The Free Mind Podcast
Episodes
Matthew Young and Paul Diduch: The Parable of the Good Samaritan and American Politics
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew Young is assistant professor of political theory in the Department of Political Science & Public Policy at Elon University. Paul Diduch if...
S10 E5: Daniel Jacobson: where higher education is headed, and farewell from Matt
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Jacobson is Bruce D. Benson Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization at the University of C...
S10 E4: Justin Tosi: Does censorship undermine its own goals?
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Justin Tosi is Associate Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. He ...
S10 E3: Lee Jussim: Surviving cancel culture while keeping your head
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lee Jussim is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University, and a founding member of both the Academic Freedom Alliance and the Society...
S10 E2: Musa al-Gharbi: We have never been woke
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Musa al-Gharbi is a sociologist and Assistant Professor of Communication and Journalism at Stony Brook University. He researches how society thinks an...
S10 E1: Lesley Smith: Reflections on a career in research, education, and politics
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lesley Smith is Regent at Large of the University of Colorado system, and she is also the Democratic nominee for Colorado House District 49 in the upc...
S9 E4: Jessi Streib: Is it racist? Is it sexist?
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jessi Streib is Associate Professor of sociology at Duke University and the co-recipient of the 2023 Early Career Award from the Inequality, Poverty, ...
S9 E3: Diego Reinero: Does academia really have a liberal bias?
13 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Diego Reinero is a MindCORE Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He studies how pe...
S9 E2: Martín Carcasson: Do moderates need to be more intolerant?
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Martín Carcasson is a Professor of Communication Studies at Colorado State University, where he is also the Director of the CSU Center for Public Del...
S9 E1: Heidi Ganahl: Choice and balance in education and media
16 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Heidi Ganahl is a politician, author, and entrepreneur who has had success in multiple industries and philanthropic ventures. She served as Regent at ...
S8 E4: Benji Backer: The conservative environmentalist
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Benji Backer is the founder and Executive Chairman of the American Conservation Coalition (ACC), which is the nation’s largest right-of-center envir...
S8 E3: Sam Abrams: Political diversity and antisemitism on campus
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Abrams is a Professor of Politics at Sarah Lawrence College, a non-resident fellow of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), and a board member ...
S8 E2: Brandon Warmke: Why It's OK to Mind Your Own Business
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Brandon Warmke is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University, and the Spring 2024 Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought an...
S8 E1: Cory Clark, Adversarial collaboration and rebuilding trust in academia
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cory Clark is Executive Director of the Adversarial Collaboration Project at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also Visiting Scholar in the...
S7 E4: Todd Zywicki, The Rule of Law and Threats to it
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Todd Zywicki is the George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia School of Law. He is also the Vi...
S7 E3: Sasha Breger Bush, Is there a Global Debt Crisis?
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sasha Breger Bush is an Associate Professor of political science at the University of Colorado Denver, who studies international political economy, an...
S7 E2: Roger Pielke Jr., When Science Gets Political
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Roger Pielke Jr. is a Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, who studies the politics of science and authors a popular Substack blog called ...
S7 E1: Alexandra Coţofană, Magic and the Occult in Elite Politics
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alexandra Coţofană is an Assistant Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates. Dr. Coţofană is a ...
S6 E4: Brad Wilcox, The Role of Family in Social Progress and Challenges
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Brad Wilcox is Professor of Sociology and Director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, Senior Fellow at the Institute for ...
S6 E3: Smriti Mehta, Why Start a Heterodox Campus Community＞
13 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Smriti Mehta is a Ph.D. student in Psychology at the University of California Berkeley, and the co-chair of UC Berkeley’s new Heterodox Academy (HxA...
S6 E2: Jennifer Smith, Cancellation in the Fifteenth Century
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jennifer Smith is Associate Professor of English, Coordinator of Digital Humanities, and Associate Director of the Center for Faith and Learning at Pe...
S6 E1: Alice Evans, Gender Inequality in History
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alice Evans is a Senior Lecturer in the social science of development at King’s College London, the author of The Great Gender Divergence, forthcomi...
S5 E4: Lionel Shriver, Natalism and Low Birth Rates
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lionel Shriver is an author and journalist, whose many books include We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003) and most recently Abominations: Selected Essay...
S5 E3: Kevin Priola, Where can Moderates Fit into Today's Political Landscape?
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Priola is a State Senator of Colorado, representing the 13th District, and previously the 25th. He recently crossed the floor, from Republican t...
