Panels & Podcasts

Navigating the past five years as a university president (Grounded, Not Divided podcast Episode 6, with Ed Seidel, March 26, 2025)

Your speech is freer than you think (The Uncommon Wisdom podcast Episode 36, hosted by Jimmy Alfonso Licon, March 25, 2025)

The future of artificial intelligence (AI) (Grounded, Not Divided podcast Episode 5, with Calum Chace and Finbar Curtin, March 6, 2025)

Disagreeing better on campus (Grounded, Not Divided podcast Episode 4, with Manu Meel, January 31, 2025)

Where higher education is headed with Daniel Jacobson, and farewell from Matt  (Free Mind podcast S10 E5, with Daniel Jacobson, December 19, 2024)

Making disaster relief about people and not politics  (Grounded, Not Divided podcast Episode 3, with Jeri Curry, December 18, 2024)

Getting things done on energy and the environment  (Grounded, Not Divided podcast Episode 2, with Dave and Bob Lawrence, December 11, 2024)

Does censorship undermine its own goals?   (Free Mind podcast S10 E4, with Justin Tosi, December 10, 2024)

Concealed Carry of Firearms in University Facilities (University of Wyoming Town Hall, with President Ed Seidel, Police Chief Josh Holland, Vice President and General Counsel Tara Evans, Professor of Law and Director of the Firearms Research Center George Mocsary, and BridgeUWYO President and Branding Iron Editor-in-Chief Ven Meester, November 18, 2024)

Surviving cancel culture while keeping your head   (Free Mind podcast S10 E3, with Lee Jussim, November 12, 2024)

The conservative environmentalist: A conversation with Benji Backer  (Benson Center, University of Colorado Boulder, October 9, 2024)

We have never been woke   (Free Mind podcast S10 E2, with Musa al-Gharbi, October 15, 2024)

Nature is non-partisan: A conversation with Benji Backer  (Live taping of Grounded, Not Divided, with Benji Backer (Episode 1), University of Wyoming, October 8, 2024)

Bypassing climate polarization conference  (October 3, 2024, panel starts at 2:13:00)

Climate change and populism: Grounds for optimism?   (London Futurists podcast, Episode 96, September 26, 2024)

Grounded, Not Divided - Trailer   (September 20, 2024)

Reflections on a career in research, education, and politics   (Free Mind podcast S10 E1, with Lesley Smith, September 19, 2024)

Is it racist? Is it sexist?   (Free Mind podcast S9 E4, with Jessi Streib, August 20, 2024)

Does academia really have a liberal bias?  (Free Mind podcast S9 E3, with Diego Reinero, July 12, 2024)

Do moderates need to be more intolerant?  (Free Mind podcast S9 E2, with Martín Carcasson, June 19, 2024)

Choice and balance in education and media  (Free Mind podcast S9 E1, with Heidi Ganahl, May 16, 2024)

Dignity in dialog series  (Colorado Mesa panel with Konstantin Kisin and Chris Barnard, April 19, 2024)

The importance of patriotism and Western self-belief  (Benson Center panel with Konstantin Kisin and Chris Barnard, April 18, 2024)

The conservative environmentalist  (Free Mind podcast S8 E4, with Benji Backer, April 16, 2024)

Bridging divides while challenging narratives  (Conference on World Affairs, with Lavelle Lewis and Jose Peo, April 12, 2024)

Political diversity and antisemitism on campus  (Free Mind podcast S8 E3, with Sam Abrams, March 20, 2024)

Harbingers of a replicability crisis in ecology (University of Colorado C-SEF webinar by Kaitlin Kimmel-Hass, March 19, 2024

Demystifying the geoengineering debate (University of Colorado C-SEF panel with Waleed Abdalati, Lisa Dilling, and David Fahey, February 6, 2024

Why it's ok to mind your own business (Free Mind podcast S8 E2, with Brandon Warmke, February 13, 2024)

Live from Antarctica: Discussion with scientists and engineers at the PEA research station (University of Colorado C-SEF panel with Max Boykoff and multiple Antarctic researchers, January 31, 2024)

Adversarial collaboration and rebuilding trust in academia (Free Mind podcast S8 E1, with Cory Clark, January 9, 2024)

The rule of law and threats to it (Free Mind podcast S7 E4, with Todd Zywicki, December 12, 2023)

Is there a debt crisis? (Free Mind podcast S7 E3, with Sasha Breger Bush, November 14, 2023)

When science gets political (Free Mind podcast S7 E2, with Roger Pielke Jr., October 10, 2023)

Magic and the occult in elite politics (Free Mind podcast S7 E1, with Alexandra Coţofană, September 12, 2023)

The role of the family in social progress and challenges (Free Mind podcast S6 E4, with Brad Wilcox, August 15, 2023)

Why start a Heterodox  Academy campus community? (Free Mind podcast S6 E3, with Smriti Mehta, July 13, 2023)

Cancellation in the  fifteenth century (Free Mind podcast S6 E2, with Jennifer Smith, June 13, 2023)

Gender inequality in history (Free Mind podcast S6 E1, with Alice Evans, May 9, 2023)

Natalism and low birth rates (Free Mind podcast S5 E4, with Lionel Shriver, April 11, 2023)

Where can moderates fit into today's political landscape? (Free Mind podcast S5 E3, with Kevin Priola, March 14, 2023)

Climate action in government, business, and civil society (University of Colorado C-SEF fireside chat with former U.S. Congresswoman Claudine Schneider, February 23, 2023)

The conservative student experience (Free Mind podcast S5 E2, with Joey Fratino, February 14, 2023)

Reducing polarization and combatting extremism in Colorado (University of Colorado Benson Center panel with Laureen Boll, Bernie Buescher, Martín Carcasson, and Leah Sprain, February 2, 2023)

Ecomodernism and nuclear energy (Free Mind podcast S5 E1, with Alex Trembath, January 10, 2023)

Academic freedom and heterodox thought (Free Mind podcast S4 E6, with Shilo Brooks, December 13, 2022)

Bipartisan youth climate advocacy (University of Colorado UN Human Rights, RHRN, Global Climate Summit, panel with Jameka Hodnnett, Lucero Cantu, Sarah Jensen, and Emily Nocito, December 4, 2022)

The passion and polarization of climate change (Cylinder Radio, with Will Reusch, July 20, 2022)

Conversations create change (Heidi's Colorful Colorado podcast, with Heidi Ganahl, September 2, 2021)