Eminent Americans
door Daniel Oppenheimer
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The Truth Is Out There
The Truth Is Out There
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Eminent Americans is a podcast about the writers and public intellectuals who either are key players in the American intellectual scene or who typify an important aspect of it. It also touches on broader themes and trends in the discourse.
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- The Truth Is Out There · 1 u 25 minMy guest on the show today is Jeffrey Kripal, professor of religion at Rice University and, for the better part of two decades, arguably the most serious scholar in American…
- The Very Model of a Modern Major Middlebrow · 1 u 27 minMy guest on the show today is Willard Spiegelman, emeritus professor of English at Southern Methodist University and the former longtime editor of the Southwest Review. He is the…
- Digging Ditches in New Mexico · 1 u 35 minMy guest on the show today is writer, activist and retired journalism professor Robert Jensen who has a new book out, This I Don’t Believe: A Fulfilling Life without Meaning. In…
- For the Love of the Game · 5 minThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit danieloppenheimer.substack.com This is the first in my new run of paid episodes, available in full only to paid…
- The People’s (Podcast) Microphone · 1 u 45 minMy guest on the show today is Jeffrey Lawrence, professor of English at Rutgers University and the author of an excellent essay in the most recent issue of The Point, “We Were…
- The Gender Identity Episode · 1 u 50 minMy guest on the show today is Rogers Brubaker, professor of sociology at UCLA and author of many books, the most recent of which, Gender Identity: The Career of a Category, is…
- On Off Christopher Street · 1 u 48 minMy guests on the show today are David Sessions and Blake Smith, who are friends of the pod as well as co-hosts of the Off Christopher Street Podcast, which takes its name from…
- Athens, Jerusalem, Babel, Sodom · 1 u 33 minMy guest on the show today is writer Ann Manov, the artist formerly known as personality girl and the author of a recent essay in Harper’s Magazine, “Republican Machines: Can the…
- Girl, Disrupted · 1 u 47 minMy 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 about various aspects of…
- Two Paths (?) for the American Jew · 1 u 29 minMy guest on the show today is David Sugarman, writer, Arc magazine editor, podcast producer of this very show, and agonizing, ambivalent American Jew. It's in this last capacity…
- Ballad of the Wild Ken · 1 u 19 minI 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 me in magnificent glow, than…
- The Sacred Dark Arts of the Snowflake Hermeneutical Brigade · 1 u 39 minMy 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 Education. Len, in his freelance…
- Birth of the A(I)uthor · 1 u 51 minMy guest on the show today is Tuhin Chakrabarty, an assistant professor of computer science at Stony Brook University and the culprit behind my first ever trigger warning on…
- The Psychedelic I · 1 u 38 minI had the good fortune to be joined on this episode by the redoubtable Sheila Heti, award-winning novelist, avant-garde memoirist, incisive essayist, and all-around Canadian…
- The David Sessions Session · 1 u 36 minMy 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 with Blake Smith, of the…
- Who Killed the American Man? · 1 u 31 min 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 Iraq and Afghanistan vet…
- The Notorious R.O.D. · 1 u 43 minDamon 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 fascinating, tragic, and…
- Non-Producer Character (NPC) · 1 u 26 minMy 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 episode, so that he can get…
- The Reservation Broadcasting System · 1 u 20 minMy guest on the show today is the inimitable Sherman Alexie, poet, novelist, Substacker, and occasional screenwriter. I would be surprised if you don’t already know who Alexi…
- I Get Schooled on Marx · 1 u 25 minMy guests on today’s episode are historians Andrew Hartman and James Livingston. Andrew is a professor of history at Illinois State University and the author, most recently, of…
