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Natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and algorithms with Xiaochang Li
On the origins of natural language processing and how corporations like IBM leaned into predictive algorithms.
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Xiaoc…1 day, 6 hours ago
Tragedy of the education commons with Guy Standing
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Guy Standing. 2026. Human Capital: The Tragedy of the Education Commons. Penguin Press. “Linda McMahon slaps her d…5 days, 6 hours ago
Revilo Oliver and the academic freedom of white supremacists with Matthew C. Ehrlich
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Matthew C. Ehrlich. 2021. Dangerous Ideas on Campus: Sex, Conspiracy, and Academic Freedom in the Age of JFK. Unive…1 week, 3 days ago
Disrupting White Noise: Challenging Beliefs about Race on Campus with Zak Foste and Lauren N. Irwin
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Zak Foste and Lauren N. Irwin. 2026. Disrupting White Noise: Challenging Beliefs about Race on Campus. Harvard Educ…2 weeks, 1 day ago
Creating the Black high school with Alexander D. Hyres
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Alexander D. Hyres. 2026. Protest and Pedagogy: Charlottesville’s Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the Amer…2 weeks, 5 days ago
The Other University with Chad Wellmon
On the student life apparatus.
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Chad Wellmon. 2026. After the University: Higher Education and the Future of Intellec…3 weeks, 1 day ago
Academic gerontocracy with Samuel Moyn
On age, class, and jobs.
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Samuel Moyn. 2026. Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and W…3 weeks, 5 days ago
Spirits, specters, and parapsychology professors with Jesse Bering
Speaking to the dead, academically.
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Jesse Bering. 2026. The Incredible Afterlives of Dr. Stevenson: One Scientist's …4 weeks, 1 day ago
The right’s attempt to capture Western Civ and Jewish Studies with Emmaia Gelman
A nice companion episode to last week's on The West with Curtis Dozier.
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Emmaia Gelman. 2026. The Anti-Defamation Lea…1 month ago
The West with Curtis Dozier
Athens, Jerusalem, and sometimes Rome.
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Curtis Dozier. 2026. The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient G…1 month ago