American Campus Podcast

29:03

Tuition discounting with Phillip Levine

American Campus Podcast ·

2026/10/07

References and suggested readings: Phillip B. Levine, Hidden Tuition: An Insider's Guide to College Pricing and Financial Aid (University of Chicago Press, 2026)ON COST DISEASE: Dennis M. Hogan, Artificial Negligence: Why are college administrators so eager to adopt AI? Hedgehog Review, Summer 2026Dean Spears and Michael Geruso, After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People (Simon & Schuster, 2025)Phillip Levine on LinkedIn, MyIntuition.org, Brookings InstitutionText the ...

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49:12

Edmund Burke, father of conservatism with Austin...

American Campus Podcast ·

2026/09/30

References and suggested readings: Austin J. Clements, ‘The Franco Way’: The American Right and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-9, Journal of Contemporary History 57(2), 341-364Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolutions in FranceCorey Robin, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump, 2nd edition (Oxford University Press, 2017)Katy Hull, The Machine Has a Soul: American Sympathy with Italian Fascism (Princeton University Press, 2025)John Patrick Diggins, Mussolini and ...

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36:08

Real estate, private equity, and Abundance with Billy...

American Campus Podcast ·

2026/09/27

References and suggested readings: Billy Fleming, Building Postcarbon Futures: Land, Justice, and Energy Transitions (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2026).Marshall Terrill, “ASU ranks No. 1 nationally, No. 2 globally for sustainability,” ASU News, September 8, 2026.Davarian L. Baldwin, In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities (Bold Type, 2021).Kevin Kovaleski, “ASU reaches milestone enrollment,” ASU News, August 10, 2026.Holly Jean Buck, Ending Fossil Fu...

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35:42

Drugs: The Story of Pharmacology with Rod Flower

American Campus Podcast ·

2026/09/23

References and suggested readings: Rod Flower. 2026. Drugs: The Story of Pharmacology. Yale University Press.On the CIA and LSD: MKUltra wikiAldous Huxley. The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell.“Celebrities Who’ve Shared Their Ayahuasca Experiences: From Chelsea Handler to Aaron Rodgers.” US Magazine.Freud’s monograph on cocaine: Sigmund Freud. 1894. Über Coca.Rod Flower’s faculty pageText the show here! Support the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf

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34:31

DeSantis, Rufo, and New College of Florida with Harry...

American Campus Podcast ·

2026/09/20

References and suggested readings: Film website: https://www.firsttheycameformycollege.com/ Rodrigo Diaz, “3 years later, the 'old' New College looks much better,” Sarasota Herald Tribune, January 20, 2026Joshua Janniere, “At the front line of the culture war,” American Reformer, May 1, 2023Adam R Nelson, Dartmouth College V. Woodward: Colleges, Corporations, and the Common Good (University Press of Kansas, 2025)Eli Saslow, Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalis...

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29:33

Is a degree worth its cost in the postindustrial UK?...

American Campus Podcast ·

2026/09/16

References and suggested readings: Amit Singh. 2026. Cancelled Futures: Class, Race, and Place in Post-Industrial Britain. Princeton University Press. Paul Willis. Learning to Labor: How Working-Class Kids Get Working-Class Jobs.Arlie Russell Hochschild. 2018. Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right. New Press.Lauren A. Rivera. 2016. Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs. Princeton University Press.Sivamohan Valluvan and Amit Singh. 2026. Pubs for the ...

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28:07

Lords of Serendipity, a campus novel with Randy Boyagoda

American Campus Podcast ·

2026/09/13

References and suggested readings: Randy Boyagoda. 2026. Lords of Serendipity. Mariner Books.George Elliot. 1871. Middlemarch.Ralph Ellison. 1952. Invisible Man.Kiran Desai. 2025. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny. Hogarth.www.randyboyagoda.com Randy Boyagoda’s faculty pageText the show here! Support the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf

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25:27

University in stone, silk, and blood with William Whyte

American Campus Podcast ·

2026/09/09

On the material history of the university References and suggested readings: William Whyte. 2026. The University: A History in Stone, Silk, and Blood. Harvard University Press. William Whyte’s faculty page, Twitter, and LinkedInText the show here! Support the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf

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59:43

Tuition, Gaza encampments, and tenure with Marshall...

American Campus Podcast ·

2026/09/06

References and suggested readings: Marshall Steinbaum and David Austin Walsh. 2026. How America’s Public Universities Stopped Being Public. Hedgehog Review.Robert A. Nesbit. 1996. The Degradation of the Academic Dogma. Routledge.Zachary Bleemer and Aashish Mehta. December 2024. College Major Restrictions and Student Stratification. National Bureau of Economic Research.Maya Rosen. October 11, 2026. Degrees of Separation. Jewish Currents. Anna Perez. 2023. Understanding Zionism: History an...

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22:38

Big money behind college sports with Karen Weaver

American Campus Podcast ·

2026/09/02

References and suggested readings: Karen Weaver. 2026. Understanding College Athletics: What Campus Leaders Need to Know About College Sports. Johns Hopkins University Press. Karen Weaver. 2025. Sport Finance: Where the Money Comes From and Where the Money Goes, 2nd ed. Kendall Hunt.W Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne. 2026. The Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant. Harvard Business Review Press.Trustees and Presidents Managing Interc...

