The MIT Press Podcast

Gender and Equality in Art and Exploration

03 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Featured episode from Between Art and Science, a new podcast from Leonardo. This episode, hosted by Erica Hruby, features a conversation between two a...

Elizabeth Reddy, "¡Alerta!: Engineering on Shaky Ground" (MIT Press, 2023)

02 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Sistema de Alerta Sísmica Mexicano is the world’s oldest public earthquake early warning system. Given the unpredictability of earthquakes, the...

You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape

02 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Writer and educator Marcus Gilroy-Ware (After the Fact?, Filling the Void) speaks with Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner about their new book ...

Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski: The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early 21st Century

01 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Joy White, author of Terraformed, speaks with Dhanveer Singh Brar about his forthcoming book Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski, Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski ...

Neighbor George

31 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Tariq Goddard (author, publisher and co-founder of Repeater Books) speaks with Victoria Nelson about her forthcoming book Neighbor George. Do you kno...

X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction

30 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Colquhoun (author/editor of Egress and Postcapitalist Desire) speaks to to Thomas Moynihan about his most recent book X-Risk: How Humanity D...

A Slow Burning Fire: The Rise of the New Art Practice in Yugoslavia

29 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Writer and academic Anthony Gardner (NSK from Kapital to Capital, Politically Unbecoming) interviews Marko Ilić about his new book A Slow Burning F...

Appendix N: The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons

28 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dungeons and Dragons expert Jon Peterson (The Elusive Shift, Game Wizards) speaks with Peter Bebergal (Season of the Witch, Too Much to Dream) about ...

The Gentrification of Queer Desire

27 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Writer Huw Lemmey (Chubz, Red Tory, Unknown Language) speaks with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore about her most recent book The Freezer Door and sea...

Publishing in Art, Architecture and Visual Culture

26 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode features discussions with Thomas Weaver (Senior Acquisitions Editor for Art and Architecture) and Victoria Hindley (Acquisitions Editor i...

Black Film, British Cinema II

25 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Clive Nwonka and Anamik Saha discuss their forthcoming book Black Film, British Cinema II (publishing in March with Goldsmiths Press), a book which...

The Place Is Here: The Work of Black Artists in 1980s Britain

24 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Nick Aikens and Elizabeth Robles discuss The Place Is Here (Sternberg Press, 2019) and the range of perspectives on black art in Thatcherite Britain...

Girls Against God

23 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Cathi Unsworth, journalist and author of Bad Penny Blues, as well as numerous other novels, speaks with artists and author Jenny Hval about her rec...

Muse, Odalisque, Handmaiden: A Girl's Life in the Incredible String Band

22 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Damon Kruskowski, author of Ways of Hearing and The New Analog, previously member of Galaxie 500 and currently a member of Damon & Naomi interviews...

The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth

21 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The philosopher Bruno Latour (We Have Never Been Modern, Laboratory Life, Science in Action) and Eugene Richardson, physician, anthropologist, and ...

Infrastructural Brutalism: Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure

20 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Truscello, author of Infrastructural Brutalism: Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure, discusses the ways in which infrastructure deter...

Ithell Colquhoun: Genius of The Fern Loved Gully

19 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Tai Shani (Turner Prize winning artist, educator and author of Our Fatal Magic) and Amy Hale (anthropologist, folklorist, and writer) discuss the...

Full Version: Lauren Fournier and McKenzie Wark on Autotheory

18 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

An extended conversation between Lauren Fournier, writer, independent curator, artist, and author of Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing...

Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism

17 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Lauren Fournier, writer, independent curator, artist, and author of Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism discusses her for...

America & Democracy Ep. 5: Brandon Terry on MLK

16 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the final episode of this series, Brandon Terry, political theorist and African American Studies scholar at Harvard discusses the life and work o...

Pamela M. Lee, "Think Tank Aesthetics: Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present" (MIT Press, 2020)

16 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In her groundbreaking and timely book Think Tank Aesthetics: Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present (MIT Press, 2020), disti...

