Think About It
By Ulrich C. Baer
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Think About It engages today's leading thinkers in conversations about powerful ideas and how language can change the world.
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Book Talk 69: American Medium, with Eyal Peretz
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Jan 03, 2026 |
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Free Speech 72: What is Free Speech with Fara Dabhoiwala
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Book Talk 69: Uncanny E.T.A. Hoffmann with Peter Wortsman
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Book Talk 68: Ham’s Heaven with Ori Gersht
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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Book Talk 67 : The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Book Talk 66: Political Hope, with Loren Goldman
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May 19, 2025 |
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Book Talk 65 Emily Dickinson, with Sharon Cameron
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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Book Talk 64 How to Fall in Love with Questions: A New Way to Thrive in Times of Uncertainty
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Free Speech 71: Ruby Lowe on John Milton’s Definition of Free Speech
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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Free Speech 70: Michael S. Roth on the Rise of Student Protests, the Fall of Some College Presidents, and Why Liberal Education Matters
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Sep 28, 2024 |
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Book Talk 63: Nietzsche Now! with Glenn Wallis
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May 01, 2024 |
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Book Talk 62: Stefanos Geroulanos on "The Invention of Prehistory"
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Book Talk 61: Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Threats to Democracy and H.L. Mencken’s "Notes on Democracy"
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Dec 09, 2023 |
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Book Talk 60: Cleo McNelly Kearns on Mark Twain’s "Huckleberry Finn"
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May 20, 2023 |
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Free Speech 69: Campus Misinformation with Bradford Vivian
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May 02, 2023 |
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Book Talk 59: Reading the Classics with Louis Petrich
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May 01, 2023 |
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Book Talk 58: Vivian Gornick on Emma Goldman
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Book Talk 57: Anne Fernald and Rajgopal Saikumar on Virginia Woolf's "Three Guineas" (1938)
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Book Talk 56: Roosevelt Montás on "Great Books"
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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Book Talk 55: Courtney B. Hodrick and Amir Eshel on Hannah Arendt's "Rachel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman"
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Book Talk 54: Anne Fernald on Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway"
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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Book Talk 53: Paul Edwards on Toni Morrison's "Playing in the Dark"
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Book Talk 52: Linda Patterson Miller on Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises"
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May 16, 2022 |
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Book Talk 51: Ardythe Ashley on Oscar Wilde
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Book Talk 50: John Waters on James Joyce's "Dubliners"
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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Book Talk 49: “The Good Life” with Dora Zhang
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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Book Talk 48: Charlie Louth on Rainer Maria Rilke
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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Book Talk 47: Wendy Lee on Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice"
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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Book Talk 46: Marlene Daut on the Haitian Revolution in Literature
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May 27, 2021 |
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Book Talk 45: Paul Mendes-Flohr on Martin Buber's "I and Thou"
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May 02, 2021 |
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Book Talk 44: Samantha Hill on Hannah Arendt
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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Book Talk 43: Mark Wunderlich on Rainer Maria Rilke
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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Book Talk 42: Rafael Walker on Kate Chopin's "The Awakening"
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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Great Books 41: John Collins on F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"
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Jan 24, 2021 |
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Great Books 40: Mary Chapman on Sui Sin Far's "Mrs. Spring Fragrance"
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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Great Books 39: Robert Dale Parker on Jane Johnston Schoolcraft
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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Great Books 38: Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus on James Weldon Johnson's "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man"
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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Great Books 37: J. Gerald Kennedy on Edgar Allan Poe
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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Great Books 36: Doon Arbus's "The Caretaker"
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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Great Books 35: Susan Weisser on Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre"
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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Great Books 34: Vivek Chibber on Karl Marx's "The Communist Manifesto"
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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Great Books 33: Nicholas Frankel on Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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Great Books 32: Brenda Wineapple on Emily Dickinson--Isolation and Intervention
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May 12, 2020 |
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Great Books 31: Ann Stoler on Truth and Knowledge for Michel Foucault
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May 07, 2020 |
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Great Books 30: Carolin Weber on Albert Camus's "The Plague"
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Mar 31, 2020 |
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Great Books 29: Jenny Davidson on Daniel Defoe's "A Journal of the Plague Year"
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Mar 22, 2020 |
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Great Books 28: Béatrice Longuenesse on Kant's "What is Enlightenment?"
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Feb 07, 2020 |
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Free Speech 68: Henry Reichman--Can Professors Get Fired for a Tweet?
