Guest: Catherine Nixey is a journalist and a classicist. She is the author of The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World. She is the winner of a Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award.
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Guest: Bart D. Ehrman is an American New Testament scholar focusing on textual criticism of the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the development of early Christianity. He is the author of The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World.
Guest: Violet Moller is a historian and writer who specializes in intellectual history. She is the author of the book The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found.
Guest: Kyle Harper is a historian of the classical world and the Senior Vice President and Provost at his alma mater, the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire.
Guest: Gerard Russell, former British and United Nations diplomat, Senior Fellow with the New America Foundation’s International Security Program and the Foreign Policy Center in London, and author of the book Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East.
Guest: Dr. Edmund Ghareeb, Adjunct Professor of Middle East history and politics in the School of International Service at American University, internationally recognized expert on the Kurds, Iraq, and media issues, and co-author of the Historical Dictionary of Iraq.
Guest: Jonathan Lyons, author of The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization. He served as editor and foreign correspondent for Reuters for more than twenty years.
Guest: Kathleen DuVal is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of Native Nations: A Millennium in North America.
David Graeber, renown anthropologist, one of the original Occupy Wall St activists and author of the books Debt: The First 5,000 Years
David Graeber, renown anthropologist, one of the original Occupy Wall St activists and author of Bullshit Jobs