Best Amna Khalid And Jeffrey Aaron Snyder Podcasts (2025)

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Supercharged since October 7 22:45

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Ken Stern (Director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate) joins Amna and Jeff to discuss these urgent questions: Are campuses hotbeds of antisemitism? How do we define antisemitism in the first place? Is there a difference between antisemitism and anti-Zionism? How have colleges handled the student protests around Gaza? Why are so many higher e…

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Who Speaks the Language of Social Justice? 17:33

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Our friend and colleague Stony Brook sociologist Musa al-Gharbi has a new book out. And it’s a tour-de-force. We Have Never Been Woke is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the economic, political and cultural divides between the haves and the have-nots in the United States. We were delighted to host Musa for a book talk on the Car…

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"You Can't Be an Egalitarian Social Climber" 19:20

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Our friend and colleague Stony Brook sociologist Musa al-Gharbi has a new book out. And it’s a tour-de-force. We Have Never Been Woke is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the economic, political and cultural divides between the haves and the have-nots in the United States. We were delighted to host Musa for a book talk on the Car…

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Trouble Ahead 19:41

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We were thrilled to have the opportunity to talk to PEN America’s Jeremy Young about what a second Trump administration holds in store for higher education. It was an informative—and sobering—conversation. Over the next four years, we should be prepared for a tsunami of ideologically-driven threats to academic freedom, campus free expression and th…

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What's at Stake at Columbia University (and beyond)? 6:29

1y ago6:29

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We saw this clip of Columbia University History Professor Christopher Brown and wanted to share it far and wide. Dr. Brown delivered these remarks on Monday, April 20 at a faculty-led “Rally to Support our Students and Reclaim our University.” He was responding to two events: Columbia President Minouche Shafik’s Congressional Testimony on April 17 …

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Diversity Is Great, DEI, Inc. Isn't. 31:10

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We recently appeared on "How Do We Fix It?", a wonderful podcast in search of constructive and practical ideas to address the many problems that plague our age. We had a fantastic time talking to the hosts Richard Davies and Jim Meigs about free speech, academic freedom and campus politics. We discussed DEI, Inc.—what the term means and why we thin…

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"Entitled to Judge" 19:29

1+ y ago19:29

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Celebrated as the bedrock of democracy, freedom of expression is often seen as an American or western value. Yet the concept has a rich and global history. In the spring of 2023 I offered a course on the global history of free expression. The course tracks the long and turbulent history of freedom of expression from ancient Athens and medieval Isla…

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The Sunshine State Descends into Darkness (Again) 13:42

2+ y ago13:42

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Worse than McCarthyism? In this episode of Banished, we explore the all-out assault on academic freedom in higher education in Florida. Turns out there’s a long history of campus witch-hunts in the state. We spoke with Robert Cassenello (history professor at University of Central Florida), Paul Ortiz (history professor at the University of Florida)…

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Will Florida's "Stop WOKE Act" Hold Up in Court? 21:15

2+ y ago21:15

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Banished returns with a special episode on the status of a lawsuit challenging Florida’s “Stop WOKE Act.” To understand how this law threatens open inquiry and academic freedom, Amna talked to the two co-plaintiffs, University of South Florida history professor Adriana Novoa and University of South Florida senior Sam Rechek. For help with the legal…

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Whose Tacos? 33:22

3y ago33:22

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Tucker Carlson claimed that tacos are American. Rick Bayless was attacked for appropriating Mexican cuisine. Jamie Oliver hired a team of cultural appropriation specialists to advise him when writing recipes, to make sure he didn’t run afoul of the new culinary orthodoxy. What’s going on in the restaurant world and at our dinner tables? Who exactly…

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'Shakespeare, Thou Hast Been Cancelled' 28:33

3y ago28:33

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Amna Khalid talks with Laura Bates, Professor of English at Indiana State University and founder of Shakespeare in Shackles — a prison program for those in solitary confinement — about the Bard’s decline in the modern curriculum. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ba…

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"Oh Danny, Is This the End?" 24:30

3y ago24:30

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One of the most popular musicals of all time, Grease seems to have fallen from grace. Most recently, two schools in Australia were planning to stage a joint production of the musical this year, but shelved it when students complained that the content of the musical was “offensive.” Why has the musical come under fire? Is it time to retire it? On th…

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: St. Olaf College Punishes Professor for Inviting Peter Singer to Campus 29:31

3y ago29:31

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Earlier this year, St. Olaf College’s Institute for Freedom and Community invited controversial bioethicist Peter Singer for a virtual conversation titled “The Point of View of the Universe.” This was an invitation in keeping with the mission of the institute, which is to explore “diverse ideas about politics, markets, and society” and “challenge p…

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In the Eye of the Storm 51:16

3y ago51:16

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In fall 2021, the philosophy department at Rhodes College invited the bioethicist Peter Singer to speak to the school. A controversial and important figure, the New Yorker has called Singer the “world’s most influential living philosopher,” and in 2005, Time Magazine named him one of most influential people alive. But as one of the world’s foremost…

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COVID-19: Lab Leak Or Natural Leap? 30:06

