God and Man at Yale with Sam Tanenhaus

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."References mentioned this episode:Sam Tanenhaus. 2025. Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America. Penguin Random House.Sam Tanenhaus. 1998. Whittaker Chambers: A Biography. Penguin Random House. (Winner of the LA Times Book Prize and a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize!)Heather Hendershot. 2016. Open to Debate: How William F. Buckley Put Liberal America on the Firing Line. HarperCollins. Beverly Gage. 2022. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century. Viking. (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, and LA Times Book Prize!)Stendhal. 1839. The Charterhouse of Parma. Norman Mailer. November 1960. “Superman comes to the supermarket.” Esquire.Text the show here!Support the showBrowse the American Campus bookshelf