Τα καλύτερα The Dc Salon podcast (2024)

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WRB x Liberties Salon 7 - Propaganda: Do You Know It When You See it? 1:07:05

13d ago1:07:05

1:07:05

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

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WRB x Liberties Salon 6 - Should you Like Your Friends? 1:14:07

1M ago1:14:07

1:14:07

Christopher McCaffery, of the Washington Review of Books, and Celeste Marcus host a conversation in which a group of interested parties ask and answer whether or not they should like their friends.

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WRB x Liberties Salon 5 - Is Loyalty Possible Without Nationalism? 1:28:20

3M ago1:28:20

1:28:20

Christopher McCaffery, of the Washington Review of Books, and Celeste Marcus host their spiciest salon yet. Is nationalism inherently evil? Is it the least important of our identities? It is the most important? Can one be loyal to a people but not that people's government? We ask and offer answers to these and more related questions.…

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WRB x Liberties Salon 4 - Should art be useful? 1:10:56

4M ago1:10:56

1:10:56

Christopher McCaffery, of the Washington Review of Books, and Celeste Marcus host a salon of interested parties who together ask and offer answers to the question ‘Should art be useful?’

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WRB x Liberties Salon 3 — Should love be healthy? 1:19:41

4M ago1:19:41

1:19:41

Christopher McCaffery, of the Washington Review of Books, and Celeste Marcus host a salon of interested parties who together ask and offer answers to the question ‘Should love be healthy?’

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WRB x Liberties Salon 2 — Is Forgiveness Possible? 54:12

5M ago54:12

54:12

Christopher McCaffery, of the Washington Review of Books, and Celeste Marcus host a salon of interested parties who together ask and offer answers to the question ‘Is forgiveness possible?’

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Episode 34 - Celeste Marcus 1:02:35

5M ago1:02:35

1:02:35

Host Chuong Nguyen talks to Celeste Marcus about her most recent essay, After Rape: A Guide For The Tormented. They consider questions like, "Why is rape so difficult to talk about?" "How long does it take to feel okay afterwards?" "Why do so many rapists not think of what they did as rape?"

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WRB x Liberties Salon 1 - Are Books Worthwhile? 55:52

7M ago55:52

55:52

Chris McCaffery, of the Washington Review of Books, and Celeste Marcus, managing editor of Liberties, host a salon in which they and a group of lively invested parties ask whether or not books are worthwhile. Speakers in order of appearance: Jerome Copulsky, Carlos Lozada, Becca Rothfeld, Mikra Namani, Laura Field, Osita Nwanevu, Nic Rowan, Ari Sch…

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Episode 33 - Khalil Sayegh 35:11

7M ago35:11

35:11

Khalil Sayegh, a Palestinian born and raised in Gaza, talks about his experience in the peace-building world and how he intends to change it.

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Recording: Liberties X Interintellect Salon: Arash Azizi 1:25:25

9M ago1:25:25

1:25:25

Recording of a salon held on October 19th with Arash Azizi about socialism, liberalism, and the Israeli Palestinian conference. EVENT UPDATE: This salon is being reframed in light of the current crisis in the Middle East: Arash Azizi, a specialist on Iran, and Celeste Marcus, a liberal Zionist, will discuss how Arash’s socialism and my liberalism i…

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Episode 32 - Benjamin Moser 1:15:32

1y ago1:15:32

1:15:32

In the first in a series Liberties X Interintellect salons, Benjamin Moser joins Celeste Marcus to discuss his forthcoming book The Upside Down World. Arriving as a young writer in an ancient Dutch town, Moser was overwhelmed by the language, people, and culture. The great painters of the Dutch Golden Age —Rembrandt, Hals, and Vermeer among them— o…

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Episode 31 - Agnes Callard and Becca Rothfeld 1:07:16

1y ago1:07:16

1:07:16

Becca Rothfeld and Celeste Marcus pepper Agnes Callard with questions about motherhood, among them: how it changes one, whether it's possible to prepare for it, and if one's own identity is enriched or extinguished through it.

