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.

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    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.

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