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
#46: Jess Row on "Your Face in Mine" and race in contemporary American fiction
This week, we hear from Jess Row, a Pushcart Prize and PEN/O’Henry award winning author who Granta named a "Best Young American Novelist" in 2007. Row's novel "Your Face in Mine" imagines a world in …
01:09:05 |
Thu 18 May 2017
#45: David Sehat on the Invention of the Founding Fathers
In this episode, we hear from David Sehat, an intellectual and cultural historian of the United States at Georgia State University. I ask Sehat about one of his main skills as an historian: that is, …
01:06:10 |
Thu 11 May 2017
44: Clifford Siskin on "System: The Shaping of Modern Knowledge"
In this episode, we hear from Clifford Siskin, the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English and American Literature at NYU, as well as Director of the Re:Enlightenment Project. Siskin discuss…
00:59:48 |
Thu 27 Apr 2017
#43: Daniel Drezner on Public Intellectuals, Thought Leaders, and the Ideas Industry
In this episode, we hear from Daniel Drezner, a professor of international politics at Tufts University, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and contributor to the Washington Post. Daniel ide…
00:45:49 |
Thu 20 Apr 2017
#42: Scott St. Louis on the pursuit of common ground
Today we hear from Scott St. Louis, program manager of the Common Ground Initiative at the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies at Grand Valley State University. Scott explores what it would me…
00:55:28 |
Thu 13 Apr 2017
#41: Martha C. Nussbaum on Anger and Revolutionary Justice
In today's episode, we hear from Martha Nussbaum, Ernst Freud Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, on the promises and perils of anger in civic life.
01:48:38 |
Thu 06 Apr 2017
#40: John Waters on the Easter Rising
Today, we hear from John Waters, Professor of Irish Studies at New York University, about the Easter Rising--that is, the 1916 rebellion of Irish nationalists and republicans against British rule in …
01:21:39 |
Thu 30 Mar 2017
#39: Katie Gordon on Interfaith Understanding in America
This week, we hear from Katie Gordon, Program Manager of the Kaufman Interfaith Institute as well as Interfaith Services Coordinator with the Division of Inclusion and Equity at Grand Valley State Un…
00:45:49 |
Wed 22 Mar 2017
#38: David Parsons on The Nostalgia Trap and leftists in the trenches
In this episode, we hear from David Parsons, a social and cultural historian of 20th century America at New York University and host of The Nostalgia Trap. David discusses some of the historians and …
01:05:17 |
Wed 15 Mar 2017
#37: Nikole Hannah Jones and Jason Riley Discuss Race and the American Dream
In this special episode of the podcast, we post for you an event hosted at the Hauenstein Center, in partnership with Grand Valley State University’s Division of Inclusion and Equity, that commemorat…
01:17:54 |
Wed 08 Mar 2017
#36: Jeremy Young on Charisma in American politics
Today we hear from Jeremy Young, an historian at Dixie State University and the author of The Age of Charisma: Leaders, Followers, and Emotions in American Society, 1870 - 1940. In this episode, Jere…
00:56:03 |
Wed 01 Mar 2017
#35: Gleaves Whitney on President Trump's first month in office.
In today's episode, Gleaves Whitney, director of the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies, discusses President Trump's first month in office.
00:52:10 |
Wed 22 Feb 2017
#34: Noura Erakat on Trump's immigration ban and U.S. Middle East policy
This week, we hear from Noura Erakat, a human rights attorney and co-founding editor of Jadaliyya, an online magazine produced by the Arab Studies Institute. Noura discusses her work in international…
00:47:38 |
Wed 15 Feb 2017
#33: James Panero on The New Criterion Pt. 2
This is the second installment of our two-part interview with James Panero, executive editor of the New Criterion. In this episode, we hear a bit more about the history of the journal, how it fit int…
00:33:57 |
Fri 10 Feb 2017
#32: James Panero on The New Criterion Pt. 1
In today's episode, we hear from James Panero, executive editor of The New Criterion, about contemporary museum culture and art in the age of Trump.
00:34:26 |
Wed 08 Feb 2017
#31: Emma Green on religion in American politics
In this episode, we hear from Emma Green, staff writer and editor at The Atlantic about religion in American politics, as well as about the election of Donald Trump and its potential effects on relig…
00:42:01 |
Wed 01 Feb 2017
#30: Caitlin Zaloom on Public Books
In this episode, we hear from Caitlin Zaloom, co-founder and co-editor of Public Books, an online journal of diverse intellectual debate and one of the few forums, online or in print, dedicated to br…
00:49:28 |
Wed 25 Jan 2017
#29: Jonny Thakkar on The Point
In this episode, we hear from Jonny Thakker, co-founder and co-editor of THE POINT, a magazine of philosophical writing and humanistic thinking whose vision is, in the words of its editors, a society…
00:49:03 |
Thu 19 Jan 2017
#28: 2016: A Retrospective
This week, we have something special: a look-back on some of our favorite episodes from our inaugural year as a podcast, the very eventful 2016. Our selections for this retrospective aren’t random, h…
01:20:14 |
Wed 11 Jan 2017
#27: Rita Felski on Literary Criticism and the Limits of Critique
Today we hear from Rita Felski, William R Kenan Jr. Professor of English at the University of Virginia and the 2016 Niels Bohr Professor of English at the University of Southern Denmark. In our conve…
00:41:32 |
Wed 21 Dec 2016
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