Half Hour of Heterodoxy by Heterodox Academy

08.12.2021

Final Episode

This is a bittersweet moment for us. Today is our final and brief episode of this podcast. We will be shifting our energy to focus solely on our new podcast, Heterodox Out Loud (https://heterodoxacademy.org/heterodoxoutloud/), where we bring the most compelling...

07.29.2021

A Deep Dive into DEI: Research, Interventions, and Alternatives with Frank Dobbin, Edward Chang, and Garrett Johnson

For the past few months at Heterodox Academy, we’ve been exploring a range of perspectives on the philosophy, purpose, and effectiveness of diversity-related training in the context of higher education. In this episode, a recording of our virtual event, A...

06.10.2021

Do Community Colleges do Heterodoxy Right? A Panel Conversation

Community colleges are a staple of American higher education; there are over 900 community colleges in the US and nearly half of all students attend a community college. This panel conversation features community college educators, Andrea Fabrizio, Greg Marks, and...

05.06.2021

A Fine Balance: Academic Freedom and Academic Responsibility

What does it mean for professors to have full freedom in the classroom and in their research? What are the requirements of academic responsibility? Former college presidents, Judith Shapiro (https://anthropology.columbia.edu/content/judith-r-shapiro) and Brian Rosenberg (https://www.gse.harvard.edu/faculty/brian-rosenberg) joined us to plumb the depths of...

04.02.2021

A Conversation with John McWhorter | Viewpoint Diversity Among Black Intellectuals

“The message that Black America cannot succeed significantly…until there is a vast overturning...of the very psychological nature of being an American person...then to be a Black American person is to be circumscribed by racism…” In February, John McWhorter joined HxA...

03.05.2021

What Does the Future of Heterodoxy Look Like?

Five years after Heterodox Academy's founding in 2015, we took the opportunity to reflect on what the future of heterodoxy in the academy looks like, with four esteemed thought leaders: Nadine Strossen, Randall Kennedy, Nicholas Christakis and Jeffrey Adam Sachs....

02.25.2021

A History of College Teaching in America: a conversation with Jonathan Zimmerman

Host Amna Khalid speaks with Jonathan Zimmerman (https://www.gse.upenn.edu/academics/faculty-directory/zimmerman) about the main ideas of his book, “The Amateur Hour: A History of College Teaching in America.” (https://www.amazon.com/Amateur-Hour-History-College-Teaching/dp/1421439093) Together they explore the history of college teaching, the institutional efforts to improve it, higher education’s...

01.28.2021

Heterodox Out Loud: A New Heterodox Academy Podcast

Hi Half Hour of Heterodoxy Listeners! We are excited to announce our new podcast, "Heterodox Out Loud (https://heterodoxacademy.org/heterodoxoutloud/)," the audio version of the best of the HxA blogs. Listen to insightful, thought-provoking pieces authored by the HxA community by adding the...

07.09.2020

What Is Moral Grandstanding with Justin Tosi & Brandon Warmke.

Justin Tosi (https://www.justintosi.com/) and Brandon Warmke (http://brandonwarmke.com/) talk about their new book Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0851PR3DB/) on this episode. They explain how moral grandstanding differs from other vices like hypocrisy, and how it’s not the...

07.02.2020

Cocktails and Canceled Conversations with Elizabeth Loftus

This episode features cognitive psychologist and human memory expert, Dr. Elizabeth Loftus (https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/eloftus/). It’s a recording of a live webinar hosted by HxA on June 8, 2020 called Cocktails and Canceled Conversations with Elizabeth Loftus. Dr. Loftus is a Distinguished Professor at UC-Irvine in the...

06.26.2020

Psychological Safety for Professors and Students with Amy Edmondson

Amy Edmondson (https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6451) is my guest on this episode. She’s an organizational psychologist at Harvard Business School and she’s known for her highly influential studies of psychological safety, the sense that you can be honest and open and can take...

06.17.2020

The Problem With Everything with Meghan Daum

Meghan Daum (https://www.meghandaum.com/) is a columnist for Medium, an adjunct faculty in the MFA Writing Program at Columbia University's School of the Arts, and author of five books, one of which we will be discussing today, The Problem With Everything:...

05.28.2020

Michael Kruse, Being a Journalist in a Social Media World

Michael Kruse is a senior staff writer at POLITICO, where he writes about presidential candidates and campaigns. He has been a journalist since his undergraduate years at Davidson College, and worked for the Tampa Bay Times before joining POLITICO. He...

05.20.2020

86. Adam Domby, The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory

Adam Domby is my guest today. He’s a history professor at the College of Charleston and we’llbe talking about his research on the statue of Silent Sam at the University of North Carolina atChapel Hill. That statue commemorated a Confederate soldier...

05.12.2020

85. Michael Roth, Safe Enough Spaces

This episode is hosted by Cory Clark, and Michael Roth is the guest. Michael is a historian, the president of Wesleyan University, and the author of the book ‘Safe Enough Spaces: A Pragmatist’s Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech, and Political...

