Half Hour of Heterodoxy
Latest Episodes
Episode 30: Rick Mehta, Free Expression in Canadian Universities
The Canadian state of affairs, Rick’s big talk on free speech, How drug dealers are more open than professors, the bullshit receptivity scale, and other topics
Episode 29: Fabio Rojas, The Sociology of Activism
Fabio Rojas, author of From Black Power to Black Studies and Theory for the Working Sociologist, discusses his research on activism within academia.
Episode 28: Robert Wright, Politics, Tribalism and Mindfulness
Robert Wright is a former senior editor at The New Republic, and he currently hosts The Wright Show. He’s also the author of several bestselling books on evolution and society. His latest book Is Why Buddhism Is True.
Episode 27: Heather Heying, Life After Evergreen
My guest today is Heather Heying. She and her husband Bret Weinstein formerly taught biology at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. After some highly publicized protests in the middle of 2017, both Heather and Bret left the college.
Episode 26: John Inazu, Confident Pluralism
John Inazu, professor of law and religion at Washington University, talks about his latest book
Episode 25: Arthur Sakamoto, Conventional Wisdom about Asian Americans
Arthur Sakamoto (@sakamoto_arthur), sociologist at Texas A&M, discusses three myths about Asian Americans.
Episode 24: Caroline Mehl & Raffi Grinberg, The OpenMind Platform
Caroline Mehl and Raffi Grinberg direct the OpenMind Platform
Episode 23: Richard Reeves, J.S. Mill and Liberalism
My guest today is Richard Reeves. He’s a social and political commentator and he has written for several newspapers and magazines in both the US and the UK, including The Guardian and The Atlantic. He has also written a biography of John Stuart Mill an...
Episode 22: David Frum, On Trumpocracy
David Frum (@davidfrum) is a senior editor at the Atlantic Magazine and a frequent contributor at MSNBC. He is a former speechwriter for George W. Bush and is known for coining the phrase “axis of evil.” He has been a fellow at the American Enterprise ...
Episode 21: Musa al-Gharbi, Social Research and Political Bias
Show Notes - Musa al-Gharbi is a research associate at Heterodox Academy and a PhD student in sociology at Columbia University. He is a writer whose work has been featured in The New York Times, the Washington Post, The Atlantic,