Podcast Episodes featuring Alice Dreger

Conversation with Alice Dreger and Kathryn Lynch

Freedom Project - March 07, 2019 15:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
The Freedom Project Director Kathryn Lynch interviews Alice Dreger, journalist, historian, and author of "Galileo's Middle Finger" (http://alicedreger.com/gmf).

Episode 9: Giving the Finger (with Alice Dreger)

Two Psychologists Four Beers - September 12, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 151 ratings
Yoel and Mickey welcome author, journalist, historian, and bioethicist Alice Dreger to the show. Alice, who wrote Galileo’s Middle Finger, discusses how her upbringing, her academic background, and her own Galilean personality led her to piss so many people off in the service of serving both trut...

3 | Alice Dreger on Sexuality, Truth, and Justice

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas - July 11, 2018 15:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratings
The human mind loves nothing more than to build mental boxes -- categories -- and put things into them, then refuse to accept it when something doesn't fit. Nowhere is this more clear than in the idea that there are men, and there are women, and that's it. Alice Dreger is an historian of...

Alice Dreger on Academic Freedom

So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast - August 25, 2016 04:12 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 166 ratings
Every year, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education puts out a list of the 10 worst colleges for free speech. And this year, surprisingly, half of the schools on the list earned their spot because they threatened faculty’s right to speak out in some way. One institution on that list ...

Ep. 9 Alice Dreger on Academic Freedom

So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast - August 25, 2016 04:12 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 166 ratings
Every year, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education puts out a list of the 10 worst colleges for free speech. And this year, surprisingly, half of the schools on the list earned their spot because they threatened faculty’s right to speak out in some way. One institution on that list ...

141 - Alice Dreger (Historian of Science)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan - August 31, 2015 07:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 2K ratings
Alice recently resigned her position as a professor at Northwestern University's Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program over her refusal to surrender academic freedom. She's the author of Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science. This is a public epi...