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by Duncan Gammie

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Episodes

  1. Noah Kumin - Writing Novels

    Noah Kumin is the editor of the Mars Review of Books, and the author of "Stop All the Clocks: A Novel."

  2. Matthew Gasda - Playwright and Novelist

    Matthew Gasda is a playwright and novelist based in New York City. He is the founder of the Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research, and the author of The Sleepers.

  3. Jean-Pierre Isbouts - The Historical Jesus

    Jean-Pierre Isbouts is a Biblical scholar, the author of "The Fractured Kingdom," and the host of the Amazon Prime show "Searching for the Historical Jesus."

  4. William Basinski - Experimental Composer

    William Basinski is an American experimental composer.

  5. James Fallon - Memorial Show

    James Fallon was a neuroscientist and author. Sadly, he passed away, but he was a frequent guest on the show, so please enjoy this memorial episode, a compilation of some of my favorite moments of his on the show.

  6. William Deresiewicz - Solitude in Modern Life

    William Deresiewicz is a former English professor at Yale, and the author of numerous books, including "The End of Solitude."

  7. Kevin Knight - 2024 Election

    Kevin Knight is the Chief of Staff of Congressman David Schweikert.

  8. Jonathan Mann - Super-Forecaster

    Jonathan Mann is a security architect, a Good Judgment Super Forecaster, and a faculty member in the Computer Science department at NYU. He writes at https://abstraction.substack.com/

  9. Michael Jelen - Replay, AI, Web3

    Michael Jelen is the CEO of Replay, a web3 video streaming service.

  10. Jan Swafford - George Gershwin

    Jan Swafford is an American composer and the author of several musical biographies.

  11. Thomas Barfield - Nomadic People

    Thomas Barfield is an anthropologist at Boston University, and the author of several books, including The Nomadic Alternative.

  12. Stuart Reid - Patrice Lumumba

    Stuart Reid is an executive editor at Foreign Affairs, and the author of The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination.

  13. Robin Hanson - Health, AI and More

    Robin Hanson is an economist at George Mason University. His Substack is Overcoming Bias, and he is the author of multiple books, including The Elephant in the Brain.

  14. Ellen Bass - Poet

    Ellen Bass is a poet, the winner of three Pushcart Prizes, and the author of several collections, including Indigo.

  15. Nicholas Krohley - Warrior Diplomats

    Nicholas Krohley is a founder of FrontLine Advisory, and the co-author of Warrior Diplomats: Civil Affairs Forces on the Front Lines.

  16. Michael Katz - Dostoevsky

    Michael Katz is a professor of Russian and East European Studies at Middlebury College. He is a translator of several works of Dostoevsky, including Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.

  17. Dave Rearick - Sailing Around the World

    Dave Rearick circumnavigated the globe, and is the author of Spirit of a Dream: A Sailor's Ultimate Journey Around the World Alone.

  18. Michael Joyce - Electronic Literature

    Michael Joyce is a novelist, poet, critic and the author of works of electronic literature, including afternoon, a story.

  19. Milan Ćirković - Aliens and Fermi’s Paradox

    Milan Ćirković is a professor at the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade, and the author of The Great Silence: Science and Philosophy of Fermi's Paradox.

  20. Robert Kelly - Hunter-Gatherers to Today

    Robert L. Kelly is an archaeologist at the University of Wyoming, and the author of several books including The Fifth Beginning: What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future.

  21. Andrew Walder - The Cultural Revolution

    Andrew Walder is a political sociologist at Stanford, and the author of several books on Mao and the Cultural Revolution. His latest book is Civil War in Guangxi: The Cultural Revolution on China's Southern Periphery. The podcast now has a Patreon! Available here: https://www.patreon.com/dunctank

  22. Matt Simon - Plastic Poison

    Matt Simon is a writer at Wired Magazine, and the author of A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies.

  23. Warren Motte - Experimental Literature

    Warren Motte is a professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the author of several books, and an editor of Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature.

  24. Robert Beachy - Gay Berlin

    Robert Beachy is a history professor at Yonsei University and the author of Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity.

  25. Malcolm Harris - Silicon Valley

    Malcolm Harris is a journalist and author of several books. His most recent work is Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism and the World.

