Disagree with a Professor

education, society, culture, philosophy · EN

What happens when students who’ve done their homework sit down with the people who literally wrote the textbook — and disagree? Disagree With a Professor is a podcast from the University of Virginia where student hosts do exactly that. Every episode, they sit down with an academic expert who has spent their career on one of the hardest questions in politics, psychology, law, history, or culture. The hosts come prepared, come curious, and come ready to push back. Not to be provocative. Not to score points. Because they genuinely believe that’s how you actually learn something. We’ve been told since grade school that disagreeing with an expert is rude. Maybe even arrogant. This show is built on the belief that it’s actually the opposite, that asking hard questions is a form of respect, and that changing your mind in publi