Banished

Thought-provoking conversations about censorship, campus politics, and culture wars.

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"Virtually No Institution of Higher Learning is Safe"

Amna talks to PEN America’s Jonathan Friedman and Amy Reid about unprecedented government censorship on U.S. campuses

May 12•Amna Khalid

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Are Diverse Democracies an Endangered Species?

Amna & Jeff Talk to political scientist Yascha Mounk about liberalism, populism, patriotism, and Donald J. Trump

Mar 23•Amna Khalid and Jeffrey Aaron Snyder

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Whose Tacos?

Listen now | Cultural appropriation and the politics of cooking and eating food.

Jun 11, 2022•Amna Khalid

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Most of All, I am Offended as a Muslim

Dec 29, 2022•Amna Khalid

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Cancel Culture

Jul 24, 2022•Amna Khalid and Jeffrey Aaron Snyder

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This Academic Year, I Won’t Be Using Trigger Warnings

Sep 20, 2021•Amna Khalid

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Sisyphus Redux

Aug 14, 2021•Amna Khalid

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Colleges Flubbed Their Responses to the Election

Nov 9, 2024•Amna Khalid and Jeffrey Aaron Snyder

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: St. Olaf College Punishes Professor for Inviting Peter Singer to Campus

Apr 27, 2022•Amna Khalid

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Welcome to Banished!

Are you troubled by the rising tides of censorship and intolerance seemingly everywhere? Dismayed by the loss of complexity and nuance in discussions…

Apr 7, 2022•Amna Khalid

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Cancel Culture

It's real and on the rise, on the left and the right

Jul 24, 2022•Amna Khalid and Jeffrey Aaron Snyder

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Are Too Many Professors Excellent Sheep?

Amna & Jeff talk to Jon Zimmerman about why some profs are afraid to speak their minds

Oct 29, 2025•Amna Khalid and Jeffrey Aaron Snyder

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That Book Is Dangerous!

Listen now | Amna and Jeff talk to Adam Szetela about literature and the publishing industry in the Age of the "Great Awokening"

Oct 3, 2025•Amna Khalid and Jeffrey Aaron Snyder

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What We Keep Getting Wrong about the Cancel Culture Debate

Amna & Jeff re-up, & reflect on, a deep-dive post on cancel culture from 2022

Sep 26, 2025•Amna Khalid and Jeffrey Aaron Snyder

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Authoritarians in the Academy

Listen now (28 mins) | FIRE's Sarah McLaughlin discusses her new book and the turbulent free speech climate in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination

Sep 23, 2025•Amna Khalid and Jeffrey Aaron Snyder

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What is the point of studying the past when the present is so overwhelming?

Amna grapples with this question in a special issue of the The New Republic, Trump Against History

Sep 12, 2025•Amna Khalid