With a Side of Knowledge
On the Rhodes Scholarship and Making Yourself Useful
This past November, Prathm Juneja was named to the American Rhodes Scholar Class of 2020, becoming the 20th Rhodes Scholar in Notre Dame history. He talked with host Ted Fox in...
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On the Presidency and Possibility
Bob Schmuhl, now a professor emeritus at Notre Dame, joined the university’s faculty in 1980. He was the founding director of Notre Dame’s Gallivan Program in Journalism,...
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On the EU, Allies, and the State of European Democracy
Janne Matláry is a professor of international politics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo and the Norwegian Defence University College. A specialist...
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On Democracy and Difficult Questions
The idea behind this show is pretty simple: We invite scholars, makers, and professionals out to brunch for an informal conversation about their work, and then we turn those...
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On Movies (and Golden Tickets)
Shea Serrano is a staff writer for the sports and pop culture website The Ringer and the author of three New York Times bestsellers, including Basketball (And Other...
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On ‘A Dangerous Idea’ and Documentary Filmmaking
Stephanie Welch is the director of the documentary A Dangerous Idea: Eugenics, Genetics, and the American Dream. In September, she visited Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing...
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On Lions and Tigers and … Okapi?
And this episode is unlike any of the first 30 or so that we’ve done. No food was eaten—at least not by either of the humans—and no coffee was consumed. There was no table,...
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On ‘How Charts Lie’ and Increasing Graphicacy
Alberto Cairo is an associate professor and the Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the University of Miami’s School of Communication. The former director for infographics and...
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On American Jesuits, Catholicism, and Higher Education
John McGreevy is the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at Notre Dame and served as dean of the University’s College of Arts and Letters from 2008–2018. Specializing in...
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On Podcast Brunch Club and the Appeal of Audio—Adela Mizrachi, Podcast Brunch Club
Like us, Adela Mizrachi works in communications at a university, but that’s not the reason we asked her to come on the show. At least not the main one. See, Adela is also the...
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On Cryptocurrency, Facebook’s Libra, and Data Security—Mike Chapple, Notre Dame
Mike Chapple is academic director of Notre Dame’s Master of Science in Business Analytics program and an associate teaching professor of IT, analytics, and operations at the...
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On Incredible Women and a Story Too Good to Pass Up—Ann Little, Colorado State University
Ann Little is a professor of history at Colorado State University who specializes in the history of women, gender, and sexuality, with a focus on early North America. She is the...
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