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This Is What Victory Looks Like
On a recent episode of Ezra Klein’s podcast, he reflects on what he thinks he got wrong during the period of peak wokeness in the late 2010s and early 2020s.
His perspective, which I’d grade as roughly 60% thoughtful and 40% avoidant, is...
Ballad of the Wild Ken
I would rather that my spark should burn out
in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom
of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The funct...
The Sacred Dark Arts of the Snowflake Hermeneutical Brigade
My guest on the show today is Len Gutkin, editor of The Chronicle Review, which is the ideas and analysis section of the . Len, in his freelance life, is a critic whose essays have appeared in Liberties, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and...
Birth of the A(I)uthor
My guest on the show today is Tuhin Chakrabarty, an assistant professor of computer science at Stony Brook University and the culprit behind my first ever trigger warning on eminent Americans.
Here we go: if a big part of your identity is...
The Psychedelic I
I had the good fortune to be joined on this episode by the redoubtable Sheila Heti, award-winning novelist, avant-garde memoirist, incisive essayist, and all-around Canadian woman of letters.
I asked Sheila to come on the show after I rea...
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Daniel Oppenheimer's Substack is Eminent Americans, a newsletter and podcast about the contemporary American intellectual scene. He is the author of Exit Right (Simon & Schuster, 2016) and Far From Respectable (University of Texas Press, 2021).
Editor, The Scroll. Senior writer, Tablet Magazine.
co-editor, Vital City; distinguished fellow of practice, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation; former executive director, Center for Justice Innovation; author, The Nonprofit Crisis: Leadership Through the Culture Wars
Senior Lecturer in Dept of Pol Sci @ Penn. "Notes from the Middleground" at Substack; Senior Fellow, Niskanen Center; author of "The Theocons" & "The Religious Test"; former columnist w The Week
Comments on politics, letters, and everyday life: "What Now, After Work?" "Covid Diary" "The Rationality of God Talk" "Who Needs Patriarchy?" "When Science Becomes Fiction" "Subway Stories" Etc.
Historian and journalist, cohost of Off Christopher Street. Writing in The New Republic, The Point, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Dissent, Commonweal, and others.
I shop at Barnes and Noble and deserve my shame
Len Gutkin is editor of the Chronicle Review.
Product designer. https://emk.works/
Computer Science Professor interested in AI , Literature and Law Opinions mine and do not reflect my employer
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