Episodes

Welcome to the season 2 finale of Anti-Social Studies! Think about how far we’ve come. This season we’ve talked about Putin and Kim Jong Un, Colin Kaepernick and Squanto. We’ve traveled to England to figure out what the heck is going on with Brexit and Saudi Arabia to figure out what the heck is going …

Appreciate good content? Show your support with a one-time donation below or join me for extra episodes on Patreon! I’ve taught some version of a Current Events class for eight years. I’ve waded into the depths of almost every contemporary debate you can think of: immigration, gun reform, nuclear warfare, police brutality, sexual harassment and …

Appreciate good content? Show your support by making a one-time donation below or join me for extra episodes on Patreon! On the vast grasslands, a fierce warrior arose on horseback to become the leader of a great empire, uniting the previously warring clans together and molding them into a skilled army that stoked fear in …

Appreciate good content? Show your support with a one-time donation below or join me for extra episodes on Patreon! Real talk: Theresa May and I are exhausted. I’ve been researching this episode on Brexit for one month and every time I think I’m ready to record and move on with my life, something dramatically shifts. …

Appreciate good content? Show your support with a one-time donation below or join me for extra episodes on Patreon! Happy Spring Break! Oh what’s that? You have to go into work over spring break? That sucks. Well, at least you have summer to look forward to. What?! Normal adults just work in July?! That’s unfathomable …

Appreciate good content? Show your support with a one-time donation below or join me for extra episodes on Patreon! As we speak, 10 women are going on trial for advocating their right to drive cars. Yeah, to drive cars. That thing that we do instead of walking ½ a mile to the bagel shop around …

Appreciate good content? Show your support with a one-time donation below or join me for extra episodes on Patreon! So this episode is specifically for my US History students. They are off on a weeklong class trip to New Orleans and I promised them I would teach them a little history before they went. Then, …

Appreciate good content? Show your support with a one-time donation below or join me for extra episodes on Patreon! I had planned this big dramatic intro where I would go over all of the juicy details about the most recent U.S.-North Korea summit in Vietnam. I postponed this episode for a month just so that …

Emily was lucky enough to present at SXSW EDU 2019 with her friend and coworker, Emily Pool. We’ve made an episode of us talking through our presentation, “Teaching in the Era of Fake News“. We go over media literacy, fake news, and strategies for teaching current events in the classroom. If you weren’t able to …

As I record this, the US Congress has just begun its 116th session and is, in theory, getting to work. Although, I don’t know who they got to swear in the new members because the government is shut down. I guess the guy reading the oaths is an “essential employee”… How does one “shut down” …

They’re coming… Can you feel it?… Their footsteps reverberating across Mexico… all along the border American troops and border patrol stand guard, gazing into the distance, waiting for them to arrive… The caravan. Even though the election is over, so – mysteriously – politicians aren’t talking about this enormous threat anymore, that doesn’t mean the …

Hey! I don’t know if y’all have heard but, there’s an election going on. I know! Thankfully 3,000 of my Facebook friends have been posting about it nonstop over the last two years so I remembered to vote. But maybe you haven’t heard. So, if I’m the first person to tell you this, then let …

I hope everyone had a great Columbus Day weekend! I did not because I’m from Austin and as of last year, we don’t celebrate Columbus Day. So I had a fantastic Indigenous Peoples’ Day! Take that, Columbus! There’s some Montezuma’s Revenge for you – 500 years too late. This is my second episode in a …