18Forty Podcast
Eitan Hersh: Can the Jewish Left Talk With the Jewish Right? [Outreach: Bonus]
Mar 18, 2025
01:12:05
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to Eitan Hersh, a professor of political science at Tufts University, about teaching students of radically different political and religious views how to speak to one another.
College campuses have been a hotbed of contentious conversations, especially on issues around Israel, and Prof. Hersh is someone who’s been teaching his students to turn their disputes productive. In this episode we discuss:
Interview begins at 7:25.
Eitan Hersh is a professor of political science at Tufts University. His research focuses on US elections and civic participation. Hersh is the author of Politics is for Power (Scribner, 2020), Hacking the Electorate (Cambridge UP 2015), as well as scholarly articles. He earned his PhD from Harvard in 2011 and served as assistant professor of political science at Yale University from 2011-2017. His public writings have appeared in venues such as The New York Times, USA Today, The Atlantic, POLITICO, and The Boston Globe.
References:
“Where the Left Studies the Right” by Barton Swaim
“A Conservative Thought Experiment on a Liberal College Campus” by Rachel Slade
The Benedict Option by Rod Dreher
Halacha Headlines
18Forty Podcast: “Elie Schulman: Does Therapy Work? A Patient’s Journey”
The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America by Coleman Hughes
The Two-Parent Privilege by Melissa S. Kearney
Hacking the Electorate: How Campaigns Perceive Voters by Eitan D. Hersh
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College campuses have been a hotbed of contentious conversations, especially on issues around Israel, and Prof. Hersh is someone who’s been teaching his students to turn their disputes productive. In this episode we discuss:
- What happens when Hersh brings up Jewish topics in his college classes?
- How are students discussing the issue of removing international students who support terrorist organizations?
- How would Hersh teach Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jews to understand one another?
Interview begins at 7:25.
Eitan Hersh is a professor of political science at Tufts University. His research focuses on US elections and civic participation. Hersh is the author of Politics is for Power (Scribner, 2020), Hacking the Electorate (Cambridge UP 2015), as well as scholarly articles. He earned his PhD from Harvard in 2011 and served as assistant professor of political science at Yale University from 2011-2017. His public writings have appeared in venues such as The New York Times, USA Today, The Atlantic, POLITICO, and The Boston Globe.
References:
“Where the Left Studies the Right” by Barton Swaim
“A Conservative Thought Experiment on a Liberal College Campus” by Rachel Slade
The Benedict Option by Rod Dreher
Halacha Headlines
18Forty Podcast: “Elie Schulman: Does Therapy Work? A Patient’s Journey”
The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America by Coleman Hughes
The Two-Parent Privilege by Melissa S. Kearney
Hacking the Electorate: How Campaigns Perceive Voters by Eitan D. Hersh
For more 18Forty:
NEWSLETTER: 18forty.org/join
CALL: (212) 582-1840
EMAIL: info@18forty.org
WEBSITE: 18forty.org
IG: @18forty
X: @18_forty
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/18forty-podcast--4344730/support.
