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🗓️ 10 May 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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We speak with Tufts University professor Eitan Hersh about his unique course, which explores conservative political theory with the largely liberal student population at the school.
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0:00.0 | This is Sarah Stewart Holland. This is Beth Silver's. You're listening to Pantsu Politics, where we take a different feeling under the weather. Hello, thank you so much for joining me today. |
0:33.0 | Beth is feeling under the weather. |
0:35.2 | But I am delighted to be welcoming Aeton Hirsch, |
0:38.2 | a professor of political science at Tufts University. |
0:41.5 | I read Professor Hirsch's book, Politics is for Power, several years ago. |
0:45.2 | And if you're a long-time listener of the show, you probably remember that I could not stop talking |
0:49.0 | about that book. I still think about his central thesis all the time that most of us are engaged in political |
0:54.1 | hobbyism, not political action. |
0:57.6 | Then back in March, I read this amazing article in Boston magazine by Rachel |
1:01.0 | Slate about a professor teaching American |
1:03.0 | conservative thought at Tufts University and all the interesting |
1:07.2 | results among the students and then I realized that this professor was |
1:10.8 | Professor Hirsch, the same one that wrote politics for power. |
1:13.6 | So we immediately invited him on the show to talk about the class and all the interesting |
1:17.0 | fallout among the students. |
1:19.0 | And then the campus protests began sweeping the country, including it Tufts. |
1:23.3 | And our conversation is even more important and timely, |
1:26.1 | because hearing from people on the ground on campuses |
1:29.7 | brings such an important perspective to the discussion. Now, speaking of our discussion |
1:35.4 | about colleges and college admissions, on Tuesday we had a long expansive |
1:40.6 | conversation about admissions and financial aid and |
1:45.4 | FASFA with consultant Sarah Bittner. Now we wanted to issue a small correction. |
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