politics
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We discuss economists and their influence in higher education, political upheaval, and Dream Hoarders.
Also, we discuss Prince Harry’s engagement to Meghan Markle, charges of data falsification in France, and the case of Brooke Harrington and academic freedom in Denmark.
Joe, Leslie and Gabriel interview Robert Francis (Johns Hopkins) about his work studying working class, white male Trump supporters. Robert wrote “Him, Not Her: Why Working-class White Men Reluctant about Trump Still Made Him President of the United States” in Socius.
We discuss a provision of the proposed Trump tax bill that treats tuition waivers as income, and asks what the impact of those changes would be for graduate students.
We discuss two cases in which online outrage spurred changes in academia: the cases of George Cicariello-Maher and the Third World Quarterly retraction.
This week, we talk to Cristina Mora from UC Berkeley about politics and the Hispanic community in America and abroad. Cristina’s book is Making Hispanics: How Activists, Bureaucrats and Media Constructed a New American (2014, University of Chicago Press). The gang also has a heated argument about objectivity and activism, and […]
This week, we speak to Georgetown sociologist Corey Fields, author of Black Elephants in the Room: The Unexpected Politics of African American Republicans (2016, University of California Press). Also, Twitter’s experiment with 280 character Tweets, China’s crackdown on Uighurs, post-Christianity in Europe, and Chris Hayes’ A Colony and a Nation.
