspective: A Conversation with Niall Ferguson

Published: March 7, 2019, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 11 seconds

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The Square and the Tower, by Niall Ferguson

Published: Feb. 7, 2019, 10 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 27 seconds

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Why the West Rules - For Now, by Ian Morris

Published: Jan. 9, 2019, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 43 seconds

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The Fall of Rome, and the End of Civilization

Published: Dec. 12, 2018, 8:53 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 1 second

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The Two Cultures, by C. P. Snow

Published: Nov. 21, 2018, 10 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 38 seconds

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Merchants of Doubt, by Naomi Oreskes & Erik Conway

Published: Oct. 30, 2018, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 9 seconds

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Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science, by Peter Atkins

Published: Oct. 8, 2018, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 55 seconds

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Evolution's Other Narrative

Published: Sept. 17, 2018, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 34 seconds

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Plagues and Peoples, by William McNeill

Published: Sept. 5, 2018, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 43 seconds

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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, by Charles Mann

Published: Aug. 20, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 11 seconds

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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, by Jack Weatherford

Published: Aug. 6, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 38 seconds

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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas Kuhn

Published: July 24, 2018, 7:30 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 37 seconds

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Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West, by Margaret Jacob

Published: July 10, 2018, 7:30 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 42 seconds

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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, by David Landes

Published: June 26, 2018, 7:30 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 51 seconds

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Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond

Published: June 6, 2018, 5:50 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 40 seconds

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