America & Democracy Ep. 4: George Zarkadakis on Digital Liberalism

15 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Around the world, liberal democracies are in crisis. Citizens have lost faith in their government; right-wing nationalist movements frame the politica...

America & Democracy Ep. 3: Carol A. Stabile on the Red Scare

14 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this series of interviews from The MIT Press Podcast, we'll be drawing on the research of various authors to reflect on some of the issues shaping...

Anne Kaun and Fredrik Stiernstedt, "Prison Media: Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)

13 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Prisons are not typically known for cutting-edge media technologies. Yet from photography in the nineteenth century to AI-enhanced tracking cameras to...

America & Democracy Ep. 2: Jonathan M. Berman on Anti-Vaxxers

13 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this series of interviews from The MIT Press Podcast, we'll be drawing on the research of various authors to reflect on some of the issues shaping...

America & Democracy Ep. 1: Robert I. Rotberg on Corruption

12 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this series of interviews from the MIT Press Podcast, we'll be drawing on the research of various authors to reflect on some of the issues shaping ...

Pharmacological Histories Ep. 4: Andy Roberts on LSD's Cosmic Courier

11 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Hollingshead, the man who turned Timothy Leary onto LSD, managed to fundamentally influenced modern drug culture whilst remaining virtually an...

Pharmacological Histories Ep. 3: Bita Moghaddam on Ketamine

10 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Bita Moghaddam discusses the emergence of ketamine as a combat anesthetic in the Vietnam war, its transformation into a recreation dr...

Pharmacological Histories Ep. 2: Mikkael A. Sekeres on the Drugs Fighting Leukemia

09 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode offers an insight into the work of leading cancer specialist and author of When Blood Breaks Down, Mikkael A. Sekeres. 1 in 2 people wi...

Pharmacological Histories Ep. 1: Nancy D. Campbell on Naloxone

08 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Drawing on interviews with approximately sixty advocates, drug users, former users, friends, families, witnesses, clinicians, and scientists; Nancy D....

Saturation: Race, Art, and the Circulation of Value

07 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

C. Riley Snorton and Hentyle Yapp read from Saturation, a book that offers an analysis of racial representation and controversy in the art world. Co...

Rapid Reviews: COVID-19

06 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Rapid Reviews: COVID-19 brings together urgency and scientific rigor so the world’s researchers can quickly disseminate new discoveries that the pub...

Carceral Capitalism

05 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Conor Rose reads from Jackie Wang's Carceral Capitalism. This extract, taken from the opening of the book, offers insight into the Black Lives Matte...

Material Witness: Media, Forensics, Evidence

04 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Susan Schuppli is Director of the Centre for Research Architecture in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. In her b...

Semiotext(e): The Theory Press

03 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Best known for its introduction of French theory to American readers, Semiotext(e) has been one of America's most influential independent presses sinc...

Co-Illusion: Dispatches from the End of Communication

01 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In Co-Illusion, writer and critic David Levi Strauss, tracks the rise of Donald Trump and the media landscape that warped around him. In this intervi...

Collaborative Society

30 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

An interview with Dariusz Jemielniak and Aleksandra Przegalinska about Collaborative Society (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) and how netw...

Macs Smith, "Paris and the Parasite: Noise, Health, and Politics in the Media City" (MIT Press, 2021)

29 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The social consequences of anti-parasitic urbanism, as efforts to expunge supposedly biological parasites penalize those viewed as social parasites. A...

Spatial Computing

29 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Shashi Shekhar and Pamela Vold, authors of Spatial Computing, from The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, discuss the reach, risks and importan...

Craig Leonard, "Uncommon Sense: Aesthetics after Marcuse" (MIT Press, 2022)

29 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In Uncommon Sense: Aesthetics after Marcuse (MIT Press, 2022), Craig Leonard argues for the contemporary relevance of the aesthetic theory of Herber...

High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies

28 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Author of High Weirdness, Erik Davis discusses psychedelic politics, media paranoia, conspiracy theories, and consensus reality in the time of COVID-...

