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.
Dan Sinykin and Morten Høi Jensen discuss Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, the book that Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winnant edited and which was published recently by Princeton University Press.
Liberties Journal hosts a monthly conversation in this iteration of which dozens of attendees ask and answer the question Is There a Moral Aesthetic?
Morten Høi Jensen and Celeste Marcus discuss their respective books The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of the Magic Mountain and Chaim Soutine: Genius, Obsession, and a Dramatic Life in Art.
Liberties Journal hosts a monthly conversation in this iteration of which dozens of attendees ask and answer the question Is Iconoclasm Evil?
On this episode of Required Reading, Morten Høi Jensen and Lance Richardson discuss Richardson’s new biography Peter Matthiessen, True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen, exploring the author’s environmentalism, his time working for the CIA, and his fascination with the Bigfoot Legend."
Liberties Journal hosts a monthly conversation in this iteration of which dozens of attendees ask and answer the question Does Success Help?
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.
Luka Ivan Jukić and Morten Høi Jensen discuss Luka's recent book, Central Europe: The Death of a Civilization and the Life of an Idea, and ask and answer whether "Central Europe" even exists.
Alissa Wilkinson and Morten Høi Jensen discuss Wilkinson's most recent book We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine. The book is about Didion, but it's also about America in her lifetime. This episode includes talk about the Dustbowl, Hays Code, Bonnie and Clyde and the human addiction to delusion.
Ben Libman and Morten Høi Jensen discuss Ben's new book The Third Solitude, religion, tradition, and a modern Jew's relationship with and responsibility to his inheritance.
