Hello, everyone, and welcome to talk nerdy. Today is Monday, February 17th, 2025, and I'm the host of the show, Dr. Kara, Santa Maria.

And as always, before we dive into this week's episode, I do want to thank those of you who make

talk nerdy possible. Remember, this show is, and will always be, I always say it will

always be as if it's going to be on air forever. Gosh, I'm not promising that. But as long as I'm able to make

it, I want to make sure that it is free to download so that any individual who wants to listen to the show

has access to it. But obviously, it costs money to make the show. And so I'm just really,

really grateful for those of you who basically donate to be able to

offset that cost for other individuals.

The platform that I use is Patreon.

I highly recommend you, if you are going to use Patreon, that you do it via the website,

the desktop website, and not via an app through the app store because they take a cut when you do it that way.

So if you are interested in pledging, you can do it as of right now still on an episodic basis.

As always, I want to thank those of you who are the top patrons this month.

They include Anu Baravage, Daniel Lang, David J.E. Smith, Mary Neva, Brian Holden, David Compton,

Gabrielle F. Harmeo, Joe Wilkinson, Joseph Lamore, Pascuali Jalati, Rika Maharaj, and O'Rika

Hagman. Thank you all so, so very much. All right, let's get into it. So this week I had the opportunity. It's quite a relevant

topic, even though it's a historical topic. I had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Lynn Hunt.

She is a distinguished research professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA,

really the eminent historian of the French Revolution. She's written numerous works, including inventing human rights

and writing history in the global era. She's a former president of the American Historical

Association, and she has a new book out.

It is called The Revolutionary Self, Social Change, and the Emergence of the Modern Individual,

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