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One of our favorite culture warriors, Dr. Cheney. References and suggested readings: Mark Hlavacik. 2025. Willing Warriors: A New History of the Education Culture Wars. University of Chicago Press. Mark Hlavacik. 2016. Assigning Blame: The Rhetoric of Education Reform. Harvard University Press.Emma Whitford. January 7, 2026. Plato Censored as Texas A&M Carries Out Course Review. Inside Higher Ed.Texas A&M, Under New Curriculum Limits, Warns Professor Not to Teach Plato. New...
References and suggested readings: Bryan Alexander. 2023. Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis. Johns Hopkins University Press. Drew Miller. March 14, 2021. "No, Dolphins Did Not Reappear in Venice Canals: The Effects of COVID-19 on the Environment." University of Minnesota LawSci.Luke Kemp. 2025. Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse. Knopf.Future Trends ForumBryan’s Substackbryanalexander.org Support the show Browse the American Campu...
Hi, listeners! A little bonus content for you. This is audio from a recent talk I gave with the brilliant Nayanika Ghosh. You'll also hear friend of the pod, Andy Hines, who moderated our conversation at the Aydelotte Foundation at Swarthmore College. You can read more about the event here. You can also follow along with the Aydelotte podcast, Podalot here. Support the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf at https://bookshop.org/lists/american-campus-podcast Get updates about the show ...
Register for “Degrees, Debt, and the University: Andy Hines, Chris Newfield, Eleni Schirmer and Jason Wozniak in conversation,” Adeylotte Foundation, Swarthmore College References and suggested readings: Brian Soucek. 2026. The Opinionated University: Academic Freedom, Diversity, and the Myth of Neutrality in American Higher Education. University of Chicago Press. Kalven Committee: Report on the University’s Role in Political and Social Action, November 11, 1967. University of Chicago.La...
On the learning styles myth Register for “Degrees, Debt, and the University: Andy Hines, Chris Newfield, Eleni Schirmer and Jason Wozniak in conversation,” Adeylotte Foundation, Swarthmore College References and suggested readings: Thomas Fallace. 2025. You Are Not a Kinesthetic Learner: The Troubled History of the Learning Style Idea. University of Chicago Press. Thomas D. Fallace. 2018. In the Shadow of Authoritarianism: American Education in the Twentieth Century. Teachers College Pre...
And authoritarian attacks on all of the above. Request a future episode topic here We're prepping for an upcoming mailbag episode, ask us anything here References and suggested readings: Ayala Panievsky. 2026. The New Censorship: How the War on the Media is Taking Us Down. Footnote Press. Laura Gerbes. 2025. Listeners Like Who? Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry. Princeton University Press.Kate Wright, Martin Scott, and Mel Bunce. 2024. Capturing News, Capturing Democr...
Request a future episode topic here We're prepping for an upcoming mailbag episode, ask us anything here References and suggested readings: Martin J. Murray. 2025. Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State: Remembering the Antiwar Movement in Austin, Texas, 1967-1973. University of North Texas Press.Beverly Gage. 2023. G-man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century. Penguin.Gregg L. Michel. 2024. Spying on Students: The FBI, Red Squads, and Student Activists in the 19...
On all our favorite topics: imperialism, homosociality, liberalism, hazing! Make a request for future episodes here We're prepping for an upcoming mailbag episode, ask us anything here References and suggested readings: John F. Morris. 2025. Students to Soldiers: Secret Military Education at Elite Schools, 1815–1945. University of Virginia Press.Max Egremont. 2012. Forgotten Land: Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.Follow John Morris on Instagram @jfm_e...
On the academy’s decline since 2011. References and suggested readings: Bryan Alexander. 2026. Peak Higher Ed: How to Survive the Looming Academic Crisis. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2023. Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2022. Academia Next: The Futures of Higher Education. Johns Hopkins University Press. Tressie McMillan Cottom. 2017. Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy. The Ne...
Make a request for future episodes here We're prepping for an upcoming mailbag episode, ask us anything here Cheers! Support the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf at https://bookshop.org/lists/american-campus-podcast Get updates about the show at patreon.com/americancampuspodcast Get in touch. Want to request a topic or pitch an episode? Email Lauren at shephell@iu.edu
Make a request for future episodes here We're prepping for an upcoming mailbag episode, ask us anything here References and suggested readings: Laura K. Field. 2025. Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right. Princeton University Press. Publius Decius Mus (Michael Anton). September 5, 2016. “The Flight 93 Election.” Claremont Review of Books.Sam Tanenhaus. 2025. Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America. Penguin Random House.Tanenhaus’s God and Man at Yale episode o...
