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Book Talk 69: American Medium, with Eyal Peretz

03 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

What is “America” not only as a political entity but in our imagination? How can we properly envision America, without repeating clichés that fra...

Free Speech 72: What is Free Speech with Fara Dabhoiwala

09 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The speech debates have not abated, and it’s clear that invoking the First Amendment, and the importance of free speech for democracy, does not sett...

Book Talk 69: Uncanny E.T.A. Hoffmann with Peter Wortsman

02 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Step into the unsettling world of E.T.A. Hoffmann with translator Peter Wortsman to explore “The Sandman”—a tale that haunted Freud enough t...

Book Talk 68: Ham’s Heaven with Ori Gersht

11 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to Ori Gersht speak about his novel Ham’s Heaven (Warbler Press, 2025). Inspired by the true story of the first great ape in space, it expl...

Book Talk 67 : The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science

29 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What is reliable knowledge? Listen to philosopher Michael Strevens, author of The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science, to und...

Book Talk 66: Political Hope, with Loren Goldman

19 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How to find hope in these times? I spoke with political scientist Loren Goldman about the principle of political hope: why we should have hope, how to...

Book Talk 65 Emily Dickinson, with Sharon Cameron

18 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We need Emily Dickinson’s startling originality today more than ever. This is why I sat down with Sharon Cameron, one of the greatest commentators o...

Book Talk 64 How to Fall in Love with Questions: A New Way to Thrive in Times of Uncertainty

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What do you do when faced with a big, important question that keeps you up at night? Many people seek quick answers dispensed by “experts,” influe...

Free Speech 71: Ruby Lowe on John Milton’s Definition of Free Speech

17 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

British poet John Milton published one of the earliest and still tremendously important defenses of free speech for our modern world. From his famous ...

Free Speech 70: Michael S. Roth on the Rise of Student Protests, the Fall of Some College Presidents, and Why Liberal Education Matters

28 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The campus protests over conflict in Israel and Gaza have engulfed universities, and led to the resignation of several university presidents. In this ...

Book Talk 63: Nietzsche Now! with Glenn Wallis

01 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What would Nietzsche say… about today’s divisive issues and debates? I spoke with Glenn Wallis, author of the new book, Nietzsche Now!, on how th...

Book Talk 62: Stefanos Geroulanos on "The Invention of Prehistory"

26 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean to be human? What do we know about the true history of humankind? In this episode, I spoke with historian and NYU professor Stefanos...

Book Talk 61: Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Threats to Democracy and H.L. Mencken’s "Notes on Democracy"

09 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A century ago, journalist H. L. Mencken provocatively stated in Notes On Democracy (new edition by Warbler Press, 2023) that anti-democratic behavio...

Book Talk 60: Cleo McNelly Kearns on Mark Twain’s "Huckleberry Finn"

20 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Celebrated, censored, canceled: Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn cannot be avoided. William Faulkner called Twain “the father of Amer...

Free Speech 69: Campus Misinformation with Bradford Vivian

02 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

State censorship and cancel culture, trigger warnings and safe spaces, pseudoscience, First Amendment hardball, as well as orthodoxy and groupthink: u...

Book Talk 59: Reading the Classics with Louis Petrich

01 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Why read the Classics, and how to do it best? Louis Petrich teaches at St. John’s College, the third-oldest college and “the nation's most contra...

Book Talk 58: Vivian Gornick on Emma Goldman

17 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What Is to Be Done? In her luminous biography Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life (Yale UP, 2011), Vivian Gornick brings us back to this quest...

Book Talk 57: Anne Fernald and Rajgopal Saikumar on Virginia Woolf's "Three Guineas" (1938)

30 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Virginia Woolf’s 1938 provocative and polemical essay Three Guineas presents the iconic writer’s views on war, women, and the way the patriarchy...

Book Talk 56: Roosevelt Montás on "Great Books"

06 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Roosevelt Montás is Senior Lecturer in American Studies and English at Columbia University. A specialist in Antebellum American literature and cultur...

Book Talk 55: Courtney B. Hodrick and Amir Eshel on Hannah Arendt's "Rachel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman"

12 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hannah Arendt said that she had one life-long “best friend.” That was Rachel Varnhagen, a Jewish woman who lived in Enlightenment-era Berlin aroun...

