American Campus Podcast

a social and political history of US higher ed

Conservatives and Classical education with Catherine Tebaldi

December 10, 2025 • Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

Trad wives make great teachers.

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References and suggested readings:

Catherine Tebaldi. 2025. Alt-Education: Gender, Knowledge and Far-right Metapolitics. Routledge.
Janet MacIntosh. 2024. Kill Talk: Language and Military Necropolitics. Oxford University Press.
Chelsea Ebin. 2024. Radical Mind: The Origins of Right-Wing Catholic and Protestant Coalition Building. University Press of Kansas.
Carl Neville. 2020. Eminent Domain. Repeater.
Alexandra Kollontai. 2011. Red Love. Createspace Independent Publishing.
Follow Cat Tebaldi on Bluesky @cat-tebaldi

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