S5 E2: Joey Fratino, The Conservative Student Experience
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Joey Fratino is a graduate of CU Boulder, who served as the President of the CU Boulder College Republicans until graduating in 2022. Our conversation...
S5 E1: Alex Trembath, Ecomodernism and Nuclear Energy
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Season Five of The Free Mind podcast launches with a conversation between Matt Burgess and Alex Trembath, Deputy Director of ...
S4 E6: Matthew Burgess, "Academic Freedom and Heterodox Thought"
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Burgess, Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies here at CU. Matt is a Faculty Fellow at the Benson Center, a Faculty Affi...
S4 E5: Alan Kahan, Tocqueville's Democracy in America
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alan Kahan, Professor of British Civilization at the University of Paris—Saclay, and Visiting Professor of Conservative Thought and Policy at the Be...
S4 E4: Alex Priou, Introduction to Plato's Republic
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Priou is a Teaching Assistant Professor at CU’s Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics, and Society. Our conversation today explores the work o...
S4 E3: Deirdre McCloskey, How Capitalism Cultivates Virtue
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Deirdre McCloskey is a Distinguished Professor of Economics and History Emerita, and Professor of English and Communication Emerita, at the University...
S4 E2: Taylor Jaworski, "American Economic History"
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Taylor Jaworski, Associate Professor of Economics and my successor as Associate Faculty Director of the Benson Center. Taylor has been a Faculty Fello...
S4 E1: Shilo Brooks, "A Farewell from Shilo, and a New Host!"
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Season 4 will be Shilo Brooks's final season as host of the Free Mind Podcast. Matt Burgess will assume hosting duties beginning in 2023. ...
S3 E3: Alexander Duff, Introduction to the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alexander Duff, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas. Duff discusses the philosophy of Martin Heidegger...
S3 E2: Daniel Mahoney, From the Culture of Repudiation to the Cancel Culture
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel J. Mahoney, Augustine Chair in Distinguished Scholarship at Assumption University and a visiting fellow at Princeton University. Mahoney ...
S3 E1: Paul Ulrich, Allan Bloom and Higher Education
19 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Season 3 launches with Paul Ulrich, Associate Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Intellectual Foundations Program at Carthage Coll...
S2 E4: Robert Pasnau, The Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Pasnau, Professor of Distinction in Philosophy at CU Boulder, is the founding director of the Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilizati...
S2 E3: Jeremy Fortier, Introduction to the Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremy Fortier, Post-doctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the City College of New York. Fortier explores the thought and writings...
S2 E2: Kevin Williamson, The Disciplinary Corporation
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Williamson is a correspondent at National Review and author of several books, including his most recent book Big White Ghetto. The Benson Center...
S2 E1: Bradford Wilson, The Political Thought of Alexander Hamilton
11 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Season Two of The Free Mind podcast launches with a conversation between Shilo Brooks and Bradford Wilson, Executive Director...
S1 E7: Colleen Sheehan, Jane Austen's Emma
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Colleen Sheehan, professor of political science and director of graduate studies at Arizona State University’s School of Civic and Economic Thought ...
S1 E6: Joshua Katz, Cancel Culture and its Discontents
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Joshua Katz, Costen Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics at Princeton. Katz’s uncontroversial intellectual pursuits and his warm an...
S1 E5: Jeff Black, The Great Books and Liberal Education
12 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Black is a professor at St. John’s College, a unique great books college with campuses in Annapolis, Maryland and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Black e...
S1 E4: Patty Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest and the History of the American West
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Patty Limerick, professor of history, founding director of the CU Boulder Center of the American West, and author of The Legacy of Conquest. We explor...
S1 E3: Lucas Morel, The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lucas Morel, the John K. Boardman, Jr. Professor of Politics and head of the Politics Department at Washington and Lee University. In this episode Mor...
S1 E2: Glenn Loury, Unspeakable Truths about Racial Inequality in America
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Glenn Loury, the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of Economics at Brown, is not only an acclaimed economic theorist, he’s also among the leading critics w...
S1 E1: Wayne Ambler, The Enduring Importance of Rome
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Wayne Ambler, associate professor emeritus at CU Boulder and former dean and director of the Rome Program at the University of Dallas’ Rome Campus, ...
Matthew Burgess, Introduction to the Free Mind Podcast
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In monthly episodes, my guests and I will explore topics in Western philosophy, politics, literature, and history; and we’ll do so with adventurous ...