Book Talk 54: Anne Fernald on Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway"

03 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Halfway through Mrs Dalloway, Septimus Smith mutters to himself: "Communication is health; communication is happiness, communication.” It’s easy...

Book Talk 53: Paul Edwards on Toni Morrison's "Playing in the Dark"

30 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination is a must-read for anyone interested in American literature and in the...

Book Talk 52: Linda Patterson Miller on Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises"

16 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When first published in 1926, Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises changed American literature forever. Hemingway follows a disillusioned group o...

Book Talk 51: Ardythe Ashley on Oscar Wilde

18 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Secretly his unconscious body, still flickering with life, is spirited away by to an island monastery in the Venetian lagoon where he recovers his hea...

Book Talk 50: John Waters on James Joyce's "Dubliners"

11 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

James Joyce’s 1914 collection of fifteen short stories, Dubliners, is righty considered one of the greatest literary achievements of Western modern...

Book Talk 49: “The Good Life” with Dora Zhang

06 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

“The good life” and “the American Dream “remain powerful animating principles in popular culture, politics, and also our individual psyches. I...

Book Talk 48: Charlie Louth on Rainer Maria Rilke

19 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Charlie Louth’s illuminating recent book, Rilke: The Life of the Work (Oxford University Press, 2021) examines why Rilke’s poems have exercised ...

Book Talk 47: Wendy Lee on Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice"

01 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice delights, charms and entrances reader since its anonymous publication in 1813. The Bennett sisters need to mar...

Book Talk 46: Marlene Daut on the Haitian Revolution in Literature

27 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

To learn more about the Haitian Revolution in fiction, I spoke with Professor Marlene Daut specialized in pre-20th-century Caribbean, African American...

Book Talk 45: Paul Mendes-Flohr on Martin Buber's "I and Thou"

02 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Today we talk a lot about a need for genuine dialogue, and for conversations across partisan divides and differences. What is a true, authentic, and m...

Book Talk 44: Samantha Hill on Hannah Arendt

18 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hannah Arendt's 1967 essay on "Truth and Politics" centers on the uneasy relation between truth-telling and politics. Lying has always been part of p...

Book Talk 43: Mark Wunderlich on Rainer Maria Rilke

19 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

"Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the order of angels?" This angsty cry opens poet Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies -- one of the greatest p...

Book Talk 42: Rafael Walker on Kate Chopin's "The Awakening"

01 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Kate Chopin's absorbing 1899 novel The Awakening tells the story of Edna Pontellier, a married woman in New Orleans who questions her life choices, an...

Great Books 41: John Collins on F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"

24 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Great Gatsby is one of the greatest novels ever written and a masterpiece of American fiction. Midwesterner Nick Carraway spends a summer on Long ...

Great Books 40: Mary Chapman on Sui Sin Far's "Mrs. Spring Fragrance"

28 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The first Asian American writer to publish stories in the US, Sui Sin Far could have “passed” for a white woman but during a time of intense Sinop...

Great Books 39: Robert Dale Parker on Jane Johnston Schoolcraft

25 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jane Johnston Schoolcraft is the first known American Indian literary writer, the first known Indian woman writer, the first known Indian poet, and th...

Great Books 38: Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus on James Weldon Johnson's "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man"

20 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Recalling the great confessional narratives from St. Augustine to Jean Jacques Rousseau, from Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass to Henry Adams,...

Great Books 37: J. Gerald Kennedy on Edgar Allan Poe

01 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

To understand Poe, inventor of the detective story, tales of terror, and progenitor to Hitchcock, Stephen King and much of Netflix's programing, I spo...

Great Books 36: Doon Arbus's "The Caretaker"

24 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Something different today: I was lucky to speak with writer Doon Arbus about her debut novel, The Caretaker, published September 2020 by New Directi...

Great Books 35: Susan Weisser on Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre"

27 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel Jane Eyre is one of the great love stories of all time, but it's also the story of a woman who speaks her truth even wh...

Great Books 34: Vivek Chibber on Karl Marx's "The Communist Manifesto"

24 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Marx has never left us. In our era of populism, political polarization, and the pandemic, concerns central to Marx such as economic inequality, the co...

