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  • Episode 11: Tatter Archives: "Slurred Speech"

    Episode 11: Tatter Archives: "Slurred Speech"
    2025/11/25
    ABOUT THIS EPISODE The utterance and writing of gendered and racial or ethnic slurs has often evoked controversy. My philosopher colleague Lauren Ashwell has taken up slurs as a subject of scholarly inquiry. In this episode, we sit for a 90-minute conversation about such issues as what makes a slur a slur, whether slurs can be reclaimed by members of the target group, and why the study of slurs matters. LINKS --Lauren Ashwell's personal website (https://sites.google.com/site/lashwell/) --"Gendered Slurs," by Lauren Ashwell (requies JSTOR access) (https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/24871341.pdf) --"CNN's Brooke Baldwin Chastises Trump Critic For Using N-Word On The Air," by Oliver Gettell, Entertainment Weekly (https://ew.com/article/2016/11/22/cnn-brooke-baldwin-guest-n-word/) --Myisha Cherry's interview with Luvell Anderson, about slurs, on The Unmute Podcast (http://www.unmutepodcast.co/season-2/4252016/episode-014-luvell-anderson-on-slurs) --Luvell Anderson's Syracuse profile (http://thecollege.syr.edu/people/faculty/pages/phi/anderson-luvell.html) --"Kreayshawn's White Girl Mob & The N-Word," by Brandon Soderberg, Spin (https://www.spin.com/2011/08/kreayshawns-white-girl-mob-n-word/) --"A History of Outrage Over the Word 'Pākehā'," by Branko Macetic, The Spinoff (https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/03-03-2018/a-history-of-outrage-over-the-word-pakeha/) --nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, by Randall Kennedy (https://www.amazon.com/Nigger-Strange-Career-Troublesome-Word/dp/0375713719) --"SlutWalks Sweep The Nation," by Laura Stampler, HuffPost (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/20/slutwalk-united-states-city_n_851725.html) --"An Open Letter from Black Women to SlutWalk Organizers," contributed by Susan Brison, HuffPost (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-brison/slutwalk-black-women_b_980215.html) --"Is The Word 'Queer' Offensive? Here's A Look At Its History In The LGBTQA+ Community," by Marissa Higgins, Bustle (https://www.bustle.com/articles/139727-is-the-word-queer-offensive-heres-a-look-at-its-history-in-the-lgbtqa-community) --Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, by Kate Manne (https://www.amazon.com/Down-Girl-Misogyny-Kate-Manne/dp/0190604980) Special Guest: Lauren Ashwell.
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    1 時間 27 分
  • Episode 10: The Cloth of Protection

    Episode 10: The Cloth of Protection
    2025/11/11
    This episode features a discussion of academic freedom with David Rabban (https://law.utexas.edu/faculty/david-m-rabban/), the Dahr Jamail, Randall Hage Jamail, and Robert Lee Jamail Regents Chair in Law, and Distinguished Teaching Professor in the University of Texas at Austin School of Law. Previously, he served as counsel, and then general counsel, to the AAUP (American Association of University Professors), and he has chaired its committee on academic freedom and tenure. In his teaching and research, he focuses on free speech, academic freedom, higher education and the law, and American legal history. His most recent book (published in 2024) is Academic Freedom: From Professional Norm to First Amendment Right (https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674291058). OTHER LINKS --CBS News interview with MIT professor Alan Lightman (https://youtu.be/Z0O9abefZp8?si=0E_d2_OUbDn5CtLK) --Homepage for the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) website (https://www.aaup.org/) --AAUP's 1915 Declaration of Principles on Academic Freedom and Academic Tenure (https://www.aaup.org/NR/rdonlyres/A6520A9D-0A9A-47B3-B550-C006B5B224E7/0/1915Declaration.pdf) --AAUP's 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure (https://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/1940%20Statement.pdf) --Wikipedia entry on Brandenburg v. Ohio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio) MUSIC CREDITS (all songs from Free Music Archive, and each song carries the "cc by" license) --"The Trail," by Unheard Music Concepts --"Pleasure," by Haunted Me --"Breath," by Kirk Osamayo --"Caress me to sleep," by rui Special Guest: David Rabban.
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    58 分
  • Episode 9: Triggered

