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Saturday Extra: Books and authors

On Saturday Extra's final show of the summer break:  Our best conversations with authors of notable books. CNN's Jake Tapper on one of the most fateful decisions in American history - Joe Biden's decision to run for re-election despite evidence of his decline; actor Griffin Dunne on coming of age i…

Saturday Extra: Books and authors

On Saturday Extra's final show of the summer break:  Our best conversations with authors of notable books. CNN's Jake Tapper on one of the most fateful decisions in American history - Joe Biden's decision to run for re-election despite evidence of his decline; actor Griffin Dunne on coming of age i…

Freedom Hasn’t Always Meant Choice | Interview: Sophia Rosenfeld

On today’s episode, Jonah spoils himself by conversing with historian Sophia Rosenfeld about the history of choice, changes in the meaning of freedom, the significance of the mundane, and the American Revolution’s impact on Europe. Shownotes:—The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life—…

Is More Choice Really Freedom? | Sophia Rosenfeld with Javier Mejia

Interview with Sophia Rosenfeld, author of 'The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life' (Princeton University Press) What does it mean to be free? Today we tend to think freedom means having more choices—more products to buy, more careers to pursue, more partners to date, more opinions …

Russian Neutrality in the American Revolution: Fear, Strategy, and Opportunity | S1E11 AAR

Dichotomy of Russians traditions toward the United States started from the beginning - in the American Revolution. While Russia did not fear 13 rebellious colonies that would eventually form a fledging nation, the Russian government feared the ideas of liberty and republicanism that came from Ameri…

Intellectual Foundations of the American Revolution | AAR S1E1

What role did Enlightenment ideas and Thomas Paine’s concept of common sense play in shaping the American Revolution? In this conversation, Dr. Sophia Rosenfeld explores how revolutionary leaders digested and adapted European intellectual currents, and how ordinary people were imagined as capable o…

The Dutch Dilemma: Supporting the American Revolution | S1E15 AAR

Money. Loans. Smuggled goods. War supplies. The American Revolution wasn’t just fought on battlefields—it was sustained through a shadow network most Americans never learned about. While Britain tried to crush the rebellion, Dutch merchants, financiers, and political factions quietly kept it alive—…

Our Modern Glut of Choice

For many of us, daily life is defined by a near-constant stream of decisions, from what to buy on Amazon to what to watch on Netflix. On this episode of Critics at Large, Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Alexandra Schwartz consider how we came to see endless selection as a fundamental right. The h…

1776: Seven Months That Changed America| S1E25 AAR

January 1 to July 4, 1776, transformed Americans from rebellious British subjects fighting Britain for their rights and hoping for reconciliation into revolutionaries seeking complete separation from the mother country. But contrary to the familiar narrative most of us learned in school, independen…

Statistics, Democracy and Choice: Prof. Sophia Rosenfeld of University of Pennsylvania

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Sophia Rosenfeld is Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches European and American intellectual and cultural history with a special emphasis on the Enlightenment, the trans-Atlantic Age o…