American Campus Podcast

References and suggested readings: Matthew C. Ehrlich. 2021. Dangerous Ideas on Campus: Sex, Conspiracy, and Academic Freedom in the Age of JFK . University of Illinois Press. Matthew C. Ehrlich. 2024. The Krebiozen Hoax: How a Mysterious Cancer Drug Shook Organized Medicine . University of Illinois Press. Pseudoscience and the ethics of academic medicine episode with Matthew C. Ehrlich Michael Bé...

References and suggested readings: Zak Foste and Lauren N. Irwin. 2026. Disrupting White Noise: Challenging Beliefs about Race on Campus . Harvard Education Press. CODE FOR 20% OFF: HCPR26   Elijah Anderson. 2023. Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life . University of Chicago Press. Beverly Daniel Tatum. 2025. Peril and Promise: College Leadership in Turbulent Times ....

References and suggested readings: Alexander D. Hyres. 2026. Protest and Pedagogy: Charlottesville’s Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School . University of Georgia Press.  Alex Hyres’s faculty page Heather Andrea Williams. 2007. Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom . University of North Carolina Press. James D. Anderson. 1988. Education of Black...

On the student life apparatus. References and suggested readings: Chad Wellmon. 2026. After the University: Higher Education and the Future of Intellectual Work . Johns Hopkins University Press.  Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon. 2023. Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age . University of Chicago Press. Chad Wellmon. 2016. Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invent...

On age, class, and jobs. References and suggested readings: Samuel Moyn. 2026. Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It . Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Samuel Moyn. April 23, 2026. Professors Are Too Old: The Academy’s Gerontocracy Problem is Worse than Anyone Admits . The Chronicle of Higher Education . Dino Buzzati, translated by Lawrence Venuti. 20...

Speaking to the dead, academically. References and suggested readings: Jesse Bering. 2026. The Incredible Afterlives of Dr. Stevenson: One Scientist's Epic Quest for Evidence of Reincarnation, Apparitions, Poltergeists, and Other Matters of the Soul . University of Chicago Press. Jesse Bering’s website Bering in Mind Substack Text the show here! Support the show Browse the American Campus boo...

A nice companion episode to last week's on The West with Curtis Dozier . References and suggested readings: Emmaia Gelman. 2026. The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State . University of California Press.  Alice Speri. April 24, 2026. US universities are seeing an influx of ‘antisemitism centers’. Some Jewish scholars are worried . The Guardian. Lauren Lassabe Shepherd. May 7, 2025. Old...

Athens, Jerusalem, and sometimes Rome. References and suggested readings: Curtis Dozier. 2026. The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate . Yale University Press.  Why white nationalists love Plato with Curtis Dozier Anders Stephanson. 2025. American Imperatives: The Cold War and Other Measures . Verso. Naoíse Mac Sweeney. 2023. The West: A New History i...

A small question! References and suggested readings: Marc Spooner and James McNinch, eds. 2026. Knowledge Under Siege: Charting a Future for Universities . University of Regina Press.  Marc Spooner and James McNich, eds. 2018. Dissident Knowledge in Higher Education . University of Regina Press. Ellen Schrecker. 1986. No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities . AAUP’s 1915 Declaration and 1...

References and suggested readings: The Wild Robot Hoppers Jonathan Hauser’s website and LinkedIn Text the show here! Support the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf

On all things AKA References and suggested readings: Deborah E. Whaley. 2010. Disciplining Women: Alpha Kappa Alpha, Black Counterpublics, and the Cultural Politics of Black Sororities . SUNY Press.  Twenty Pearls: The Story of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority documentary Stephanie Y. Evans. 2021. Black Women’s Yoga History: Memoirs of Inner Peace . SUNY Press. Deborah Whaley’s website , faculty page ,...

References and suggested readings: Emma Taylor. 2026. An Elite Education: How Privilege Is Produced in a Private School . Princeton University Press. Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison. 2020. The Class Ceiling: Why It Pays to Be Privileged . Policy Press. Michael Foucault. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison . Pierre Bourdieu and Loïc J D Wacquant. 1992. An Invitation to Reflexive Sociolo...

On good cheese and how the career services office destroyed the American economy References and suggested readings: Dylan Gottlieb. 2026. Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York . Harvard University Press.  Sam Tanenhaus. 2025. Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America . Penguin Random House.  God and Man at Yale episode with Sam Tanenhaus Who M...