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37:11

The Frenchmen with Emily Eakin

American Campus Podcast ·

2026/08/30

A deep-dive into the personal lives of the famed 20th century French theorists (all men) with their newest biographer. References and suggested readings: Emily Eakin. 2026. The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory. Penguin Press.Sarah Bakewell booksRoss Doubthat. November 2, 2022. How the Right Became the Left and the Left Became the Right. New York Times.James Miller. 2010. The Passion of Michel Foucault. Harvard University Press.John Guillory and Merve Emre. 2023. Cultural Capital: The Problem ...

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12:39

A short history of the connoisseur with Peter Burke

American Campus Podcast ·

2026/08/26

References and suggested readings: Peter Burke. 2026. The Connoisseur: A Cultural History. Reaktion Books. Gore Vidal. 2000. Burr: A Novel. Vintage Books.Peter Burke’s websiteText the show here! Support the show Browse the American Campus bookshelf

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45:58

How a media panic led to the modern research...

American Campus Podcast ·

2026/08/23

On the origins of the German research university and what universities should be today. References and suggested readings: Chad Wellmon. 2016. Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University. Johns Hopkins University Press.Chad Wellmon. 2026. After the University: Higher Education and the Future of Intellectual Work. Johns Hopkins University Press. Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon. 2023. Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Ag...

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25:22

Classical liberals and Know-Nothings on higher...

American Campus Podcast ·

2026/08/19

References and suggested readings: James Chandler. 2026. The Know-Nothing Campaign Against Higher Learning. Prickly Paradigm Press. Robert Mackey. April 18, 2026. Trump’s antipathy for Pope may have roots in childhood Protestant church. The Guardian.Alexis de Tocqueville. Democracy in America.Wendy Brown. 2017. Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution. Zone Books.Sam Moyn 2024. Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times. Yale University Pre...

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36:54

The KKK comes to UCLA with Trevor Griffey

American Campus Podcast ·

2026/08/12

References and suggested readings: Trevor Griffey. 2007. “The Strongest Chapter in WA: Bellingham's KKK.” The Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project.Allan J. Lichtman. 2008. White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement. Grove Press.Pierce v. Society of Sisters (1925)Lothrop Stoddard WikiPerlstein’s mea culpa: Rick Perlstein. April 11, 2017. I Thought I Understood the American Right. Trump Proved Me Wrong. New York Times Magazine.On MAGA small business owners...

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39:52

Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians,...

American Campus Podcast ·

2026/08/09

An intellectual history of inequality in the US. References and suggested readings: Kim Phillips-Fein. 2026. Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality in America. W. W. Norton.Kim Phillips-Fein. 2018. Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics. Picador.Kim Phillips-Fein. 2010. Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal. W. W. Norton.Corey Robin. 2018. The Reactionary Mind: Conservat...

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20:13

The Scientific-Military State comes to the US with...

American Campus Podcast ·

2026/08/05

How Napoleon's École polytechnique inspired A&M universities on the Western US border (ft. some of our favorite topics: American imperialism, science, and social hierarchy) References and suggested readings: Sveinn M. Jóhannesson. 2026. The Scientific-Military State: How Enlightened Engineers Reinvented Early American Government. University of Chicago Press. James McNeill Whistler. 1879. Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (known as Portrait of the Artist’s Mother) painting.Livy’s Hi...

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48:28

Thorstein Veblen’s The Higher Learning in America...

American Campus Podcast ·

2026/08/02

A century later, what did Veblen get right? References and suggested readings: Christian J. Churchill and Gerald Levy. 2011. The Enigmatic Academy: Class, Bureaucracy, and Religion in American Education. Temple University Press. Thorstein Veblen. 1918. The Higher Learning in America: A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Business Men. PDF.Thorstein Veblen. 1899. The Theory of the Leisure Class. PDF.On Google’s former motto, “Don’t be evil.”Know Your Meme: “Wait. Is this f****** ...

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25:11

History of college grading with Joshua R. Eyler

American Campus Podcast ·

2026/07/29

On class rank, Latin honors, the 4.0 grading scale, and other old traditions References and suggested readings: Joshua R. Eyler. 2024. Failing Our Future: How Grades Harm Students, and What We Can Do About It. Johns Hopkins University Press. Josh Eyler. February 26, 2024. The Origin of Grades in American Schools. Saturday Evening Post.Adam Laats. 2024. Mr. Lancaster’s System: The Failed Reform That Created America's Public Schools. Johns Hopkins University Press.Victor Hugo. Les Miserabl...

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53:52

See You at the Pole, the Columbine massacre, and...

American Campus Podcast ·

2026/07/26

Muscular Christianity and its various forms on the campus References and suggested readings: Amy Laura Hall. 2026. Erecting the Pulpit: Muscular Christianity from Teddy Roosevelt to Donald Trump. Bloomsbury.Theodore Roosevelt. 1899. The Strenuous Life speech.From the vault: [Lawrence] Wright talks to Alec Baldwin about Scientology and Tom Cruise. October 10, 2022.Darren Dochuk. 2019. Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America. Basic Books.Bethany Moreton. 2010. To ...

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