3+ y ago30:06

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In February 2020, The Lancet, a leading British medical journal, published a statement by more than two dozen scientists condemning the hypothesis that COVID-19 had leaked from a Chinese lab — effectively halting scientific inquiry along those lines. But a handful of researchers refused to rule out the so-called “lab-leak” theory and soon found the…

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Napoleon in Exile 25:00

3+ y ago25:00

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If you’re a solver of crossword puzzles, you probably know that Napoleon was exiled to the island of Elba. But that was just the beginning. Historians Peter Hicks and Rafe Blaufarb tell us the full story. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit banished.substack.com/subsc…

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The Skeptic 18:55

3+ y ago18:55

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Michael Shermer, founding publisher of Skeptic magazine and host of the podcast The Michael Shermer Show, was a regular writer for Scientific American for 18 years. With more than 200 monthy columns under his belt, he was hoping to match Stephen Jay Gould’s record run of 300 at Natural History and was due to hit his target within a few years. In De…

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The Cartoon is Mightier Than the Sword 29:35

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Badiucao is a Chinese political dissident and artist who self-exiled to Australia in 2009. In the buildup to the Beijing Olympics, he was catapulted into the limelight for a series of protest posters that at first glance seem like advertisements for the Games. On closer inspection, however, the images are a scathing visual commentary on the Chinese…

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Does Free Speech Discriminate? 32:18

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Over the past five years or so, free speech — like so many other topics — has been weaponized for use in the culture wars. Far right media sources have embraced the free speech mantle, arguing that liberals and progressives who dominate higher education are silencing conservative voices. For many Republicans, “free speech” means having the right to…

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Common Sense, Unmasked 27:45

3+ y ago27:45

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Michael Phillips has taught history at Collin College in Texas for the past 14 years, but after speaking out about the school’s anti-masking policy his contract was not renewed. Which makes him the fourth faculty member to lose his job there since Neil Matkin assumed the role of College President in 2015. Amna Khalid spoke with Phillips about what …

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The Subversiveness of Humor 36:04

3+ y ago36:04

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During her visit back to Pakistan in December, Banished host Amna Khalid spoke with Salima Hashimi — artist, curator, activist and former principal of the National College of Arts, the premier Art school of Pakistan. They discussed the state of free expression in Pakistan under the 11-year military regime of General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, who was a k…

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Why the Seuss Estate Pulled Six of Its Own Books 35:31

3+ y ago35:31

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In the age of “cancel culture,” it comes as no surprise that the publishing industry is cowering before demands to remove “problematic” books. Dr. Seuss’s estate recently announced that it will no longer allow the publication and licensing of six of his books because of the racist and stereotypical imagery used for minority groups. Should these boo…

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The Bother With Baby 20:07

3+ y ago20:07

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Broadway-bound songsmith Frank Loesser wrote “Baby It’s Cold Outside” as a call-and-response duet for he and his wife to perform at parties. Several years later, the tune made its way into a movie and soon took the Christmas canon by storm. But is it a “rapey” relic of a bygone era that should be buried permanently in the winter snow? Amna Khalid i…

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Should More Colleges Drop the ACT and SAT? 28:34

3+ y ago28:34

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Last week, Harvard announced it will extend its test-optional admissions policy for at least another four years. The stated reason is that the pandemic has reduced access to test sites — but this decision has added grist to the test-elimination mill. The movement to do away with standardized testing is predicated on the idea that tests are cultural…

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Out of Darkness, Into the Fire 28:05

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Author and professor Ashley Hope Pérez gained prominence for her novel Out of Darkness, which explores themes of segregation, love and family against the backdrop of the 1937 New London School explosion. The book won rave reviews from critics and the Américas Award from the Library of Congress, but has recently become embroiled in controversy after…

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Fear and Scapegoating in the Time of Pandemics 33:22

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Scapegoating particular communities during an epidemic — be it tuberculosis, HIV or COVID-19 — is nothing new. Outbreaks of disease are often accompanied by the demonizing of some portion of humanity that is supposedly the source of the contagion. They are to blame. Must it be this way? Why do we feel the need to point the finger at each other when…

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Temptations of the West Reconsidered 24:56

3+ y ago24:56

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If you’ve been listening to Banished, you’ll recall that in just a few short months we’ve talked about attempts to abolish artwork, to repudiate literature and even to eliminate entire curricula throughout the United States. But you may wonder, as I sometimes still do, why me? Why am I, Amna Khalid, pulled toward these topics, compelled by what we …

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The Cancellation of Dorian Abbot 36:43

3+ y ago36:43

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Dorian Abbot, associate professor of geophysical sciences at University of Chicago, was invited to give the prestigious Carlson Lecture at MIT this month. He was going to speak about the insights gained from studying Earth’s climate and how those insights have been used to predict which planets outside the solar system might be habitable. But, foll…

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Rethinking the Canon: What Makes a Classic? 26:52

3+ y ago26:52

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This is the second in our occasional series on Rethinking the Canon. Is there value in reading the classics at a time when they are increasingly viewed as unrepresentative texts that don’t speak to the diverse experiences of modern students? This week Amna talks with Roosevelt Montás, senior lecturer in American Studies and English at Columbia Univ…

