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FSF Ep. 6: Book Banning Vs. Letting People Decide for Themselves | Pam Hayes-Bohanan
20 mins; July 16, 2024
S4 E20 | Braving the Waters: Charting a Course between Scylla of Victimhood and Charybdis of DEI
114 hours 16 mins; July 12, 2024
S4 E19 | Making (Up) the Grade: A Call for Educators to Openly Address Eroding Standards
81 hours 10 mins; July 05, 2024
FSF Ep. 5: Not Actively Advocating for Free Speech Until I Got Canceled | Elizabeth Spievak
22 mins; July 02, 2024
The Man in the Mirror with Glenn Loury
74 hours 2 mins; June 28, 2024
S4 E18 | Stash or Cash: Partisan Priorities in Resource Distribution
88 hours 59 mins; June 21, 2024
FSF Ep. 4: Ask First: What Is Your Story? | Jennifer Richmond
38 mins; June 18, 2024
S4 E17 | Speech Playground: Building Community through Public Discourse
54 mins; June 14, 2024
S4 E16 | Scratching the Surface: Others' Voting Motives are only Skin Deep
81 hours 19 mins; June 07, 2024
FSF Ep. 3: How to Achieve Safe Governments with James Petts
20 mins; May 28, 2024
S4 E15 | Grade 'A' Hypocrisy: Faculty Politics and Eroding University Standards
90 hours 32 mins; May 24, 2024
FSF Ep 1: Having Fundamental Inner Confidence in Your Worthiness and Goodness to Stand Up and Speak Out | Chris Bush
17 mins; May 21, 2024
FSF Ep 2: 5 Core Principles (and 1 Pet Peeve) for Effective Writing | K. Joia Houheneka
19 mins; May 21, 2024
Free Speech Forward: Podcast Introduction
3 mins; May 21, 2024
S4 E14 | Allegiance Optional: Could DEI Statements Really Be Old News?
77 hours 22 mins; May 17, 2024
S4 E13 | Trigger Warning: Are Prejudiced Beliefs Actually on the Rise?
62 hours 40 mins; May 03, 2024
S4 E12 | Faint Praise: Race, Charitable Grading, and Unhelpful Feedback
70 hours 12 mins; April 26, 2024
S4 E11 | An Ounce of Prevention: Overestimated Harm Motivates Science Censorship
76 hours 27 mins; April 12, 2024
Legacies of Black Pioneers: The Problem with Black Excellence with Ada Akpala
60 hours 45 mins; April 05, 2024
S4 E10 | Jew-Jitsu with Dmitri Shufutinsky
78 hours 52 mins; March 29, 2024
The Legacies of Black Pioneers: Daniel Brown
61 hours 55 mins; March 26, 2024
S4 E9 | Self-Righteous Foolishness? A Look at Moral Protests
90 hours 10 mins; March 22, 2024
S4 E8 | She's Got the Look: Perspectives on Sexism and Career Motivation
64 hours 5 mins; March 15, 2024
The Legacies of Black Pioneers: Lemuel Haynes
78 hours 25 mins; February 28, 2024
S4 E7 | Irreconcilable Differences: The Unethical Nature of Illiberalism
63 hours 15 mins; February 23, 2024
S4 E6 | Keeping Up Appearances: Ethics and Neutrality in the Everyday Life of a Librarian
71 hours 24 mins; February 16, 2024
S4 E5 | Feelings are Facts: Adding Emotional Appeal to Reason-Based Argument
77 hours 49 mins; February 09, 2024
S4 E4 | Competitive Suffering: Collective Victimhood and Antisemitic Attitudes
88 hours 31 mins; February 01, 2024
S4 E3 | Diversity Drill: Analysis of a Workplace Training Program
188 hours 52 mins; January 26, 2024
S4 E2 | The Tide is High: Little Evidence of Ebbing DEI Impacts
84 hours 2 mins; January 19, 2024
S4 E1 | Attention Inequality: When and Where we Ideologically Focus
84 hours 4 mins; January 12, 2024
A Moral Moment: Winkfield Twyman Jr. on Harvard President Claudine Gay
