Half Hour of Heterodoxy
Latest Episodes
70. Sheila Heen: Difficult Conversations, Part 2
Feedback in student teams, religious conversations, white lies, and false equivalence
69. Sheila Heen, Difficult Conversations for Faculty and Students, Part 1
Addressing controversial topics in classrooms; Evaluating faculty
68. Matthew H. Goldberg, From Christian Identity to Climate Action
The social psychology of how certain kinds of messages and messengers can engage Christians in climate action
67. Charlie Sykes, Conservative Media
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)
Panel and Q&A session about Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974
65. Lara Schwartz, False Equivalence
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
Keynote talk at the 2nd Heterodox Academy Annual Conference in June 2019
63. Joanna Schug, Relational Mobility and Cultural Confusion
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
Cailin O’Connor is a philosopher of science at the University of California-Irvine.
61. HxA Conference 2019
Short interviews with scholars, journalists, and other professionals who attended the 2019 Heterodox Academy conference