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What Was the Post-Left?
My guest on the show today is Geoff Shullenberger, managing editor of Compact magazine and host of their Blame Theory podcast.
Geoff emailed me a few…
1 year, 8 months ago
Dreher's Demons
My guest on the show today is Rod Dreher, conservative Christian writer and author of many books, most recently Living in Wonder: Finding Mystery and…
1 year, 9 months ago
Winters Is Coming
My guest on the show today is novelist and TV writer Ben H. Winters. I first encountered Ben as the author of the wonder and wonderfully sad Last Pol…
1 year, 9 months ago
These Hollow Halls
On this episode of the podcast, I talk to Sam Kahn and Julianne Werlin about how institutions and experts produce culture and authority; how two inst…
1 year, 9 months ago
I Can Haz Dimes Square? w/Matthew Gasda
I have a poor eye for specific sociological detail but a good brain for psychology and the things that drive people to block and hurt others. —Matthe…
1 year, 10 months ago
On Privilege
My guest on this episode of the podcast is Princeton sociologist Shamus Rahman Kahn, who is the author of a number of books, most notably for our pur…
1 year, 11 months ago
Literature w/out Lorentzen
“The cynicism of this notion is impressive, if also disgusting.” – Christian Lorentzen, “Literature without Literature”
“Publishing houses, publicists…
2 years ago
Climate Therapy, Christ, and Jia Tolentino
My guest on this episode of the podcast is Kevin LaTorre, a poet and writer living with his family in North Carolina. His work has appeared in The Bl…
2 years ago
Trapped by the Figure of the Jew
In his recent essay in Tablet, “Why the Western Rebellion Against the Jews Produces Bad Art and Bad Politics,” Blake Smith writes about the Bulgarian…
2 years, 2 months ago
Sell Out With Me, or: Standing Athwart the Herd of Independent Minds
Back on the ‘pod this week is Naomi Kanakia, author of the just released novel The Default World. We talk about Vekhi, a 1909 collection of essays fr…
2 years, 2 months ago