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Big Time with Rus Bradburd
Big time college sports have distorted the intellectual mission of colleges and universities for decades—and we’re in a particularly volatile period …
1 year, 2 months ago
Friends Helping Friends with Patrick Hoffman
The mass incarceration system has been dubbed “the new Jim Crow”—there are now more Black men in prison or on probation or parole than there were liv…
1 year, 3 months ago
More Beautiful, More Terrible: Teaching Truth with Jesse Hogapian
Thomas Jefferson was the masterly author of the ringing and rousing Declaration of Independence as well as a human trafficker and serial rapist. The …
1 year, 3 months ago
Common Good Organizing with Elizabeth Todd-Breland
The Caucus of Rank and File Educators (CORE) led by Karen Lewis, a charismatic high school chemistry teacher, was elected to lead the Chicago Teacher…
1 year, 3 months ago
Solidarity through Design with Lani Hanna and Josh MacPhee
Solidarity takes on many forms but for over four decades one vivid example rose out of a design and print studio in Havana, Cuba. Born in 1966 out of…
1 year, 4 months ago
NOlympics with Jules Boykoff
Dave Zirin (“Edge of Sports;” and Under the Tree, Episode #58 ) gave a delightful and provocative talk at a conference a few years ago called “Will T…
1 year, 4 months ago
The Invisible Institute with Maira Khwaja and Trina Reynolds-Tyler
The Invisible Institute—with its evocative and mysterious name—exists in the proud tradition of “guerrilla journalism,” a difficult to define or pige…
1 year, 4 months ago
The Right to Think at All with Katherine Franke
Thousands of student visas cancelled by the government! Legal residents snatched off the streets by masked agents, detained and deported! Federal res…
1 year, 4 months ago
Big Data/Predatory Data with Anita Say Chan
To be ruled is to be spied upon and inspected, quantified, measured, and ranked, and then registered and regulated with all the inherent structural …
1 year, 5 months ago
Everything for Everyone with M.E.O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi
What is your North Star? What are you fighting for, and what are you struggling to overcome, or leave behind? The goal is not a precise and detailed …
1 year, 5 months ago