Great Books 33: Nicholas Frankel on Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

16 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray was the novel that shocked, challenged, and inspired Victorian England with its tale of a beautiful young man...

Great Books 32: Brenda Wineapple on Emily Dickinson--Isolation and Intervention

12 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

I spoke with Brenda Wineapple, author of White Heat, about Dickinson's remarkable assuredness, her confidence, and her decision to spend much of her l...

Great Books 31: Ann Stoler on Truth and Knowledge for Michel Foucault

07 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Is "truth" a historical construct? Michel Foucault's work investigates this and other concepts. I spoke with Ann Stoler of NYC's New School for Social...

Great Books 30: Carolin Weber on Albert Camus's "The Plague"

31 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Novel laureate Albert Camus's 1947 novel The Plague is about the human response to extreme circumstances. For a long time the book was read as an alle...

Great Books 29: Jenny Davidson on Daniel Defoe's "A Journal of the Plague Year"

22 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Why read books in dark times? Daniel Defoe, known to most as the author of Robinson Crusoe, published A Journal of the Plague Year in 1722, about th...

Great Books 28: Béatrice Longuenesse on Kant's "What is Enlightenment?"

07 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Immanuel Kant's short 1784 essay, "What is Enlightenment?" clearly lays out what the Age of Reason means: that we are encouraged to think for ourselve...

Free Speech 68: Henry Reichman--Can Professors Get Fired for a Tweet?

23 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Should professors be held accountable for speech they make off-campus, on-line, and apart from their professional role in the university? Does academi...

Great Books 26: Vivian Liska on Franz Kafka (not the way you know him)

15 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Kafka most known today is a writer of existential despair, a futile search for meaning, and the 20th century's nightmare of humans trapped in inhu...

Affirmative Action: Margaret Chin on Affirmative Action After Harvard's Win

10 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A recent legal case about affirmative action was decided in favor of Harvard University's holistic admission practices. Is the fight over affirmative ...

Great Books 27: Eduardo Cadava on Ralph Waldo Emerson--America's Intellectual Independence

07 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In 1837 Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered a lecture that Oliver Wendell Holmes, father of our modern Supreme Court, called America's Intellectual Declarat...

Great Books 25 : Ismail Muhammad on Jean Toomer's "Cane"

11 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Jean Toomer considered Cane the "swan song" of African-American folk culture rapidly destroyed by the industrialization of the South and the north-bou...

dGreat Books 24: Melissa Schwartzberg on Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "Social Contract"

19 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains." The opening sentence of 18th century philosopher Jean-Jacques Roussau's Social Contract poses a ce...

Great Books 23: Dale Jamieson on the Morality of Climate Action

29 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Dale Jamieson is a professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy at NYU School of Law. Convinced of the totality of climate change, Jamieson addre...

Free Speech 67: Susan Neiman on Monuments, the Holocaust, and the Legacy of the Confederacy

28 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

How can the German response to the Holocaust teach us about America's legacy of the Confederacy? Susan Neiman, Director of the Einstein Forum and auth...

Great Books 19: Nicholas Johnson on Samuel Beckett

15 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Nobel-prize winner Samuel Beckett's plays, novels, poetry, radio plays and prose reveal our deepest humanity by stripping language to its bare essenti...

Free Speech 66: Robert Quinn on the Values of the University

26 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Free speech and academic freedom are at the heart of universities, but in isolation these principles commonly lead to dead-end situations which little...

Free Speech 65: Mary Anne Franks on the Cult of the Constitution

25 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We Americans are defined by our Constitution and we cherish especially the First and Second Amendments. But like all texts, the Constitution can be re...

Free Speech 64: Aziz Rana on the Two Faces of American Freedom

25 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

America embodies the bold promise of assuring everyone's liberty to the greatest extent possible and has a history of imposing its will both internall...

Free Speech 60: Yassin Nacer--Language Changes Over Time, and Students Know That

11 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The battles over free speech are also battles for the hearts and minds of students. Why else would people with little interest in the university want ...

Free Speech 59: Jonathan Friedman on the Chasm in the Classroom--Campus Speech in a Divided America

10 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What's really happening on campus? PEN America cuts through the myths, the caricatures, and the misinformation. In response to President Donald Trump...

