Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHarvard Business School and the creation of the MBA with Erik Baker
That degree.
References mentioned this episode:
Erik Baker. 2025. Make Your Own Job: The Entrepreneurial Work Ethic in Modern America. Harvard Universi…11 months, 3 weeks ago
Law and economics and the backlash to critical legal studies with David Austin Walsh
First, a continuation of the Chicago school of economics history (a nice follow up to last week’s episode on Charles Walgreen and UChicago), then Dav…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
Charles Walgreen and the University of Chicago with Steven Melendez
Professors teaching about communism and socialism? Un-American! Here’s some cash to make sure the university is preaching the supreme American virtue…
1 year ago
Medieval hazing rituals with Hannah Skoda
Freshman hazing, a time honored tradition of (at least) 1,500 years.
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Hannah Skoda. 2025. Frying Pans, Limpets, Donke…1 year ago
The Frankfurt School comes to the US with Jonathan Fine
From Kant to CRT via Columbia and UC Irvine.
References mentioned this episode:
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, 3rd edition. W. W. Norton…1 year ago
The IQ test with Pepper Stetler
On the eugenics origins of the IQ test and why we're still using it in 2025.
References mentioned this episode:
Pepper Stetler. 2024. A Measure of Inte…1 year ago
God and Man at Yale with Sam Tanenhaus
Sam Tanenhaus joins me for a deep dive into the college career of friend of the pod, William F. Buckley Jr., and his 1951 shot that fired the campus …
1 year ago
The academic spies of WWII with Elyse Graham
How does a librarian kill someone with a newspaper? This and other academic spycraft in Elyse Graham's Book and Dagger.
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1 year, 1 month ago
Richard T. Greener, Harvard's first Black graduate with Christian Anderson
Richard T. Greener was the first Black graduate of Harvard College in 1870. Greener went on to be a professor, lawyer, dean of Howard University law …
1 year, 1 month ago
Resistance from the Right (joint episode with Against the Grain)
Check out my interview with Sasha Lilley for Against the Grain podcast. We talk about Resistance from the Right, which you can grab a copy of here.
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1 year, 1 month ago