Academic gerontocracy with Samuel Moyn

The Other University with Chad Wellmon

On the student life apparatus. References and suggested readings: * Chad Wellmon. 2026. After the University: Higher Education and the Future of Intellectual Work [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9781421454351]. Johns Hopkins University Press.  * Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon. 2023. Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9780226738239]. University of Chicago Press. * Chad Wellmon. 2016. Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9781421419886]. Johns Hopkins University Press. * Bavarian L. Baldwin. 2021. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9781568588926]. Bold Type Books. * David S. Busch. 2025. Disciplining Democracy: How the Modern American University Transformed Student Activism [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9781501779961]. Cornell University Press. * Matteo Pasquinelli. 2023. The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9781788730068]. Verso. * Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Phenomenology of Perception [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9781774645093]. * Sean Keilen. 2026. Shakespeare's Scholars: Three Lessons from the Liberal Arts [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9780691272634]. Princeton University Press. * Chadwellmon.com [http://chadwellmon.com] Text the show here! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2396665/fan_mail/new] Support the show [http://www.patreon.com/americancampuspodcast] Browse the American Campus bookshelf [https://bookshop.org/lists/american-campus-podcast]

Academic gerontocracy with Samuel Moyn

On age, class, and jobs. References and suggested readings: * Samuel Moyn. 2026. Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9780374607647]. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. * Samuel Moyn. April 23, 2026. Professors Are Too Old: The Academy’s Gerontocracy Problem is Worse than Anyone Admits [https://www.chronicle.com/article/professors-are-too-old]. The Chronicle of Higher Education. * Dino Buzzati, translated by Lawrence Venuti. 2023. The Stronghold [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9781681377148]. NYRB Classics. * Nazmul Sultan. 2024. Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9780674290372]. Harvard University Press. * Samuel Moyn’s faculty page [https://law.yale.edu/samuel-moyn] * Follow Sam on X, The Everything App, @samuelmoyn [https://x.com/samuelmoyn] Text the show here! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2396665/fan_mail/new] Support the show [http://www.patreon.com/americancampuspodcast] Browse the American Campus bookshelf [https://bookshop.org/lists/american-campus-podcast]

Spirits, specters, and parapsychology professors with Jesse Bering

Speaking to the dead, academically. References and suggested readings: * Jesse Bering. 2026. The Incredible Afterlives of Dr. Stevenson: One Scientist's Epic Quest for Evidence of Reincarnation, Apparitions, Poltergeists, and Other Matters of the Soul [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9780226824222]. University of Chicago Press. * Jesse Bering’s website [https://www.jessebering.com/about] * Bering in Mind [https://beringinmind.substack.com/] Substack Text the show here! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2396665/fan_mail/new] Support the show [http://www.patreon.com/americancampuspodcast] Browse the American Campus bookshelf [https://bookshop.org/lists/american-campus-podcast]

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

A nice companion episode to last week's on The West with Curtis Dozier [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2396665/episodes/19337320]. References and suggested readings: * Emmaia Gelman. 2026. The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9780520410442]. University of California Press.  * Alice Speri. April 24, 2026. US universities are seeing an influx of ‘antisemitism centers’. Some Jewish scholars are worried [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/24/antisemitism-university-spikes-worry-jewish-scholars]. The Guardian. * Lauren Lassabe Shepherd. May 7, 2025. Old Project, New Vehicle: Conservative Civics and Leadership Institutes in Historical Context [https://www.illiberalism.org/old-project-new-vehicle-conservative-civics-and-leadership-institutes-in-historical-context/]. Frontiers of American Reaction. * Sabri Jiryis. 2025. Foundations of Zionism, translated by Fida Jiryis [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9781738468744]. Ebb Books. * Rana Barakat. 2026. Ongoing Return: Mapping Memory and Storytelling in Palestine [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9781469680309]. University of North Carolina Press. * Emmaia Gelman’s website [https://emmaiagelman.com/] * Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism website [https://criticalzionismstudies.org/] * Peer-Reviewed Journal: JCSZ [http://bit.ly/jcsz] * Instagram: @institutecsz [https://www.instagram.com/institutecsz] * Podcast: Unpacking Zionism [http://bit.ly/UnpackingZionism] * Follow Emmaia Gelman on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/mishmoshkeleh/] and Bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/mishmoshk.bsky.social] Text the show here! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2396665/fan_mail/new] Support the show [http://www.patreon.com/americancampuspodcast] Browse the American Campus bookshelf [https://bookshop.org/lists/american-campus-podcast]

The West with Curtis Dozier

Athens, Jerusalem, and sometimes Rome. References and suggested readings: * Curtis Dozier. 2026. The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9780300272734]. Yale University Press.  * Why white nationalists love Plato [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2396665/episodes/18841189] with Curtis Dozier * Anders Stephanson. 2025. American Imperatives: The Cold War and Other Measures [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9781784780562]. Verso. * Naoíse Mac Sweeney. 2023. The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9780593472170]. Dutton. * Stephen Graham Jones. 2021. The Only Good Indians [https://bookshop.org/a/116260/9781982136468]. S&S/Saga Press. * Dozier’s website, Pharos: Doing Justice to the Classics [https://pharos.vassarspaces.net/], Pharos on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/PharosClassics/] * Curtis Dozier on BlueSky [http://@curtisdozier.bsky.social] Text the show here! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2396665/fan_mail/new] Support the show [http://www.patreon.com/americancampuspodcast] Browse the American Campus bookshelf [https://bookshop.org/lists/american-campus-podcast]