Quinn Slobodian Audiobooks

Quinn Slobodian, born in 1978, is a Canadian historian of international history, Professor of International History at Boston University and a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow. His academic route has run through some storied addresses: before Boston he held the Marion Butler McLean professorship in the History of Ideas at Wellesley College and was a residential fellow at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.

The specialism is the thing to hold on to: the history of ideas, pursued on an international canvas. Slobodian’s trade is asking where ideas come from, how they travel and whose interests they serve – which is precisely the toolkit you want pointed at the present.

Our catalogue carries Muskism, and the one-word title announces the project: an ism, named after the most argued-about businessman of the age, put under a historian’s lens. It is the collision his career has been preparing for – a scholar of ideas taking on a very live one.

Ideas-driven history works well in audio for UK listeners: it is argument rather than data, built to be followed in sequence rather than consulted. And a Guggenheim Fellowship is a respectable quality signal to carry into any listening decision; Muskism arrives with that pedigree attached.