Eminent Americans

Episode 14: Jeffrey Kripal

A conversation with Jeffrey Kripal, professor of religion at Rice University and, for the better part of two decades, arguably the most serious scholar in American academia willing to take the paranormal seriously.

Episode 14: Jeffrey Kripal

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Eminent Americans

Episode 13: Willard Spiegelman

A conversation with Willard Spiegelman, emeritus professor of English at Southern Methodist University and the former longtime editor of the Southwest Review.

Episode 13: Willard Spiegelman

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Eminent Americans

Episode 12: Robert Jensen

A conversation with writer, activist and retired journalism professor Robert Jensen who has a new book out, This I Don’t Believe: A Fulfilling Life without Meaning.

Episode 12: Robert Jensen

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Eminent Americans

Episode 11: Naomi Kanakia and Jon Baskin

Paid Episode Preview: a conversation with substacker Naomi Kanakia and editor of The Point Jon Baskin about the inner logic of little magazines.

Episode 11: Naomi Kanakia and Jon Baskin

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  • Eminent Americans

    Episode 14: Jeffrey Kripal

  • Eminent Americans

    Episode 13: Willard Spiegelman

  • Eminent Americans

    Episode 12: Robert Jensen

  • Eminent Americans

    Episode 11: Naomi Kanakia and Jon Baskin

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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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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 14: Jeffrey Kripal

    A conversation with Jeffrey Kripal, professor of religion at Rice University and, for the better part of two decades, arguably the most serious scholar in American academia willing to take the paranormal seriously.

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    Episode 13: Willard Spiegelman

    A conversation with Willard Spiegelman, emeritus professor of English at Southern Methodist University and the former longtime editor of the Southwest Review.

PODCAST

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.