Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNolan L. Cabrera and Robert S. Chang, "Banned: The Fight for Mexican American Studies in the Streets and in the Courts" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 251
In Banned: The Fight for Mexican American Studies in the Streets and in the Courts (Cambridge UP, 2025), readers are taken on a journey through the i…
1 year, 5 months ago
Matthew Daniel Eddy, "Media and the Mind: Art, Science, and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700-1830" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 388
We often think of reason as a fixed entity, as a definitive body of facts that do not change over time. But during the Enlightenment, reason also was…
1 year, 6 months ago
How 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, 6 months 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, 6 months 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, 6 months 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, 6 months 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, 6 months ago
Neil Kraus, "The Fantasy Economy: Neoliberalism, Inequality, and the Education Reform Movement" (Temple UP, 2023)
Episode 1086
Wage stagnation, growing inequality, and even poverty itself have resulted from decades of neoliberal decision making, not the education system, writ…
1 year, 6 months 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, 6 months ago
Katherine Ngo, "Unlocking the Treasury: Elementary Learning for Boys in Qing China" (Lever Press, 2025)
Episode 1084
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, 6 months ago