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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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?

THE DC SALON

Propaganda: Do You Know It When You See It?

Christopher McCaffery, Celeste Marcus, and fifty of their closest friends discuss what propaganda is and whether it is easily identifiable.

Required Reading

On Required Reading we talk with writers and readers about the texts — old and new — that influence or express their worldview.
Ryan Ruby: Context Collapse

Ryan Ruby discusses his new book Context Collapse with Christopher McCaffery and Celeste Marcus.

Jessica Pishko and Celeste Marcus Discuss Immigration under Trump

What will immigration look like over the next four years?

Jessica Pishko and Celeste Marcus discuss what immigration policies will look like in the next Trump administration.

Henry Oliver and Celeste Marcus Discuss Brideshead Revisited

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Henry Oliver and Celeste Marcus discuss Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece Brideshead Revisited.

Little Journals, Local Papers, and Democracy

David Kelsey and Celeste Marcus discuss Majuscule Literary Magazine

David Kelsey talks with Celeste Marcus about his projects to heal local journalism and literary culture -- at least a little bit.

Jessica Pishko – The Highest Law in the Land

Jessica Pishko on the radical fringe of the Sheriff's Movement

Jessica Pishko joins Celeste Marcus to discuss her book The Highest Law in the Land, a meticulously researched and reported account of how sheriffs came to believe they were the final arbiters on American law.