re:verb
Hosted by Alex and Calvin · Calvin Pollak and Alex Helberg
4.4from 23 ratings
- 111
- Episodes
- 3
- Transcribed
- 23
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2018
- First episode
- 1K
- YouTube views
About re:verb
re:verb is a podcast about politics, culture, and language in action, featuring interviews and segments from scholars, writers, critics, and activists in the humanities, social sciences, and outside the academy.
- Publisher
- Calvin Pollak and Alex Helberg
- Category
- education · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 Mar 2018
- Latest episode
- 21 Aug 2026
Latest episodes
3 of 111 episodes have a transcript.
21 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
E110: The Grievance Studies Affair: A Rhetorical and Political History (Part 1)
7 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
E109: The Rhetoric of Counterterrorism in the Age of Trump
4 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
E109: The Cybernetic Border (w/ Dr. Iván Chaar López)
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E110: The Grievance Studies Affair: A Rhetorical and Political History (Part 1)
Published 21 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Additionally, the editors of Social Text clarified that they had issued revision requests that Sokol ignored. In point of fact, they actually made it sound a bit like they published his article out of pity in the first place. From Social Text editors Bruce Robbins and Andrew Ross' response in that same journal, Lingua Franca. From the first, we considered Sokol's unsolicited article to be a little hokey. It is not every day that we receive a dense philosophical tract from a professional physicist. Not knowing the author or his work, we engaged in some speculation about his intentions and concluded that the article was an earnest attempt of a professional scientist to seek some kind of affirmation from postmodern philosophy for developments in his field. […]
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- YouTube views
- 1,462
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.4 / 5
- 23 ratings
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- Quality
- 71
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 68
- Engagement
- 50
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Who hosts re:verb?
Alex and Calvin host the show. Published by Calvin Pollak and Alex Helberg.
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