The Free Mind Podcast
By Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization
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Episodes: 47
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The Free Mind Podcast explores philosophic and political ideas with adventurous disregard for intellectual trends. Listeners are invited to pull up a chair in an intellectual laboratory where rationally defensible arguments are tested in the spirit of truth-seeking, and made in a conversational style free of academic jargon. The podcast engages scholars and public intellectuals who seek to present a diversity of viewpoints in a venue where good faith is granted at the door, and clear expression of ideas is more important than adherence to any particular ideology.
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Matthew Young and Paul Diduch: The Parable of the Good Samaritan and American Politics
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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S10 E5: Daniel Jacobson: where higher education is headed, and farewell from Matt
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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S10 E4: Justin Tosi: Does censorship undermine its own goals?
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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S10 E3: Lee Jussim: Surviving cancel culture while keeping your head
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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S10 E2: Musa al-Gharbi: We have never been woke
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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S10 E1: Lesley Smith: Reflections on a career in research, education, and politics
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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S9 E4: Jessi Streib: Is it racist? Is it sexist?
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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S9 E3: Diego Reinero: Does academia really have a liberal bias?
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Jul 13, 2024 |
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S9 E2: Martín Carcasson: Do moderates need to be more intolerant?
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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S9 E1: Heidi Ganahl: Choice and balance in education and media
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May 16, 2024 |
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S8 E4: Benji Backer: The conservative environmentalist
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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S8 E3: Sam Abrams: Political diversity and antisemitism on campus
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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S8 E2: Brandon Warmke: Why It's OK to Mind Your Own Business
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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S8 E1: Cory Clark, Adversarial collaboration and rebuilding trust in academia
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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S7 E4: Todd Zywicki, The Rule of Law and Threats to it
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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S7 E3: Sasha Breger Bush, Is there a Global Debt Crisis?
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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S7 E2: Roger Pielke Jr., When Science Gets Political
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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S7 E1: Alexandra Coţofană, Magic and the Occult in Elite Politics
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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S6 E4: Brad Wilcox, The Role of Family in Social Progress and Challenges
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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S6 E3: Smriti Mehta, Why Start a Heterodox Campus Community＞
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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S6 E2: Jennifer Smith, Cancellation in the Fifteenth Century
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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S6 E1: Alice Evans, Gender Inequality in History
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May 09, 2023 |
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S5 E4: Lionel Shriver, Natalism and Low Birth Rates
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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S5 E3: Kevin Priola, Where can Moderates Fit into Today's Political Landscape?
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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S5 E2: Joey Fratino, The Conservative Student Experience
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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S5 E1: Alex Trembath, Ecomodernism and Nuclear Energy
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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S4 E6: Matthew Burgess, "Academic Freedom and Heterodox Thought"
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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S4 E5: Alan Kahan, Tocqueville's Democracy in America
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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S4 E4: Alex Priou, Introduction to Plato's Republic
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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S4 E3: Deirdre McCloskey, How Capitalism Cultivates Virtue
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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S4 E1: Shilo Brooks, "A Farewell from Shilo, and a New Host!"
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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S4 E2: Taylor Jaworski, "American Economic History"
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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S3 E3: Alexander Duff, Introduction to the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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S3 E2: Daniel Mahoney, From the Culture of Repudiation to the Cancel Culture
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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S3 E1: Paul Ulrich, Allan Bloom and Higher Education
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May 19, 2022 |
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S2 E4: Robert Pasnau, The Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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S2 E3: Jeremy Fortier, Introduction to the Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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S2 E2: Kevin Williamson, The Disciplinary Corporation
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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S2 E1: Bradford Wilson, The Political Thought of Alexander Hamilton
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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S1 E7: Colleen Sheehan, Jane Austen's Emma
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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S1 E6: Joshua Katz, Cancel Culture and its Discontents
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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S1 E5: Jeff Black, The Great Books and Liberal Education
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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S1 E1: Wayne Ambler, The Enduring Importance of Rome
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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S1 E2: Glenn Loury, Unspeakable Truths about Racial Inequality in America
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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S1 E3: Lucas Morel, The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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S1 E4: Patty Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest and the History of the American West
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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Matthew Burgess, Introduction to the Free Mind Podcast
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Jul 14, 2021 |