Podcasts

Salon Podcast

Monthly gatherings where Liberties staff, writers, readers, and the public come together to discuss a question of pressing philosophical concern inspired by works published in Liberties. This is a community of kind, curious, and intelligent discourse. Join us!
DC SALON

Is There a Moral Aesthetic?

Liberties Journal hosts a monthly conversation in this iteration of which dozens of attendees ask and answer the question Is There a Moral Aesthetic?

NYC SALON

Is Iconoclasm Evil?

Liberties Journal hosts a monthly conversation in this iteration of which dozens of attendees ask and answer the question Is Iconoclasm Evil?

DC SALON 17

Does Success Help?

Liberties Journal hosts a monthly conversation in this iteration of which dozens of attendees ask and answer the question Does Success Help?

DC SALON 16

Is Curiosity Dangerous?

Liberties Journal hosts a monthly conversation in this iteration of which dozens of attendees ask and answer the question Is Curiosity Dangerous?

DC SALON 15

Is There Honor Without Revenge?

Liberties Journal hosts a monthly conversation in this iteration of which dozens of attendees ask and answer the question Is There Honor Without Revenge?

Required Reading

On Required Reading we talk with writers and readers about the texts — old and new — that influence or express their worldview.
Yahia Lababidi

Secretaries of Silence

Yahia Lababidi discusses his recent Liberties essay "Secretaries of Silence" with Morten Høi Jensen. The essay is about the relationship between Czesław Miłosz and Thomas Merton.

James Wolcott

Gloire Days

James Wolcott and Morten Høi Jensen discuss Wolcott's essay "⁠Gloire Days⁠" and Trump's obsession with Mar-a-Lago.

Dan Sinykin

Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century

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.

Morten Høi Jensen & Celeste Marcus

The Master of Contradictions & Chaim Soutine

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.

Lance Richardson

Peter Matthiessen, True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen

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."