American Campus Podcast
a social and political history of higher education
Podcasting since 2024 • 152 episodes
American Campus Podcast
Latest Episodes
Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality with Kim Phillips-Fein
An intellectual history of inequality in the US.References and suggested readings:Kim Phillips-Fein. 2026. Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech U...
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Napoleon’s scientific military school comes to the US western border with Sveinn M. Jóhannesson
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. Jóhan...
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Thorstein Veblen’s The Higher Learning in America with Christian Churchill and Gerald Levy
A century later, what did Veblen get right?References and suggested readings:Christian J. Churchill and Gerald Levy. 2011. The Enigmatic Academy: Class, Bureaucracy, a...
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