American Campus Podcast
on the social and political history of higher education
Podcasting since 2024 • 47 episodes
American Campus Podcast
Latest Episodes
History of federal student loans with Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
In 2025, 45 million Americans owe more than $1.7 trillion in college debt. Ellie Shermer explains: “the story of skyrocketing college debt is not merely one of good intentions gone wrong. In fact, the federal student loan program was never supp...
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49:16
Harvard Business School and the creation of the MBA with Erik Baker
That degree.References mentioned this episode:Erik Baker. 2025. Make Your Own Job: The Entrepreneurial Work Ethic in Modern America. Harva...
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18:17
Law and economics and the backlash to critical legal studies with David Austin Walsh
First, a continuation of the Chicago school of economics history (a nice follow up to last week’s episode on Char...
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43:48
Charles Walgreen and the University of Chicago with Steven Melendez
Professors teaching about communism and socialism? Un-American! Here’s some cash to make sure the university is preaching the supreme American virtue: capitalism. If you caught our joint episode with the In Bed with the Right podcas...
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