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Your Mother is a Pragmatist Philosopher, and Other Thoughts on the Contemporary Political Scene
Two quick opening notes on this episode of the Eminent Americans podcast:
* According to some post by some guy that I read somewhere once, most podcas…
2 years, 3 months ago
Clap Your Hands Say Ounsworth
I first encountered Alec Ounsworth back in 2005 or 2006, when I was an arts writer for the Valley Advocate, an alt weekly in western Massachusetts th…
2 years, 3 months ago
She Came from Greece, She Had a Thirst for Knowledge
Stella Tsantekidou begins her essay "I too am an unfuckable hate nerd" with the kind of inside-outside two-step that characterizes much of the writin…
2 years, 4 months ago
The National College Basketball Team of Black America
Our text for today’s episode is “John Thompson, b. 1941,” a short eulogy essay by the writer Kiese Laymon in which he reflects on the special affecti…
2 years, 5 months ago
All That Glitters Is Not Gould
Reading List
* The Lure of Divorce, by Emily Gould
* Goulded Cages, by Phoebe Maltz Bovy
* The Sad Young Literary Man Is Now a Middle-Aged Dad, by Eliza…
2 years, 5 months ago
Berlin, Trilling, and Niebuhr (and Strauss), Oh My!
Reading List:
* “When Liberalism Was at Its Best,” Parts 1 (Isaiah Berlin), 2 (Lionel Trilling), and 3 (Reinhold Niebuhr), by Damon Linker.
* “Philosop…
2 years, 5 months ago
Windex F*cks
Reading list:
* Windex Ain’t Scared: Here’s Our Statement on Israel/Palestine, by Jeff Maurer
* Hijackers Surprised To Find Selves In Hell, by The Onio…
2 years, 6 months ago
Wanderers Above the Sea of Digital Fog: A state of the discourse episode
Reading List:
* The zeitgeist is changing. A strange, romantic backlash to the tech era looms, by Ross Barkan
* Notes Toward a New Romanticism, by Ted …
2 years, 6 months ago
The Fall of the House of Hitch
Reading List:
* Oh, Mr Hitchens! by Laura Kipnis
* The Journalist and the Editor, by Laura Kipnis
* Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe, Laura Kipnis
* My Ti…
2 years, 6 months ago
Far From Respectable, Even Now
In this episode of the podcast, I talk to Blake Smith and Gary Kornblau about the 30th anniversary edition of Dave Hickey’s seminal 1993 book The Inv…
2 years, 8 months ago