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We’re going to school on Taylor Swift, in the Harvard course. And all we know is, as her song...
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The subject, in a word, is despair, both public and private. The poets and spiritual seekers...
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Frantz Fanon is our interest in this podcast. The man had charisma across the board in a short...
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The question is how digital tech picks and chooses the content that comes to your phones and your...
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Oldest and far the richest among American universities, Harvard is the apex, in some sense, of...
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The only way into this podcast is a long leap headfirst into postcolonial French fiction, of...
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On the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, we’re face to face, almost, with an American...
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Israel and Palestine Across History
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The question that resurfaces in a time of horror may be what remains when memory is wiped out,...
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Chas Freeman on a Kaleidoscopic Turn
Just a month into the ferociously brutal and reckless war in Israel-Palestine, on what feels like...
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In this podcast, two old friends in and out of journalism talk about the Middle East war, which...
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We are listening in the dark, after a catastrophe yet to be contained: more than 1,000 Israeli...
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The question is marriage. The answer in this podcast is Clare Carlisle’s sparkling book, The...
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Zadie Smith is a writer who matters, twenty years now after White Teeth, her breakthrough novel...
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It’s Labor Day week, 2023, and Henry David Thoreau is the heart of our conversation. It’s not...
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Harry Smith was the oddest duck you never heard of in the art underground: an unsightly, often...
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Noam Chomsky: American Socrates
It is said about Noam Chomsky that he has been to the study of language what Isaac Newton was to...
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In The Country of the Blind, where the writer Andrew Leland is guiding our tour, they do things...
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