133 hours 32 mins; December 19, 2023
Ep. 033: Slippery Slopes: Helen Pluckrose & Rio Veradonir talk Liberal Norms and Moral Panic
131 hours 44 mins; December 14, 2023
History of Liberalism | James Petts
63 hours 45 mins; December 05, 2023
Potemkin Villages: The Origin of Antisemitic Soviet Propaganda & it's Influence on American Education & Media | Izabella Tabarovsky
52 mins; November 28, 2023
"Queers for Palestine" and the Death of Irony | Armin Navabi & David Bernstein
87 hours 7 mins; November 21, 2023
Ep. 032: Dirty Little Secrets: University Funding, Academic Freedom, and Antisemitism
77 hours 2 mins; November 17, 2023
Critical Resentment Theory & the Colonization of the Mind
49 mins; November 14, 2023
Ep. 031: Balancing Act: The Dynamics of Friendly and Unfriendly Connections
118 hours 42 mins; November 10, 2023
Ep. 030: Digital Dopamine: The Value of Personal and Organizational Statements
104 hours 37 mins; November 03, 2023
New Beginnings and Old Fears: Channy Laux on Escaping Cambodian Genocide
63 hours 17 mins; October 31, 2023
Ep. 029: Antisemitism Before and After the 7th | David Bernstein & Brandy Shufutinsky
106 hours 18 mins; October 27, 2023
Connecting Liberated Ethnic Studies and Hamas
28 mins; October 24, 2023
Ep. 028: Bones of Contention: Anthropologist Elizabeth Weiss on Sex, Bones, and Ethical Hypocrisy
66 hours 16 mins; October 20, 2023
The Sound of Silence: A Liberal Conversation about Free Speech with Cherise Trump
88 hours 21 mins; October 18, 2023
Ep. 027: Gimme Shelter: Questions about Vicarious Trauma from News Consumption
63 hours 53 mins; October 13, 2023
Ep. 026: Money for Nothing and your Angst for Free: Leadership, Control and Stress
72 hours 57 mins; October 06, 2023
Socialism Then & There, Here & Now | David Smolansky
58 mins; October 03, 2023
Ep. 025: The Struggle Within: Campus Culture, Free Inquiry, and the New Princeton Principles | Lee Jussim
67 hours 16 mins; September 29, 2023
Diversity for the Curious: A Liberal Conversation with Brandy Shufutinsky
41 mins; September 26, 2023
Ep. 024: In the Group Groove: Building Connections by Experiencing Similar Emotions
75 hours 18 mins; September 22, 2023
Bigotry of Low Expectations | Kofi Montzka
41 mins; September 19, 2023
Ep. 023: The Kids are Alright: One Conspiracy Theory Debunked
88 hours 1 min; September 15, 2023
Knowing Me to Know Thee: A Liberal Conversation with Zander Keig
73 hours 24 mins; September 13, 2023
Knowing Me to Know Thee: A Liberal Conversation with Zander Keig
38 mins; September 13, 2023
Ep. 022: Moral Hypocrisy and Ethical Blind Spots
79 hours 2 mins; September 09, 2023
Ep. 021: Expanding our (dis)comfort zones for learning
90 hours 52 mins; September 05, 2023
Justice by Learning History | Amy Lesserman
55 mins; September 05, 2023
America's Dangerous Repeat of the Chinese Cultural Revolution | Mike Zhao
38 mins; August 22, 2023
Ep. 020: Utopian daze and reality checks
88 hours 1 min; August 18, 2023
Ep. 019: Scarlet Letter
83 hours 7 mins; August 17, 2023
The Radical Roots of Ethnic Studies (A Series of The Dissidents Podcast) no. 1
40 mins; August 08, 2023
Ep. 018: The tangled web of post-cancellation shaming
53 mins; August 04, 2023
Ep. 017: Talking Taboo: Data & Racism | Wilfred Reilly
58 mins; July 28, 2023