Extraterrestrials

27 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

An interview with Wade Roush, author of Extraterrestrials, from The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series. Are we alone in the universe? If not, wher...

The History of Contraception

26 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

An interview with Donna J. Drucker, author of Contraception, from The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series. We discuss reproductive justice, the his...

Technologies of the Human Corpse

25 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we hear from John Troyer, author of Technologies of the Human Corpse and the Director of The Center for Death and Society at The U...

Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics

24 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this podcast we discuss visibility, haunting and fascism with art historian and theorist Elizabeth Otto. Otto's book Haunted Bauhaus explores the...

Free Will as an Open Scientific Problem

23 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A discussion with the the author of Free Will (from The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) and Free Will as an Open Scientific Problem, Mark Bal...

"Global Environmental Politics" Celebrates 20 Years of Success

22 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The journal of Global Environmental Politics (GEP) has hit a tremendous milestone in 2020—celebrating its 20 years of publication with the MIT Press...

Citizenship

21 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A discussion with the the author of Citizenship (from The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series), Dimitry Kochenov, in which we discuss the glorifica...

Quantitative Science Studies: A Discussion with Editor-in-Chief Ludo Waltman

20 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Quantitative Science Studies (QSS) is a newly launched open access journal that was born out of a collaboration between the International Society for...

Strong Ideas from MIT Libraries and the MIT Press

19 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Gita Manaktala, Editorial Director at the MIT Press, and Ellen Finnie, Co-Interim Associate Director for Collections at MIT Libraries...

Experiments in Open Peer Review

18 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The authors of Data Feminism (2020), Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein, along with Catherine Ahearn, Content Lead at PubPub, discuss the value an...

How Attention Works: Finding Your Way in a World Full of Distraction

17 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Stefan Van der Stigchel discusses how we filter out what is irrelevant so we can focus on what we need to know. We are surrounded by a world rich with...

The Garage: A History

16 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode of the MIT Press podcast, Olivia Erlanger and Luis Ortega Govela discuss their book, Garage. Frank Lloyd Wright invented the garage w...

The Making of "Ways of Hearing"

15 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bonus to the Ways of Hearing podcast and book A behind-the-scenes conversation with the creators of Ways of Hearing, the podcast and book. Hosted by...

Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire and A Prime Number Conspiracy

14 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode of the MIT Press podcast, Thomas Lin, Editor-in-Chief of Quanta Magazine, discusses the research and current climate behind the scienc...

Food Routes: Growing Bananas in Iceland and Other Tales from the Logistics of Eating

13 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On the latest episode of The MIT Press podcast, Robyn Metcalfe, food historian and food futurist, discusses her new book, Food Routes: Growing Banana...

Discussions on Open Access: Open Access Models and Experimentation

12 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Amy Brand, director of the MIT Press, and Peter Suber of Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society discuss open access mode...

Discussions on Open Access: Open Science Tools

11 Apr 2023

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Jess Polka, executive director of ASAPbio, and Sam Klein of the MIT Press/MIT Media Lab’s Knowledge Futures Group (KFG) and Harvard University’s B...

Discussions on Open Access: OA at MIT

10 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Nick Lindsay, Director of Journals and Open Access at the MIT Press, and Katharine Dunn, scholarly communications librarian at the ...

Discussions on Open Access: Frankenbook and OA Publishing

09 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the first of four episodes in the MITP Open Access series, Travis Rich, PubPub co-founder and project lead, speaks with Edward Finn, founding dire...

“I did It for The Uplift of Humanity and The Navy”: Same-Sex Acts and The Origins of The National Security State, 1919–1921

08 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sherry Zane, Associate Director of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at the University of Connecticut, discusses her recent article...

Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto

07 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Polizzotti translates authors from Patrick Modiano to Gustave Flaubert. In this episode, Polizzotti demystifies the process of translation and d...

This is My Body: Communion and Cannibalism in Colonial New England and New France

06 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Carla Cevasco, Assistant Professor of American Studies at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, discusses her recent article, "This is My Body:...

Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet

05 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode features an interview with MIT Press author Varun Sivaram about his new book Taming the Sun. Varun Sivaram is the Philip D. Reed Fellow...

Feeling and Smelling a Virtual Donut

04 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

“…Using VR scent, touch, and sight to alter the subjective experience of taste is going to be very large project; not just an academic project but...

Rhea Myers, "Proof of Work: Blockchain Provocations 2011-2021" (MIT Press, 2023)

03 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

NFT, BTC, DAO, ETH, WAGMI, HODL. It would have been hard to avoid these acronyms only a year ago. The hype around cryptocurrencies and blockchain art ...

Moheb Costandi, "Body Am I: The New Science of Self-Consciousness" (MIT Press, 2022)

03 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How the way we perceive our bodies plays a critical role in the way we perceive ourselves: stories of phantom limbs, rubber hands, anorexia, and other...

Thresholds 46: SCATTER!

03 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Anne Graziano and Eliyahu Keller, editors of Thresholds 46: SCATTER!, talk about the mission of the journal; the making of the SCATTER! issue; the r...

Break on Through: Radical Psychiatry and the American Counterculture

02 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In Break On Through, Lucas Richert explores Anti-psychiatry, psychedelics, and radical challenges to psychiatry and the conventional treatment of men...

Olaf Sporns on Network Neuroscience

02 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The intersection between cutting-edge neuroscience and the emerging field of network science has been growing tremendously over the past decade. Olaf ...

The Structure of Success: How the Internal Distribution of Power Drives Armed Group Behavior and National Movement Effectiveness

01 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Listen as Peter Krause and Sean Lynn-Jones discuss the key differences between united and hegemonic power and the internal structure of violent and no...

Elizabeth M. Renieris, "Beyond Data: Reclaiming Human Rights at the Dawn of the Metaverse" (MIT Press, 2023)

31 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Why laws focused on data cannot effectively protect people—and how an approach centered on human rights offers the best hope for preserving human di...

Nationalism and Nature in Henry David Thoreau's "Walking”

31 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Listen as Andrew Menard and Laura Dassow Walls discuss the notions of walking, wildness, nationalism, and the role of beauty in Thoreau's "Walking." T...

Water Is in the Air: Physics, Politics, and Poetics of Water in the Arts

30 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our contributors discuss their work in the arts and sciences, which is showcased in the new article collection, Water Is in the Air: Physics, Politic...

Sybil Ludington, Material Culture, and American Mythmaking

29 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of a lovely feminine Paul Revere... Marla R. Miller and Paula D. Hunt discuss Sybil Ludington, material cultur...

The Meaning of the Cyber Revolution: Perils to Theory and Statecraft

28 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As Lucas Kello reveals, it is far easier to attack than to defend when it comes to cyber war. Listen as Kello and Sean Lynn-Jones discuss the dangers ...

Art and Atoms

27 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our contributors discuss the connections between science, specifically chemistry, and art, and talk about how materials traditionally identified with ...

China's Fear of Contagion: Tiananmen Square and the Power of the European Example

26 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As Mary Sarotte reveals in her Fall 2012 article in International Security, the actions of the Chinese government during the Tiananmen Square protes...

Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks

24 Mar 2023

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Maximilian Schich, Isabel Meirelles, and Roger Malina discuss the contents and creation of the new article collection, Arts, Humanities, and Complex ...

The Revolutionary Worlds of Lexington and Concord Compared

23 Mar 2023

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Bill Fowler, member of the editorial board of The New England Quarterly, Mary Babson Fuhrer, and Robert A. Gross discuss Fuhrer's recent NEQ article, ...

Present at the Creation: Edward Mead Earle and the Depression-Era Origins of Security Studies

22 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Edward Mead Earle was a historian, scholar, professor, and international relations expert; he was also a founding father of the field we know as Secur...

Celebrating PAJ 100

21 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Contributing artists to PAJ 100 recorded podcasts based on their pieces for the issue, responding to PAJ editor Bonnie Marranca's four statements on m...

