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Higher Education
Interviews on the current state and future of higher education.
April 7, 2026
The Public Scholar
Public scholarship is one of those things that most academics are interested in, but unfortunately for them, they don't know how to actually get start…
April 1, 2026
Indology in Canada Conference
Introducing a new conference to showcase the breadth and vitality of Canadian research on premodern India. We discuss the vision behind the conference…
March 17, 2026
GenAI and Higher Education
GenAI in Higher Education: Redefining Teaching and Learning (Bloomsbury, 2026) provides practical guidance for higher education professionals looking …
March 16, 2026
Upper Caste Liberalism
This episode features a conversation with Ravikant Kisana, Dean of the School of Liberal Education and Languages at Galgotias University in India, abo…
March 15, 2026
Quiet Methodologies
What would it mean to disentangle humanities scholarship from combative, extractive, and colonial ways of knowing and writing? This is the question th…
March 14, 2026
Podcast Intellectuals Panel #3
This is a special edition of the New York Institute for the Humanities’ Vault podcast. On October 10, 2025, NYU’s Journalism Institute hosted a day-lo…
March 13, 2026
Options for Success
Options for Success: A PhD's Guide to Navigating Career Transitions and Thriving in Your Next Professional Chapter (Oxford UP, 2025) is a transformati…
March 13, 2026
Podcast Intellectuals Panel #2
This is a special edition of the New York Institute for the Humanities’ Vault podcast. On October 10, 2025, NYU’s Journalism Institute hosted a day-lo…
March 12, 2026
Podcast Intellectuals Podcast Panel #1
This is a special edition of the New York Institute for the Humanities’ Vault podcast. On October 10, 2025, NYU’s Journalism Institute hosted a day-lo…
March 8, 2026
Assessing Academic Library Collections for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Assessing Academic Library Collections for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (Bloomsbury, 2025) provides a practical, step-by-step approach to designin…
March 7, 2026
Nepal's Dalits in Transition
What do political democracy and social hierarchy do to each other? For too long Nepal's Dalits have been marginalized, not just socially, economicall…
March 6, 2026
The Case Against Education
Today I’m speaking with economist Bryan Caplan about education and bullshit, with a particular focus on his book, The Case Against Education: Why the …
February 26, 2026
A Light in the Tower
A Light in the Tower argues that excellent education and radical support for mental health struggles can coexist, and provides detailed advice for how…
February 26, 2026
Preacher, Teacher, and Founder
Madison’s Notes is back and with a new host, Ryan Shinkel. In this episode to start off Season 5, I interview Dr. Kevin DeYoung, a popular author, P…
February 15, 2026
The Highest Exam
The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China (Harvard UP, 2025), provides a detailed, research-driven survey of the gaokao, China's high-stakes colle…
February 15, 2026
Stories We Dance / Stories We Tell
Higher education continually mediates long standing traditions while seeking new ways of thinking, creating a quiet tension as institutions respond to…
February 5, 2026
Overinvested
Parents are exhausted. When did raising children become such all-consuming, never-ending, incredibly expensive, and emotionally absorbing effort? In t…
February 5, 2026
Educated Out: How Rural Students Navigate Elite Colleges—And What It Costs Them
Rural students are unlikely to pursue degrees from private, selective schools. Why? And what happens to the handful of rural students who do attend el…
February 2, 2026
On Pedantry
A lively and entertaining cultural history of a supremely annoying intellectual vice Intellectuals have long provoked scorn and irritation, even downr…
January 31, 2026
Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should)
Today I talked to John L. Rudolph about his book Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should) (Oxford UP, 2023). Few people question the importance of sc…