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American Campus Podcast — 160 episodes
University in stone, silk, and blood with William Whyte
Tuition, Gaza encampments, and tenure with Marshall Steinbaum and David Austin Walsh
Big budgets behind big college sports with Karen Weaver
The Frenchmen with Emily Eakin
A short history of the connoisseur with Peter Burke
How a media panic led to the modern research university with Chad Wellmon
Classical liberals and Know-Nothings on higher learning with James Chandler
The KKK comes to UCLA with Trevor Griffey
Country of Lords with Kim Phillips-Fein
Napoleon’s scientific military school comes to the US western border with Sveinn M. Jóhannesson
Thorstein Veblen’s The Higher Learning in America with Christian Churchill and Gerald Levy
History of college grading with Joshua R. Eyler
See You at the Pole, the Columbine massacre, and Christianity on campus with Amy Laura Hall
The Flexner Report and contemporary critiques of medical professionalization with Ira Halpern
LLMs could have been developed differently with Xiaochang Li
Tragedy of the education commons with Guy Standing
Revilo Oliver and the academic freedom of white supremacists with Matthew C. Ehrlich
Disrupting White Noise: Challenging Beliefs about Race on Campus with Zak Foste and Lauren N. Irwin
Creating the Black high school with Alexander D. Hyres
The Other University with Chad Wellmon
Academic gerontocracy with Samuel Moyn
Spirits, specters, and parapsychology professors with Jesse Bering
The right’s attempt to capture Western Civ and Jewish Studies with Emmaia Gelman
The West with Curtis Dozier
What are universities for? with Marc Spooner
Quentin Deranque, the French Charlie Kirk with Jonathan Hauser
Alpha Kappa Alpha with Deborah E. Whaley
How class is reproduced in elite private schools with Emma Taylor
Yuppies with Dylan Gottlieb
Teaching ‘80s and ‘90s pop culture to Gen Z with Austin McCoy
The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy with AJA Woods
Institutional Review Boards with Marco Antonio Ramos
Writing for the public with David M. Perry
Professional class liberals with Brent Cebul and Lily Geismer
The grade inflation panic with Kevin Gannon
Allan Bloom’s Closing of the American Mind with Mark Hlavacik
Hands Off Higher Ed: May Day 2026 with Anne Balay
Culture wars come for French universities (Part 2)
Culture wars come for French universities (Part 1)
Higher ed in the 21st century economy with What Works Podcast
Young Americans for Freedom with Daniel Ruggles
Blame the Intern with Alexandre Frenette
Made up college rankings with Jonathan Beecher Field
Sex testing and the path to transvestigating college athletes with Johanna Mellis
The history of college learning disability accommodations with Scott Gelber
India's pipeline to Silicon Valley with Dwaipayan Banerjee
Publishing your academic book after leaving academia with Danielle Casarez Lemi
Pioneer Fund, the dark money trust that won't let race science die with John P. Jackson Jr.
China and the decline of American universities with Mark S. Ferrara
Why white nationalists love Plato with Curtis Dozier
Jesse Jackson and “Western Culture” at Stanford with John K. Wilson
L. Brent Bozell, trad Cath intellectual with Joshua Tait
Why is there an American university in Beirut? with Betty S. Anderson
Academics in the Epstein files with Andy Hines
Do we still have race conscious admissions after SFA v. Harvard? with Julie J. Park
Progressive origins of eugenics with Mark Torres
TurningPointUSA after Charlie Kirk with Hope Pisoni
On reconstructing Cherokee education with Julie L. Reed
Black college women after emancipation with Linda Perkins
Your Data Will Be Used Against You with Andrew Guthrie Ferguson
Lynne Cheney and the National Endowment for the Humanities with Mark Hlavacik
Universities and the climate crisis with Bryan Alexander
"Race, Racism, and the Liberal Arts," Aydelotte Foundation roundtable ft. Lauren, Nayanika Ghosh, and Andy Hines
On the myth of institutional neutrality with Brian Soucek
You Are Not a Kinesthetic Learner with Thomas Fallace
Media, academia, and objectivity with Ayala Panievsky
Antiwar activism and police infiltration at the University of Texas, 1967-1973 with Martin Murray
US Military Academy at West Point with John F. Morris
The peak and decline of US higher ed with Bryan Alexander
End of 2025 Questionnaire and Upcoming AMA
Claremonsters and MAGA intellectuals with Laura K. Field
Christianity, manhood, and college football with Hunter M. Hampton
High School Students Unite! with Aaron Fountain
Liberal anticommunists and the prelude to McCarthyism with Andrew Feffer
School Yearbook: A Cringey Tradition and Its Digital Afterlife with Kate Eichhorn
Conservatives and classical education with Catherine Tebaldi
Inventing political science with Emily Hauptmann
STRAIGHT at Penn State and anti-gay backlash in the 1990s with Richard S. Price
