Eminent Americans

Episode 9: Rogers Brubaker

A conversation with Rogers Brubaker, professor of sociology at UCLA and author of Gender Identity: The Career of a Category

Episode 9: Rogers Brubaker

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Eminent Americans

Episode 8: David Sessions and Blake Smith

A conversation with David Sessions and Blake Smith, co-hosts of the Off Christopher Street Podcast

Episode 8: David Sessions and Blake Smith

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Eminent Americans

Episode 7: Ann Manov

A conversation with Ann Manov, the artist formerly known as personality girl and the author of a recent essay in Harper’s Magazine, “Republican Machines: Can the GOP save the humanities?”

Episode 7: Ann Manov

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Eminent Americans

Episode 6: Emmett Rensin

A conversation wiht Emmett Rensin, the author of 2024’s The Complications: On Going Insane in America, a collection of essays about various aspects of mental illness, how we construct and treat it as a society, and Emmett’s own fairly terrifying history struggles

Episode 6: Emmett Rensin

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  • Eminent Americans

    Episode 9: Rogers Brubaker

  • Eminent Americans

    Episode 8: David Sessions and Blake Smith

  • Eminent Americans

    Episode 7: Ann Manov

  • Eminent Americans

    Episode 6: Emmett Rensin

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Arc: The Podcast

Every other week, Arc Magazine's editor-in-chief, Mark Oppenheimer, is joined by guests to talk religion, politics, et cetera.
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    Episode 31: Nicholas Lemann

    Mark sits down with Nicholas Lemann to talk about nearly-lost religious histories, the hive-minds of higher education, and the state of American media

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    Episode 30: Miroslav Volf & Christian Wiman

    A poet, a theologian, and Mark walk into a podcast studio: a conversation about faith, doubt, mortality, and friendship.

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Rescued: The Lost Treasures of Klezmer

For decades, klezmer musicians have kept traditional Jewish music alive despite war, genocide, and erasure. They’ve done so by playing a small handful of surviving songs again and again. Many more songs—a trove of tunes with the potential to redefine the genre—have sat just out of reach, in a former Soviet archive. This music was unseen, unheard, unknown. But now, newly rescued, it’s transforming the klezmer world, the people who work in it, and our picture of 20th-century Jewish life in a destabilized Europe. Rescued: The Lost Treasures of Klezmer tells the story of that music.
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    3. Dancing in a Jewish Way

    Klezmer activist Christina Crowder finds something personal in the music she helped return to the klezmer community. Plus, a klezmer concert in a church. From Arc magazine and Washington University in St. Louis.

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    2. Klezmerland

    A fateful Tokyo subway ride delivers hundreds of tunes to klezmerland, transforming the genre—and kugel etiquette. From Arc magazine and Washington University in St. Louis.

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Eminent Americans

Eminent Americans is a weekly 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.
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    Episode 9: Rogers Brubaker

    A conversation with Rogers Brubaker, professor of sociology at UCLA and author of Gender Identity: The Career of a Category

  • Listen Now

    Episode 8: David Sessions and Blake Smith

    A conversation with David Sessions and Blake Smith, co-hosts of the Off Christopher Street Podcast