    Episode 9: Triggered
    2025/10/28
    Gerald Higginbotham (https://batten.virginia.edu/people/gerald-higginbotham) is an assistant professor in the Frank Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy at the University of Virginia. He holds a Ph.D. in social psychology from UCLA, and also a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Stanford University. He studies (in his words) “the imprint of history on people’s modern social perceptions and policy attitudes, and the psychological underpinnings of how people perceive history and its consequences.” OTHER LINKS --Ronald Reagan's 1983 address before the National Rifle Association (https://youtu.be/5-JoMVf_f4w?si=6FF_B6b_GxiJTuEX) --"The lasting legacy of 1967 Black Panther gun control protest at California Capitol" (article at CBS News, by Steve Large) (https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/lasting-legacy-black-panther-protest-california-capitol/) --Wikipedia entry on Ida B. Wells-Barnett (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_B._Wells) --"Historian uncovers the racist roots of the 2nd Amendment" (interview at National Public Radio) (https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1002107670) MUSIC CREDITS (all songs from Free Music Archive, and each song carries the "cc by" license) --"The Trail," by Unheard Music Concepts --"Breath," by Kirk Osamayo --"Cello," by Ketsa --"Caress me to sleep," by rui Special Guest: Gerald Higginbotham.
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    53 分
  • Episode 8: Unreconstructed

    Episode 8: Unreconstructed
    2025/10/14
    Julia Azari (https://www.marquette.edu/political-science/directory/julia-azari.php) is Professor of Political Science at Marquette University. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University, and she studies the American presidency, American political parties, political communication and American political development. She's the author of the 2014 book, Delivering the People’s Message: The Changing Politics of the Presidential Mandate. Her newest book (and the focus of this podast episode) is Backlash Presidents: From Transformative to Reactionary Leaders in American History (https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691246956/backlash-presidents)published in 2025. OTHER LINKS --President Johnson's remarks on the signing of the Civil Rights Bill of 1964 (July 2, 1964) (https://www.lbjlibrary.org/object/video/signing-civil-rights-act-1964) --Bright Line Watch (https://brightlinewatch.org/) --"Bill Clinton on being called 'first Black president': 'I took it as a great compliment'" (article at The Hill, by Cheyanne M. Daniels) (https://thehill.com/homenews/race-politics/5004618-bill-clinton-first-black-president/) --"'George Bush doesn't care about Black people' 20 years later" (NPR interview with Rodney Carmichael and Leah Donnella) (https://www.npr.org/2025/08/27/nx-s1-5517328/george-bush-doesnt-care-about-black-people-20-years-later) --Wikipedia entry on fainting goats (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fainting_goat) --The Bulwark (https://www.thebulwark.com/) --"Weak parties and strong partisanship are a bad combination" (article at Vox, by Julia Azari) (https://www.vox.com/mischiefs-of-faction/2016/11/3/13512362/weak-parties-strong-partisanship-bad-combination) MUSIC CREDITS (all songs from Free Music Archive, and each song carries the "cc by" license) --"The Trail," by Unheard Music Concepts --"Breath," by Kirk Osamayo --"Monsters of the past," by Pawel Feszczuk --"Caress me to sleep," by rui Special Guest: Julia Azari.
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    54 分
  • Episode 7: But What About Us?

    Episode 7: But What About Us?
    2025/09/30
    Clara Wilkins (http://depts.washington.edu/spia/) is Associate Professor and Earl R. Carlson Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington. Trained as a social psychologist, she leads the Social Perceptions and Intergroup Attiudes Lab (SPIA Lab). Along with her collaborators, she studies such topics as (a) the causes and consequences of dominant group members' perceptions of group-based victimization, and (b) how variation in racial and ethnic minorities’ physical appearance shapes the perceptions and experiences of disadvantaged group members. OTHER LINKS --Catherine Herridge 2020 interview of Donald Trump (https://www.cbs.com/shows/video/bynkBl3ZDBB5aaDNgBhYshh8evD0GQz7/) --"Exclusive: Trump says "anti-White feeling" is a problem in the U.S." (article at Time Magazine, by Nik Popli & Eric Coretellessa) (https://time.com/6972270/donald-trump-anti-white-bias-exclusive/) --"Religious 'Nones' are now the largest single group in the U.S." (report at National Public Radio, by Jason DeRose) (https://www.npr.org/2024/01/24/1226371734/religious-nones-are-now-the-largest-single-group-in-the-u-s) --Wikipedia entry on the "tradwife" phenomenon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tradwife) --"Just Theory" (podcast interview from Tatter, featuring John Jost and the late Jim Sidanius, interviewed by Michael Sargent) (https://tatter.fireside.fm/38) MUSIC CREDITS (all songs from Free Music Archive, and each song carries the "cc by" license) --"The Trail," by Unheard Music Concepts --"Electric Silence," by Unheard Music Concepts --"Pleasure," by Haunted Me --"Post Drone," by Uuriter --"Caress me to sleep," by rui Special Guest: Clara Wilkins.
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    50 分
  • Episode 6: City of God

