Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDevelopmental editing for scholarly writers with Laura Portwood-Stacer
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On making our academic writing a little more reader friendly.
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Laura Portwood-Stacer. 2025. Make Y…8 months ago
The neuroscientists who fled Nazi Germany with Frank Stahnisch
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And, do US academics face a similar situation today?
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Frank Stahnisch. 2025. Great Minds in Despai…8 months, 1 week ago
Revenge of Bob Jones U: Religious colleges and their tax exemptions with Adam Laats
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We forgot to mention Bob Jones was the son of a Confederate veteran.
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Adam Laats’s websiteAdam Laa…8 months, 1 week ago
Eugenics and the creation of statistics with Akira O’Connor and Erin Robbins
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On the creation of the statistical tests we often use in human behavioral research, especially in the fields of psychology, educat…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
The “rise and fall” of prison education with Reiko Hillyer
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From Johnson’s Great Society to Clinton’s crime bill, Reiko Hillyer discusses the “rise and fall” of higher education in US prison…
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Angola prison: a college with Piper Hutchinson
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Louisiana State Penitentiary, a former plantation known simply as “Angola," is a site of higher education. Journalist Piper Hutchi…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
History of federal student loans with Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
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In 2025, 45 million Americans owe more than $1.7 trillion in college debt. Ellie Shermer explains: “the story of skyrocketing coll…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Harvard Business School and the creation of the MBA with Erik Baker
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That degree.
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Erik Baker. 2025. Make Your Own Job: The Entrepreneurial Work Ethic in Modern Americ…8 months, 4 weeks ago
Law and economics and the backlash to critical legal studies with David Austin Walsh
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First, a continuation of the Chicago school of economics history (a nice follow up to last week’s episode on Charles Walgreen and …
9 months ago
Charles Walgreen and the University of Chicago with Steven Melendez
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Professors teaching about communism and socialism? Un-American! Here’s some cash to make sure the university is preaching the supr…
9 months ago