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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)

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274 episodes

  1. 51. Worlds (w/ Federico Campagna) 1:12:35
  2. 143 | Alain Locke: The Search for a Black Modern Aesthetic 58:08
  3. Who were the English? 33:10
  4. Biological existence and its theoretical complexities. 1:25:41
  5. Naza and the Function of Perpetrator Cinema 58:52
  6. Episode 218: Peter Verovsek - Juergen Habermas 1:01:53
  7. What’s the point of literary criticism? 36:48
  8. Mélanie Lamotte, "By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire" (Harvard UP, 2026) 40:40
  9. The Rise & Fall of Babylon 48:32
  10. Clare Follman on Humans in Nature and How We Imagine Belonging 54:31
  11. Raiders of the lost art 33:40
  12. Corn Syrup: Brian Leech does local history, regional history, labor history, technological history, environmental history, and food history 26:08
  13. “Cisgender” with Perry Zurn 45:37
  14. The Ethics of Knowledge 56:43
  15. Rachel Silveri, "The Art of Living in Avant-Garde Paris: Ethics and Self-Making in Dada, Simultanism, and Surrealism" (U Chicago Press, 2026) 59:46
  16. Design for the Ineffable: Crafting a Flourishing world with Dr Jenna Mikus 1:06:27
  17. How Egypt Used Theater to Fight British Occupation | Prof. Carmen Gitre 1:06:21
  18. Karl Whittington, "Queer Making: On Artists and Desire in Medieval Europe" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2025) 1:20:27
  19. Do plants have personalities? 29:16
  20. Abbas Akhavan – Season 9, Episode 5 1:12:48
  21. Conquistadors and Culture Wars 1:04:06
  22. Nayantara Srinivasan, "The Brick-and-Mortar Bookstore in Contemporary India" (Cambridge UP, 2025) 49:22
  23. The slow cancellation of the future: A Mark Fisher primer 1:35:01
  24. The 1990s Golden Era of Black Sitcoms 1:02:18
  25. Science Fiction and the Far Right 59:58
  26. Dadaism 50:58
  27. Comyns, Murdoch, du Maurier, and the Gothic Podcast 53:17
  28. How deeply was the British Crown involved in the transatlantic slave trade? With author of The Crown’s Silence, Brooke Newman 44:57
  29. Why Did The Salem Witch Trials Happen? (with Stacy Schiff) 1:07:33
  30. The Ethics of Seeing in Susan Sontag’s “On Photography” (Part 2) 39:26
  31. Nicholas Fox Weber on Anni Albers 49:30
  32. Paramount, Warner Bros. and How Monopolies Ruin Everything 42:04
  33. Episode 134: Non-Boring History 54:02
  34. S09E11 Performing Knowledge- Pedagogy, Institutions, and Speculative Frameworks PART 2 1:17:47
  35. Xica Manicongo 19:36
  36. Is Culture Stuck? 37:06
  37. Quantum History w/ Slavoj Žižek 52:23
  38. 127 | Hayden White's Forms of History 55:51
  39. Episode 194: David Wiens - From the Best to the Rest 1:19:10
  40. The Stiliagi 1:02:52
  41. Ikarie XB-1: 1963 Communist Utopia in Space 55:31
  42. Joana Vasconcelos: Mask of mirrors 26:28
  43. Adam Przeworski Asks Who Decides What is Democratic 50:44
  44. Producing Knowledge on Palestine feat. Dana El Kurd 30:44
  45. Indigenous filmmaking and futures 1:14:17
  46. Surrealism and selfhood 1:02:48
  47. Alice Lovejoy, "Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War" (U California Press, 2025) 42:05
  48. The Frankfurt Book Fair 32:49
  49. José Miguel Palacios on Transnational Cinema Solidarity: Chilean Exile Film and Video after 1973 47:04
  50. EP. 797: WHY AMERICA STILL NEEDS PUNK ROCK ft. GRANT WONG 1:02:02