Podcasts

Salon Podcast

A monthly conversation during which Liberties Journals' Christopher McCaffery and Celeste Marcus talk with dozens of their closest friends about a question of pressing philosophical concern.
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Does Success Help?

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

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Can We Learn To Be Alone?

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.

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Can People Change?

Christopher McCaffery, Celeste Marcus, and forty of their closest friends together ask and answer the question "Can People Change?"

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DC SALON 10: Can We Choose Our Beliefs

Christopher McCaffery, Celeste Marcus, and fifty of their closest friends ask and answer the question "Can We Choose Our Beliefs?".

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Can Nonbelievers Pray?

Christopher McCaffery, Celeste Marcus, and fifty of their closest friends ask and answer: Can Nonbelievers Pray?

Required Reading

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

Aatish Taseer

A Return to Self: Excursions in Exile

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

Dr Chizhevsky's Chandelier

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

Baltic: The Future of Europe

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.

Required Reading with Morten Høi Jensen

Guy Stagg - The World Within

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?"