Entitled Opinions: The Twentieth Anniversary
Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature)
Robert Harrison
4.8 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is KZSU. |
| 0:02.0 | This is KZSU, Stanford. |
| 0:30.7 | I'm Alexandra Moore, the new producer for entitled opinions. |
| 0:34.8 | A Stanford alumna, Bachelor of Symbolic Systems, and Master of Computer |
| 0:38.4 | Science, here to avail all you amiable autodidacts and venerable Veconian valedictorians. |
| 0:46.5 | Break out your party hats and pop that bottle of champagne you've been saving, because today |
| 0:50.8 | we're airing a special episode, celebrating the 20th anniversary of entitled |
| 0:54.9 | opinions. It's a conversation between Robert Harrison and Professor Christy Wampel, who was also |
| 1:01.4 | once a producer here, and the sultry shantues of Robert's band, Glass Wave. This episode will |
| 1:07.7 | furnish you with all the meta-commentary you didn't know you needed on the behind-the-scenes here at entitled opinions. |
| 1:13.6 | So whether you're a longtime brigadier or a nascent neophyte like me, we hope you enjoy the show. |
| 1:21.6 | Well, it suddenly got very quiet. |
| 1:23.6 | So I suppose that's time for us to begin. |
| 1:26.6 | My name is Christy Wampel. |
| 1:28.6 | I'm a professor in the Department of French and Italian here at Princeton, but I did my PhD |
| 1:33.7 | at Stanford, and Robert was my mentor there. |
| 1:36.3 | We also worked on the radio show together. |
| 1:38.5 | And this is the 20th year celebration of entitled opinions, his radio show on KBSU. Very excited to be able to celebrate |
| 1:49.8 | that with you. So I am delighted today to introduce you to my mentor and friend Robert Pogue |
| 1:55.8 | Harrison, who is with us this week as a Humanities Council class of 1932 short-term visiting fellow. |
| 2:03.6 | He's emeritus professor of Italian at Stanford University, holding the endowed Rosina Pirotti |
| 2:09.1 | professorship for many years. He has had an incredible career spanning topics from medieval Italian |
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