Ep. 016: Old Americans & Sidestepping History | W.F. Twyman, Jr. & Jennifer Richmond
86 hours 20 mins; July 21, 2023
Ep. 015: Communism past and present, and modern military culture | Ken Pope
97 hours 14 mins; July 14, 2023
Ep. 014: Moral Identity, no. 2
89 hours 37 mins; July 07, 2023
Ep. 013: Moral Identity, no. 1
91 hours 21 mins; June 30, 2023
Ep. 012: Spiral of Silence, no. 2
109 hours 26 mins; June 23, 2023
Ep. 011: Spiral of Silence, no. 1
80 hours 56 mins; June 16, 2023
Ep. 010: Dark Triad, no. 2
116 hours 33 mins; June 09, 2023
Letters in Black & White (A short series of the Dissidents Podcast), no. 5 | Samuel Hayes, III
75 hours 41 mins; June 07, 2023
Ep. 009: Dark Triad, no. 1
86 hours 35 mins; June 02, 2023
Letters in Black & White (a short series of the Dissidents Podcast) no. 4 | Mary Burkey Owens
91 hours 7 mins; May 31, 2023
Ep. 008: Racial Dissidents | Winkfield Twyman, Jr. & Jennifer Richmond
69 hours 45 mins; May 25, 2023
Letters in Black & White (a short series of the Dissidents Podcast) no. 3 | Nancy Williamson
60 hours 36 mins; May 23, 2023
Ep. 007: The Geopolitics of Illiberalism | Peter Zeihan
56 mins; May 18, 2023
Letters in Black & White (a short series of the Dissidents Podcast) no. 2 | Maya Valmon
99 hours 50 mins; May 16, 2023
Ep. 006: Conserving Liberalism | Jason Littlefield
115 hours 13 mins; May 11, 2023
Letters in Black & White (a short Dissident Podcast series) no. 1 | Sahil Handa
74 hours 25 mins; May 09, 2023
Ep. 005: Overton Window
96 hours 25 mins; May 05, 2023
Ep. 004: Unfalsifiability
111 hours 47 mins; April 28, 2023
Ep. 003: How Hitchens Can Save the Left | Matt Johnson
67 hours 37 mins; April 21, 2023
Ep. 002: Are the Librarians OK?
92 hours 7 mins; April 14, 2023
Ep. 002: Are the Librarians OK?
92 hours 7 mins; April 14, 2023
Ep. 001: Academic Mobbings
117 hours 16 mins; April 06, 2023
Episode 13: The unexpected politics of Africana Studies | Eric Smith & Ildi Tillmann
61 hours 26 mins; February 09, 2023
Episode 12: Cancel Culture & The Quest for Symbolic Immortality | Elizabeth Spievak & Mike Burke
98 hours 55 mins; December 26, 2022
Episode 11: Groupthink and Cancel Culture | Elizabeth Spievak & Mike Burke
66 hours 45 mins; November 25, 2022
Episode 10: Amiel Handelsman | Finding our Commonalities
59 mins; November 11, 2022
Episode 9: Spencer Case | Patriotism and its Malcontents
111 hours 50 mins; November 04, 2022
Episode 8: Greg Thomas & Carlos Hoyt | Moving Beyond Race
54 mins; October 28, 2022
Episode 7: Teaching Leaders to Innovate | Ellie Avishai
57 mins; October 21, 2022
Episode 6: Freedom of Speech in Florida | Jon O'Brien, Richard Yuengling & Rebecca Yuengling
47 mins; October 07, 2022
Episode 5: Shame, Madness & Civilization | Elizabeth Spievak & Mike Burke
59 mins; September 27, 2022
Episode 4: Neil Thin | The Culture of Victimhood
79 hours 15 mins; August 26, 2022
Episode 3: Brandolini's Law, Strange Bedfellows & The Importance of Community | Erich Vieth
63 hours 19 mins; August 19, 2022
Episode 2: The Corrosive Effects of Political Bias | Lee Jussim
60 hours 35 mins; August 12, 2022
Episode One: Reason, Rationality & Political Polarisation | Steven Pinker
27 mins; August 08, 2022
Ep. 81: 360 Degrees of America | Roifield Brown
66 hours 54 mins; May 26, 2022
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