The Hauenstein Center Collection
Common Ground, the podcast of the Hauenstein Center, explores the cultural and political landscape shared by the left and right. Every week, Joseph Hogan talks with public intellectuals, political leaders, scholars, critics, and writers-at-large about American life, ideas, and identities.
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 52 minutes
- Episodes
- 187
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2024
#86: Lunch & Learn with Gleaves Whitney - Guest Winston Elliott
Gleaves Whitney is joined by Winston Elliott, Editor-and-Chief and President of the "Imaginative Conservative", and the Free Enterprise Institute, to discuss Homer's "The Odyssey".
00:46:04 |
Wed 29 Apr 2020
#85: Amity Shlaes
#85: Amity Shlaes by The Hauenstein Center at Grand Valley State University
00:52:45 |
Mon 16 Mar 2020
#84: Steve Luxenberg
Author Steve Luxenberg discusses with us his new book Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation.
00:46:21 |
Wed 05 Feb 2020
#83: David Roll
Author David Roll comes to the Beyond Aporia podcast to discuss his newest book George Marshall: Defender of the Republic.
00:55:06 |
Sat 04 Jan 2020
#82: Danielle Allen
Danielle Allen, bestselling author of the book Our Declaration comes to our Beyond Aporia podcast to talk about the origins of the Declaration of Independence, and what it means for the country today…
00:27:35 |
Sat 04 Jan 2020
#81: Jeffrey Rosen
President and CEO of the National Constitution Center, Jeffrey Rosen, comes to the Beyond Aporia podcast to discuss the current political situation in Washington, as well as the origins of one of our…
00:46:46 |
Sat 04 Jan 2020
#80: Lynne Olson
Bestselling author Lynne Olson comes to our new Common Ground Podcast, Beyond Aporia, to speak about her books Last Hope Island and Those Angry Days.
00:25:43 |
Sat 04 Jan 2020
#79: Gerald Russello on The University Bookman and Conservative Magazines
This week, we hear from Gerald Russello, editor of The University Bookman, a publication founded in 1960 by the traditionalist conservative Russell Kirk.
The University Bookman, like most conservati…
00:49:27 |
Wed 14 Feb 2018
#78: Christy Coleman: How Shall We Remember?
This week, we hear from Christy Coleman, CEO of the American Civil War Museum in Richmond, Virginia. Coleman is a public historian. As you’ll hear in her lecture, her work is to take the findings, th…
01:06:39 |
Thu 25 Jan 2018
#77: Maggie Doherty on Mary McCarthy, Tillie Olsen, and the Work of Writing
This week, we hear from Maggie Doherty, a critic and teacher at Harvard University. Maggie writes often for publications such as The Nation, The New Yorker, The New Republic, and N Plus One; her crit…
00:52:16 |
Thu 11 Jan 2018
#76: Sophie Pinkham on the Russian Revolution
This week, we hear from Sophie Pinkham, a writer and academic who specializes in Russian and Ukrainian culture and politics. Sophie has recently published some review essays, primarily in The Nation,…
00:30:32 |
Fri 05 Jan 2018
#75: Retrospective: Dan Drezner and Jo Livingstone
This episode focuses on the role of the public intellectual, or even the academic, in cultural debate. We hear from Dan Drezner about the difference between public intellectuals and thought leaders, …
00:36:48 |
Fri 22 Dec 2017
#74: Retrospective: Jonny Thakkar and Caitlin Zaloom
This week, as an installment in our end-of-year retrospective series of episodes, we’re going to hear from Jonny Thakkar as well as from Cate Zaloom, co-founding editor of Public Books. I talked with…
00:28:26 |
Fri 15 Dec 2017
#73: Citizens United: Ian Millhiser Debates Hans von Spakovsky
This week we hear Ian Millhiser, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, debate "Citizens United" with Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation. The Hauenstei…
00:39:04 |
Fri 08 Dec 2017
#72: Josephine Livingstone on Cultural Criticism and Leaving the Academy
This week we hear from Jo Livingstone, the culture staff writer at The New Republic and a recent PhD in English at New York University.
I mention Jo Livingstone’s PhD because that’s a major topic o…
00:52:31 |
Wed 29 Nov 2017
#71: Dan Varner on Leadership in Detroit
This week, we hear Dan Varner, President and CEO of Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit, deliver a Wheelhouse Talk. Varner leads efforts to support 900+ local businesses in Detroit with a reliable…
00:43:59 |
Fri 17 Nov 2017
#70: Hank Meijer on Arthur Vandenberg
In this episode, the historian Hank Meijer talks about the work and influence of Senator Arthur Vandenberg, the Republican from Michigan who, at the dawn of the Cold War, worked with Democratic admin…
00:56:45 |
Mon 13 Nov 2017
#69: Andrew Hartman on Marx Today
This week we hear from Andrew Hartman, a professor of history at Illinois State University. Andrew is currently hard at work on a book about Karl Marx. I asked him to come on the podcast because the …
00:51:04 |
Fri 03 Nov 2017
#68: Juliet Fleming Defends Jacques Derrida
In this episode, we hear from Juliet Fleming, Professor of English at New York University and author, most recently, of "Cultural Graphology: Writing After Derrida," out from the University of Chicag…
00:40:12 |
Mon 30 Oct 2017
#67: Erik S. McDuffie on Black Midwestern History
In this episode, we hear from Erik S McDuffie, professor of African American Studies at the University of Illinois.
Just the other day, the Hauenstein Center posted a call for papers for the fourth…
00:53:32 |
Thu 19 Oct 2017
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