Utterly Moderate Podcast

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  • Resumen

  • The Utterly Moderate Podcast is the official podcast of Connors Institute for Nonpartisan Research and Civic Engagement at Shippensburg University.

    The core mission of the Connors Institute is to disseminate high-quality nonpartisan information to the public.

    Utterly Moderate is hosted by Lawrence Eppard, a researcher, university professor, and director of the Connors Institute. On each episode, Eppard is joined by a guest (or two or three!) who helps listeners understand important topics by focusing on just the weight of the empirical evidence and none of the unneeded opinions or political agendas. We are aggressively nonpartisan in our approach.

    Be sure to visit us at ConnorsInstitute.org to learn more about all that we do!
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  • Celebrating America by Talking About George Washington (w/Denver Brunsman)

    Celebrating America by Talking About George Washington (w/Denver Brunsman)
    Jul 18 2024

    We want to express our deepest sympathies and condolences to the family of Corey Comperatore. He was killed during the attempted assassination of former President Trump.

    According to NBC Philadelphia, Comperatore raised two daughters with his high school sweetheart and spent his final moments shielding his family that he loved so much from the gunfire.

    May he rest in peace. His family is in our prayers.

    We also want to wish a quick recovery to those who were injured in the assassination attempt, including former president Donald Trump and rally attendees David Dutch and James Copenhaver.

    And lastly our condolences to all others impacted by this political violence.

    Violence has absolutely no place in a civilized society.

    Given how much our democracy and country have been through, we thought on this episode of the Utterly Moderate Podcast we would lighten things up a bit and talk about something that perhaps we all might have some positive feelings about: one of our founding fathers.

    It is July after all, America’s month of celebrating our independence.

    In the spirit of July and America and trying to find some positivity right now, on this episode we bring you a replay of our conversation with George Washington University historian Denver Brunsman. He previously joined the show to share his insights on the life and career of George Washington, as well as his general reflections on the study of history and its place in the modern university.

    Enjoy the conversation and don’t forget to sign up for our free email newsletter in one click!

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    Episode Audio:

    • "Air Background Corporate" by REDCVT (Free Music Archive)
    • "Please Listen Carefully" by Jahzzar (Free Music Archive)
    • "Last Dance" by Jahzzar (Free Music Archive)
    • “Happy Trails (To You)” by the Riders in the Sky (used with artist’s permission)
    • "Washington Post March" by the U.S. Marine Band (publicly available on YouTube)
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    37 m
  • Spotting Real Expertise & Examining Your Own Knowledge (w/Jacob Mackey)

    Spotting Real Expertise & Examining Your Own Knowledge (w/Jacob Mackey)
    Jun 28 2024

    On this episode of the Utterly Moderate Podcast, host Lawrence Eppard and Connors Institute co-director Jacob Mackey discuss techniques and shortcuts that you can use to spot real expertise in a world where people with expert credentials are sometimes frauds and where people without expert credentials are often very knowledgeable. They also discuss crucial techniques for examining your personal biases and the limits of your own knowledge.

    This conversation is based on two really good readings, and we hope you will not only listen to this episode but go to these websites and read these short but very illuminating pieces:

    • “Spotting Real Expertise” by Spencer Greenberg in the Connors Newsletter (click HERE to read).
    • “Strategies for Consuming News” by the Connors Institute (click HERE to read).

    Enjoy the episode! And PLEASE subscribe to our newsletter in just one click!

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    Episode Audio:

    • "Air Background Corporate" by REDCVT (Free Music Archive)
    • "Please Listen Carefully" by Jahzzar (Free Music Archive)
    • "Last Dance" by Jahzzar (Free Music Archive)
    • “Happy Trails (To You)” by the Riders in the Sky (used with artist’s permission)
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    56 m
  • Misleading Claims in American Educational Curricula (w/Wilfred Reilly)

    Misleading Claims in American Educational Curricula (w/Wilfred Reilly)
    May 31 2024
    Before we talk about this episode, we hope you didn’t miss the latest research from the Connors Institute on the gender pay gap. Check it out now! We talk quite a bit on this podcast about some of the things that many liberal and conservative Americans believe that just ain’t so. In fact, we just released a free online documentary about this titled The Poisoning of the American Mind. On this episode of the Utterly Moderate Podcast we are joined by Wilfred Reilly, political scientist at Kentucky State University, to talk about misleading claims that have made their way into educational curricula in the U.S. Friend of the show Jacob Mackey joins the conversation as a special guest cohost. Our guest, Dr. Reilly, is the author of several books, two of which are particularly informative in this discussion: Taboo: 10 Facts You Can't Talk About (2020), which addresses such things as: The fact that, contrary to many current claims, men and women are different.There is no epidemic of police murdering unarmed Black Americans.“Pay gaps" between big groups, when several important variables are controlled for, are very small. Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America’s School Curricula (June 2024—preorder now!), which includes the following chapters: Lie #1: “Brutal ‘True’ Slavery Was Virtually Unique to America and the West” Lie #2: “The ‘Red Scare’ Was a Moral Panic That Caught No Commies” Lie #3: “Native Americans Were ‘Peaceful People Who Spent All Day Dancing’” Lie #4: “Hippies Were the Good Guys, the Sexual Revolution Was Great for Women, and the Vietnam War Was Unpopular and Pointless” Lie #5: “The Founders Counted Slaves as Three-Fifths of a Person and the Only Victims of Lynchings Were Black”Lie #6: “European Colonialism Was—Empirically—a No-Good, Terrible, Very Bad Thing”Lie #7: “American Use of Nukes to End World War Two Was ‘Evil’ and ‘Unjustified’”Lie #8: “Unprovoked ‘White Flight,’ Caused by Pure Racism, Ruined America’s Cities” Lie #9: “‘Southern Strategy’ Racism Turned the Solid South Republican”#10 Bonus Lie: The Continuing Oppression Narrative Enjoy the conversation, and don’t forget to subscribe in just one click to our FREE EMAIL NEWSLETTER! ------------------- ------------------- Episode Audio: "Air Background Corporate" by REDCVT (Free Music Archive)"Please Listen Carefully" by Jahzzar (Free Music Archive)"Last Dance" by Jahzzar (Free Music Archive)“Happy Trails (To You)” by the Riders in the Sky (used with artist’s permission)
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    46 m
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