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- Ben Libman · 38 minBen Libman and Morten Høi Jensen discuss Ben's recent essay for Liberties "The Venus Effect: In Defense of Voyeurism."
- Christina Cacouris on designers who hate women · 38 minChristina Cacouris and Morten Høi Jensen discuss Christina's recent essay for Liberties "Designers Who Hate Women"
- Arash Azizi on Iranian patriotism and nationalism on the left · 40 minArash Azizi joins Morten Høi Jensen about his recent Liberties essay "Irandoost, or Confessions of a Patriot"
- David A. Bell on the book review's past, present, and uncertain future · 36 minDavid A. Bell joins Morten Høi Jensen to discuss his essay from Liberties' spring issue "The Life and Death of the Book Review."
- A.E. Stallings on writing poetry · 38 minA.E. Stallings discusses her recent essay "How Poems Happen (For Me)" with Morten Høi Jensen.
- Abbas Milani on Ali Khamenei: A Profile in Dogma · 35 minAbbas Milani and Morten Høi Jensen discuss Milani's recent Liberties essay "Ali Khamenei: A Profile in Dogma"
- Yahia Lababidi - Czesław Miłosz and Thomas Merton; Secretaries of Silence · 34 minYahia Lababidi discusses his recent essay "Secretaries of Silence" with Morten Høi Jensen. The essay is about the relationship between Czesław Miłosz and Thomas Merton.
- James Wolcott - Gloire Days · 25 minJames Wolcott and Morten Høi Jensen discuss Wolcott's essay "Gloire Days" and Trump's obsession with Mar-a-Lago.
- Dan Sinykin - Close Reading · 36 minDan Sinykin and Morten Høi Jensen discuss Close Reading For The Twentieth Century, the book that Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winnant edited and which was published recently by…
- Morten Høi Jensen and Celeste Marcus -- Mann and Soutine · 45 minMorten Høi Jensen and Celeste Marcus discuss their respective books The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of the Magic Mountain and Chaim Soutine: Genius…
- Lance Richardson - Peter Matthiessen, True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen, · 39 minOn this episode of Required Reading, Morten Høi Jensen and Lance Richardson discuss Richardson’s new biography Peter Matthiessen, True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter…
- Aatish Taseer - Return to Self: Excursions in Exile · 35 minOn November 7th, 2019, the Indian government revoked Aatish Taseer's Indian citizenship. In this episode of Required Reading, MORTEN HØI JENSEN and AATISH TASEER discuss Taseer’s…
- Daniel Elkind - Dr Chizhevsky's Chandelier · 35 minDaniel Elkind and Morten Høi Jensen discuss Elkind's new book, Dr Chizhevsky's Chandelier: The Decline of the USSR and other Heresies of the Twentieth Century.
- Oliver Moody - Baltic: The Future of Europe · 36 minOliver Moody and Morten Høi Jensen discuss Moody's new book and explain how the history of the Baltic sea and the countries that surround it reveal a hopeful vision for a…
- Luka Ivan Jukić - Central Europe: The Death of a Civilization and the Life of an Idea · 41 minLuka Ivan Jukić and Morten Høi Jensen discuss Luka's recent book and ask and answer whether "Central Europe" even exists.
- Alissa Wilkinson: We Tell Ourselves Stories · 40 minAlissa Wilkinson and Morten Høi Jensen discuss Wilkinson's most recent book We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine. The book is about Didion, but…
- Ben Libman - The Third Solitude; A Memoir Against History · 47 minBen Libman and Morten Høi Jensen discuss Ben's new book The Third Solitude, religion, tradition, and a modern Jew's relationship with and responsibility to his inheritance.
- Guy Stagg - The World Within · 46 minGuy Stagg joins Required Reading's new host Morten Høi Jensen to discuss his new book The World Within. On writing the book: "All my life I have dreamed of retreat. Of letting go…
- Carlos Fraenkel and Agnes Callard: Open Socrates · 55 minCarlos Fraenkel and Agnes Callard discuss Carllard's new book Open Socrates and make the case for a life of philosophical inquiry.
- Scott Spillman: MAKING SENSE OF SLAVERY: America’s Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Today · 36 minScott Spillman on his recent book Making Sense of Slavery which illustrates how the study of slavery has been at the heart of American intellectual and political life for the…