1920s style! Make a request for future episodes here We're prepping for an upcoming mailbag episode, ask us anything here References and suggested readings: Hunter M. Hampton. 2025. The Gridiron Gospel: Faith and College Football in Twentieth-Century America. University of Illinois Press. John Eisenberg. 2017. Ten-Gallon War: The NFL's Cowboys, the AFL's Texans, and the Feud for Dallas's Pro Football Future. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. huntermhampton.com Instagram @hunter_m_hamp...
High school organizers have much to teach us about young peoples' political priorities. Make a request for future episodes here! We're prepping for an upcoming mailbag episode, ask us anything here! References and suggested readings: Aaron G. Fountain Jr. 2025. High School Students Unite! Teen Activism, Education Reform, and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America. University of North Carolina Press. Heather Ann Thompson. 2017. Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its L...
ft. John Dewey. Make a request for future episodes here! We're prepping for an upcoming mailbag episode, ask us anything here! References and suggested readings: Andrew Feffer. 2019. Bad Faith: Teachers, Liberalism, and the Origins of McCarthyism. Fordham University Press. Daniel Immerwahr. 2018. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.Édouard Louis. 2024. Monique s'évade. Seuil.Édouard Louis. 2023. Who Killed My Father? Translated by Lori...
Remember your old school yearbook photos? Where are they now? Make a request for future episodes here! We're prepping for a future mailbag episode, ask us anything here! References and suggested readings: Kate Eichhorn. 2025. School Yearbook: The Untold Story of a Cringey Tradition and Its Digital Afterlife. University of Chicago Press. Michael A. Messner. 2025. The High School: Sports, Spirit, and Citizens, 1903-2024. Rutgers University Press. Kate Eichhorn’s faculty page Support ...
Trad wives make great teachers. Make a request for future episodes here! We're prepping for an upcoming mailbag episode, ask us anything here! References and suggested readings: Catherine Tebaldi. 2025. Alt-Education: Gender, Knowledge and Far-right Metapolitics. Routledge. Janet MacIntosh. 2024. Kill Talk: Language and Military Necropolitics. Oxford University Press.Chelsea Ebin. 2024. Radical Mind: The Origins of Right-Wing Catholic and Protestant Coalition Building. University Press o...
On (corporate) foundation investments in knowledge production. Make a request for future episodes here! We're prepping for an upcoming mailbag episode, ask us anything here! References and suggested readings: Emily Hauptmann. 2022. Foundations and American Political Science: The Transformation of a Discipline, 1945-1970. University Press of Kansas. ACP episode on eugenics and the origins of statisticsACP episodes on funding and knowledge production: the academic-military-industrial compl...
The straight college strikes back! References and suggested readings: Richard S. Price. October 6, 2025. The straight college strikes back: 1990s backlash against inclusive campuses. Politics, Groups, and Identities.Megan Brenan. May 29, 2025. “Record Party Divide 10 Years After Same-Sex Marriage Ruling.” Gallup.David A. Reichard. 2024. Here Are My People: LGBT College Student Organizing in California. University of Georgia Press.Lawrence Glickman. May 21, 2020. “How White Backlash Controls A...
References and suggested readings: Alison Bashford. 2025. Decoding the Hand: A History of Science, Medicine, and Magic. University of Chicago Press. Naomi Oreskes. 2003. Plate Tectonics: An Insider's History Of The Modern Theory Of The Earth. CRC Books.Alison Bashford faculty pageSupport the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf at https://bookshop.org/lists/american-campus-podcast Get updates about the show at patreon.com/americancampuspodcast Get in touch. Want to request a topi...
grift, edtech, enshittification References and suggested readings: Justin Raden. October 23, 2025. Higher Ed’s Rush to Adopt AI is About So Much More Than AI. Defector. American Vandal podcast and SubstackMoira Weigel. “Palantir Goes to the Frankfurt School.” b2oMolly White [citation needed]Gil Durán. 2026. The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy. Simon & Schuster.Edward Zitron Where’s Your Ed At? Melinda Cooper. 2024. Counterrevolution: Extravagance and ...
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