Arc: The Podcast

Episode 10: Yehuda Kurtzer

Mark sits down with Yehuda Kurtzer to discuss the aesthetics of yarmulkas, the crisis facing clergy-members, and how the war in Israel is changing American Jewry.

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  • Episode 12: Leah Libresco Sargeant

    Mark sits down with Leah Libresco Sargeant to talk about her journey from atheism to Catholicism, her love for arguing about everything from God to public policy, and the moral necessity of taking our opinions seriously

  • Episode 11: Yiddish in Lithuania

    Mark sends his deputy editor, David Sugarman, to Lithuania, to find out how the legacy of a bunch of Yiddish writers from the early 20th century is reshaping the region’s present and future.

  • Episode 9: Matthew Schmitz & Maggie Phillips

    Mark sits down with Matthew Schmitz to talk confession, converting to Catholicism, and Trump’s morality. He then phones Maggie Phillips, self-described fan of the confession booth, to discuss this sacrament further.

  • Episode 8: Gabriela Nguyen

    Mark sits down with Gabriela Nguyen to discuss Gen Z’s digital addictions, whether belonging to a religious community makes it easier to get off social media, and what to look out for in the age of AI

  • Episode 7: Thomas Chatterton Williams

    Mark sits down with Thomas Chatterton Williams to discuss wokeness and its afterlives, the Hamas/Israel war, and whether kids these days have it too easy

  • Episode 6: David Litt

    Mark sits down with David Litt to talk surfing, surprising saviors, and America’s political divide

  • Episode 5: Rich Cohen

    Mark sits down with Rich Cohen, contributing editor at Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone and the author of 16 books including, most recently, “Murder in the Dollhouse: The Jennifer Dulos Story”

  • Episode 4: Ana Levy-Lyons

    Arc’s editor-in-chief sits down with Ana Levy-Lyons, author of the forthcoming book “The Secret Despair of the Secular Left,” to discuss her work as a Unitarian minister, her decision to leave the ministry and go to rabbinical school, and the problems at the core of secular life