Great Books 20: Rowan Ricardo Phillips on Phillis Wheatley and the African-American Tradition

22 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Phillis Wheatley, who was kidnapped in Africa and sold into slavery as a child in Boston, is the first Black person to publish a book in the US. Wheat...

Free Speech 57: Laura Weinrib on the ACLU's Controversial Approach to Hate Speech

22 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In August 2017 Laura Weinrib wrote: "Commentators have rightly observed that the ACLU has defended far-right speech since its founding, despite fierce...

Great Books 26: Vivian Liska on Franz Kafka (not the way you know him)

22 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The Kafka most known today is a writer of existential despair, a futile search for meaning, and the 20th century's nightmare of humans trapped in inhu...

Great Books 21: Richard J. Bernstein on the Alarmingly Relevant Hannah Arendt

22 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The philosopher Richard J. Bernstein met Arendt first in 1972, when he was a young professor and three years before her death. He explained to me why ...

Free Speech 56: Hadas Aron on the Populist Attacks on Academia

21 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Why do populist movements, which exist on both the left and the right, attack universities? Is there any justification for their suspicion of elites w...

Free Speech 63: David Cole on the ACLU's Defense of Liberty

21 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The ACLU defends your liberties - whether you're on the right, the left, and entirely off the political spectrum. The 100-year old organization has ar...

Free Speech 52: Eugene Volokh on What We Mean by "The First Amendment"

20 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What do we mean when we say "The First Amendment"? It's obvious: we mean the most robust protection of speech rights, religious liberty, freedom of th...

Affirmative Action: Van Tran on the Dream and Reality of College Admissions

18 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

How can universities allow more students from more backgrounds gain access to what continues to be the surest way of attaining economic success? How d...

Free Speech 62: Stephen Solomon--Raucous, Robust, and Radical: The Founders and Free Speech

18 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Where does our country's deep commitment to free speech come from? Stephen Solomon researched the range of political speech before the adoption of our...

Free Speech 55: Jacob T. Levy--Can Universities Make Their Own Rules?

18 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Should the government intervene when there’s a speech controversy on campus? Or should universities be allowed to set their own rules, like other as...

Free Speech 61: Jeffrey Sachs--The Free Speech Crisis . . . Is It Real?

18 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Self-appointed watchdog groups rank colleges on free speech. Legislatures want to punish universities that don’t uphold free-speech in ways they def...

Free Speech 53: Eric Segall--Should You Trust the Supreme Court?

17 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Free speech is hotly debated around the world today -- and will it be saved by the U.S. Supreme Court? Professor Eric Segall is skeptical about puttin...

Free Speech 54: Adrienne Stone on Free Speech (or Lack Thereof?) Around the World

17 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

How can different democracies define free speech differently? In many democracies, speech is regulated differently : in the US hate speech is protecte...

Free Speech 50: Sophia Rosenfeld on Truth and Democracy

17 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Fake News. Post-truth. Alternative Facts. Conspiracies. Lies, lies, lies. We are living in a disorienting time when truth, it seems, is up for grabs. ...

Affirmative Action: Liliana Garces--Let's Create a Level Playing Field

17 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

"I want to help the field of education realize its potential to help realize all Americans' potential." Dr. Liliana Garces was co-counsel in presentin...

Great Books 18: Jessica Benjamin's "The Bonds of Love"

12 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In several books, Jessica Benjamin provides a corrective to the modern Western conception of subjectivity. Rather than privileging the development of ...

Great Books 22: Maureen McLane on William Wordsworth

12 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The British romantic poet William Wordsworth is best known for his moving evocations of nature, his celebration of childhood, and his quest to find a ...

Great Books 15: Julie Carlson on Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"

27 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley wrote Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus when she was nineteen years old on a bet. It is the first science fict...

Great Books 16: Amir Eshel on Paul Celan's Poetry

27 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Paul Celan's poetry bears witness to the Holocaust as the irredeemable rupture in European civilization, but he does so in German, the language of the...

Great Books 13: Hillary Chute on Art Spiegelman's "Maus"

27 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Art Spiegelman's Maus is the story of an American cartoonist's efforts to uncover and record his father's story of survival of the Holocaust. It is al...

