web01.fireside.fm Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:59:36 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Tatter - Episodes Tagged with “Free Speech” https://tatter.fireside.fm/tags/free%20speech Mon, 04 Mar 2019 06:00:00 -0500 This is a podcast exploring issues in politics and policy. Each episode features conversation with at least one subject matter expert, with a goal of helping listeners better understand the topic. en-us episodic Politics and Policy Michael Sargent This is a podcast exploring issues in politics and policy. Each episode features conversation with at least one subject matter expert, with a goal of helping listeners better understand the topic. no politics, policy, law Michael Sargent profsargent@gmail.com Episode 36: Vet the Technique (w/ Jonathan Haidt & Aaron Hanlon) https://tatter.fireside.fm/36 4e38dcc7-1e60-46bb-8c52-247c8d8971c2 Mon, 04 Mar 2019 06:00:00 -0500 Michael Sargent full Michael Sargent In a conversation with Jonathan Haidt (NYU's Stern School of Business) and Aaron Hanlon (Colby College), we discuss the ultimate purposes of colleges, universities, and academic disciplines, as well as the ways that viewpoint diversity, trigger warnings, and free speech each help or hinder the achievement of those purposes. 57:22 no ABOUT THIS EPISODE Given the ultimate purposes of colleges, universities, and academic disciplines, is viewpoint diversity (such as recruiting more conservatives into the social sciences) essential to achieving those purposes? What about free speech? Are trigger warnings an impediment to achieving those purposes? In this episode, I discuss these issues with two publicly engaged scholars: Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist and a faculty member at the New York University Stern School of Business, as well as Aaron Hanlon, an assistant professor of English at Colby College who also teaches in and serves on the Advisory Committee for the college's program in Science, Technology, and Society. LINKS --Jonathan Haidt's NYU webpage (https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonathan-haidt) --Aaron Hanlon's Colby College webpage (https://www.colby.edu/directory/profile/aaron.hanlon/) --The Heterodox Academy (https://heterodoxacademy.org/) --"The Coddling of the American Mind," (by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, in The Atlantic) (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/) --"The Trigger Warning Myth," (by Aaron Hanlon, in The New Republic) (https://newrepublic.com/article/122543/trigger-warning-myth) --"On Balance," (by Stanley Fish, in The Chronicle of Higher Education) (https://www.chronicle.com/article/On-Balance/44890) --"Free Speech is not an Academic Value" (by Stanley Fish, in The Chronicle of Higher Education) (https://www.chronicle.com/article/Free-Speech-Is-Not-an-Academic/239536) --The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion (by Jonathan Haidt) (https://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Mind-Divided-Politics-Religion/dp/0307455777) --"Don't Sweat the Technique," (by Eric B. & Rakim) (https://youtu.be/g7DJG9rNiTI) Special Guests: Aaron Hanlon and Jonathan Haidt. free speech, viewpoint diversity, trigger warnings, academia, Heterodox ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Given the ultimate purposes of colleges, universities, and academic disciplines, is viewpoint diversity (such as recruiting more conservatives into the social sciences) essential to achieving those purposes? What about free speech? Are trigger warnings an impediment to achieving those purposes? In this episode, I discuss these issues with two publicly engaged scholars: Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist and a faculty member at the New York University Stern School of Business, as well as Aaron Hanlon, an assistant professor of English at Colby College who also teaches in and serves on the Advisory Committee for the college's program in Science, Technology, and Society.

LINKS
--Jonathan Haidt's NYU webpage
--Aaron Hanlon's Colby College webpage
--The Heterodox Academy
--"The Coddling of the American Mind," (by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, in The Atlantic)
--"The Trigger Warning Myth," (by Aaron Hanlon, in The New Republic)
--"On Balance," (by Stanley Fish, in The Chronicle of Higher Education)
--"Free Speech is not an Academic Value" (by Stanley Fish, in The Chronicle of Higher Education)
--The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion (by Jonathan Haidt)
--"Don't Sweat the Technique," (by Eric B. & Rakim)

Special Guests: Aaron Hanlon and Jonathan Haidt.

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Given the ultimate purposes of colleges, universities, and academic disciplines, is viewpoint diversity (such as recruiting more conservatives into the social sciences) essential to achieving those purposes? What about free speech? Are trigger warnings an impediment to achieving those purposes? In this episode, I discuss these issues with two publicly engaged scholars: Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist and a faculty member at the New York University Stern School of Business, as well as Aaron Hanlon, an assistant professor of English at Colby College who also teaches in and serves on the Advisory Committee for the college's program in Science, Technology, and Society.

LINKS
--Jonathan Haidt's NYU webpage
--Aaron Hanlon's Colby College webpage
--The Heterodox Academy
--"The Coddling of the American Mind," (by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, in The Atlantic)
--"The Trigger Warning Myth," (by Aaron Hanlon, in The New Republic)
--"On Balance," (by Stanley Fish, in The Chronicle of Higher Education)
--"Free Speech is not an Academic Value" (by Stanley Fish, in The Chronicle of Higher Education)
--The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion (by Jonathan Haidt)
--"Don't Sweat the Technique," (by Eric B. & Rakim)

Special Guests: Aaron Hanlon and Jonathan Haidt.

]]> Episode 9: Just Another Word https://tatter.fireside.fm/9 d34abcd0-c621-409b-8f64-833081ac8c20 Fri, 04 May 2018 06:00:00 -0400 Michael Sargent full Michael Sargent Legal and literary theorist Stanley Fish engages with classicist, former litigator, and former assistant U.S. attorney Margaret Imber, as they discuss freedom of inquiry and the free exchange of ideas, on college campuses. 49:36 no As in previous years and decades, the freedom of exchange of ideas and freedom of inquiry on college campuses are subjects of debate. In this episode, Sargent talks with legal and literary theorist Stanley Fish (https://cardozo.yu.edu/directory/stanley-fish) (author of, among other things, "There's No Such Thing As Free Speech, and It's a Good Thing, Too") as well as Bates College classicist Margaret Imber (https://www.bates.edu/classical-medieval/faculty/imber-margaret-a/). Special Guests: Margaret Imber and Stanley Fish. As in previous years and decades, the freedom of exchange of ideas and freedom of inquiry on college campuses are subjects of debate. In this episode, Sargent talks with legal and literary theorist Stanley Fish (author of, among other things, "There's No Such Thing As Free Speech, and It's a Good Thing, Too") as well as Bates College classicist Margaret Imber.

Special Guests: Margaret Imber and Stanley Fish.

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Special Guests: Margaret Imber and Stanley Fish.

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