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In each episode I discuss around 100 pages from the works of American writers. Contact me at hundredpagescast@gmail.com
Part 4 of my review of David Wengrove and David Graeber's The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. As we come to the close of this...
Part three of my review of David Graeber and David Wengrove's massive book The Dawn of Everything. In this section we focus on the origins o...
Hey guys. Back with another section of my review of The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrove. In this section I focus on h...
As a follow up to James C. Scott's Against the Grain I wanted to look into the more comprehensive and perhaps more radical and challenging i...
Part two and the conclusion of my review of Race Rebels by Robin Kelley. In this second half of the book, we explore the infrapolitics that...
In this episode I look at Robin Kelley's wonderful exploration of black politics in the 20th century Race Rebels. It is the best example tha...
In this episode I close our my review of James C. Scott's works with a reading of his final book In Praise of Floods. It is a good summary o...
In this second half of my review of James C. Scott's Against the Grain, I explore his arguments about the origin of the state and the "golde...
After enjoying Scott's take on anarchism we can move onto his penultimate book, a text exploring the origins of agriculture and the impact i...
My review of James C. Scott's short book Two Cheers for Anarchism. The book is a great introduction to Scott's ideas and a useful guide to p...
The finale of my review of James C. Scott's "The Art of Not Being Governed". This part of the book focuses on kinship and the role of leader...
Part two of my review of James C. Scott's history of upland Southeast Asia (Zomia), from the perspective of those who intentionally evaded s...
The first part of my review of Scott's masterpiece on upland Southeast Asia, The Art of Not Being Governed. So many of his ideas come togeth...
The finale of my review of James C. Scott's Seeing Like a State. The last few chapters of this excellent book explore the experiments in agr...
In part two of my review of Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott, I explore the dangers of high modernism and some of the case studies of f...
As we continue our exploration of the works of James C. Scott, we move from the arts of resistance to the designs of a state with faulty vis...
In this episode I complete my reading of James C. Scott's DOMINATION AND THE ARTS OF RESISTANCE: HIDDEN TRANSCRIPTS. In this section we focu...
In this episode I review Domination and the Arts of Resistance by James C. Scott, exploring the concepts of public and hidden transcripts. W...
The conclusion to my study of James C. Scott's Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance.
This episode is part 2 of my review of James C. Scott's examination of a Malay village, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resis...
We get to know a Malay village down to its last family through James C. Scott's anthropological study Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of...
In this episode I finish reading The Moral Economy of the Peasant by the brilliant James C. Scott. So what do you think of this book and its...
I begin my deep dive into the works of James C. Scott with The Moral Economy of the Peasant. In this work, Scott explores the subsistence et...
As we prepare for our deep dive into James C. Scott's work, we finish up with a related text, Karl Jacoby's Crimes Against Nature. This is o...
The conclusion to my review of TAMING MANHATTAN by Catherine McNeur. What can we learn from this book about making more environmentally sust...
Catherine McNeur writes a wonderful account of environmental conflicts and how they became class conflicts and fights over the boundaries be...
The completion of my review of the lengthy but excellent book "The Republic of Nature" by Mark Fiege. Strongly recommended. What did you thi...
Part three of my review of Mark Fiege's Republic of Nature covers a wide swap of American history in just a couple of chapters. One explores...
Part two of my review of Mark Fiege's excellent book The Republic of Nature. In this chapter we focus on the mid-nineteenth century with a c...
The first part of my four episode review of Mark Fiege's excellent The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States. In...
Part two of my review of Republican Reversal, a book exploring the fate of the Republican commitment to federal conservation laws. I found i...
The first part of my review of The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump. While this book is quite shor...
In this episode I look at a sensory history of the American Civil War. It is a fascinating way to look at the past, but like so many sensory...
The second part of my review of the excellent history book American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light. Who are today's Lucifers...
To start this new phase of this podcast, I am reviewing one of the best history books I read in the past year, Jeremy Zallen's American Luci...
The episode in which I explain where this podcast will go from here, so as not to overwhelm me and my capacities.
This is the first episode of my review of Robert Heinlein's longest work, NO TIME FOR LOVE. We are reintroduced to an old friend, Lazarus Lo...
THE DEVIL FINDS WORK was James Baldwin's final major essay and a fascinating exploration of how he has seen and experienced American (and so...
The finale of my review of I WILL FEAR NO EVIL by Robert A. Heinlein. Next up, NO TIME FOR LOVE.
Part three of my thoughts on I WILL FEAR NO EVIL by Robert A. Heinlein.
My quick review of James Baldwin's excellent essay NO NAME IN THE STREET. The last 20 pages of this essay are particularly hard hitting and...
Boy does this book drag on. Lots of good stuff, but Robert A. Heinlein seems to take his precious time getting there. Is I WILL FEAR NO EVIL...
Part 1 of 4 of my review of I WILL FEAR NO EVIL by Robert A. Heinlein. I wonder how other recent readers of this book look back on it. Obvio...
Brief thoughts on James Baldwin's 1963 essay THE FIRE NEXT TIME and its place in American history.
In this episode I review James Baldwin's collection of essays NOBODY KNOWS MY NAME: MORE NOTES OF A NATIVE SON. These essays bridge his time...
The conclusion to my review of THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS. In the next episode we will being a four part dive into I WILL FEAR NO EVIL.
Part two of my review of THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS by Robert A. Heinlein. In this episode, I cover the revolt on the Moon and some of the...
Part 1 of 3 of my review of THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS, one of Heinlein's most famous and well-regarded books. Often billed a libertarian...
We begin our look at James Baldwin's essays with his 1955 collection NOTES OF A NATIVE SON. Some of the topics explored in this collection a...
The second part of my review of FARNHAM'S FREEHOLD by Robert A. Heinlein. I really struggled with this book, but think it reveals the fundam...