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A conversation with Len Gutkin, editor of The Chronicle Review, which is the ideas and analysis section of the Chronicle of Higher Education.

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  • Episode 9: Rogers Brubaker

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  • Episode 8: David Sessions and Blake Smith

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  • Episode 7: Ann Manov

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  • Episode 6: Emmett Rensin

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    A conversation with David Sugarman, a writer, Arc magazine editor, podcast producer of this very show, and agonizing, ambivalent American Jew

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    A conversation with Ken Ilgunas, a nature writer, adventurer, rewilding advocate, Substacker, podcaster, psychotherapy grad student, group fitness trainer, and shaggy lawn evangelist

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