The Chicago boys would have loved digital assets. References and suggested readings:Alan Blinder and Steven Rich. August 25, 2025.

College, a nice time for nice ladies.References mentioned this episode:Samuel Rutherford. 2025. Teaching Gender...

A human history of ed techReferences mentioned this episode:Anne Trumbore. 2025.

On making our academic writing a little more reader friendly.References mentioned this episode:Laura Portwood-Stacer. 2025.

And, do US academics face a similar situation today?References mentioned this episode:Frank Stahnisch. 2025. Great Minds in Despair: The Forc...

We forgot to mention Bob Jones was the son of a Confederate veteran.References mentioned this episode:Adam Laats’s websiteAdam Laats. April 28, 2025.

On the creation of the statistical tests we often use in human behavioral research, especially in the fields of psychology, education, economics, and political science.References mentioned this episode:Akira O’Connor and Erin...

From Johnson’s Great Society to Clinton’s crime bill, Reiko Hillyer discusses the “rise and fall” of higher education in US prisons. Plus, she shares her experience as a professor who teaches in prisons.References mentioned this episode:...

Louisiana State Penitentiary, a former plantation known simply as “Angola," is a site of higher education. Journalist Piper Hutchinson explains. References mentioned this episode:Piper Hutchinson. May 2, 2025. “

In 2025, 45 million Americans owe more than $1.7 trillion in college debt. Ellie Shermer explains: “the story of skyrocketing college debt is not merely one of good intentions gone wrong. In fact, the federal student loan program was never supp...

That degree.References mentioned this episode:Erik Baker. 2025. Make Your Own Job: The Entrepreneurial Work Ethic in Modern America. Harva...

First, a continuation of the Chicago school of economics history (a nice follow up to last week’s episode on Char...

Professors teaching about communism and socialism? Un-American! Here’s some cash to make sure the university is preaching the supreme American virtue: capitalism. If you caught our joint episode with the In Bed with the Right podcas...

Freshman hazing, a time honored tradition of (at least) 1,500 years.References mentioned this episode:Hannah Skoda. 2025. Frying Pans, Limpets, Donk...

From Kant to CRT via Columbia and UC Irvine.References mentioned this episode:The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, 3rd edition. W. W. Norton.Miquel de P...

On the eugenics origins of the IQ test and why we're still using it in 2025.References mentioned this episode:Pepper Stetler. 2024.

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 that fired the campus wars: God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of "Academic Freedom."Reference...

How does a librarian kill someone with a newspaper? This and other academic spycraft in Elyse Graham's Book and Dagger.References mentioned this episode:Elyse Graham. 2024.

Richard T. Greener was the first Black graduate of Harvard College in 1870. Greener went on to be a professor, lawyer, dean of Howard University law school, diplomat, and a celebrated intellectual of the Reconstruction era. Christian K. Anderso...

Check out my interview with Sasha Lilley for Against the Grain podcast. We talk about Resistance from the Right, which you can grab a copy of here. <...

We're headed South with Kate Ballantyne to talk about the Old Left! Plus, Kate's tips for conducting archival research.To join the student activism researchers Google group, send me an email: shephell@iu.edu.Refere...

From the conception of ROTC after the Spanish-American War, colleges and K12 schools have been central to US military recruitment efforts. Scott Harding, Charles Howlett, and Seth Kershner explain the history of school militarism, and how peace...

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.References mentioned this episode:Nicole Bedera. 2024.

On today’s episode, we’re covering the history and purposes of the first American research universities, Indian boarding schools, and Historically Black Colleges, all of which emerged at the same time in US history.References mentioned t...

Within and beyond the academy, Karl Marx remains a specter who assumes quite different shapes from his friends and enemies. According to Andrew Hartman, Marx himself wouldn't recognize many of the various derivatives or criticisms of his work. ...