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Episodes
SPEECH AND CENSORSHIP #8: Season Four Wrapup with Alex Duff, Yuval Levin and Jonathan Rauch
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today we bring you the final episode in our series on speech and censorship. We wrap up a series by bringing back guests from previous episodes to dis...
SPEECH AND CENSORSHIP #7: Rochelle Gurstein on her book The Repeal of Reticence
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This month we continue our series on speech and censorship by discussing an extraordinary book published in 1996, The Repeal of Reticence: America’s...
SPEECH AND CENSORSHIP #6: Alexander Duff on Herbert Marcuse's "Repressive Tolerance"
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This month we continue our series on speech and censorship by discussing a famous critique of free speech from the left. My guest and I dig into Herbe...
SPEECH AND CENSORSHIP #5: Michael Zuckert on James Madison's "Report of 1800"
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This month we continue our series of episodes on speech and censorship. We discuss James Madison’s “Report of 1800,” a document in which Madison...
SPEECH AND CENSORSHIP #4: Jenna Silber Storey on Pierre Manent and Political Speech
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This month our topic is a recent essay by Jenna Silber Storey and Benjamin Storey called “Political Speech in Divided Times,” first published in N...
SPEECH AND CENSORSHIP #3: Yuval Levin on Walter Berns and Irving Kristol on the Case for Censorship
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With our December episode we continue our series on speech and censorship. We take up two essays which make the case for a particular kind of censorsh...
Daniel Mahoney on Raymond Aron’s Last Lecture: Liberty and Equality
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Here at Enduring Interest we are in the midst of exploring books and essays that address the question of speech and censorship. Forthcoming episodes w...
SPEECH AND CENSORSHIP #2: James Stoner on Willmoore Kendall’s ”The ’Open Society’ And Its Fallacies”
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty has been a consistent and prominent reference point in the ongoing debates about free speech. In this episode we discu...
SPEECH AND CENSORSHIP #1: Kindly Inquisitors with Jonathan Rauch
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Enduring Interest is very pleased to launch our series on speech and censorship with this conversation on Jonathan Rauch’s Kindly Inquisitors, first...
LIBERAL EDUCATION #7: Roundtable with Corey, Koganzon, & the Zuckerts
04 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To lead into the next season of Enduring Interest, we're re-releasing our first two seasons, covering totalitarianism and ideology and liberal educati...
LIBERAL EDUCATION #6: Henry Bugbee, “Education and the Style of our Lives” with Joseph M. Keegin
01 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To lead into the next season of Enduring Interest, we're re-releasing our first two seasons, covering totalitarianism and ideology and liberal educati...
LIBERAL EDUCATION #5: Zena Hitz, Jonathan Marks, and Roosevelt Montás on Liberal Education
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To lead into the next season of Enduring Interest, we're re-releasing our first two seasons, covering totalitarianism and ideology and liberal educati...
LIBERAL EDUCATION #4: Elizabeth Corey on Michael Oakeshott’s ”A Place of Learning” and ”Learning and Teaching”
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To lead into the next season of Enduring Interest, we're re-releasing our first two seasons, covering totalitarianism and ideology and liberal educati...
LIBERAL EDUCATION #3: Pavlos Papadopoulos on Eva Brann’s Paradoxes of Education in a Republic
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To lead into the next season of Enduring Interest, we're re-releasing our first two seasons, covering totalitarianism and ideology and liberal educati...
LIBERAL EDUCATION #2: Rita Koganzon on Hannah Arendt
18 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To lead into the next season of Enduring Interest, we're re-releasing our first two seasons, covering totalitarianism and ideology and liberal educati...
LIBERAL EDUCATION #1: Michael and Catherine Zuckert on Leo Strauss’s “What is Liberal Education?” and “Liberal Education and Responsibility”
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To lead into the next season of Enduring Interest, we're re-releasing our first two seasons, covering totalitarianism and ideology and liberal educati...
TOTALITARIANISM AND IDEOLOGY #7: Roundtable with Cavanagh, Howland, Link & Pontuso
11 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To lead into the next season of Enduring Interest, we're re-releasing our first two seasons, covering totalitarianism and ideology and liberal educati...
TOTALITARIANISM AND IDEOLOGY #6: Nathan Pinkoski on François Furet’s The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism of the Twentieth Cent
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To lead into the next season of Enduring Interest, we're re-releasing our first two seasons, covering totalitarianism and ideology and liberal educati...
TOTALITARIANISM AND IDEOLOGY #5: Clare Cavanagh on the poetry of Czeslaw Milosz
04 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To lead into the next season of Enduring Interest, we're re-releasing our first two seasons, covering totalitarianism and ideology and liberal educati...
TOTALITARIANISM AND IDEOLOGY#4: James Pontuso on Václav Havel’s Audience, The Unveiling and Protest
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To lead into the next season of Enduring Interest, we're re-releasing our first two seasons, covering totalitarianism and ideology and liberal educati...
TOTALITARIANISM AND IDEOLOGY #3: Daniel J. Mahoney on Raymond Aron’s ”The Opium of the Intellectuals”
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To lead into the next season of Enduring Interest, we're re-releasing our first two seasons, covering totalitarianism and ideology and liberal educati...
