Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDavid I. Waddington, "The Hidden Curriculum of Video Games" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2026)
Episode 1222
Despite decades of inflammatory rhetoric, the real risk of video games lies not in their violent imagery but in the ethical and political sensibiliti…
3 months, 1 week ago
Heart-Centered Connections: Seven Essential Skills for Helping Neurodiverse and Marginalized Children Thrive
Episode 1221
Heart-Centered Connections: Seven Essential Skills for Helping Neurodiverse and Marginalized Children Thrive is a transformative guide for working wi…
3 months, 1 week ago
Stephen G. Covell, "The Teaching and Teachings of Temple Buddhism in Contemporary Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
Episode 1220
How have Buddhist teachings come to be in modern and contemporary Japan and how are they taught? This pioneering work seeks to answer these questio…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Becoming the System
Episode 1219
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick sits down with Dr. Nelson Flores to discuss his 2024 book entitled Becoming the Syst…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Max Weinreich and the Meaning of Yiddish
Episode 1218
Max Weinreich spent the entirety of his adult life building YIVO and the field of Yiddish Studies. A 'convert' to the cause of Yiddishism in his adol…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Ranita Ray, "Slow Violence: Confronting Dark Truths in the American Classroom" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
Episode 1216
A powerful exposé of the American public education system's indifference toward marginalized children and the "slow violence" that fashions schools i…
4 months ago
Bryan Alexander, "Peak Higher Ed: How to Survive the Looming Academic Crisis" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)
Episode 1217
Over the past decade, American colleges and universities have seen enrollment decline, campuses close, programs cut, faculty and staff laid off, and …
4 months ago
Andy Byford, "Science of the Child in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 1215
Between the 1880s and the 1930s, children became the focus of unprecedented scientific and professional interest in modernizing societies worldwide, …
4 months ago
The Honesty Crisis: Preserving Our Most Treasured Virtue in an Increasingly Dishonest
Episode 1214
Research shows that honesty is the single most important characteristic a person can possess when it comes to liking them, respecting them, and under…
4 months ago
Shelley Fisher Fishkin, "Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn’s Comrade" (Yale UP, 2025)
Episode 1212
Mark Twain’s Jim, introduced in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), is a shrewd, self‑aware, and enormously admirable enslaved man, one of the fi…
4 months, 1 week ago