Eminent Americans

Episode 5: David Sugarman

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

ARC welcomes letters to the editor

Write to Us

More Episodes See All

  • 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 8: David Sessions and Blake Smith

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

  • 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 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 4: Ken Ilgunas

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

  • Episode 3: Len Gutkin

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

  • Episode 2: Tuhin Chakrabarty

    A conversation with Tuhin Chakrabarty, assistant professor of computer science at Stony Brook University.

  • Episode 1: Sheila Heti

    A conversation with the redoubtable Sheila Heti, award-winning novelist, avant-garde memoirist, incisive essayist, and all-around Canadian woman of letters.