Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHomeschooling: A Guidebook of Practices, Claims, Issues, and Implications
Episode 57
Over the past few years and especially now— with COVID-19-related lockdowns necessitating that families stay at home—an increasing number of parents …
4 years, 6 months ago
George Drake: President Emeritus (1979-1991) of Grinnell College
Episode 2
Today I had the pleasure of talking to George Drake, historian, professor emeritus and president emeritus of Grinnell College. George has written a m…
4 years, 6 months ago
Cinthia Gannett and John Brereton, "Traditions of Eloquence: The Jesuits and Modern Rhetorical Studies" (Fordham UP, 2016)
Episode 150
Traditions of Eloquence: The Jesuits and Modern Rhetorical Studies (Fordham UP, 2016) explores the important ways Jesuits have employed rhetoric, the…
4 years, 6 months ago
Davarian L Baldwin, "In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities" (Bold Type Press, 2021)
Episode 268
In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities are Plundering our Cities (Bold Type Books, 2021) by Dr. Davarian Baldwin examines the political e…
4 years, 6 months ago
Eric Hayot, "Humanist Reason: A History, an Argument, a Plan" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Episode 132
In Humanist Reason: A History, an Argument, a Plan (Columbia UP, 2021), Eric Hayot develops the concept of “humanist reason” to understand the nature…
4 years, 6 months ago
Mental Health in Academia 2: Hacks for Cultivating and Sustaining Wellbeing
Episode 146
We are delighted to present All for One and One for All: Public Seminar Series on Mental Health in Academia and Society. All for One and One for All …
4 years, 6 months ago
Jan Nisbet and Nancy Weiss, "Pain and Shock in America: Politics, Advocacy, and the Controversial Treatment of People with Disabilities" (Brandeis UP, 2021)
Episode 149
Amid a string of fall 2021 news reports about past-due exonerations and (white) self-defense that document the limits of racial justice within the U.…
4 years, 6 months ago
Socially Responsible Higher Education: International Perspectives on Knowledge Democracy
Episode 56
With radical changes being engineered in society, education systems everywhere need to match up. As part of our podcast, Humanities Matter, the all-n…
4 years, 6 months ago
Elizabeth Kiss: Warden of the Rhodes Trust and former President of Agnes Scott College
Episode 40
We speak with Elizabeth Kiss about the design and launch of the very successful SUMMIT initiative that led Agnes Scott College to be recognized as “t…
4 years, 7 months ago
Jeffrey Guhin, "Agents of God: Boundaries and Authority in Muslim and Christian Schools" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 203
Jeff Guhin joins us today to talk about his book Agents of God: Boundaries and Authority in Muslim and Christian Schools (Oxford University Press, 20…
4 years, 7 months ago