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The Free Mind Podcast

The Free Mind Podcast

By: Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization
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The Free Mind Podcast explores philosophic and political ideas with adventurous disregard for intellectual trends. Listeners are invited to pull up a chair in an intellectual laboratory where rationally defensible arguments are tested in the spirit of truth-seeking, and made in a conversational style free of academic jargon. The podcast engages scholars and public intellectuals who seek to present a diversity of viewpoints in a venue where good faith is granted at the door, and clear expression of ideas is more important than adherence to any particular ideology.Copyright 2021 All rights reserved. Art Philosophy Social Sciences World
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  • Matthew Young and Paul Diduch: The Parable of the Good Samaritan and American Politics
    Apr 16 2025

    Matthew Young is assistant professor of political theory in the Department of Political Science & Public Policy at Elon University. Paul Diduch if faculty director of the Engineering Leadership Program at the University of Colorado Boulder. Matt and Paul join The Free Mind Podcast's new host Joseph Porter for a discussion on the Parable of the Good Samaritan, the Bible, and American politics in light of recent commends made by Vice President JD Vance.

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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • S10 E5: Daniel Jacobson: where higher education is headed, and farewell from Matt
    Dec 19 2024

    Dan Jacobson is Bruce D. Benson Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization at the University of Colorado Boulder. This is my (Matt’s) last episode as host of the Free Mind Podcast, pre-recorded with Dan before I moved to the University of Wyoming this past summer. I am extremely grateful for my time as a faculty fellow of the Benson Center and I have enormous respect for the center’s work bringing viewpoint diversity to higher education. So, I wanted to end my run as host by talking to Dan about where higher education is headed. Thank you all for listening over the past two years, and don’t go anywhere. The Free Mind podcast will continue with a new host in the new year.

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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • S10 E4: Justin Tosi: Does censorship undermine its own goals?
    Dec 10 2024

    Justin Tosi is Associate Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. He was previously a sabbatical fellow at the Benson Center and is co-author of Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk and Why It's OK to Mind Your Own Business, both in collaboration with Brandon Warmke, who was a previous guest on this show. We discuss an interesting new article of Justin’s, which argues that censorship undermines its own goals.

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    1 hr and 8 mins

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