Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe campus bookstore racket with Katya Schwenk
Does your campus use B&N Education or Follett?
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Katya Schwenk. September 10, 2025. “How Wall Street Broke the College…9 months, 1 week ago
The 1980s anti-apartheid movement with David Busch
On blood money and “the moral costs of an elite education.”
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David S. Busch. 2025. Disciplining Democracy: How the Mo…9 months, 2 weeks ago
Can the university be decolonized? with Sandy Grande
Can US colleges be decolonized?
References and suggested readings:
Sandy Grande. 2018. “Refusing the University.” Free PDF.Sandy Grande. 2016. Red Peda…9 months, 2 weeks ago
The future of university presses with Clara Totten
And how to approach an acquisitions editor
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Association of University Presses and #AskUpSteven L. Herman. 2024. Behind the White House Curta…9 months, 3 weeks ago
Tuskegee and the Afterlives of the Plantation with Jarvis McInnis
Tuskegee, Alabama, the center of modernity in the Black Global South
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Jarvis McInnis. 2025. Afterlives of the Plantat…10 months ago
Frank Meyer: campus communist to rightwing revolutionary with Daniel Flynn
From college radical to rightwing organizer, the 3-D life and education of The Man Who Invented Conservatism.
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Daniel…10 months ago
Global attacks on academic freedom with Eve Darian-Smith
References mentioned this episode:
Eve Darian-Smith. 2025. Policing Higher Education: The Antidemocratic Attack on Scholars and Why It Matters. Johns …10 months, 1 week ago
TurningPointUSA and the Professor Watchlist with Matthew Boedy
Are you on the Professor Watchlist?
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Matthew Boedy. 2025. The Seven Mountains Mandate: Inside the Sweeping Plan to Ch…10 months, 1 week ago
DEI win in Mississippi (and what you can do in your state) with James M. Thomas
A DEI victory Mississippi! Plus, JT Thomas explains what's wrong with Diversity, Inc.
References and suggested readings:
James M. Thomas. 2020. Diversi…10 months, 2 weeks ago
DEI from the 90s to now with Nimisha Barton
From tolerance to land acknowledgements.
References mentioned this episode:
Nimisha Barton. 2024. A Just Future: Getting from Diversity and Inclusion t…10 months, 2 weeks ago