politics
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This week, The Annex sits down with Amy Binder of the University of California, San Diego. Amy is the author of Becoming Right: How Campuses Shape Young Conservatives with Princeton University Press. We discuss campus conservatism, politics, and professors. We also discuss economic development and Betsy DeVos.
We interview Neda Magbouleh about her work on how Iranian-Americans navigate the complexities of race.
This week on The Annex, we talk with Kieran Healy from Duke University. Kieran is author of the much-acclaimed 2017 theory paper “Fuck Nuance” in Sociological Theory, and of the award-winning Last Best Gift (Chicago). We also talk about a new study on the human capital versus signaling debate about higher education’s value, reactions […]
Gabriel discusses the UCLA campus Republicans' internal debates about whether or not to invite Milo Yiannopoulos to speak.
This week, it’s an Annex banter episode, with discussions about the State of the Union address, the politicization of the term chain migration in the scholarship community, the expanding meaning of “gentrification,” a CUNY investigation into scholars getting promotion and tenure through vanity publishing, and Jordan Peterson, a University of Toronto psychology professor […]
In this special episode of The Annex, we introduce the second of the three podcast pilots we developed over the break. The idea behind International Perspectives on Sociology is to showcase sociology traditions from around the world. This episode features a roundtable discussion about Canadian sociology. It features Rima Wilkes (University of British Columbia), Howard Ramos (Dalhousie […]
In this special episode of The Annex, we introduce the pilot episode of a new podcasting project, The B-Side, hosted by Leslie Hinkson and Corey Fields of Georgetown. The B-Side is a show that discusses big ideas from the world of black thought on culture, politics, and much more. Leslie R. Hinkson is Assistant […]
