Half Hour of Heterodoxy

Half Hour of Heterodoxy


Latest Episodes

Episode 30: Rick Mehta, Free Expression in Canadian Universities
July 30, 2018

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
July 17, 2018

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
June 29, 2018

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
June 19, 2018

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
June 05, 2018

John Inazu, professor of law and religion at Washington University, talks about his latest book

Episode 25: Arthur Sakamoto, Conventional Wisdom about Asian Americans
May 15, 2018

Arthur Sakamoto (@sakamoto_arthur), sociologist at Texas A&M, discusses three myths about Asian Americans.

Episode 24: Caroline Mehl & Raffi Grinberg, The OpenMind Platform
April 24, 2018

Caroline Mehl and Raffi Grinberg direct the OpenMind Platform

Episode 23: Richard Reeves, J.S. Mill and Liberalism
April 09, 2018

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
March 26, 2018

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
March 15, 2018

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,