Podcasts
Smarty Pants

The Pacifist and the Battlefield
Chad Williams on W. E. B Du Bois’s reckoning with World War I and Black liberation
Stephanie Bastek

A Home in Chinatown
Ava Chin on tracing five generations of Chinese-American history
Stephanie Bastek

Listening to the Dead
Alexa Hagerty on how forensic anthropology exhumes crimes against humanity
Stephanie Bastek

Twenty Years of War
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on the invasion of Iraq and the turmoil that followed in his homeland
Stephanie Bastek

The Art of Doing Nothing Much, Together
Sheila Liming on the importance of chillaxing
Stephanie Bastek

Cherry Blossom Bonanza
Naoko Abe on how an English eccentric saved Japan’s beloved cherry trees—and spread them around the world
Stephanie Bastek
Read me a Poem

“A Hand Not Ready for Birds” by Muhammed Ali Chamseddine
Poems read aloud, beautifully