Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHow to Found A College: A Conversation with University of Austin President Pano Kanelos
Episode 82
Today I’m speaking with Pano Kanelos, founding president of the University of Austin. A scholar and professor of Shakespeare studies, Panos’ advocacy…
1 year ago
Adam Kissel et al., "Slacking: A Guide to Ivy League Miseducation" (Encounter Books, 2025)
Episode 147
What does a general education from an Ivy League mean? What structures produce the course catalogues that students can choose to customize their educ…
1 year ago
Peter B. Kaufman, "The Moving Image: A User's Manual" (MIT Press, 2025)
Episode 231
Video (television, film, the moving image generally) is today’s most popular information medium. Two-thirds of the world’s internet traffic is video.…
1 year ago
Yellowlees Douglas, "Writing for the Reader's Brain: A Science-Based Guide" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 387
What makes one sentence easy to read and another a slog that demands re-reading? Where do you put information you want readers to recall? Drawing on …
1 year ago
Gabe Henry, "Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell" (Dey Street, 2025)
Episode 213
In Enough is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell (Dey Street Books, 2025), Gabe Henry presents a brief and humorous 500-year h…
1 year ago
Neil Kraus, "The Fantasy Economy: Neoliberalism, Inequality, and the Education Reform Movement" (Temple UP, 2023)
Wage stagnation, growing inequality, and even poverty itself have resulted from decades of neoliberal decision making, not the education system, writ…
1 year ago
Aaron Kupchik, "Suspended Education: School Punishment and the Legacy of Racial Injustice" (NYU Press, 2025)
Episode 249
Every year, millions of public school students are suspended. This overused punishment removes students from the classroom, but it does not improve t…
1 year ago
Katherine Ngo, "Unlocking the Treasury: Elementary Learning for Boys in Qing China" (Lever Press, 2025)
How did young boys in premodern China learn? What educational texts did they use? What values informed their education? Katherine Ngo’s new book Unlo…
1 year ago
From Awareness to Action: A Conversation with Nancy Ceulemans on Understanding Children's Behavior
What if the key to understanding your child’s toughest behaviors isn’t just about discipline or routines – but about how their body and brain are pro…
1 year ago
Postscript: Collective Action to Support Students at American Colleges and Universities
Episode 39
A coalition of educators and allies has come together to push back against a variety of different kinds of attacks on higher education and students a…
1 year ago