The Independent Scholar

The Independent Scholar - April 30, 2026


Listen Later

In this week's issue:

  • A 1943 novella that imagined the Holocaust before it fully happened — lost for decades, now translated into English for the first time
  • Clare Bucknell reviews a new cultural history of pedantry in the New York Review of Books, and the implications for intellectual life are weirder than you'd expect
  • A Georgetown philosopher on why the UN's landmark March 2026 resolution on the transatlantic slave trade finally matters — and what reparations actually require
  • UNT shuts down a Chicano artist's solo exhibition mid-run, and faculty and students push back
  • The Vatican weighs in on artificial intelligence, and it is more philosophically serious than you might think
  • On with it.

    ...more
    View all episodesView all episodes
    Download on the App Store

    The Independent ScholarBy Julia Murphy