Middlebury College
Founded in 1800 and set in the beautiful Champlain Valley of Vermont, Middlebury College has long been one of the finest liberal arts colleges in the country. Our 2,450 students, from all 50 states and more than 70 countries, are part of a community devoted to teaching, learning, and collaborating. Middlebury is a nationally recognized academic institution that encompasses a liberal arts undergraduate college, 38 Schools Abroad programs, 11 summer immersion Language Schools, the Bread Loaf School of English, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, School of the Environment, as well as the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey—all with a shared institutional goal of doing the highest quality work for positive and global impact. With year-round operations on five continents, our employees are one of our most valuable assets, and we are committed to the success and development of our workforce. Our employees enjoy an engaging lifestyle with excellent compensation, as well as competitive benefits (health, dental, life, disability, retirement, and vision) and educational assistance programs. Middlebury College is an equal-opportunity employer where diversity, equity, and inclusion are core values. To this end, the College recruits talented and diverse faculty, staff, and students from across the United States and around the world. Middlebury College encourages applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, and members of other protected classes and historically underrepresented communities. The College also invites applications from individuals who demonstrate an ongoing commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace.www.middlebury.edu
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Oct 29, 2026
Dennis PragerHOST
By the way, are you at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons?
Sue HalpernGUEST
I was at Columbia University, but I now live in Vermont, so I'm at Middlebury College.
Dennis PragerHOST
Oh, I see.
Dennis PragerHOST
I got you.
speaker_1HOST
So to finish off, we read an excerpt actually from a book called How to Face the End of the World, an Action Guide for Apocalyptic Times.
speaker_1HOST
So this is a book written by Christopher Starr, who is Professor of Classics and Director of the Axin Center for the Humanities at Middlebury College.
speaker_1HOST
So yeah, thought it'd be interesting.
speaker_1HOST
And the article itself is called How to Face the End of the World, according to Plato and the Stoics, via The Guardian.
Pat ShawAUDIENCE
I want to get his true feelings on the air about that.
Pat ShawAUDIENCE
And then the secondly is, I was at the debate a few weeks ago at Middlebury College with four senators, two incumbents and two running for it.
Pat ShawAUDIENCE
And I brought up the S-5 debacle.
Pat ShawAUDIENCE
As you all know, I'm a fuel truck driver, and it kind of impinges on my livelihood.
Alex SmithHOST
Bill McKibben, author and founder of 350.org, talks with European host Sather in the Smart Cookies podcast.
SazaHOST
Bill McKibben is an environmentalist, author, and journalist, also Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College, credited as having written the first ever book on climate change for a general audience called The End of Nature.
SazaHOST
Last year, he released another very compelling title, Here Comes the Sun, A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization.
SazaHOST
Professor McKibben, welcome to the show.
Sasha LilleyHOST
And one dimension of those ideas has to do with the sphere of the family and of reproduction, or we could even say social reproduction.
Sasha LilleyHOST
So you write about the legal scholar Erika Bakayoki, who in her youth went to Middlebury College and identified as a socialist feminist, and now espouses a kind of reactionary feminism.
Sasha LilleyHOST
Can you talk about the ideas of people like her and how they fit into this new rite of post-liberal thought.
Hannah GurmanGUEST
Erica Bakayuki is also a really interesting person.
Kimberly J. LewisHOST
Now, he has a long background.
Kimberly J. LewisHOST
In the mid-90s, he developed and coined the term place-based education with the educator John Elder of Middlebury College, and he's a founding executive and director of the Orion Society, the publisher of Orion Magazine.
Kimberly J. LewisHOST
And he edited and published, well, Barry, Terry Pampas, William Barry, Barry Lopez, and David James Duncan.
Kimberly J. LewisHOST
He went on to found the Triad Institute and Hot Frog, one of the founding certified bee corporations.
speaker_1HOST
Incredible.
speaker_0HOST
And then you have Middlebury College.
speaker_0HOST
Their tuition is, what, about $72,900 a year? Roughly, yeah.
speaker_0HOST
They are now expanding free tuition to families earning up to one hundred seventy five thousand dollars.
Laurie Lane-ZuckerGUEST
We developed a pedagogy through the 1990s.
Laurie Lane-ZuckerGUEST
I worked most closely with Dr. John Elder from Middlebury College.
Laurie Lane-ZuckerGUEST
but others as well, on developing a pedagogy called place-based education, which is using community, using the cultural and natural elements that define a community as a source of interdisciplinary learning with the goal of helping individuals Individuals in the 21st century who increasingly are rather displaced or lacking of place to find their proper situation in where they are.
Laurie Lane-ZuckerGUEST
And thereby the goal was to create a real much stronger sense of stewardship and ownership over those places and a sense of community.
Steve CollinsHOST
Oh, I love New Hampshire.
Steve CollinsHOST
My son's going to Middlebury.
Steve CollinsHOST
Oh,
Matthew RaidbardGUEST
wow.
DianaGUEST
And it was like...
DianaGUEST
And they're trying to give me, you know, you're really good with languages, you should go to Middlebury College and study, you know, linguistics.
DianaGUEST
Sure.
DianaGUEST
This is...
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