Half Hour of Heterodoxy

Half Hour of Heterodoxy


Latest Episodes

69. Sheila Heen, Difficult Conversations for Faculty and Students, Part 1
October 18, 2019

Addressing controversial topics in classrooms; Evaluating faculty

68. Matthew H. Goldberg, From Christian Identity to Climate Action
October 01, 2019

The social psychology of how certain kinds of messages and messengers can engage Christians in climate action

67. Charlie Sykes, Conservative Media
September 15, 2019

Sykes discusses conservative radio and TV and answers questions about How the Right Lost Its Mind (2017)

66. Kevin Kruse & Julian Zelizer, Fault Lines (recorded live at AJC Decatur Book Festival)
September 07, 2019

Panel and Q&A session about Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974

65. Lara Schwartz, False Equivalence
September 01, 2019

Types of false equivalence and trolling, and how to cope with them in the college classroom

64. Steven Pinker, An Unnecessary Defense of Reason and a Necessary Defense of the University's Role in Advancing It
August 23, 2019

Keynote talk at the 2nd Heterodox Academy Annual Conference in June 2019

63. Joanna Schug, Relational Mobility and Cultural Confusion
August 15, 2019

The limits of using individualism and collectivism as cultural concepts and the promise of relational mobility

62. Cailin O'Connor, The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread
August 01, 2019

Cailin O’Connor is a philosopher of science at the University of California-Irvine.

61. HxA Conference 2019
July 23, 2019

Short interviews with scholars, journalists, and other professionals who attended the 2019 Heterodox Academy conference

60. Oliver Burkeman, How the News Took Over Reality
July 15, 2019

Excessive engagement with political news is unhealthy for individual wellbeing and for democracy, Burkeman argues in a new essay.