Thinking Aloud

Dr. Hunter Baker serves as dean of the college of arts and sciences, a university fellow, and an associate professor of political science at Union University. He is the author of three books (The End of Secularism, Political Thought: A Student's Guide, and The System Has a Soul), has contributed chapters to several others, and has written for a wide variety of print and digital publications. He also ran for the 8th Tennessee District for the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2016 election. 

Gregory Ryan has taught International Relations and Comparative Politics classes at Union University since 2010. He received his B.A. from Lipscomb University and M.A. from the University of Alabama. After teaching English for a year in Beijing, he entered the doctoral program in Political Science at the University of Tennessee in 1998 and received his PhD in 2003. Upon completing his doctoral studies, Ryan joined the navy, serving first in Japan and then aboard an amphibious assault ship based in San Diego.

Ted Kluck has an MFA in Creative Writing and teaches Journalism at Union University. Here we talk about youth, entertainment, expectations of ageing, and nostalgia.

Ted Kluck has an MFA in creative writing and currently teaches Journalism at Union University. In this episode we discuss little towns, French football, writing as an art, lifetime anecdotes, and the every-man.

Aaron Hardin has an MFA from the Hartford Art School and current teaches at Union University. You can visit his website here http://www.aaronhardinphoto.com/

In this episode, Joshua and I talk about film' effects, religion, art, social media, social development, and then we quickly skim over the abortion debate because we aren't trying to bum you out completely.

In this episode Tre Tharpe and I briefly talk about life as a black man, some of his religious convictions, ways help to overcome prejudice and the need for friendships to overcome social ills. Tre is a friend and an employment specialist and has a degree in social work. Happy Thanksgiving you bunch of turkey murdering heathens.

In this episode, we talk about race, racial tension, how to talk to other people about the elephant in the room, and other topics.

In today's episode we discuss photography, truth, moral intuitions, social media's effect on self-image, and why it's nice to hear about people's smoking habits. If you like this podcast you can let me know @TheTAPodcast on twitter where you can also suggest topics and such. I hope you all had a good week.

In this episode I speak with photographer Aaron Hardin. He has won the Magnum Photography Fine Art Award for 2016 as well as the Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Emerging Artist Award. His graduate degree came from the Hartford Art School International Limited Residency Program and he is now currently the Assistant Professor of Visual Communication at Union University. We talk about art, photography, photojournalism, where photography is going, where its been, and what it can be, what graduate school was like, what makes a good artist, and how his past experience inform his work as well as those of other artists. If you like this podcast you can let me know @TheTAPodcast on twitter as well as give me topics or guest ideas. I hope you guys have a nice day.