    Episode 6: City of God
    2025/09/16
    Samuel Perry (https://www.ou.edu/cas/soc/people/faculty/samuel-perry) is the Sam K. Viersen Presidential Professor of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma. He has authored or co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed academic journal articles, and has authored or co-authored five books, including Taking America Back for God, as well as The Flag and the Cross. He’s also written for such journalistic outlets as The Dallas Morning News, Time Magazine, and The Washington Post. In this episode, we discuss Christian nationalism in the U.S. OTHER LINKS --"The Christian nationalism we need" (Keynote address at the 2024 National Conservatism Conference, by Sen. Josh Hawley) (https://youtu.be/tgNbGxdDZ2I?si=AzLAlqiAp0LRRV47) --"What is Christian nationalism, exactly?" (essay at the New York Times, by David French) (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/opinion/christian-nationalism.html) --"White or woke Christian nationalists? How race moderates the link between Christian nationalism and progressive identities," by Samuel Perry, Allyson Shortle, Eric McDaniel, and Joshua Grubbs (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12166974/) --Profile for Amanda Tyler at the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC) (https://bjconline.org/amanda-tyler/) --"The Democrat who calls Trump a child of God" (article at The Economist about James Talarico) (https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/08/26/the-democrat-who-calls-trump-a-child-of-god) --"Why are some Evangelicals drawn to--and stickying by--Trump? This pastor weighs in" (NPR interview of Pastro Chad Harvey, by Scott Detrow) (https://www.npr.org/2024/10/29/nx-s1-5165535/trump-christians-evangelical-harris-support) MUSIC CREDITS (all songs from Free Music Archive, and each song carries the "cc by" license) --"The Trail," by Unheard Music Concepts --"Post Drone," by Uuriter --"Anti-Chill," by Jangwa --"Cello," by Ketsa --"Caress me to sleep," by rui Special Guest: Samuel Perry.
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    54 分
  • Episode 5: Drawn Out

    Episode 5: Drawn Out
    2025/09/02
    David Gans (https://www.theusconstitution.org/staff/david-h-gans/) is Director of the Human Rights, Civil Rights & Citizenship Program at the Constitutional Accountability Center. In this episode, we discussed voting rights and redistricting, with an emphasis on the Louisiana v. Callais case that is set to be reargued before the Supreme Court on October 15, 2025. OTHER LINKS --Merrill v. Milligan (later retitled Allen v. Milligan) oral argument (https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/audio/2022/21-1086) --Allen v. Milligan opinion (https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-1086_1co6.pdf) --Wikipedia on the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965) --"Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act: Vote dilution and vote deprivation," SCOTUSblog (https://www.scotusblog.com/election-law-explainers/section-2-of-the-voting-rights-act-vote-dilution-and-vote-deprivation/) --"Court asks for new briefs in Louisiana redistricting case", by Amy Howe at SCOTUSblog (https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/08/court-asks-for-new-briefs-in-louisiana-redistricting-case/) --"How the Supreme Court made racial gerrymandering easier in Alexander v. South Carolina NAACP," League of Women Voters Blog (https://www.lwv.org/blog/how-supreme-court-made-racial-gerrymandering-easier-alexander-v-south-carolina-naacp) --"Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson emerges as a leading dissenter in an era of Trump," by John Fritze, at CNN (https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/politics/ketanji-brown-jackson-leading-dissenter-trump-era) MUSIC CREDITS (all songs from Free Music Archive, and each song carries the "cc by" license) --"The Trail," by Unheard Music Concepts --"Breath," by Kirk Osamayo --"Anti-Chill," by Jangwa --"Post Drone," by Uuriter --"Cello," by Ketsa --"Caress me to sleep," by rui Special Guest: David Gans.
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    51 分
  • Episode 4: Here Be Dragons

    Episode 4: Here Be Dragons
    2025/08/19
    Kimberly Rios (https://psychology.illinois.edu/directory/profile/kmrios) is Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She studies intergroup threat and also psychological issues at the intersection of religion and STEM. In this episode, we discuss the psychology of intergroup threat, applications to a salient contemporary case, and also issues involving religion and STEM. OTHER LINKS --Informational video on EPIC City (https://youtu.be/iWG6rSVeETA?si=rqCeLG2iWScuVxXC) --WFAA story on EPIC City (https://youtu.be/tXllDIZaRbs?si=Cr0uhJeSWiXFONLk) --Drinking Liberally, Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_Liberally) --"Fairness is Overrated," by Jonathan V. Last, at The Bulwark (https://www.thebulwark.com/p/fairness-is-overrated) --"The World's Muslims: Religion, Politics, and Society," by the Pew Research Center (https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-science-and-popular-culture/) MUSIC CREDITS (all songs from Free Music Archive, and each song carries the "cc by" license) --"The Trail," by Unheard Music Concepts --"Breath," by Kirk Osamayo --"Funky End," by Pawel Feszczuk --"Post Drone," by Uuriter --"Caress me to sleep," by rui Special Guest: Kimberly Rios.
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    47 分