China's Century? Why America's Edge Will Endure

20 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Much has been made of the rise of China's economy, and some fear that China will surpass the United States as the world's largest economy in the comin...

Anti-Irish Prejudice in the Trial of Dominic Daley and James Halligan (Northampton, Massachusetts, 1806)

19 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bill Fowler, member of the editorial board of The New England Quarterly, Professor Dick Brown, and Governor Michael Dukakis discuss Brown's recent NEQ...

The Sharing of Sound Art

18 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this podcast, Claire MacDonald and Sarah Parry discuss the history of recording, the sharing of sound art between artists, how recording has shaped...

Nicolas Collins on Leonardo Music Journal’s 20th Anniversary

17 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Nicolas Collins, editor of Leonardo Music Journal and Chair of Sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, answered our questions about the 2...

Mary Flanagan and Mikael Jakobsson, "Playing Oppression: The Legacy of Conquest and Empire in Colonialist Board Games" (MIT Press, 2023)

16 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Playing Oppression: The Legacy of Conquest and Empire in Colonialist Board Games (MIT Press, 2023) by Dr. Mary Flanagan & Dr. Mikael Jakobsson is a s...

American Restaurants and Cuisine in the Mid–Nineteenth Century

16 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Paul Freedman, Chester D. Tripp Professor of History and Acting Chair, Department of History at Yale University, chats with Rebecca Federman, Culinary...

Computer Music and Human Computer Interaction

15 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Gurevich, lecturer at the Sonic Arts Research Centre at the Queen’s University, Belfast School of Music and Sonic Arts, serves as guest edit...

The Deception Dividend: FDR's Undeclared War

14 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sean Lynn-Jones, editor of International Security, interviews author John Schuessler, whose article "The Deception Dividend: FDR's Undeclared War" app...

Cherished and Cursed: Toward a Social History of "The Catcher in the Rye"

13 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In light of J.D. Salinger's recent passing and on reflection of his literary contributions, The New England Quarterly took a trip back to its December...

"Prettier Than They Used to Be”: Femininity, Fashion, and the Recasting of Radcliffe's Reputation, 1900-1950

12 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Mary Kelley, member of the NEQ editorial board, interviews Deirdre Clemente about her article "'Prettier Than They Used to Be': Femininity, Fashion, a...

The Evolution of Language

11 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Samuel Jay Keyser, Editor-in-Chief of Linguistic Inquiry, has shared a campus with Noam Chomsky for 40-odd years via MIT's Department of Linguistics ...

A Yankee Rebellion? The Regulators, New England, and the New Nation

10 Mar 2023

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Bill Fowler, Chair of NEQ's Board of Directors, speaks with Bob Gross about the events leading up to Shays's Rebellion and how they relate to today's ...

Jan Harrison's “Animal Tongues”

09 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Artist Jan Harrison's work explores the connections between human and animal psyches and takes the form of painting, pastel, sculpture, and performanc...

Miguel Sicart, "Playing Software: Homo Ludens in Computational Culture" (MIT Press, 2023)

08 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The play element at the heart of our interactions with computers—and how it drives the best and the worst manifestations of the information age. Whe...

The Native American Veterans of Connecticut's Volunteer Regiments and the Union Army

08 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bill Fowler, Chair of The New England Quarterly Board of Directors, and author David Naumec discuss his article "From Mashantucket to Appomattox: The ...

Once Upon an Algorithm: How Stories Explain Computing

07 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Martin Erwig show us how we can find computational concepts inside some of our favorite stories. Picture a computer scientist, starin...

Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity Through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play

06 Mar 2023

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Chris Gondek interviews Mitchel Resnick about his work at the MIT Media Lab, the foundation for his new book, Lifelong Kindergarten. In kindergartens...

Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces: Diversity and Free Expression in Education

05 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Chris Gondek interviews author John Palfrey about how diversity and free expression can coexist on a modern campus. Safe spaces, trig...