Let Me Show You Some of My History
Katherine finally explains why she left college for a year: she found it fake. But now she's going back, and she is on a mission, slow and steady.
What Can’t Be Learned in School (“Working on the World”)
What is it to responsibly work on the world? Some college students want to know.
Dig in and Look Beyond Appearances: Campus Politics Lacks Community
Katherine speaks to her old friend Nora about what political engagement on campus lacks, online politics, and helping to make our communities work.
How Not to Be Alienated from Your Own Life
Katherine talks to Zena Hitz about withdrawal, escaping social competition, and learning for its own sake.
How to Run To, Not From: Chores, Cooperatives, & Grimy Learning
I do chores for my cooperative. I love doing them, since they keep me real in college. But the real issue is the structure of community behind them.
“Study,” “Otherwise Worlds,” & the Issues that Arise in Life
Katherine speaks with radical educator Laura Nelson about the university, the idea of study, and building community at Harvard and beyond.
To Learn Is Beautiful, But Who Gets To? Katherine Starting Out
Wanting to study philosophy, Katherine Cassese will be taking us through her time in college. As she prepared to leave Cleveland, Ohio for Cambridge, Massachusetts, Sidra & Jeremy interviewed her about her new mini-series.
A Little Place to Oppose Insecurity in the World
What constitutes a moral relationship to knowledge? And what do our institutions have to be like to create the grounds for such a relationship?
Is There Room for Everyone’s Odd, Lost Life in Philosophy?
Something was bugging them, and it wasn't just Headgear (the 90s spellcheck-correction for "Heidegger" on Word). Why do we typically feel that the intellectual position of philosophers - and the work that embodies it - need not represent who they are?
Into Philosophy
Introducing a "series of mini-series" wherein "stories exceed ideas"