Ready to feel old? References and suggested readings: Austin McCoy. 2026. Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age: The Music, Culture, and World De La Soul Made . Simon and Schuster. De La Soul. 1989. Me, Myself, and I .  Flo Rida ft. T-Pain. 2009. Low (Apple Bottom Jeans) .  Hip-Hop Evolution . Netflix. OutKast. 2000. B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad) . Keith Jopling. 2026. Body of Work: How the Album Outplayed the...

References and suggested readings: AJA Woods. 2026. The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West . Verso Books.  Paul Hanebrink. 2020. A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism . Belknap. The Frankfurt School Comes to US episode with Jonathan Fine Matt Bernstein. May 15, 2026. The Tucker Carlson Problem (with Naomi Klein) . A...

And why the IRB exempts humanities research. References and suggested readings: Marco Ramos’s faculty page Community Histories Lab Yale University Lab Laura Stark. 2012. Behind Closed Doors: IRBs and the Makings of Ethical Research . University of Chicago Press. Annika Norlin. 2025. The Colony  (translated by Alice E Olsson) . Europa Editions. Courtney E. Thompson and Kylie M. Smith, eds. 2025. Do...

No gatekeeping. References and suggested readings: David M. Perry. 2026. The Public Scholar: A Practical Handbook . Johns Hopkins University Press.  Follow David on Bluesky @lollardfish.bsky.social   Read David at The Minnesota Star Tribune davidmperry.com Mark Twain. Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court . Center for Mark Twain Studies Text the show here! Support the show Browse the Amer...

References and suggested readings: Brent Cebul and Lily Geismer, eds. 2025. Mastery and Drift: Professional-Class Liberals since the 1960s . University of Chicago Press.  Brent Cebul. 2026. Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century . University of Pennsylvania Press. Brent Cebul, Lily Geismer, and Mason B. Williams, eds. 2019. Shaped by The State: Toward a Ne...

Is grade inflation real, who cares, and why? References and suggested readings: Lisa M. Di Bartolomeo and Kevin M. Gannon, eds. 2026. The Campus Crisis Toolkit: Strategies and Solidarity for the Rest of Us . SUNY Press.  Joshua R Eyler. 2024. Failing Our Future: How Grades Harm Students, and What We Can Do About It . Johns Hopkins University Press. Jane Nam. May 23, 2924. Grade Inflation in Colleg...

Explaining the show's new art and how Mick Jagger "failed democracy and impoverished the souls" of students before 1987. References and suggested readings: God and Man at Yale episode with Sam Tanenhaus Why white nationalists love Plato episode with Curtis Dozier Allan Bloom. The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of To...

Find May Day events near you in the resources below: Higher Education Labor United website HELU May Day events map May Day Strong website Anne Balay. 2020. Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers . University of North Carolina Press.  Anne Balay. 2016. Steel Closets: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Steelworkers . University of North Carolina Press.  AnneBalay.com Text the s...

This is Part I of a conversation with Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer, Eléana Sanchez, and Jonathan Hauser. Listen to Part I here . References and suggested readings: Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer. 2025. By the Power Vested in Me: How Experts Shape Same-Sex Marriage Debates . Columbia University Press. Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer's website Eléana Sanchez's website , HAL (open science platfo...

This is Part I of a conversation with Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer, Eléana Sanchez, and Jonathan Hauser. Stay tuned for Part II next. References and suggested readings: Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer. 2025. By the Power Vested in Me: How Experts Shape Same-Sex Marriage Debates . Columbia University Press. Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer's website Eléana Sanchez's website , HAL (open science p...

I know, I know, it’s Frankenstein’s monster… Thanks to Tara McMullin for inviting me to talk about 21st century higher education on the What Works podcast. Follow along with What Works ! Text the show here! Support the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf

On YAF, the male loneliness epidemic, evangelicals v. trad Caths, and much more. References and suggested readings: Pentagon's Protestant-only Good Friday service fuels bias concerns . MSN . George Saunders. 2018. Lincoln in the Bardo . Random House. Mark A. Noll. 2022. The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind . William B. Eerdmans. Karen Swallow Prior. 2023.  The Evangelical Imagination: How Stor...