Ministry of Ideas
Zachary Davis
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A podcast about the ideas that shape our lives. Hosted by Zachary Davis and produced at Harvard Divinity School. Learn more at ministryofideas.org
Recent Episodes
DEC 20, 2023
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 8: The Enemy of Morality Is Not Modernity, It’s Me
Once modernity fractured society’s sense of shared moral norms, how could you write persuasively about morality?
44 MIN
DEC 13, 2023
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 7: A Genealogy of Gun Violence
The problem of gun violence is as old as guns themselves.
51 MIN
DEC 6, 2023
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 6: A Medieval Anti-Racist
What if racism shared an origin with opposition to racism?
52 MIN
NOV 29, 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.
60 MIN
NOV 22, 2023
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 4: Jamestown and the Myth of the Sovereign Family
What is the “traditional American family?”
45 MIN
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