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 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?

NYC SALON 3

NYC SALON: Can We Change How We Love?

Liberties Journal brings the Salon to NYC to ask and answer the question Can We Change How We Love?

DC SALON 14

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?

Required Reading

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

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: The Decline of the USSR and other Heresies of the Twentieth Century

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.

Luka Ivan Jukić

Central Europe: The Death of a Civilization and the Life of an Idea

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.