The Oxford Comment

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October 15, 2020 The U.S. Supreme Court - The Very Short Introductions Podcast - Ep 2
In this episode, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse introduces the U.S. Supreme Court, which she spent 30 years chronicling as a correspondent for the New York Times.
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Linda Greenhouse was the New York Times Supreme Court correspondent for 30 years. She was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Journalism (Beat Reporting) in 1998. She in now Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and writes a biweekly opinion column on the Supreme Court and the law for the New York Times web site.
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October 12, 2020 Ancient Greece - The Very Short Introductions Podcast - Ep 1
In this episode, Paul Cartledge introduces Ancient Greece, a period of unmatched influence on the politics, philosophy, religion, and social relations of Western civilization.
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Paul Cartledge is the inaugural A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at the University of Cambridge.
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August 26, 2020 Nic Bommarito on Buddhism - Episode 8 - The Side Comment
For this episode of The Side Comment, philosopher Nic Bommarito, author of "Seeing Clearly," debunks some common myths about Buddhism.
Nicolas Bommarito is assistant professor in the philosophy department at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. He received his PhD in philosophy from Brown University and holds a language certification from Tibet University in Lhasa. He is the author of Inner Virtue and draws comics in his spare time, which you can enjoy on his website, www.nicbommarito.com.
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Listen on Youtube:
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The Side Comment Crew:
Executive Producer: Steven Filippi
Host: Katelyn Philips
Associate Producers: Katelyn Phillips, Cassandra Ammerman
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August 25, 2020 Urban Studies, City Life, and COVID-19 - Episode 56 - The Oxford Comment
On this episode of The Oxford Comment, we spoke with three scholars involved in the launch of the upcoming Oxford Bibliographies in Urban Studies. Editor-in-Chief Richard Dilworth and authors Zack Taylor ("Toronto") and James Mansell ("Urban Soundscapes")discussed the new OBO subject at large, their individual contributions, and attempted to answer for us the question on everyone’s mind: what is the future of cities in a post-COVID world?
Oxford Bibliographies in Urban Studies coming soon: https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/page/urban-studies
Richardson Dilworth: https://drexel.edu/coas/faculty-research/faculty-directory/Richardson-Dilworth/
Zack Taylor: https://politicalscience.uwo.ca/people/faculty/full-time_faculty/zack_taylor.html
James Mansell: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/clas/people/james.mansell
The Oxford Comment Crew:
Executive Producer: Steven Filippi
Host: Katelyn Philips
Associate Producers: Cassandra Ammerman, Katelyn Phillips, Anne Marie Turner
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August 24, 2020 Urban Studies, City Life, and COVID-19 – Episode 56 – The Oxford Comment
On this episode of The Oxford Comment, we spoke with three scholars involved in the launch of the upcoming Oxford Bibliographies in Urban Studies. Editor-in-Chief Richard Dilworth and authors Zack Taylor (“Toronto”) and James Mansell (“Urban Soundscapes”) discussed the new OBO subject at large, their individual contributions, and attempted to answer for us the question on everyone’s mind: what is the future of cities in a post-COVID world?
Music: Filaments by Podington Bear is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.
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August 19, 2020 Cheryl Misak on Frank Ramsey - Episode 7 - The Side Comment
In this episode of The Side Comment, world-leading Frank Ramsey expert Cheryl Misak, author of "Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers," highlights some of the many fascinating aspects of the philosopher-mathematician-economist's short but extraordinary life.
Cheryl Misak is University Professor and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. She works on American pragmatism, the history of analytic philosophy, ethics and political philosophy, and the philosophy of medicine. She has had visiting fellowships or positions at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, the Free University in Berlin, Trinity College Cambridge, St. Johns College Cambridge, and New York University.
Learn more about "Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers" here.
Listen on Youtube:
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The Side Comment Crew:
Executive Producer: Steven Filippi
Host: Katelyn Philips
Associate Producers: Katelyn Phillips, Kate Roche, Cassandra Ammerman
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August 12, 2020 Archie Brown on the End of the Cold War - Episode 6 - The Side Comment
For this episode of The Side Comment, Archie Brown, author of "The Human Factor," examines how the unexpected triangle formed by Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher, and Ronald Reagan contributed to the end of the Cold War.
Archie Brown is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of the British Academy, and an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of numerous books on the former Soviet Union and its demise, including The Human Factor (2020) The Gorbachev Factor (1996) and The Rise and Fall of Communism (2009).
Learn more about "The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War" here.
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Listen on Youtube:
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The Side Comment Crew:
Executive Producer: Steven Filippi
Host: Katelyn Philips
Associate Producers: Katelyn Phillips, Cassandra Ammerman
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August 05, 2020 Richard Toye on Churchill's Life in the News - Episode 5 - The Side Comment
For the fifth episode of The Side Comment, Richard Toye, author of "Winston Churchill: A Life in the News," explores the ever-changing relationship between Winston Churchill and the burgeoning media landscape in which he lived.
Richard Toye is Professor of Modern History at the University of Exeter. He has written widely on modern British and international political and economic history, and his critically acclaimed book Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness won him the 2007 Times Higher Young Academic Author of the Year Award. He lives in Exeter with his wife and two sons.
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Listen on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3scoMOd2t8
The Side Comment Crew:
Executive Producer: Steven Filippi
Host: Katelyn Philips
Associate Producers: Katelyn Phillips, Cassandra Ammerman
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July 22, 2020 Tom Keymer on Jane Austen - Episode 4 - The Side Comment
For this episode of The Side Comment, Tom Keymer, author of "Jane Austen: Writing, Society, Politics," shows the razor-sharp wit and brilliance of Jane Austen through five lesser-known facts about the novelist.
Tom Keymer is Chancellor Henry N. R. Jackman University Professor of English at the University of Toronto. He has published numerous books about Restoration, eighteenth-century, and Romantic-period literature and culture, including Poetics of the Pillory: English Literature and Seditious Libel 1660-1820 (OUP, 2019), Sterne, the Moderns, and the Novel (OUP, 2002), and, as editor, The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Volume 1: Prose Fiction in English from the Origins of Print to 1750 (OUP, 2017).
Learn more about "Jane Austen: Writing, Society, Politics" here:
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Listen on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7_GbuGD8o0
The Side Comment Crew:
Executive Producer: Steven Filippi
Host: Katelyn Philips
Associate Producers: Katelyn Phillips, Cassandra Ammerman
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8min
July 08, 2020 Emily Thomas on Philosophers Abroad - Episode 3 - The Side Comment
For our third episode of The Side Comment, we are joined by Emily Thomas, author of "The Meaning of Travel: Philosophers Abroad," who explores five fascinating pieces of advice from five of history's most well-known Western philosophers. René Descartes, Margaret Cavendish, John Locke, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Henry Thoreau all offer valuable insight gained from the inspiration they've found in nature and travel.
Emily Thomas is Associate Professor in Philosophy at Durham University. She has published extensively on the philosophy of space and time, as well as philosophical issues in travel. She has also spent a lot of time by herself getting lost around the world.
Learn more about "The Meaning of Travel: Philosophers Abroad" here:
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The Side Comment Crew:
Executive Producer: Steven Filippi
Host: Katelyn Philips
Associate Producers: Katelyn Phillips, Cassandra Ammerman
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FAQs about The Oxford Comment:

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