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Welcome to Banished!
Are you troubled by the rising tides of censorship and intolerance seemingly everywhere? Dismayed by the loss of complexity and nuance in discussions about, well, seemingly everything? Me too.
Apr 7
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Artist Invokes the Law to Save His Art
Controversy over painting pits muralist against school officials.
May 4
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"Oh Danny, Is This the End?"
Listen now | Is the musical Grease past its sell-by date?
May 11
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: St. Olaf College Punishes Professor for Inviting Peter Singer to Campus
Listen now | Edmund Santurri can no longer direct the Institute for Freedom and Community.
Apr 27
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Sisyphus Redux
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This Academic Year, I Won’t Be Using Trigger Warnings
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: St. Olaf College Punishes Professor for Inviting Peter Singer to Campus
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The Cancellation of Dorian Abbot
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Whitewashing History?
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Cast Away from the Canon
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In the Eye of the Storm
Listen now | How the Rhodes College philosophy department successfully resisted attempts to cancel Peter Singer's talk.
Amna Khalid
Apr 20
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Creative Resistance
Authors are facing a new wave of book-banning. Now, some groups are trying to circumvent the censorship.
Amna Khalid
Apr 14
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COVID-19: Lab Leak Or Natural Leap?
Listen now | How politics stymied scientific research into the true origins of the coronavirus.
Amna Khalid
Apr 7
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Napoleon in Exile
Listen now | Napoleon Bonaparte was famously exiled not once but twice to two different islands. This is the story of exactly how and why France's…
Michael Vuolo
Mar 31
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The Skeptic
Listen now | Michael Shermer was hired to question the conventional wisdom, but he asked too many questions.
Amna Khalid
Mar 10
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The New Bibliophobia
Who's afraid of books? A small but outspoken minority.
Amna Khalid
Mar 3
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The Cartoon is Mightier Than the Sword
Listen now | All revolutions start somewhere. The artist Badiucao asks: "Why not start from me?"
Amna Khalid
Feb 24
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BONUS: The Most Dangerous Theater of Battle in the Culture Wars
Listen now | "Teaching has become a combat zone, literally and metaphorically."
Amna Khalid
Feb 16
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Sisyphus Redux
20
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10
This Academic Year, I Won’t Be Using Trigger Warnings
15
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8
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: St. Olaf College Punishes Professor for Inviting Peter Singer to Campus
10
Comment
9
The Cancellation of Dorian Abbot
10
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26
Whitewashing History?
15
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9
Cast Away from the Canon
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