Palm readings, magic, and modern medicine with Alison Bashford
Higher ed’s rush to adopt AI with Justin Raden
Campus sexual harassment from Nixon to #MeToo with Celene Reynolds
Creating the AAUP with Henry Reichman
How to get a job at Harvard in 1860 with prabhdeep kehal
Squids, subs, and the academic-military-industrial complex with Naomi Oreskes
University Keywords with Andy Hines
Goldwater, King, and the college with Nicholas R. Buccola
Gunnar Myrdal and the white world order with Maribel Morey
Lab Dog with Brad Bolman
How dark money shapes the vernaculars of the culture war with Isaac Kamola
Scopes and the creationists with John K. Wilson
Beware of FIRE (and institutional neutrality) with Mary Anne Franks
Looting, murder, and the evolution of American archaeology with Rachel Morgan
The university’s creditors with Sofya Aptekar
How universities created NPR and PBS with Josh Shepperd
The campus bookstore racket with Katya Schwenk
The 1980s anti-apartheid movement with David Busch
Can the university be decolonized? with Sandy Grande
The future of university presses with Clara Totten
Tuskegee and the Afterlives of the Plantation with Jarvis McInnis
Frank Meyer: campus communist to rightwing revolutionary with Daniel Flynn
Global attacks on academic freedom with Eve Darian-Smith
TurningPointUSA and the Professor Watchlist with Matthew Boedy
DEI win in Mississippi (and what you can do in your state) with James M. Thomas
DEI from the 90s to now with Nimisha Barton
NYT discovers community colleges, UChicago discovers crypto losses with Marshall Steinbaum
A gender, queer, and trans history of the British university with Sam Rutherford
Before ChatGPT, there were MOOCs with Anne Trumbore
Developmental editing for scholarly writers with Laura Portwood-Stacer
The neuroscientists who fled Nazi Germany with Frank Stahnisch
Revenge of Bob Jones U: Religious colleges and their tax exemptions with Adam Laats
Eugenics and the creation of statistics with Akira O’Connor and Erin Robbins
The “rise and fall” of prison education with Reiko Hillyer
Angola prison: a college with Piper Hutchinson
History of federal student loans with Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
Harvard Business School and the creation of the MBA with Erik Baker
Law and economics and the backlash to critical legal studies with David Austin Walsh
Charles Walgreen and the University of Chicago with Steven Melendez
Medieval hazing rituals with Hannah Skoda
The Frankfurt School comes to the US with Jonathan Fine
The IQ test with Pepper Stetler
God and Man at Yale with Sam Tanenhaus
The academic spies of WWII with Elyse Graham
Richard T. Greener, Harvard's first Black graduate with Christian Anderson
Resistance from the Right (joint episode with Against the Grain)
The student Old Left with Katherine Ballantyne
Why does my campus have an ROTC? with Scott Harding, Charles Howlett, and Seth Kershner
What colleges (don’t) do about sexual violence with Nicole Bedera
UVA vs. Carlisle vs. Hampton with Eve L. Ewing
Marx in the classroom from Reagan to 9/11 with Andrew Hartman
The Trustees (joint episode with In Bed with the Right podcast)
Whither the English degree? Major Trade-offs with Corey Moss-Pech
Disability accommodations since Covid-19 with Jennifer Leigh
Why colleges have dormitories with Carla Yanni
Higher ed's second Gilded Age with Matt Seybold
The medical school building boom with Katherine Carroll
Casual, a timeless campus fashion with Deirdre Clemente
Great books and the canon wars with Tim Lacy
The American Psychological Association and the War on Terror with Roy Eidelson
University archives and black market ancient artifacts with Roberta Mazza
“Intellectual diversity” with Brad Vivian
Ed tech and student surveillance with Lindsay Weinberg
The "Floating University" and American empire with Tamson Pietsch
Kingfish U: Huey Long and LSU with Robert Mann
The 2010s, safe spaces, and trigger warnings with Kendall Gerdes
Students for Fair Admissions (2023) with Mike Collins
UC Regents v Bakke (1978) with Mike Collins
The Carter administration's threats to deport Iranian students with Will Teague
Legally Blonde, Drumline, Van Wilder, and other college movies of the aughts with Myles Ethan Lascity
The time we tried free college for all? Andrew Stone Higgins on the California Master Plan
The cancel culture panic with Adrian Daub
Why colleges have trustees with Asheesh Siddique
Black Women, Ivory Tower with Jasmine L. Harris
McCarthyism and the universities with Ellen Schrecker
Pseudoscience and the ethics of academic medicine with Matthew C. Ehrlich
College women and the 19th Amendment with Kelly Marino
A history of college radio with Kate Jewell
Abolish college football? with Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva
Segregation scholarships with Crystal Sanders
The FBI, red squads, and student activists in the 1960s south with Gregg Michel
Colonial foundations of US colleges with Sharon Stein