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Jan 23, 2020 |
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Great Books 26: Vivian Liska on Franz Kafka (not the way you know him)
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Jan 15, 2020 |
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Affirmative Action: Margaret Chin on Affirmative Action After Harvard's Win
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Dec 10, 2019 |
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Great Books 27: Eduardo Cadava on Ralph Waldo Emerson--America's Intellectual Independence
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Dec 07, 2019 |
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Great Books 25 : Ismail Muhammad on Jean Toomer's "Cane"
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Nov 11, 2019 |
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dGreat Books 24: Melissa Schwartzberg on Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "Social Contract"
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Oct 19, 2019 |
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Great Books 23: Dale Jamieson on the Morality of Climate Action
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Sep 29, 2019 |
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Free Speech 67: Susan Neiman on Monuments, the Holocaust, and the Legacy of the Confederacy
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Jul 28, 2019 |
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Great Books 19: Nicholas Johnson on Samuel Beckett
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Jul 15, 2019 |
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Free Speech 66: Robert Quinn on the Values of the University
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Jun 26, 2019 |
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Free Speech 65: Mary Anne Franks on the Cult of the Constitution
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Jun 25, 2019 |
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Free Speech 64: Aziz Rana on the Two Faces of American Freedom
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Jun 25, 2019 |
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Free Speech 60: Yassin Nacer--Language Changes Over Time, and Students Know That
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Jun 11, 2019 |
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Free Speech 59: Jonathan Friedman on the Chasm in the Classroom--Campus Speech in a Divided America
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Jun 10, 2019 |
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Great Books 20: Rowan Ricardo Phillips on Phillis Wheatley and the African-American Tradition
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May 22, 2019 |
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Free Speech 57: Laura Weinrib on the ACLU's Controversial Approach to Hate Speech
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May 22, 2019 |
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Great Books 26: Vivian Liska on Franz Kafka (not the way you know him)
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May 22, 2019 |
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Great Books 21: Richard J. Bernstein on the Alarmingly Relevant Hannah Arendt
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May 22, 2019 |
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Free Speech 56: Hadas Aron on the Populist Attacks on Academia
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May 21, 2019 |
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Free Speech 63: David Cole on the ACLU's Defense of Liberty
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May 21, 2019 |
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Free Speech 52: Eugene Volokh on What We Mean by "The First Amendment"
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May 20, 2019 |
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Affirmative Action: Van Tran on the Dream and Reality of College Admissions
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May 18, 2019 |
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Free Speech 62: Stephen Solomon--Raucous, Robust, and Radical: The Founders and Free Speech
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May 18, 2019 |
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Free Speech 55: Jacob T. Levy--Can Universities Make Their Own Rules?
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May 18, 2019 |
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Free Speech 61: Jeffrey Sachs--The Free Speech Crisis . . . Is It Real?
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May 18, 2019 |
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Free Speech 53: Eric Segall--Should You Trust the Supreme Court?
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May 17, 2019 |
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Free Speech 54: Adrienne Stone on Free Speech (or Lack Thereof?) Around the World
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May 17, 2019 |
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Free Speech 50: Sophia Rosenfeld on Truth and Democracy
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May 17, 2019 |
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Affirmative Action: Liliana Garces--Let's Create a Level Playing Field
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May 17, 2019 |
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Great Books 18: Jessica Benjamin's "The Bonds of Love"
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May 12, 2019 |
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Great Books 22: Maureen McLane on William Wordsworth
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May 12, 2019 |
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Great Books 15: Julie Carlson on Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"
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Apr 27, 2019 |
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Great Books 16: Amir Eshel on Paul Celan's Poetry
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Apr 27, 2019 |
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Great Books 13: Hillary Chute on Art Spiegelman's "Maus"
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Apr 27, 2019 |
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Great Books 14: John Callahan on Ralph Waldo Ellison's "Invisible Man"
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Apr 26, 2019 |
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Great Books 12: Peter Brooks on Sigmund Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents"
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Apr 16, 2019 |
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Great Books 17: Denis Hollier on Claude Lévi-Strauss's "Tristes Tropiques"
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Apr 09, 2019 |
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Great Books 10: Emily Bernard on Nella Larsen's "Passing"
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Apr 04, 2019 |
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Great Books 11: Deborah Plant on Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
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Mar 28, 2019 |
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Free Speech 48: Susan Williams on Truth, Autonomy, and Free Speech
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Mar 28, 2019 |
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Affirmative Action: OiYan Poon on Race, Admissions, and Achievement
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Mar 28, 2019 |
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Great Books 9: Caroline Weber on Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time"
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Mar 23, 2019 |
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Free Speech 47: Ekow Yankah--With Freedom Comes Responsibility
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Mar 21, 2019 |
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Free Speech 46: Alexander Tsesis on Safe Spaces, Trigger Warnings, and Free Speech
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Mar 14, 2019 |
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Free Speech 45: Pamela Newkirk on Staying Media-Savvy in an Age of Distrust
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Mar 14, 2019 |
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Great Books 7: Catharine Stimpson on Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex"
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Feb 04, 2019 |
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Affirmative Action: Mark Tseng-Putterman on Asian-American Activism in Context
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Feb 03, 2019 |
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Free Speech 42: Jack Tchen--Must Columbus Fall?
