Half Hour of Heterodoxy

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Psychological Safety for Professors and Students with Amy Edmondson Jun 26, 2020

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Amy Edmondson is my guest on this episode. She’s an organizational psychologist at Harvard Business School and she’s known for her highly influential studies of psychological safety, the sense that you can be honest and open and can take interpersonal risks at your workplace without fear of punishment. She has also published influential papers on team formation, and organizational learning.

We’ll be talking about her book The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation and Growth, published last year and how college and university professors can leverage this research.

·Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy by Amy Edmondson

·Amy Edmondson’s Faculty Page

·Building a psychologically safe workplace, a TEDx Harvard Graduate School of Education talk

·How to turn a group of strangers into a team, a TEDx New York talk

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The Problem With Everything with Meghan Daum Jun 17, 2020

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Meghan Daum is a columnist for Medium, an adjunct faculty in the MFA Writing Program at Columbia University's School of the Arts, and author of five books, one of which we will be discussing today, The Problem With Everything: A Journey Through the New Culture Wars. It was named one of the 100 notable books of 2019 by the New York Times.

In a recent book club meeting, HxA read The Problem with Everything, a critique of contemporary feminism. On this episode, Cory Clark talks to Meghan about the book, and includes some questions from our book club participants..

You can follow Meghan on twitter @meghan_daum. If you have any comments you can contact Cory Clark at clark@heterodoxacaemy.org or on twitter @ImHardcory.

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The Problem With Everything: A Journey Through the New Culture Wars by Meghan Daum: https://www.meghandaum.com/the-problem-with-everything

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Michael Kruse, Being a Journalist in a Social Media World May 28, 2020

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Michael Kruse is a senior staff writer at POLITICO, where he writes about presidential candidates and campaigns. He has been a journalist since his undergraduate years at Davidson College, and worked for the Tampa Bay Times before joining POLITICO. He has won a number of awards including the National Press Foundation’s Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress. His work has been anthologized in The Best American Newspaper Narratives, Out There: The Wildest Stories from Outside Magazine, and Next Wave: America’s New Generation of Great Literary Journalists.

We’ll be talking about the supposedly post-truth world that we live in and what college students should know about the nature of journalism.

86. Adam Domby, The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory May 20, 2020

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Adam Domby is my guest today. He’s a history professor at the College of Charleston and we’ll
be talking about his research on the statue of Silent Sam at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.

That statue commemorated a Confederate soldier and was erected at a main university
entrance in 1913. When Domby was a student at Chapel Hill in the early 2010s, he uncovered
the dedication speech of the statue showing its connection to White supremacy. The statue
was pulled down by activists in 2018 and there has been an ongoing legal dispute over what to
do with the statue.

I’ll also be talking about Adam’s new book The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory published in February this year, which is partially about the
lies told by the people who sponsored this statue but mainly about lies told about North
Carolina’s history after the Civil War and the function of those lies.

You can follow Adam on twitter @AdamHDomby.

85. Michael Roth, Safe Enough Spaces May 12, 2020

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This episode is hosted by Cory Clark, and Michael Roth is the guest. Michael is a historian, the president of Wesleyan University, and the author of the book ‘Safe Enough Spaces: A Pragmatist’s Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech, and Political Correctness on College Campuses’.

HxA held its first ever book club a few weeks back, and we chose to read Safe Enough Spaces and had a lively discussion about it. Now we have Michael here to discuss the book, and we include a couple of questions from our book club participants.

You can follow Michael on twitter @mroth78. If you have any comments you can contact Cory Clark at clark@heterodoxacaemy.org or on twitter @ImHardcory.

Here is the transcript of the episode.

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You can find 'Safe Enough Spaces' here.

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84. Christian Gonzalez and Ian Storey, The Elusive Definitions of Conservatism and Liberalism Apr 27, 2020

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This is a special one-hour episode featuring Christian Gonzalez and Ian Storey.

Christian Gonzales is a research assistant at Heterodox Academy. He’s a senior at Columbia University and he has written for various conservative publications like National Review and City Journal. Ian Storey is a staff writer for Heterodox Academy. He’s a political scientist and a candidate for Masters of Divinity at Union Theological Seminary. Christian classifies himself as a conservative; Ian classifies himself as a liberal.

In this episode we’ll explore whether it’s possible to define conservatism and liberalism.

Here is a transcript of this episode.

Related Links

Looking through an ideological lens at Columbia University by Christian Gonzalez

https://heterodoxacademy.org/looking-through-an-ideological-lens-at-columbia-university/

How Critics of Intersectionality (Often) Miss the Point by Ian Storey

https://heterodoxacademy.org/how-critics-of-intersectionality-often-miss-the-point/

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83. Cory Clark, Tribalism in War and Peace (And in the Social Sciences) Apr 09, 2020

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Cory Clark is my guest on this episode. She’s the Director of Academic Engagement at Heterodox Academy. She’s also a social psychologist and until recently was an assistant professor at Durham University in the UK. We’ll be talking about a paper by her and Bo Winegard that was published in Psychological Inquiry this year called “Tribalism in war and peace: The nature and evolution of ideological epistemology and its significance for modern social science”.

82. Katie Gordon, How to Effectively Help Students During the Coronavirus Pandemic Mar 23, 2020

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Katie Gordon is my guest today. Katie previously appeared on Episode 50: Can Offensive Political Speech Cause Trauma? On today’s episode, we’ll be talking about ways you can counsel and help students during the Coronavirus pandemic. We talk about what you can and cannot do, given legal and ethical guidelines around psychotherapy. We’ll also discuss resources that you and your students can use and explain what classroom practices might be most effective during the pandemic. Even though this episode is primarily for professors, it could be useful regardless of your current role. A transcript of this episode will be released shortly. Related Links * FACE COVID: How to respond effectively to the Corona crisis by Dr Russ Harris* ACT Companion: The Happiness Trap App – Apple version and Google version (free with code TOGETHER)* How to Cope When the World is Canceled: 6 Critical Skills from Dr. Ali Mattu's The Psych Show* Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy by David D. Burns (discussed in this episode)* How Can Professors help students with mental health concerns (March 2018) by Katie Gordon and Brandon Saxton (2018)* Jedi Counsel—Episode 86: College Mental Health (March 2018) with Katie Gordon and Brandon Saxton* Online Mental Health Resources (from Katie Gordon’s website) Rating the Show If you enjoyed this show, please rate it on iTunes: * Go to the show's iTunes page and click “View in iTunes”* Click “Ratings and Reviews” which is to the right of "Details"* Next to "Click to Rate" select the stars. See the full list of episodes of Half Hour of Heterodoxy >>

81. Amy Westervelt, How Does the Energy Industry Influence Universities? Mar 10, 2020

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Amy Westervelt contributes to the Guardian, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. In 2015, she received a Rachel Carson award and, in 2016, an Edward R. Murrow award for her environmental journalism. She’s the creator and host of the podcast Drilled, the first true-crime style podcast about climate change

80. Eric Kaufmann, Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities Feb 27, 2020

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Eric Kaufmann, professor of politics at Birkbeck College, University of London, explains how white identity is threatened by immigration and how this trend drives polarization in English-speaking nations.

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