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.
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.
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 hosts a monthly conversation in this iteration of which dozens of attendees ask and answer the question Is Curiosity Dangerous?
Carlos Fraenkel and Agnes Callard discuss Callard's new book Open Socrates and make the case for a life of philosophical inquiry.
Scott Spillman talks with Celeste Marcus on his recent book Making Sense of Slavery which illustrates how the study of slavery has been at the heart of American intellectual and political life for the past two centuries.
Liberties Journal hosts a monthly conversation in this iteration of which dozens of attendees ask and answer the question Is There Honor Without Revenge?
Liberties Journal brings the Salon to NYC to ask and answer the question Can We Change How We Love?
Liberties Journal hosts a monthly conversation in this iteration of which dozens of attendees ask and answer the question Can We Change How We Love?
Rob Rubsam and Celeste Marcus discuss the movie Red Rooms and the case it makes for the inescapable depravity of contemporary human life.
Liberties Journal hosts a monthly conversation in this iteration of which dozens of attendees ask and answer the question Can We Learn to Be Alone?
Ryan Ruby joins Required Reading to discuss his new book Context Collapse: A Poem Containing a History of Poetry.