04.27.2020

84. Christian Gonzalez and Ian Storey, The Elusive Definitions of Conservatism and Liberalism

This is a special one-hour episode featuring Christian Gonzalez and Ian Storey. Christian Gonzales is a research assistant at Heterodox Academy. He’s a senior at Columbia University and he has written for various conservative publications like National Review and City Journal....

04.09.2020

83. Cory Clark, Tribalism in War and Peace (And in the Social Sciences)

Cory Clark (http://www.coryjclark.com/) is my guest on this episode. She’s the Director of Academic Engagement at Heterodox Academy. She’s also a social psychologist and until recently was an assistant professor at Durham University in the UK. We’ll be talking about...

03.23.2020

82. Katie Gordon, How to Effectively Help Students During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Katie Gordon is my guest today. Katie previously appeared on Episode 50: Can Offensive Political Speech Cause Trauma? On today’s episode, we’ll be talking about ways you can counsel and help students during the Coronavirus pandemic. We talk about what...

03.10.2020

81. Amy Westervelt, How Does the Energy Industry Influence Universities?

Amy Westervelt contributes to the Guardian, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. In 2015, she received a Rachel Carson award and, in 2016, an Edward R. Murrow award for her environmental journalism. She’s the creator and host of...

02.27.2020

80. Eric Kaufmann, Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities

Eric Kaufmann, professor of politics at Birkbeck College, University of London, explains how white identity is threatened by immigration and how this trend drives polarization in English-speaking nations.

02.04.2020

79. Jill DeTemple, A Structure for Difficult Classroom DIalogue

Jill DeTemple is my guest today. She’s an associate professor of religious studies at Southern Methodist University. She uses a technique called reflective structured dialogue to enable students to express their perspectives on contentious moral and religious issues.

01.21.2020

78. Lawrence Glickman, Free Enterprise: An American History

Lawrence B. Glickman is my guest on this episode. He’s the Stephen and Evalyn Milman Professor in American Studies at Cornell University. We’ll be talking about his latest book, “Free Enterprise: An American History.” It covers what American politicians and...

01.02.2020

77. James Poniewozik, Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America

James Poniewozik is my guest today. He’s the chief television critic for the New York Times. We’ll be talking about his new book “Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America,” which was listed as one of...

12.18.2019

76. Deb Mashek, Heterodox Academy in 2020

Deb Mashek, my guest on this episode, is the executive director of Heterodox Academy. We talk about what Heterodox Academy does and Deb gives a preview of some 2020 events. Here is a transcript of this episode. Related Links: * The...

12.12.2019

75. Carol Quillen, Leading a Liberal Arts College

Carol Quillen is my guest on this episode. She’s the president of Davidson College, my alma mater, and she is also a historian by training. She received her PhD in history from Princeton University. In 2018, Princeton awarded her the James Madison Medal,...

12.05.2019

74, Phoebe Maltz Bovy, How Useful is Privilege Checking?

Phoebe Maltz Bovy (@tweetertation) is my guest today. She’s the author of The Perils of "Privilege": Why Injustice Can’t be Solved by Accusing Others of Advantage, published in 2017. Her essays on privilege and politics have appeared in The New...

11.26.2019

73. Ilana Redstone, Heterodox Sociology

Ilana Redstone (@irakresh) is my guest. She is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she teaches core sociology courses and a special course called Bigots and Snowflakes: Living in a World Where Everyone...

11.12.2019

72. Tony McAleer, The Cure for Hate: A Former White Supremacist's Journey from Violent Extremism to Radical Compassion

Tony McAleer is my guest on this episode. He’s the author of the new book “The Cure for Hate: A Former White Supremacist’s Journey from Violent Extremism to Radical Compassion. He is the co-founder of Life After Hate, a non-profit...

11.01.2019

71. Robert Talisse, Overdoing Democracy: Why We Must Put Politics in its Place

Robert Talisse (@roberttalisse) is my guest on this episode. He's the W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. His central research area is democratic theory. In his latest book Overdoing Democracy: Why We Must Put Politics in Its...

10.23.2019

70. Sheila Heen: Difficult Conversations, Part 2

Sheila Heen is my guest today. This is the second part of a two-part interview with her. The first part is available here. Sheila is the coauthor of Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most (1999), a New York...

10.18.2019

69. Sheila Heen, Difficult Conversations for Faculty and Students, Part 1

Sheila Heen is my guest today. She’s the coauthor of Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most (1999), a New York Times Business Bestseller that has continuously been in print. An updated 10th anniversary edition was published in 2010....

10.01.2019

68. Matthew H. Goldberg, From Christian Identity to Climate Action

Matthew H. Goldberg (@MattGoldberg100) is my guest on this episode. He's a Postdoctoral Associate at the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. He's an expert in social psychological topics related to communication, such as attitudes and persuasion, motivated reasoning, and...

