# Ep. 436 - March 30, 2026 - Most Progressive College Professors Exclude Alternatives Views Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-education-exchange-1123475/ep-436-march-30-2026-most-progressive-college-professors-exclude-alternatives-views Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-education-exchange-1123475/ep-436-march-30-2026-most-progressive-college-professors-exclude-alternatives-views.md Podcast: [The Education Exchange](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-education-exchange-1123475) Published: 2026-03-30T09:00:45+00:00 Episode link: https://soundcloud.com/education-exchange-paul-peterson/ep-436-march-30-2026-most Audio file: https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2290313099-education-exchange-paul-peterson-ep-436-march-30-2026-most.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-education-exchange-1123475/episodes/ep-436-march-30-2026-most-progressive-college-professors-exclude-alternatives-views Duration seconds: 2212 ## Resource Jon Shields, a professor of American politics in the government department at Claremont McKenna College, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Shields' latest research, which uses the Open Syllabus database to see how contentious issues are being taught on college campuses. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-education-exchange-1123475/episodes/ep-436-march-30-2026-most-progressive-college-professors-exclude-alternatives-views/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-education-exchange-1123475/ep-436-march-30-2026-most-progressive-college-professors-exclude-alternatives-views.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.