Sinopsis
A podcast about ideas, politics, and culture. Hosted by David Sehat.
Episodios
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MindPop 22: Where is blackness now?
16/07/2017 Duración: 31minDavid Sehat talks to Christopher Cameron, Associate Professor of History at UNC-Charlotte, about what blackness means in this political moment.
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MindPop 21: Where is the Left now? Part 4
09/07/2017 Duración: 32minDavid Sehat talks to Andrew Hartman, Professor of History at Illinois State University, about the state of the Left, its moral panic about Donald Trump, and the Left's tortured relationship to liberalism and the market.
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MindPop 20: Where is the Left now? Part 3
02/07/2017 Duración: 21minDavid Sehat talks to Sarah Leonard, Features Editor at The Nation, about the state of the journalistic Left, the relationship of the Left to liberalism, and whether she thinks the Democratic Party is a potential vehicle for leftist politics.
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MindPop 19: Where is the Left now? Part 2
25/06/2017 Duración: 19minDavid Sehat talks to Bhaskar Sunkara, publisher and editor of Jacobin magazine, about the state of the Left and his vision of the American political future.
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MindPop 18: Where is conservatism now? Part 3
18/06/2017 Duración: 27minDavid Sehat talks to Kevin den Dulk, Paul Henry Chair in Christianity and Politics at Calvin College, about evangelicals in the conservative movement, their surprising support for Donald Trump, and the risks of politicization to communities of faith.
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MindPop 17: Where is conservatism now? Part 2
11/06/2017 Duración: 40minDavid Sehat talks to Nicole Hemmer, Assistant Professor at UVA's Miller Center, about conservative media and whether the echo chamber causes conservative epistemic closure.
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MindPop 16: Where is conservatism now?
04/06/2017 Duración: 52minDavid Sehat talks to Daniel McCarthy, editor-at-large for The American Conservative, about the state of conservatism today and why (oh why) he voted for Donald Trump.
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MindPop 15: How does change happen?
21/05/2017 Duración: 33minDavid Sehat talks to Michael Todd Landis, Assistant Professor at Tarleton State University, about how political change occurred in the past and how it might be effected in the present.
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MindPop 14: Is the planet doomed?
07/05/2017 Duración: 38minDavid Sehat talks to Kim Cobb, Georgia Power Chair and College of Science ADVANCE professor at Georgia Tech, about threats to the planet and the state of American climate politics.
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MindPop 13: The Republican Party, from Reagan to Trump
30/04/2017 Duración: 38minDavid Sehat explains the ascendancy of Donald Trump as a symptom and an extension of Republican intellectual failure.
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MindPop 12: Has American Zionism failed?
23/04/2017 Duración: 34minDavid Sehat talks to Marni Davis, associate professor of history at Georgia State University, about American Zionism, its critics, and her own tortured feelings toward Israel as an American Jew.
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MindPop 11: Should scientists march?
09/04/2017 Duración: 29minDavid Sehat talks to Joshua Weitz, professor of biology at Georgia Tech, about the attack on science, the values of science, and why he is marching.
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MindPop 10: Is the college classroom dead?
26/03/2017 Duración: 30minDavid Sehat talks to Jeff Young, Senior Lecturer in History and guru in digital instruction at Georgia State University, about the digital revolution in higher education and the media, economic, and political challenges to traditional teaching.
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MindPop 9: What is it between Mormons and Trump?
12/03/2017 Duración: 31minDavid Sehat talks to Ryan Rowberry, Associate Professor of Law at Georgia State University and a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, about Mormons' tortured relationship to Donald Trump and their idea of constitutional faithfulness.
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MindPop 8: Is constitutional originalism legitimate?
26/02/2017 Duración: 26minDavid Sehat talks to H. Robert Baker, Associate Professor of History at Georgia State University, about constitutional originalism as a mode of legal interpretation and as rhetoric to justify sweeping legal change.
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MindPop 7: Is this what decline looks like?
12/02/2017 Duración: 29minDavid Sehat talks to Jake Selwood, Associate Professor of History at Georgia State University, about whether the stories of decline that explain contemporary politics have any legitimacy in this political moment or, in fact, in any political moment.
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MindPop 6: Has identity politics wrecked liberalism?
22/01/2017 Duración: 24minDavid Sehat talks to Mike O’Connor, author of A Commercial Republic: America’s Enduring Debate over Democratic Capitalism, about the place of racial and gender concerns within contemporary liberalism and about whether those concerns have led the Democratic Party into electoral exile.
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MindPop 5: Will machines supplant the human?
08/01/2017 Duración: 27minDavid Sehat talks to Greg Mohler, Chief Scientist of the Quantum Systems Division at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, about big data and whether computers have supplanted the soul.
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MindPop 4: Is big data a force for good?
04/12/2016 Duración: 29minDavid Sehat talks to Joy Rohde, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and History at the University of Michigan, about the use of big data in military strategy and foreign policy and about the potential loss of individual agency, moral integrity, and justice in a big data regime.
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MindPop 3: Where is the Left now?
20/11/2016 Duración: 29minDavid Sehat talks to Andrew Hartman, professor of history at Illinois State University, about the state of the Left today, about its relationship to the Democratic Party, and about the current vogue for Marx within and outside of the Leftist political tradition.