Columbia HxA

In this special episode of the Columbia HxA podcast, Clay speaks with Dr. Konchok Gelek and Kathup Drolma about Tibet's pastoralists. If you want to understand how the modern world threatens their way of life, tune in!

Dr. Luke Conway is a professor of Psychology at Grove City College and a leading voice in the study of the psychology of culture and politics. With a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of British Columbia, Dr. Conway has authored over 80 articles, commentaries, and book chapters. He is the author of the book “Liberal Bullies: What Psychology Teaches Us About the Left’s Authoritarian Problem— And How To Fix It” His work has appeared in outlets like The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Psychology Today, and he’s been featured on platforms such as the Ben Shapiro Podcast and Heterodox Academy. Dr. Conway also serves as an associate editor for the flagship journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Dr. Conway challenges the long-held view that authoritarianism is distinctly a right-wing problem. His pioneering research uncovers compelling evidence for Left-Wing Authoritarianism, demonstrating that authoritarian traits—such as aggression, intellectual rigidity, and conformity—are not exclusive to one ideology. 

In this episode Anthony and Clay speak to Dr. Lucas Klein. Dr. Klein is a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, and host of the Real Clear Podcast. Listen to this conversation if you want to learn about why Sigmund Freud was a genius, how DEI is infecting the field of psychotherapy, why mentalization is a crucial skill, how medicare for all could kill private practice, and much more!

Links for this episode…

• The Holmes Commission
• The Open Therapy Institute
• The Death Nail of Psychotherapy
• “The Anxious Generation” by Jonathan Haidt
• “Bad Therapy” by Abigail Shrier 

In this episode, Anthony and Clay speak with Jonas Du. Jonas is a senior at Columbia College, the editor and chief of Sundial, and one of the first ever Free Press Fellows! Tune in here to learn how and why Jonas co-founded Sundial, what it’s like to go on Fox News, what last semester’s protests were like for CC students, and much more!

Links from this episode….

• Jonas on X
• Jonas on Fox and Friends First
• The hit piece!
• Jonas on Newsmax
• Seriously, subscribe to Sundial!!!!

In this episode Anthony and Clay brag about crashing the America Debates after party, kinda-sorta defend Ta-Nehisi Coates (but also criticize him), struggle to define the term “symbolic capitalist”, and much more!

Links for this episode…

• Should the US still police the world?
• Coleman Hughes’ review of The Message
• Ta-Nehisi’s controversial statement
• “If my Grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike”
• We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite

In this impromptu episode Anthony and Clay are joined by Sydney Johnston and Professor Scott Barry Kaufman to discuss the upcoming protests on Columbia's campus. The tetrad talk about the psychology, ideology, and differing motivations of the protesters, and much more!

Don't forget to check out The Psychology Podcast and read Professor Kaufman's article on group narcissism!

In this episode Anthony and Clay speak with Ariana Pinsker-Lehrer. Ariana is an Israeli attorney, activist, and student at Columbia University's school of social work. Last winter, a video of her addressing a mob of anti-Israel protesters went viral. In it, she implores the protesters to be advocates for peace and to see the common humanity of everyone who lives between the river and the sea. Listen to this episode if you want to know more about the story behind that viral clip, learn more about Ariana's fascinating background, get her perspective on the school of social work's power, race, oppression, and privilege (PROP) curriculum, and much more!

We strongly encourage you to learn more about Jumpstarting Hope in Gaza

• Read about the program in the Israeli Times
• Support Jumpstarting Hope in Gaza
• Also check out the Arava Institute

And don’t forget to check out the Hotline for Refugees and Migrants!

In this episode Anthony and Clay speak with Professors of Political Science Beth Theiss-Morse (UN Lincoln) and Jeff Spinner-Halev (UNC Chapel Hill). Jeff and Beth are the co-authors of the fantastic new book Respect and Loathing in American Democracy: Polarization, Moralization, and the Undermining of Equality. In it, they argue that the polarization we see in modern American politics is due largely to the fact that conservatives and liberals moralize different issues. Listen to this episode to learn about the difference between tolerance and respect, the "liberal respect paradox", how to talk politics with your “crazy uncle Joe,” and much more!

In this episode, Anthony and Clay speak with Joe Terwilliger. Joe is technically a professor of neurobiology at Columbia University… except he doesn’t actually know anything about neurobiology. What he’s really an expert at is using statistical analysis in genetics research. Listen to this episode if you want to learn why studying genetics is so difficult, why accounting for ethnicity is crucial for dietary and medical research, why poor people in India are often happier than poor people in the US, and much, much more!

Oh, and did we mention that Joe has spent time in North Korea hanging out with Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong Un?

Links for the things we reference in this episode….

-       Idiocracy

-       Dennis Rodman wearing Joe’s MAGA hat

-       That commercial that was, let’s say, racially insensitive 

In this episode, we speak with Harvey Pennington and TJ Gill. Harvey and TJ are two of the founders of the Columbia Chapter of BridgeUSA, a multi-partisan student movement that champions viewpoint diversity, responsible discourse, and a solution-oriented political culture. Expect to learn about BridgeUSA’s mission and methods, including their four “norms of discussion.”

Since we’re all Columbia students, we had to discuss what we expect for the Fall semester!

Links:

B******t Jobs

Does Columbia need 5,000 administrators? (Clay's article for Sundial)

Columbia BridgeUSA’s Instagram