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Episode 30 - Justin E H Smith 1:09:31

1+ y ago1:09:31

1:09:31

Justin E H Smith joins Celeste Marcus to discuss the thought and style of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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Episode 29 - Agnes Callard 1:04:08

1+ y ago1:04:08

1:04:08

Agnes Callard and Celeste Marcus use "Scenes from a Marriage," the television series directed by Ingmar Bergman and released in 1973, to consider themes such as whether loneliness is inevitable, whether one has a moral imperative either to lie or to be wholly honest with their partner, what personal liberation means, and whether or not it is possib…

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Episode 28 - Jared Marcel Pollen 53:49

1+ y ago53:49

53:49

Jared Marcel Pollen joins Leon Wieseltier to discuss Václav Havel and the proper relationship between power and justice.

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Episode 27 - Celeste Marcus 47:16

1+ y ago47:16

47:16

Leon Wieseltier and Celeste Marcus discuss the rise of the radical Israeli right and the peculiar pain of responsible loyalty to a state

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Episode 26 - Justin E. H. Smith 57:53

2y ago57:53

57:53

Justin E. H. Smith joins Leon Wieseltier and Celeste Marcus to discuss the gamification of reality, and the pernicious compulsion to control and describe more and more of human existence via algorithms and technology.

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Episode 25 - William Deresiewicz 55:10

2y ago55:10

55:10

William Deresiewicz joins Celeste Marcus to discuss his upcoming book "The End of Solitude: Selected Essays on Culture and Society." In this conversation they broach many of the themes which Deresiewicz explores in his book, including the nature of attention, the meaning of art, the purpose of education, and the snares endemic to membership in any …

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Episode 24 - Morten Høi Jensen 57:17

2y ago57:17

57:17

Morten Høi Jensen joins Celeste Marcus to discuss literary biography as a failed genre, the impossibility of a writer ever achieving intimacy with her own subjects, and the license that futility conditions.

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Episode 23 - Celeste Marcus & Leon Wieseltier 1:04:29

2y ago1:04:29

1:04:29

Leon Wieseltier and Celeste Marcus discuss La Ruche, Soutine, the romantic, fleeting world of the School of Paris, and its brutal destruction during WWII.

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Twenty-Second Episode - Laura Kipnis 51:23

2y ago51:23

51:23

Laura Kipnis joins Celeste Marcus to discuss Laura's most recent essay for Liberties, "Gender: A Melee," in which she debunks the bad faith arguments and fear mongering which frequently plague conversations about gender.

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Twenty-First Episode - Richard Thompson Ford 50:34

2y ago50:34

50:34

Richard Thompson Ford joins Leon Wieseltier to discuss what the legacy of slavery can and cannot explain about America.

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Twentieth Episode - Martha Nussbaum 51:51

2+ y ago51:51

51:51

Martha Nussbaum joins Leon Wieseltier for a conversation about the relationship between the body and the soul.

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Nineteenth Episode - Becca Rothfeld and Agnes Callard 48:17

2+ y ago48:17

48:17

Agnes Callard and Becca Rothfeld join Celeste Marcus to discuss the movie The Night Porter.

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Eighteenth Episode - Leon Wieseltier 45:16

2+ y ago45:16

45:16

Leon Wieseltier and Celeste Marcus discuss the many dimensions of the horror in Ukraine. “If you want to deter such obscenities, and if you want to be able to resist such obscenities then you need to have a world view that will prepare you for such obscenities to occur.”

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Seventeenth Episode - Holly Brewer 44:17

2+ y ago44:17

44:17

Holly Brewer joins Celeste Marcus to discuss the intellectual history of a pernicious racist idea contemporary scholars wrongly attributed to John Locke.

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Sixteenth Episode - Michael Kimmage 55:43

2+ y ago55:43

55:43

Michael Kimmage and Leon Wieseltier discuss the rhetoric of declinism which is both ubiquitous and inaccurate, its origins, and the dangers it poses.

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Fifteenth Episode - Benjamin Moser 55:31

2+ y ago55:31

55:31

Benjamin Moser, in conversation with Leon Wieseltier and Celeste Marcus, argues that translation is a form of cultural appropriation that does not appropriate nearly enough.

