American Campus Podcast

Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

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a social and political history of higher education

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Young Americans for Freedom with Daniel RugglesApr 15, 2026

A campus history lesson on Young Americans for Freedom and conservative movement politics.

Young Americans for Freedom comes across as a conservative youth organization with real historical reach, and the episode handles that part of the story well.

Sex testing and the path to transvestigating college athletes with Johanna MellisApr 5, 2026

A clear, urgent look at the anti-trans fight in college sports.

American Campus Podcast takes up the recent anti-trans fight in college sports as a live and urgent dispute. Lauren LaSav-Shepard invites historian and former D1 athlete Joanna Mellis to walk through the fear, policy shifts, and public rhetoric now shaping campus sports, while…

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Edmund Burke, father of conservatism with Austin Clements

Real estate, private equity, and Abundance with Billy Fleming

Drugs: The Story of Pharmacology with Rod Flower

The takeover of New College of Florida with Harry Hanbury and Gaby Batista

Is a degree worth its cost in the postindustrial UK? with Amit Singh

Lords of Serendipity, a campus novel with Randy Boyagoda

University in stone, silk, and blood with William Whyte

Tuition, Gaza encampments, and tenure with Marshall Steinbaum and David Austin Walsh

Big budgets behind big college sports with Karen Weaver

The Frenchmen with Emily Eakin

A short history of the connoisseur with Peter Burke

How a media panic led to the modern research university with Chad Wellmon

Classical liberals and Know-Nothings on higher learning with James Chandler

The KKK comes to UCLA with Trevor Griffey

Country of Lords with Kim Phillips-Fein

The Scientific-Military State comes to the US with Sveinn M. Jóhannesson

Thorstein Veblen’s The Higher Learning in America with Christian Churchill and Gerald Levy

History of college grading with Joshua R. Eyler

See You at the Pole, the Columbine massacre, and Christianity on campus with Amy Laura Hall

The Flexner Report and contemporary critiques of medical professionalization with Ira Halpern

Natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and algorithms with Xiaochang Li

Tragedy of the education commons with Guy Standing

Revilo Oliver and the academic freedom of white supremacists with Matthew C. Ehrlich

Disrupting White Noise: Challenging Beliefs about Race on Campus with Zak Foste and Lauren N. Irwin

Creating the Black high school with Alexander D. Hyres

The Other University with Chad Wellmon

Academic gerontocracy with Samuel Moyn

Spirits, specters, and parapsychology professors with Jesse Bering

The right’s attempt to capture Western Civ and Jewish Studies with Emmaia Gelman

The West with Curtis Dozier

What are universities for? with Marc Spooner

Quentin Deranque, the French Charlie Kirk with Jonathan Hauser

Alpha Kappa Alpha with Deborah E. Whaley

How class is reproduced in elite private schools with Emma Taylor

Yuppies with Dylan Gottlieb

Teaching ‘80s and ‘90s pop culture to Gen Z with Austin McCoy

The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy with AJA Woods

Institutional Review Boards with Marco Antonio Ramos

Writing for the public with David M. Perry

Professional class liberals with Brent Cebul and Lily Geismer

The grade inflation panic with Kevin Gannon

Allan Bloom’s Closing of the American Mind with Mark Hlavacik

Hands Off Higher Ed: May Day 2026 with Anne Balay

Culture wars come for French universities (Part 2)

Culture wars come for French universities (Part 1)

Higher ed in the 21st century economy with What Works podcast

Young Americans for Freedom with Daniel Ruggles

Blame the Intern with Alexandre Frenette

Made up college rankings with Jonathan Beecher Field

Sex testing and the path to transvestigating college athletes with Johanna Mellis

The history of college learning disability accommodations with Scott Gelber

India's pipeline to Silicon Valley with Dwaipayan Banerjee

Publishing your academic book after leaving academia with Danielle Casarez Lemi

Pioneer Fund, the dark money trust that won't let race science die with John P. Jackson Jr.

China and the decline of American universities with Mark S. Ferrara

Why white nationalists love Plato with Curtis Dozier

Jesse Jackson and “Western Culture” at Stanford with John K. Wilson

L. Brent Bozell, trad Cath intellectual with Joshua Tait

Why is there an American university in Beirut? with Betty S. Anderson

Academics in the Epstein files with Andy Hines

Do we still have race conscious admissions after SFA v. Harvard? with Julie J. Park

Progressive origins of eugenics with Mark Torres

TurningPointUSA after Charlie Kirk with Hope Pisoni

On reconstructing Cherokee education with Julie L. Reed

Black college women after emancipation with Linda Perkins

Your Data Will Be Used Against You with Andrew Guthrie Ferguson

Lynne Cheney and the National Endowment for the Humanities with Mark Hlavacik

Universities and the climate crisis with Bryan Alexander

"Race, Racism, and the Liberal Arts," Aydelotte Foundation roundtable ft. Lauren, Nayanika Ghosh, and Andy Hines

On the myth of institutional neutrality with Brian Soucek

You Are Not a Kinesthetic Learner with Thomas Fallace

Media, academia, and objectivity with Ayala Panievsky

Antiwar activism and police infiltration at the University of Texas, 1967-1973 with Martin Murray

US Military Academy at West Point with John F. Morris