Great Books 14: John Callahan on Ralph Waldo Ellison's "Invisible Man"

26 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Ralph Waldo Ellison's masterpiece 1952 Invisible Man tells the story of an African-American man who insists on his visibility, agency, and humanity i...

Great Books 12: Peter Brooks on Sigmund Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents"

16 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We want to be happy, we want to love and be loved. But life, even when our basic needs are met, often makes us unhappy. You can't always get what you ...

Great Books 17: Denis Hollier on Claude Lévi-Strauss's "Tristes Tropiques"

09 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Claude Lévi-Strauss Tristes Tropiques is one of the great books of the 20th century: intellectually bold, morally capacious, and it aims to understan...

Great Books 10: Emily Bernard on Nella Larsen's "Passing"

04 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Nella Larsen's gripping 1929 novel Passing recounts the fateful encounter of two women who can pass from being black to white, and back again -- with ...

Great Books 11: Deborah Plant on Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God"

28 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Zora Neale Hurston’s masterpiece, Their Eyes Were Watching God, captures what is at the heart of all great literature: the irrepressible urge to spe...

Free Speech 48: Susan Williams on Truth, Autonomy, and Free Speech

28 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Feminism is a useful lens through which to view the law because it reveals unspoken assumptions where the disputes seem almost ideological and no long...

Affirmative Action: OiYan Poon on Race, Admissions, and Achievement

28 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What's the link between race, admissions, and achievement in today's higher education? Is is easier for some groups to get into college thanks to affi...

Great Books 9: Caroline Weber on Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time"

23 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

“My greatest adventure was undoubtedly Proust. What is there left to write after that?” This is what Virginia Woolf said full of admiration and en...

Free Speech 47: Ekow Yankah--With Freedom Comes Responsibility

21 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Ekow Yankaw explains how we can maintain our freedom and liberty when living in society with others. How are our rights and duties interwove...

Free Speech 46: Alexander Tsesis on Safe Spaces, Trigger Warnings, and Free Speech

14 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Does allowing hate speech serve the function to get such ideas into the open where they can be defeated? How do we understand “trigger warnings” a...

Free Speech 45: Pamela Newkirk on Staying Media-Savvy in an Age of Distrust

14 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean to be media-savvy? What is the truth in a post-factual era? How can we achieve basic media literacy in an age when telling lies has ...

Great Books 7: Catharine Stimpson on Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex"

04 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

"Woman is not born but made." This sentence in philosopher Simone de Beauvoir’s magisterial The Second Sex (1949) means that there’s nothing natur...

Affirmative Action: Mark Tseng-Putterman on Asian-American Activism in Context

03 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Asian-Americans are central players in a lawsuit about affirmative action filed against Harvard University - or are they being set up and used? What i...

Free Speech 42: Jack Tchen--Must Columbus Fall?

28 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Should Columbus Fall? Should the statue be toppled, and should Columbus Circle be renamed while we're at it? In 2017 New York City's Mayor, Bill de Bl...

Affirmative Action: Natasha Warikoo on How to Think About Affirmative Action--Colorblindness, or Diversity?

28 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Shouldn't all decisions about college admissions, employment, housing, etc., be colorblind? Or, as many liberals in the US would argue, is a "diversit...

Affirmative Action: Randall Kennedy--FOR Discrimination. A Case for Affirmative Action

22 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Affirmative action is under attack. A lawsuit filed against Harvard might end the practice altogether. Professor Randall Kennedy of Harvard Law acknow...

Great Books 8: Benjamin Reiss on Henry David Thoreau's "Walden"

21 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

America’s “environmental prophet,” Henry David Thoreau wrote Walden in an effort to unshackle America from the consumerism, competitiveness, and...

Free Speech 39: Martha Jones on Birthright Citizenship

17 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Who’s in, and who’s out? Professor Martha Jones explains the history of birthright citizenship, how Black Americans claimed the rights of citizens...

Great Books 6: Glenn Wallis on Kahil Gibran's "The Prophet"

12 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Kahlil Gibran’s 1923 The Prophet is a book that’s changed people’s lives. It is a deceptively simple book but it contains a radical insight. “...