This week, we are joined in the bar by Christopher Long to talk about thought leaders, universities prioritizing public engagement, and the ways in which activities like podcasting are and are not valued by university administrators.

Christopher P. Long is MSU Research Foundation Professor, Dean of the College of Arts & Letters, Dean of the MSU Honors College, and Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University. He has written extensively on Ancient Greek Philosophy, Reiner Schürmann, and public philosophy. Most relevant, perhaps, to our listeners, is that he has written collaboratively with Rick for almost 20 years. He has been an early and strong proponent of the use of technology in research, writing, and publication of philosophical work. While we have thrown deans under the bus quite a bit in this podcast, if there have to be deans, they should all be like Chris!

In this episode, we discuss the following thinkers/ideas/texts/etc.:

• Troëg Brewery and their Master of Pumpkins Ale 
• Dedrick Flynn’s TikTok feed
• Resurrected by Vikings Imperial Milk stout from Solemn Oath Brewery
• Tootsie Tomanetz discovered on the Netflix series Chef’s Table
• Bernard Stiegler on the timeframe of various technologies
• Goodhart’s Law
• The Humetrics Initiative and this essay on the Transformative Power of Values-Enacted Scholarship
• The Public Philosophy Journal
• The American Association for Universities
• Michigan State’s College of Arts and Letters’ Charting Pathways to Intellectual Leadership, and an essay published on the same topic
• Philosophers throwing chickens over walls

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