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Jan 28, 2019 |
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Affirmative Action: Natasha Warikoo on How to Think About Affirmative Action--Colorblindness, or Diversity?
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Jan 28, 2019 |
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Affirmative Action: Randall Kennedy--FOR Discrimination. A Case for Affirmative Action
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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Great Books 8: Benjamin Reiss on Henry David Thoreau's "Walden"
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Jan 21, 2019 |
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Free Speech 39: Martha Jones on Birthright Citizenship
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Jan 17, 2019 |
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Great Books 6: Glenn Wallis on Kahil Gibran's "The Prophet"
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Jan 12, 2019 |
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Great Books 5: Rich Blint on James Baldwin's "Another Country"
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Jan 07, 2019 |
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Free Speech 38: Robert Cohen--The Death of Free Speech on Campus?
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Dec 22, 2018 |
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Affirmative Action: Frank Wu--Affirmative Action Under Fire
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Dec 22, 2018 |
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Free Speech 37: Amaney Jamal on Educating for Democracy
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Dec 22, 2018 |
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Free Speech 36: Michel Rosenfeld on Media Bubbles, Free Speech, and Democracy
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Dec 22, 2018 |
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Free Speech 35: Stefan Bradley on Upending the Ivory Tower
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Dec 22, 2018 |
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Free Speech 34: Sigal Ben-Porath on "Inclusive Freedom"
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Dec 22, 2018 |
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Great Books 4: Carol Gilligan on Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"
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Dec 18, 2018 |
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Great Books 3: Jared Stark on Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse"
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Dec 10, 2018 |
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Great Books 2: Ava Chin on Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Woman Warrior"
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Dec 05, 2018 |
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Free Speech 33: Patricia William on Censorship
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Dec 03, 2018 |
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Free Speech 32: Cameron Okeke--"Safe Spaces Got Me Through College"
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Dec 03, 2018 |
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Free Speech 31: Teresa Bejan on Civility
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Dec 03, 2018 |
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Great Books 1: Manthia Diawara on Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart"
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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Free Speech 30: Emerson Sykes--Why Does the ACLU Defend the Alt-Right?
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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Free Speech 29: David Shih on Free Speech, Teaching, and How to Advance Civic Ideals
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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Free Speech 28: Nadine Strossen on How to Counter Hate Speech
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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Free Speech 27: Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Free Speech and the Role of the Media
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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Free Speech 26: Jason Stanley on Free Speech and the Rise of Fascism
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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Free Speech 25: Luna Martinez on Speech in the University
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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Free Speech 24: David Oppenheimer on Free Speech, Hate Speech, and Equality in America Today
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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Free Speech 23: Jay Wallace--Lessons from Berkeley
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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Free Speech 22: Erwin Chemerinsky--There Should Not Be Limits on Speech
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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Free Speech 21: Ian Haney López--The Free Speech Debates from the 1960s to Today
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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Free Speech 20: Corey Brettschneider--Can Universities Advance Free Speech . . . by Speaking Out?
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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Free Speech 19: Sonia Das--Speech is a Practice, not an Abstraction
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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Free Speech 18: Fred Schauer on our Constitutional Right to Free Speech
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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Free Speech 17: Ben Doherty on the Lessons of Charlottesville
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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Free Speech 16: John Mason--A Historian's Perspective on Charlottesville
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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Free Speech 15: Sarah Kenny--A Student's Perspective on Charlottesville
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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Free Speech 14: Nicholas Whittaker--At the Heart of a Speech Controversy
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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Free Speech 13: Robert Post--Has the First Amendment Become a Weapon for the Far Right?
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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Free Speech 12: Carolyn Rouse--Speech is Not An Abstraction
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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Free Speech 11: Richard Delgado--Must We Defend Nazis?
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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Free Speech 10: Tanya Hernández--Why Aren't We Talking about the 14th Amendment?
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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Free Speech 9: Kate Shaw on Speech, Our President, and the Supreme Court
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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Free Speech 8: Julie Suk on Free Speech in the Global Context
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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Free Speech 7: Jeremy Waldron--Yes, It's Possible to Define Hate Speech
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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Free Speech 6: Suzanne Nossel on Defending Free Speech
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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Free Speech 5: Salma Abdelrahman--A Student's Perspective on Speech on Campus
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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Free Speech 4: Prudence Carter--Free Speech, Berkeley, and the Lure of False Equivalencies
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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Free Speech 3: Akeel Bilgrami--Does Social Justice Need Free Speech?
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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Free Speech 2: Stanley Fish--There's No Such Thing as Free Speech!
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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Free Speech 1: Joan Scott on Who has the Right to Speak on Campus?
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Oct 08, 2018 |