  26. Derrick Jensen - Soup on Paintings

    Derrick Jensen is an author and environmentalist. He is the author of several books, including The Myth of Human Supremacy.

  27. Alan Mikhail - Ottoman Empire

    Alan Mikhail is a professor of history at Yale, and the author of God's Shadow: The Ottoman Sultan Who Shaped the Modern World.

  28. Steve Fuller - AI & The MetaVerse

    Steve Fuller is a professor of sociology at the University of Warwick. He is the author of several books, including Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game.

  29. David Yaffe - Joni Mitchell

    David Yaffe is a professor of humanities at Syracuse University and the author of Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell. His Substack is: https://davidyaffe.substack.com/

  30. Adam Hochshild - Red Scares

    Adam Hochshild is a historian and the author of, American Midnight: The Great War, A Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis.

  31. Dave Andrews - Christian Anarchy

    Dave Andrews is an activist and the author of several books, including Christi-Anarchy: Discovering a Radical Spirituality of Compassion.

  32. Bev Stohl - Chomsky’s Assistant

    Bev Stohl was formerly the assistant of Noam Chomsky for over 20 years. She recently wrote a book called, Chomsky and Me: A Memoir.

  33. William Deresiewicz - Death of the Artist?

    William Deresiewicz taught English at Yale University and is the author of Death of the Artist: How Creatives are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech and most recently, The End of Solitude: Selected Essays on Culture and Society.

  34. James S. Curl - Bad Architecture

    James Stevens Curl is an architect and historian, and the author of a book about Modern architecture, Making Dystopia: The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism.

  35. Malachi O’Doherty - Troubles in Ireland

    Malachi O'Doherty is a journalist in Northern Ireland, and the author of several books, including The Telling Year: Belfast 1972.

  36. Marc Levinson - Shipping Containers

    Marc Levinson is an economist and author of, "The Box: How Shipping Containers Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger."

  37. Daniel Mullen - Painter

    Daniel Mullen is a Scottish painter based out of Rotterdam.

  38. Hannah Lucinda Smith - Turkish Politics

    Hannah Lucinda Smith is a journalist with The Times of London, and the author of Erdoğan Rising: The Battle for the Soul of Turkey.

  39. Jed Rasula - Dada

    Jed Rasula is a professor at the University of Georgia, and the author of Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century.

  40. Joel Whitney - The CIA Vs. Art

    Joel Whitney is the author of Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World's Best Writers.

  41. Alberto Gerosa - Performance Artist

    Alberto Gerosa is a performance artist and filmmaker based out of Hong Kong.

  42. Anna Lembke - Dopamine Nation

    Anna Lembke is a psychiatrist and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. She is the author of Drug Dealer, MD and Dopamine Nation.

  43. Jhanelle Thomas - Ghosting

    Jhanelle Thomas is a psychology researcher and the co-author of, "Disappearing in the Age of Hypervisibility: Definition, Context, and Perceived Psychological Consequences of Social Media Ghosting."

  44. James Curtis - Buster Keaton

    James Curtis is a biographer, and the recent author of Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life.

  45. Loren Toussaint - Forgiveness

    Loren Toussaint is a professor of psychology at Luther College, and the director of their "Laboratory for the Investigation of Mind, Body, and Spirit." He is also Chair of the Discover Forgiveness advisory council at the Templeton World Charity Foundation, and president of the Forgiveness...

  46. Rosamund Bartlett - Tolstoy

    Rosamund Bartlett is an expert on Russian literature, and the author of several books, including, "Tolstoy: A Russian Life."

  47. Jan Swafford - Igor Stravinsky

    Jan Swafford is an American composer, as well as a music critic and author of several musical biographies.

  48. Jason Lewis - Fmr. US Congressman

    Jason Lewis is an American politician, a former talk radio host and represented Minnesota's 2nd Congressional District in the House of Representatives. He is the recent author of "Party Animal: The Truth about President Trump, Power Politics and The Partisan Press," available to purchase here.

  49. Best Of Dunc Tank!

    Please enjoy this best of episode of dunc tank.

  50. Richard Davies - Extreme Economies

    Richard Davies is an economist at Bristol University and the author of, "Extreme Economies: What Life At The World's Margins Can Teach Us About Our Future."

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