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Fourteenth Episode - Jewher Ilham 58:29

2+ y ago58:29

58:29

Jewher Ilham, Uyghur activist and the daughter of celebrated economist Ilham Tohti (now serving a life sentence in jail in China), joins Leon Wieseltier and Celeste Marcus to discuss the Uyghur Genocide. Jewher describes how the conditions for Uyghurs have changed in China over the past few decades, what the concentration camps are and what goes on…

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Thirteenth Episode - Agnes Callard 58:53

2+ y ago58:53

58:53

Agnes Callard joins Celeste Marcus to discuss the movie Winter Light (1963), faith, faithlessness, body hatred, and, of course, Ingmar Bergman.

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Twelfth Episode - Mamtimin Ala 1:05:36

3y ago1:05:36

1:05:36

Mamtimin Ala, a Uyghur activist and intellectual, talks with Celeste Marcus not only about the Uyghur genocide in China, but also about the syncretistic beauty and wealth of Uyghur tradition. Among the tragedies of the Uyghur story is that they are known most often for the horrors they now endure, and not for their vast, rich history. The Analysis …

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Eleventh Episode - Michelle Dauphinais Echols 52:17

3y ago52:17

52:17

Michelle Dauphinais Echols talks with Celeste Marcus about the alleged rape and torture of her nine cousins, the Charbonneau sisters, at St. Paul's Indian School in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Tenth Episode - Becca Rothfeld 36:32

3y ago36:32

36:32

Becca Rothfeld and Celeste Marcus discuss Sanctimony Literature, the relationship between art and politics, and how to evaluate political art.

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Ninth Episode - Ramachandra Guha 39:02

3y ago39:02

39:02

Ramachandra Guha talks with Leon Wieseltier and Celeste Marcus about Modi's disastrous mishandling of the pandemic in India, the ensuing disaster, and the historical and political context for the current crisis.

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Eighth Episode - Andrea Marcolongo 40:32

3y ago40:32

40:32

Andrea Marcolongo talks with Celeste Marcus about how the pandemic has altered her self-perception as a writer, and about what a writer's role is.

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Seventh Episode - Elliot Ackerman and Leon Wieseltier 54:47

3y ago54:47

54:47

Elliot Ackerman and Leon Wieseltier talk with Celeste Marcus about American foreign policy. Regarding the decision to pull all troops out of Afghanistan: "We'll either never think about this again or we'll think about this in eighteen months when Kabul falls to the Taliban and people are being executed in the streets and we have to answer for it in…

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Sixth Episode - David Greenberg 43:45

3y ago43:45

43:45

David Greenberg talks with Celeste Marcus about the process of renaming public spaces and buildings, concerns about how such decisions are made, and suggestions for how best to think about them.

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Fifth Episode - Leon Wieseltier 48:13

3y ago48:13

48:13

Leon Wieseltier and Celeste Marcus discuss the catastrophe in Syria: "We’re commemorating two terrible things: the destruction of a country and a society by the worst imaginable means… and the failure of the United States to do a damn thing about it.”

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Fourth Episode - Thomas Chatterton Williams 43:10

3+ y ago43:10

43:10

Thomas Chatterton Williams talks with Celeste Marcus about making sense of and participating in the vicissitudes of American culture from across the ocean in Paris.

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Third Episode - Shawn McCreesh 35:11

3+ y ago35:11

35:11

Shawn McCreesh talks with Celeste Marcus about what it was like to grow up in a suburb of Philadelphia ravaged by the opioid crisis.

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Second Episode - Michael Ignatieff 37:03

3+ y ago37:03

37:03

Michael Ignatieff, rector of Central European University, chats with Celeste Marcus about what it was like to watch America desecrate its own sacred institutions from Europe, and what that desecration represents for the United States and the world.

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First Episode - Leon Wieseltier 22:11

3+ y ago22:11

22:11

Leon Wieseltier and Celeste Marcus talk about hope and fear, and how to keep our heads in all our crises.

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