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The Activist Scholar (opens the original)
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Since the explosive aftermath of nation-wide student activism in support of Palestinian self-determination in the Fall of 2024, the right of scholars to take strong political positions on the most pressing issues of our time has come under extraordinary scrutiny. Despite the supposed protections of tenure, which are intended to protect professors from retaliation for unpopular beliefs or intellectual claims, faculty across the country have been summarily fired or censured not only for explicit p
Listening to Gen Z (opens the original)
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One of the great gifts of being a professor is the sustained opportunity to be in conversation with young people who never seem to get tired of sharing some aspect of their life with whoever will listen and respond. In my nearly fifteen years of teaching at UW, I’ve taught hundreds of such students, but among these, some stand out. On today’s show I’ve invited four UW Madison alumni, all of whom sat in my classroom at some point in the last fifteen years. Among these astonishing human beings, th
History is What Heals (opens the original)
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In this episode, I sit with two of my most beloved colleagues and favorite historians, Natasha Zaretsky and Don Romesburg. The three of us have spent a combined sixty years of our lives studying the historical impact of the radical feminist and queer 1970s, a period of astonishing political rebellion that changed the trajectory of American culture forever. We talk about the ways that studying history allows ordinary people to see themselves as part of a rich continuum of human struggle and negot
The University is for Everyone: Season 2 Trailer (opens the original)
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Nerd from the Future is back for a second season! We’ve got nine brand-new episodes and an all-star cast of geniuses to help you makes sense of this wild, weird, wondrous universe we’re living in. Since our first encounter last Fall, the world of higher education has gone into a tailspin: the destruction of DEI, the federal slashing of budgets, the elimination of entireprograms in Middle East studies and ethnic, women’s, and disability studies, and the firing of professors for unfashionable poli
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