Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on May 5, 2025 Apple PodcastsSpotifyAn exploration of the political economy of technofeudalism begins by defining the technostructure and introducing its personification, followed by testimony from a skeptic [26:00],...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on April 4, 2025Apple PodcastsSpotifyEpisode opens with journalism’s “race to the bottom,” described by a journalist who lived it, followed by what “The Facebook Files” revealed about social media’s relationship to...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on April 1, 2025Apple PodcastsSpotifyA two-part meditation on the history of journalism and the fate of investigative journalism under tech fascism begins with the model of Ida Tarbell, the epochal Wall Street...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on March 20, 2025Apple PodcastsSpotifyOur 150th anniversary celebration of Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner’s “The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today” turns to political economies of mass media, then and now, beginning...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on January 30, 2025Apple PodcastsSpotifyThe second act of A Tale of Today,” focused on HBCUs and the political economy of education in Gilded Ages old and new, concludes with a journey of curiosity through the...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on December 31, 2024Apple PodcastsSpotifyFollowing Jelani Favors’s description of how the second curriculum of HBCUs has been compromised since the 1980s, we look back at the origins of Howard University in the...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on December 23, 2024Apple PodcastsSpotifyArchives, physical and digital, are suffering from austerity, enshittification, and censorship. In this episode scholars discuss the ambivalent impacts of digitization, what...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on December 18, 2024Apple PodcastsSpotify“A Tale Of Today” returns after an brief hiatus with an episode inspired by The Teaching Archive. Its authors discuss the pedagogical innovations of HBCUs and strategies for...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on November 25, 2024Apple PodcastsSpotifyAn episode built around an interview with Tressie McMillan Cottom, author of Lower Ed (New Press, 2017) covers what lessons the rest of Higher Ed can learn from HBCUs [3:00],...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on November 12, 2024Apple PodcastsSpotifyA Morehouse college commencement speaker makes an extraordinary financial commitment, but there’s a “profound story” to tell about the durable funding of HBCUs in the US since...