09.15.2019

67. Charlie Sykes, Conservative Media

Today's episode features Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie), a conservative political commentator who hosted a popular talk radio show from 1993 to 2016. He later joined The Weekly Standard magazine and hosted The Daily Standard podcast. In December 2018, after the shuttering...

09.07.2019

66. Kevin Kruse & Julian Zelizer, Fault Lines (recorded live at AJC Decatur Book Festival)

This episode was recorded before a live audience at the Decatur Book Festival in Decatur, GA, on September 1, 2019. It features historians Kevin Kruse (@KevinMKruse) and Julian Zelizer (@JulianZelizer) talking about Fault Lines: A History of the United States...

09.01.2019

65. Lara Schwartz, False Equivalence

Lara Schwartz is the director of the Project for Civil Discourse at American University where she’s also a professor in law and government. She’s also the coauthor of How to College: What to Know Before You Go (And When You're...

08.23.2019

64. Steven Pinker, An Unnecessary Defense of Reason and a Necessary Defense of the University's Role in Advancing It

Harvard University professor and best-selling author Steven Pinker considers why open inquiry, viewpoint diversity, and constructive disagreement matter beyond the academy. He makes the case that healthy colleges and universities equip citizens, scientists, policymakers, parents, and others with the habits...

08.15.2019

63. Joanna Schug, Relational Mobility and Cultural Confusion

Joanna Schug (@joannaschug) is a social and cross-cultural psychologist at the College of William and Mary. We discuss how the concept of relational mobility helps us understand why cultures differ from one another, and why people can have difficulty adapting...

08.01.2019

62. Cailin O'Connor, The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread

Cailin O’Connor (@cailinmeister) is a philosopher of science at the University of California-Irvine. We discuss her book The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread co-authored with James Owen Weatherall. Related Links: * Do as I Say, Not as I Do, or,...

07.23.2019

61. HxA Conference 2019

This episode features short interviews with people who attended the 2019 Heterodox Academy conference and one excerpt from a conference symposium. Guests In Order of Appearance: * Jon Haidt, social psychologist and business ethics professor * Amna Khalid, historian* Jesse Singal, journalist...

07.15.2019

60. Oliver Burkeman, How the News Took Over Reality

Oliver Burkeman is a British journalist and author based in Brooklyn. We discuss his recent Guardian essay where he argues that excessive engagement with political news is unhealthy for individual wellbeing and for democracy. Related Links * How the news took over...

07.01.2019

59. Nicholas Christakis, Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society

Nicholas Christakis is a physician and sociologist at Yale University, and Director of the Human Nature Lab at the Yale Institute for Network Science. His previous books included Connected, about how social networks affect our health and our lives, and Death...

06.15.2019

58. Angie Maxwell, The Long Southern Strategy

My guest today is Angie Maxwell (@AngieMaxwell1). She received her PhD. In American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin, and is currently associate professor of Southern Studies at the University of Arkansas. She also chairs the Diane D....

06.01.2019

57. Teresa Bejan, Mere Civility

Professors and politicians warn that we face a crisis of civility today. But is civility really a virtue, and how much civility do we really need? Those questions are addressed by my guest today is Teresa Bejan, in her book...

05.20.2019

56. The Heterodox Academy 2019 Conference

Deb Mashek and Karen Gillo talk about the Heterodox Academy 2019 Conference, scheduled for June 20 and June 21 in New York City. The conference includes an awards dinner on June 20. Deb Mashek is executive director and Karen Gillo is...

05.15.2019

55. Maria Dixon Hall, Becoming Culturally Intelligent

Maria Dixon Hall manages the Campus Cultural Intelligence program at Southern Methodist University. She has a background in multiple disciplines, having earned a masters of divinity, a masters of theology, and a PhD in Organizational Communication and Religion. Her work...

05.08.2019

54. Arthur Sakamoto, Asian Educational Achievement (The Annex episode)

This is a re-release of an episode from The Annex, a sociology podcast created by Joseph Cohen (CUNY Queens College), Leslie Hinkson (Georgetown), and Gabriel Rossman (UCLA). You can follow the Annex on Twitter and find previous episodes at www.theannexpodcast.com. The...

05.01.2019

53. Christopher Federico, The Psychology of Political Behavior

Christopher Federico is a political psychologist with joint appointments in psychology and political science at the University of Minnesota. We talk about a new paper in which he and Ari Malka argue that people do not simply become liberal or...

04.15.2019

52. Ashley Jardina, White Identity Politics

How political scientists have wrongly conflated racial identity and prejudice

04.01.2019

51. Arthur Brooks, Love Your Enemies

Arthur Brooks’ book Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America From the Culture of Contempt was published this month. This episode features him in conversation with Deb Mashek, executive director of Heterodox Academy, and the two co-hosts of...

03.15.2019

50. Katie Gordon, Can Offensive Political Speech Cause Trauma?

Thanks for supporting the podcast. We're now at episode 50! In this episode, clinical psychologist Kathryn Gordon talks about whether prejudiced political expression can cause trauma in listeners. Katie worked as a professor in the psychology department at North Dakota State...

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