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The "Critical Race Theory" Hysteria 28:54

4y ago28:54

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“Critical Race Theory,” also known as CRT, is a phrase that has become shorthand for just about any classroom instruction on racism, past or present. But what is this fight really about? What are these anti-CRT bills aiming to accomplish, and how will they affect schooling in the US? Amna Khalid discusses the rise of anti-CRT bills with Harvard Law…

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Expanding the Canon: Are 'Great Books' Obsolete? 27:56

4y ago27:56

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Is there value in reading the classics at a time when they are increasingly viewed as tools of oppression and white supremacy? Do they speak to non-white students? Dr. Anika Prather, founder and principal of the Living Water School in Maryland and lecturer at Howard University in DC talks to Amna Khalid about the deep history of the significance of…

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The Evolution of 'Woke' 29:48

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What does it mean to be woke? Has the word problematic become problematic? Lexicon Valley’s John McWhorter talks to Amna Khalid about the fraught vocabulary of modern censorship. * FULL TRANSCRIPT * AMNA KHALID: From Booksmart Studios, this is Banished. And I’m Amna Khalid. NEWSCASTER: Republicans are always denouncing so-called “cancel culture.” B…

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Alice Walker Has Been Cancelled 23:12

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We are approaching the 40th anniversary of The Color Purple, a novel that garnered critical acclaim, won Alice Walker the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and brought her sudden literary scrutiny. Both the book and its subsequent feature film adaptation elicited a flurry of criticism, frequently from within the Black community. Accused of reinforcing st…

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'If It's In The World, It's For Me' 20:27

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In Episode One of Banished, we covered the controversy around Victor Arnautoff's murals, “Life of Washington” — a series of 13 paintings that cover the entrance and the hallway of George Washington High School in San Francisco. One of the voices in the episode was Professor Dewey Crumpler, an artist who was commissioned to paint so-called “response…

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Whitewashing History? 30:05

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In the mid-1930s, Russian-born muralist Victor Arnautoff was commissioned by the New Deal’s Public Works of Art Project to paint a series of frescoes at sites around the San Francisco Bay Area. One of his more ambitious undertakings covered 1,600 square feet of wall space inside the lobby and stairwells of George Washington High School, depicting s…

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The Scarlet C: The New Mob Mentality? 0:58

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Until about a year or so ago, most of us felt understandably smug when measuring our modern selves next to our ancient ancestors. We are manifestly more advanced — scientifically, morally and, it can be said, rather literally, since we now know that the universe is expanding. We’ve clearly taken considerable steps along the misty path of improvemen…

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Introducing Banished with Amna Khalid 1:53

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Banished is about our reassessment of the many people, ideas, objects and even works of art that conflict with modern sensibilities. What can we learn about our present obsession with cancel culture by examining history, and what might it mean for freedom of expression? Amna Khalid is professor of history at Carleton College. Born in Pakistan, Amna…

Amna Khalid And Jeffrey Aaron Snyder Podcasts

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Amna Khalid and Jeffrey Aaron Snyder

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Supercharged since October 7 22:45

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Who Speaks the Language of Social Justice? 17:33

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"You Can't Be an Egalitarian Social Climber" 19:20

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Trouble Ahead 19:41

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What's at Stake at Columbia University (and beyond)? 6:29

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Diversity Is Great, DEI, Inc. Isn't. 31:10

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"Entitled to Judge" 19:29

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The Sunshine State Descends into Darkness (Again) 13:42

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Will Florida's "Stop WOKE Act" Hold Up in Court? 21:15

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Whose Tacos? 33:22

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'Shakespeare, Thou Hast Been Cancelled' 28:33

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"Oh Danny, Is This the End?" 24:30

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: St. Olaf College Punishes Professor for Inviting Peter Singer to Campus 29:31

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In the Eye of the Storm 51:16

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COVID-19: Lab Leak Or Natural Leap? 30:06

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Napoleon in Exile 25:00

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The Skeptic 18:55

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The Cartoon is Mightier Than the Sword 29:35

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Does Free Speech Discriminate? 32:18

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Common Sense, Unmasked 27:45

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The Subversiveness of Humor 36:04

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Why the Seuss Estate Pulled Six of Its Own Books 35:31

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The Bother With Baby 20:07

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Should More Colleges Drop the ACT and SAT? 28:34

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Out of Darkness, Into the Fire 28:05

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Fear and Scapegoating in the Time of Pandemics 33:22

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Temptations of the West Reconsidered 24:56

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The Cancellation of Dorian Abbot 36:43

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Rethinking the Canon: What Makes a Classic? 26:52

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The "Critical Race Theory" Hysteria 28:54

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Expanding the Canon: Are 'Great Books' Obsolete? 27:56

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The Evolution of 'Woke' 29:48

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Alice Walker Has Been Cancelled 23:12

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'If It's In The World, It's For Me' 20:27

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Whitewashing History? 30:05

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The Scarlet C: The New Mob Mentality? 0:58

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Introducing Banished with Amna Khalid 1:53