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
#66: David Brooks and Ronald C. White on Character and the Presidency of Gerald R. Ford
Today, we hear, to begin with, a portion of a recently released documentary about President Gerald R. Ford. The documentary premiered on National Geographic. The portion we are about to hear was pres…
01:16:38 |
Fri 13 Oct 2017
#65: Wheelhouse Talks: Senator Rebekah Warren on Bipartisan Leadership
Today we hear from Rebekah Warren, a Michigan state senator from the 18th district. Considered by some to be the most liberal member of the Michigan State Senate—after all, Ann Arbor, the home of the…
01:06:22 |
Mon 09 Oct 2017
#64: Andrew Spear on Epistemic Porn
Today, we hear from Andrew Spear, a professor of philosophy at Grand Valley State University. More specifically, Andrew is an epistemologist. His primary interest is in knowledge—he asks how we come …
00:47:56 |
Thu 28 Sep 2017
#63: Janet Napolitano and Christine Todd Whitman Talk Politics and Leadership
In today’s episode, we offer a conversation between Janet Napolitano—21st Governor of Arizona, former secretary of homeland security, and current president of the University of California system—and …
01:15:56 |
Thu 21 Sep 2017
#62: Martha Jones on Campus Politics and the Free Speech Debate
Today, we hear from Martha Jones, the Society of Black Almuni Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, and formerly a professor at the University of Michigan. Jones brings some of her experi…
00:39:44 |
Fri 15 Sep 2017
#61: Scott St. Louis on the Public Humanities and Sharing Knowledge
Today, we hear from Scott St. Louis not so much about the Common Ground Initiative itself, or about the Hauenstein Center. Instead, we hear from Scott about his decision, at least right now it’s his …
00:41:28 |
Tue 05 Sep 2017
#60: The Wheelhouse Talks: Michael DeWilde and Charles Pazdernik
This week, we’re bringing you the first installment of a new series for the podcast. We’ll offer some clips taken from lectures given as part of the Hauenstein Center’s Wheelhouse Talk Series. In tha…
00:51:58 |
Mon 28 Aug 2017
#59: Cornel West and Robert George: A Workable Armistice in the Culture Wars?
From the archive! A conversation between Cornel West and Robert George.
When they came to the Hauenstein Center in 2014, West and George were both professors of philosophy at Princeton. Beyond that,…
01:25:42 |
Fri 18 Aug 2017
#58: Hitchens V. Hitchens: Brothers Debate the War in Iraq and the Existence of God
From the archive! The Hauenstein Center hosted a debate in 2008 between Christopher and Peter Hitchens. Gleaves Whitney, director of the Hauenstein, did his best to moderate the brothers as they exch…
02:01:46 |
Tue 15 Aug 2017
#57: Kate Medina on Random House, editing EL Doctorow, and reading James Joyce
This week, we hear from Kate Medina, Executive Vice President, Associate Publisher, and Executive Editorial Director at Random House.
Kate describes her career at Random House, where she’s worked wi…
00:49:54 |
Thu 03 Aug 2017
#56: Sam Anderson on literary criticism (Part 2)
Here's the second half of our conversation with Sam Anderson, critic at large at the New York Times Magazine.
Last episode, we heard about how Sam became interested in magazine writing and criticism…
00:44:01 |
Fri 28 Jul 2017
#55: Sam Anderson on literary criticism (Part 1)
For this week: the first half of our convesation with Sam Anderson, critic at large at the New York Times Magazine.
We talk about Sam’s time as an undergraduate at Oregon State and LSU, how he becam…
00:41:48 |
Fri 21 Jul 2017
#54: Teresa Mathew on Religion, Race, and the Life of a Freelance Journalist
In this episode, we hear from Teresa Mathew, a journalist and writing fellow at The Atlantic’s City Lab, who writes a good deal about religion and race, particularly about the Syro-Malabar Catholic C…
01:08:13 |
Thu 13 Jul 2017
#53: Politics and Journalism, Left and Right (Part 2)
In our last episode, you heard three writers and editors on the left debate and discuss with three writers and editors on the Right. In this episode, you’ll hear the second part of that panel convers…
00:51:07 |
Thu 06 Jul 2017
#52: Politics and Journalism, Left and Right
On May 5th, right in the middle of the Hauenstein Center’s Conservative / Progressive summit, three writers and thinkers on the right met with three on the left to discuss the significance of electio…
00:53:29 |
Fri 30 Jun 2017
#51: Keisha Blain on African American Intellectual History and Public Intellectualism
In this episode, we hear from Keisha Blain, a professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh, senior blog editor at the African American Intellectual History Society, and editor of the Global B…
01:01:05 |
Thu 22 Jun 2017
#50: Christopher Nelson on St. John's College
In this special episode, guest interviewer Winston Elliott talks with Christopher Nelson, president of St. John's College, about his work at St John’s, and about the unique kind of liberal arts educa…
01:10:14 |
Thu 15 Jun 2017
#49: Peter Kalkavage on Music and Metaphysics
Today we hear from Peter Kalkavage, a tutor at St John’s College and author of The Logic of Desire: An Introduction to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Peter and I discuss his writing about philosop…
00:50:23 |
Thu 08 Jun 2017
#48: Jon Lauck on the literary history of the midwest
Today we hear from Jon Lauck, a Midwestern historian and the author, most recently, of "From Warm Center to Ragged Edge: The Erosion of Midwestern Literary and Historical Regionalism."
The book get …
00:53:31 |
Thu 01 Jun 2017
#47: Chadd Dowding, Micaela Cole, and Matthew Oudbier on student leadership post-election 2016
In this episode, we hear from Chadd Dowding, program manager of the Cook Leadership Academy at the Hauenstein Center. I ask Chadd how he goes about identifying emergent leaders in their early 20s and…
00:57:08 |
Thu 25 May 2017
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