TOTALITARIANISM AND IDEOLOGY #2: Perry Link on ”China: The Anaconda in the Chandelier”
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To lead into the third season of Enduring Interest, we're re-releasing our first two seasons, covering totalitarianism and ideology and liberal educat...
TOTALITARIANISM AND IDEOLOGY #1: Jacob Howland on Yevgeny Zamyatin’s WE
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To lead into the third season of Enduring Interest, we're re-releasing our first two seasons, covering totalitarianism and ideology and liberal educat...
Pamela Jensen on Rousseau’s Letter to d’Alembert
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s the second episode in our occasional series on lesser-known works by authors of acknowledged classics. We discuss Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s L...
Fred Bauer on Norman Podhoretz’s Making It
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This month we discuss Norman Podhoretz’s memoir Making It. The book was first published in 1967 and then was reissued in 2017 by the New York Review...
Elizabeth Amato on William Alexander Percy’s Lanterns on the Levee: Reflections of a Planter’s Son
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This month we discuss William Alexander Percy’s memoir, Lanterns on the Levee, first published in 1941. Percy lived a full and extraordinary life, b...
Matt Dinan on Aristotle’s social virtues
23 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With this episode Enduring Interest inaugurates a new occasional series on chapters or parts of great books which tend to be ignored or not much talke...
Greg Thomas on Albert Murray’s South to a Very Old Place
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our subject for this episode is Albert Murray’s South to a Very Old Place. Part memoir, part travelogue, part dialogue with a range of interlocutors...
Jennifer Delton on George S. Schuyler’s Black No More
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1931 George S. Schuyler (1895-1977) published his novel Black No More: Being an account of the strange and wonderful workings of science in the lan...
Marc Conner and Lucas Morel on Ralph Ellison’s “The Little Man at Chehaw Station” and “What America Would be Like Without Blacks”
06 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ralph Ellison wrote one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, Invisible Man. He was also a gifted essayist and in this episode we discuss t...
Roundtable on the Work of Arendt, Oakeshott, and Strauss on Liberal Education
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode concludes our series on liberal education. We have three of our previous guests in the series back to discuss some common themes in the w...
Henry Bugbee, “Education and the Style of our Lives” with Joseph M. Keegin
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we discuss a short essay by the philosopher Henry Bugbee, “Education and the Style of our Lives.” Bugbee taught for a number of ye...
Zena Hitz, Jonathan Marks, and Roosevelt Montás on Liberal Education
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This month we are pleased to bring you a special episode that departs from our normal path. For the past several months, we’ve been looking at forgo...
Elizabeth Corey on Michael Oakeshott’s ”A Place of Learning” and ”Learning and Teaching”
09 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This month our subject is Michael Oakeshott. We discuss two essays in particular: “A Place of Learning” and “Learning and Teaching.” Both essa...
Pavlos Papadopoulos on Eva Brann’s Paradoxes of Education in a Republic
10 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This month we’re pleased to present a conversation on Eva Brann’s book Paradoxes of Education in a Republic. Brann serves as a tutor at St. John’...
Rita Koganzon on Hannah Arendt
06 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Rita Koganzon and I discuss two essays by the philosopher Hannah Arendt: “Crisis in Education” and “Reflections on Little Rock.”...
Bonus Episode: Matthew Dinan on ”Two Ages” by Soren Kierkegaard
26 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Thanksgiving! We are very pleased to bring you some bonus content—and this marks the first episode in our occasional series on minor works by ...
Michael and Catherine Zuckert on Leo Strauss’s “What is Liberal Education?” and “Liberal Education and Responsibility”
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With this episode Enduring Interest moves into a new series on the subject of education. In the coming months we will be hearing from guests on author...
Art and Totalitarianism, with Clare Cavanagh, Jacob Howland, Perry Link and James Pontuso
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I speak with four previous guests on the podcast (Clare Cavanagh, Jacob Howland, Perry Link, and James Pontuso) and take up the questi...
Nathan Pinkoski on François Furet’s The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism of the Twentieth Century
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan Pinkoski, Research Fellow and Academic Director at the Zephyr Institute, and I discuss François Furet’s terrific book The Passing of an Illu...
Clare Cavanagh on the poetry of Czeslaw Milosz
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I speak with Clare Cavanagh, Frances Hooper Professor of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Nort...
James Pontuso on Václav Havel’s Audience, The Unveiling and Protest
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I speak with James Pontuso, the Charles Patterson Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs at Hampton Sydney College, about Václav...
Daniel J. Mahoney on Raymond Aron's "The Opium of the Intellectuals"
18 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I speak with Daniel J. Mahoney, Professor and Augustinian Boulanger Chair in the Department of Political Science at Assumption Univers...
Perry Link on "China: The Anaconda in the Chandelier"
05 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I speak with renowned China scholar Perry Link, the Chancellorial Chair for Teaching Across Disciplines at the University of Californi...
Jacob Howland on Yevgeny Zamyatin's 'We'
07 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the inaugural episode of Enduring Interest, I speak with Jacob Howland, McFarlin Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Tulsa, about...