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March 5, 2023
Error, Ego, Humility and Music
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For today’s episode we welcome jazz organist Tony Monaco to the show. Tony is a master of the Hammond B3 and has collaborated with many other great jazz musicians, including …
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Bioethics, Humility, and Responsibility
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For this episode we welcome Dr. Arthur Caplan, who is currently the Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor and founding head of the Division of Medical Ethics at …
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Otherness, Disability, and Beauty
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This episode of How To Be Wrong is about humility, beauty and the ways in which our society dictates the nature and boundaries of what is deemed beautiful. We talk …
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January 23, 2023
The Editor and Humility
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In this episode we talk with New York Times Opinion Section Editor Peter Catapano, who has edited and published more than 1,000 pieces in The Times and worked with thinkers …
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January 8, 2023
Neoliberalism and Higher Education
Frank Fear, Claire Polster, and Rubén Martinez
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This episode is a roundtable discussion on the influence of the neoliberal project on higher education. Our guests are Professor Emeritus Frank Fear from Michigan State University, Professor Claire Polster …
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What Went Wrong in the 70s in the USA?
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Radicalism, Humility, and Racism in America
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Today’s episode focuses on the new book by Lydia Moland, who is a Professor of Philosophy at Colby College. Her book, Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life (U Chicago …
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September 27, 2022
Assholes, Humility, and Surfing
A Conversation with Philosopher Aaron James
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Today’s episode of How To Be Wrong welcomes back cohost John Kaag after a brief hiatus from the podcast and explores questions of assholery and humility with University of California …
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September 14, 2022
History, Space, and Getting Things Wrong
A Conversation with Steven Dick, Retired Chief Historian at NASA
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In today’s episode of How To Be Wrong we welcome Dr. Steven Dick, retired Chief Historian at NASA and one of the leading historians of space exploration. Our conversation ranges …
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Twitter, Intellectual Discourse, and Humility
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For this episode of How To Be Wrong, I speak with George Styles, a biochemist and author of the book Contemplation. George is also what we describe these days as …
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Humility and the Academic Administrator
A Conversation with Ottawa University Chancellor William Tsutsui
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This episode of How To Be Wrong explores questions of leadership and humility with Dr. Bill Tsutsui, Chancellor and Professor of History at Ottawa University, a private comprehensive university with …
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The Career of a Writer
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In this episode of How To Be Wrong, we talk with novelist New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Douglas Richards, about his career as a writer and how his …
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In today’s episode of How To Be Wrong we welcome Dr. Khytie Brown, who is an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Texas at …
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Intellectual Humility
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Today’s episode of How To Be Wrong welcomes Glenn Sauer, who is Donald J. Ross Sr. Chair in Biology and Biochemistry and Professor of Biology at Fairfield University, where he …
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Sher Wells-Jensen on the Pitfalls of Linguistics
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In this episode of How To Be Wrong we talk with Dr. Sher Wells-Jensen, a professor of linguistics at Bowling Green State University and an expert in xenolinguistics or the …
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Marshall Poe on Getting Post-Soviet Russia Wrong
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How to Be Wrong
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"How To Be Wrong" is a podcast series hosted by John J. Kaag, Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and John W. Traphagan, Professor of …