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Episode 45
Today I sat down with Nadia Davis to discuss parenting and mindfulness. Nadia is the author of Home Is Within You: A Memoir of Recovery and Redemptio…
2 years, 11 months ago
Locke, Tocqueville, and Civic Education: A Conversation with Jeffrey Sikkenga
Season 1 Episode 28
Why is education so important in a democracy? Are democracies capable of producing the citizens they need? What do John Locke and Alexis de Tocquevil…
2 years, 11 months ago
Free Speech 69: Campus Misinformation with Bradford Vivian
Episode 131
State censorship and cancel culture, trigger warnings and safe spaces, pseudoscience, First Amendment hardball, as well as orthodoxy and groupthink: …
2 years, 11 months ago
Rachel Dunn et al., "What Is Legal Education For?" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 187
This book delves deep into the question of what is legal education for? Who does it serve, and how, as educators can we reflect on what we deliver in…
2 years, 11 months ago
Defending Academic Freedom: A Conversation with Keith Whittington
Episode 34
What is academic freedom for? What are the greatest threats to academic freedom today? Should Critical Race Theory be taught on college campuses? Wha…
3 years ago
Book Talk 59: Reading the Classics with Louis Petrich
Episode 129
Why read the Classics, and how to do it best? Louis Petrich teaches at St. John’s College, the third-oldest college and “the nation's most contrarian…
3 years ago
James Hibbard, "The Art of Cycling: Philosophy, Meaning, and a Life on Two Wheels" (Pegasus Books, 2023)
Episode 195
Interweaving a deeply personal narrative of elite-level cycling and mental health struggles with an evocative history of Western philosophy from Plat…
3 years ago
Helle Strandgaard Jensen, "Sesame Street: A Transnational History" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 102
In Sesame Street: A Transnational History (Oxford UP, 2023), author Helle Strandgaard Jensen tells the story of how the American television show beca…
3 years ago
Ph.D. Employability: Struggles and Solutions
Episode 156
What happens when jobs in academia are scarce, and few of the descriptions of jobs outside academia seem like a fit? How can graduates find the right…
3 years ago
Nancy K. Miller and Tahneer Oksman. "Feminists Reclaim Mentorship" (SUNY Press, 2023)
Episode 63
Mentorship continues to loom large in stories about women's work and personal lives-- sometimes for the better, but often for the worse. If mentors c…
3 years ago