The podcast of Liberties, a Journal of Culture and Politics. LibertiesTalk will be an irregular series of wide-ranging conversations on culture and politics hosted by Celeste Marcus, the managing editor of Liberties. These lively discussions will feature our writers and the larger Liberties community.
On November 7th, 2019, the Indian government revoked Aatish Taseer's Indian citizenship. Return to Self: Excursions in Exile is a memoir about processing that violent ejection; the meaning of self after statehood; and the gross brutality, so recognizable to Americans todaym, which forced that rupture.
Daniel Elkind and Morten Høi Jensen discuss Elkind's new book Dr Chizhevsky's Chandelier: The Decline of the USSR and other Heresies of the Twentieth Century
Oliver Moody and Morten Høi Jensen discuss Moody's new book, Baltic, and discuss how the Baltic Sea and the countries that surround it serve as a sort of metaphor for the entirety of Europe.
Guy Stagg joins Required Reading's new host Morten Høi Jensen to discuss his new book The World Within. On writing the book: "All my life I have dreamed of retreat. Of letting go each responsibility and cutting every tie. And I know I’m not the only one. But, when I learnt about the creative figures who left their lives behind, I began to ask myself: what is gained and what is lost when we withdraw from the world?"
Liberties Journal's associate publisher, managing editor, and sixty of their closest friends together ask and answer the question "Can We Learn To Be Alone?" DC Salons are held monthly at the Liberties Offices in Washington, DC. Email [email protected] for more information.
Ryan Ruby discusses his new book Context Collapse with Christopher McCaffery and Celeste Marcus.
Christopher McCaffery, Celeste Marcus, and forty of their closest friends together ask and answer the question "Can People Change?"
Jessica Pishko and Celeste Marcus discuss what immigration policies will look like in the next Trump administration.
Henry Oliver and Celeste Marcus discuss Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece Brideshead Revisited.
David Kelsey talks with Celeste Marcus about his projects to heal local journalism and literary culture -- at least a little bit.
Jessica Pishko joins Celeste Marcus to discuss her book The Highest Law in the Land, a meticulously researched and reported account of how sheriffs came to believe they were the final arbiters on American law.
Sean Wilentz and Johann Neem join Celeste Marcus to discuss their recent essays about the threat Trump poses to American liberal democracy.
