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Back to SearchMedieval hazing rituals with Hannah Skoda
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Freshman hazing, a time honored tradition of (at least) 1,500 years.
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Hannah Skoda. 2025. Frying P…9 months, 1 week ago
The Frankfurt School comes to the US with Jonathan Fine
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From Kant to CRT via Columbia and UC Irvine.
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The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, 3rd ed…9 months, 2 weeks ago
The IQ test with Pepper Stetler
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On the eugenics origins of the IQ test and why we're still using it in 2025.
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Pepper Stetler. 2024…9 months, 3 weeks ago
God and Man at Yale with Sam Tanenhaus
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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 tha…
10 months ago
The academic spies of WWII with Elyse Graham
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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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10 months, 1 week ago
Richard T. Greener, Harvard's first Black graduate with Christian Anderson
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Richard T. Greener was the first Black graduate of Harvard College in 1870. Greener went on to be a professor, lawyer, dean of How…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Resistance from the Right (joint episode with Against the Grain)
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Check out my interview with Sasha Lilley for Against the Grain podcast. We talk about Resistance from the Right, which you can gra…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
The student Old Left with Katherine Ballantyne
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We're headed South with Kate Ballantyne to talk about the Old Left! Plus, Kate's tips for conducting archival research.
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10 months, 3 weeks ago
Why does my campus have an ROTC? with Scott Harding, Charles Howlett, and Seth Kershner
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From the conception of ROTC after the Spanish-American War, colleges and K12 schools have been central to US military recruitment …
10 months, 3 weeks ago
What colleges (don’t) do about sexual violence with Nicole Bedera
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Is the Title IX process working as intended? Nicole Bedera tells us what's working, what isn't, and what we can do about it.
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10 months, 4 weeks ago