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Hosted by Amna Khalid & Jeff Snyder · society · EN · 42 episodes
Thought-provoking conversations about censorship, campus politics, and culture wars. Hosted by Carleton College professors Amna Khalid and Jeff Snyder. banished.substack.com
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Signup to Generate a PitchBanished is hosted by Amna Khalid & Jeff Snyder. The show has published 42 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include ""Virtually No Institution of Higher Learning is Safe"" (12 May 2026, 42 minutes), "Are Diverse Democracies an Endangered Species?" (23 March 2026, 40 minutes), and "Are Too Many Professors Excellent Sheep?" (29 October 2025, 30 minutes).
Banished publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 26 minutes across 42 episodes.
Booking probability for Banished is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Banished requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Banished's contact route on record: public web form.
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Amna Khalid & Jeff Snyder hosts Banished, a society show with 42 episodes published.
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<p> </p><p>In January this year, PEN America released its most recent annual report, Expanding the Web of Control: America's Censored Campuses 2025. It provides a meticulous analysis of the threats to free speech and...
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<p>We were delighted to have the chance to speak with political scientist Yascha Mounk earlier this month at the University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire. We had a wide-ranging conversation about the threats facing diverse...
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<p>We have been dying to discuss an article called “Why Aren’t Professors Braver?” since it was first published in The Chronicle of Higher Education back in September. It’s by the psychologist Paul Bloom and it starts...
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<p>We were delighted to have the chance to speak with Adam Szetela about his new book, That Book Is Dangerous! How Moral Panic, Social Media, and the Culture Wars Are Remaking Publishing. </p><p>Adam shares what he...
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<p>We were thrilled to have the opportunity to speak with Sarah McLaughlin about her new book, Authoritarians in the Academy: How the Internationalization of Higher Education and Borderless Censorship Threaten Free...
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<p>Ken Stern (Director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate) joins Amna and Jeff to discuss these urgent questions: Are campuses hotbeds of antisemitism? How do we define antisemitism in the first place? Is there a...
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<p>Our friend and colleague Stony Brook sociologist Musa al-Gharbi has a new book out. And it’s a tour-de-force. We Have Never Been Woke is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the economic, political...
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<p>Our friend and colleague Stony Brook sociologist Musa al-Gharbi has a new book out. And it’s a tour-de-force. We Have Never Been Woke is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the economic, political...
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<p>We were thrilled to have the opportunity to talk to PEN America’s Jeremy Young about what a second Trump administration holds in store for higher education. It was an informative—and sobering—conversation. Over the...
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<p>We saw this clip of Columbia University History Professor Christopher Brown and wanted to share it far and wide. Dr. Brown delivered these remarks on Monday, April 20 at a faculty-led “Rally to Support our Students...
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<p>We recently appeared on "How Do We Fix It?", a wonderful podcast in search of constructive and practical ideas to address the many problems that plague our age. We had a fantastic time talking to the hosts Richard...
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<p>Celebrated as the bedrock of democracy, freedom of expression is often seen as an American or western value. Yet the concept has a rich and global history. In the spring of 2023 I offered a course on the global...
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<p>Worse than McCarthyism? In this episode of Banished, we explore the all-out assault on academic freedom in higher education in Florida. Turns out there’s a long history of campus witch-hunts in the state. We spoke...
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<p>Banished returns with a special episode on the status of a lawsuit challenging Florida’s “Stop WOKE Act.” To understand how this law threatens open inquiry and academic freedom, Amna talked to the two co-plaintiffs...
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<p>Tucker Carlson claimed that tacos are American. Rick Bayless was attacked for appropriating Mexican cuisine. Jamie Oliver hired a team of cultural appropriation specialists to advise him when writing recipes, to make...
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<p>Amna Khalid talks with Laura Bates, Professor of English at Indiana State University and founder of Shakespeare in Shackles — a prison program for those in solitary confinement — about the Bard’s decline in the...
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<p>One of the most popular musicals of all time, Grease seems to have fallen from grace. Most recently, two schools in Australia were planning to stage a joint production of the musical this year, but shelved it when...
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<p>Earlier this year, St. Olaf College’s Institute for Freedom and Community invited controversial bioethicist Peter Singer for a virtual conversation titled “The Point of View of the Universe.” This was an invitation...
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<p>In fall 2021, the philosophy department at Rhodes College invited the bioethicist Peter Singer to speak to the school. A controversial and important figure, the New Yorker has called Singer the “world’s most...
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<p>In February 2020, The Lancet, a leading British medical journal, published a statement by more than two dozen scientists condemning the hypothesis that COVID-19 had leaked from a Chinese lab — effectively halting...
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Director of U.S. Free Expression Programs, The Journal That Talks Back™
VITA™ Love & Intimacy Coach, Spoken Word Poet & Podcast Host, World Health Organization
Associate Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced and International Studies
Senior Scholar at The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
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