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Girl, Disrupted
My guest on the show today is Emmett Rensin, the author of 2024’s The Complications: On Going Insane in America, a really good collection of essays a…
13 hours ago
Two Paths (?) for the American Jew
My guest on the show today is David Sugarman, writer, Arc magazine editor, podcast producer of this very show, and agonizing, ambivalent American Jew…
2 weeks ago
Ballad of the Wild Ken
I would rather that my spark should burn outin a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.I would rather be a superb meteor, every atomof…
3 weeks ago
The Sacred Dark Arts of the Snowflake Hermeneutical Brigade
My guest on the show today is Len Gutkin, editor of The Chronicle Review, which is the ideas and analysis section of the Chronicle of Higher Educatio…
4 weeks ago
Birth of the A(I)uthor
My guest on the show today is Tuhin Chakrabarty, an assistant professor of computer science at Stony Brook University and the culprit behind my first…
1 month ago
The Psychedelic I
I had the good fortune to be joined on this episode by the redoubtable Sheila Heti, award-winning novelist, avant-garde memoirist, incisive essayist,…
1 month, 1 week ago
The David Sessions Session
My guest on the show today is returning guest and all-around friend of the pod David Sessions, a Boston-based freelance writer and the co-host, along…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Who Killed the American Man?
My guest on the show today, our special Fourth of July sesquicentennial episode, is Jacob Siegel. He's a writer and editor at Tablet Magazine, an Ir…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
The Notorious R.O.D.
Damon Linker is back on the pod to talk about another former guest, the notorious R.O.D., Ray Oliver Dreher Jr. — i.e. Rod Dreher, one of the more fa…
2 months, 1 week ago
Non-Producer Character (NPC)
My guest on the show today is audio producer Robert Scaramuccia, my longtime collaborator on the podcast.
Robert is leaving me, as of the end of this…
4 months, 2 weeks ago