ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Right Ideas, a podcast from the National Association of Scholars, features conversations from some of higher education's most public critics, many to the right of the academic mainstream, about the possibilities and difficulties of reforming today's universities.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
monthly
Average audio length:
57 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
18 episodes
since July 11, 2023
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
In this episode of the Right Ideas podcast, Professor Amy Wax argues for a 'Radical Reactionary' approach to higher education reform, arguing for a decrease in foreign students, college administrators, and race-based policymaking. Along the way, she provides a sobering look at the current lack of a…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
American higher education is facing trust issues in an age where political overreach and social justice have taken over our educational institutions. How did we get here? What can be done about it?
Greg Conti joins Right Ideas with host John Sailer to discuss.
Greg Conti is an Assistant Professor…
In an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and everybody is judged by its usefulness, where can we turn for escape, lasting pleasure, contemplation, or connection to others?
Zena Hitz joins Right Ideas with John Sailer to discuss why intellectual life is valuabl…
John Sailer is joined by Zena Hitz to discuss her journey through intellectual life, and what she learned along the way.
Hitz is a tutor at St. John's College in Annapolis, and the founder and president of the Catherine Project. She is also the author of Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an…
Many assume that the way we taught history in the 20th century was distorted and benighted—but this does little to help us make sense of history at all. How was history actually taught in the early to mid-20th century? Why is it important to look back?
In the latest episode of Right Ideas, Wilfred…
What is philology? Why are dead languages important? What context from the evolution of language can help us today?
John Sailer sits down with Joshua Katz to discuss.
Joshua T. Katz is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on higher education, language and culture…
On the latest episode of Right Ideas, Fisher Derderian sits down with host John Sailer to talk about the life, legacy, and lasting thought leadership of Roger Scruton.
Fisher Derderian is the Founder and Executive Director of the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation. He holds a B.A. in politics, philos…
David Hume is one of the most important philosophers in history. While many may get an introduction to his work on the rule of law, liberty, and history, it is important to discuss the philosophical presuppositions and preliminaries of how humans engage with the world around them.
Dive into the ph…
Many define liberalism as a sort of truce that allows us to get along politically and remain neutral on certain grounds, such as religion. Is this true, or is there more to it? Has modern liberalism deviated from its original intentions? Is there a postliberal world on the horizon?
John Sailer is …
Independent scholar and writer Eric Clifford Graf joins host John D. Sailer to discuss why Alexis de Tocqueville’s writings remain relevant in today’s turbulent, polarized world.
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