All Episodes

Episode 90: Belonging in the Modern World

Episode 89: Madame Murdoch

Episode 88: Suprematism and the poetry of Ukraine

Episode 87: The Information State

Episode 86: Spacers, Fictosexuals and Freaks

Episode 85: Zarathustra and Judge Holden

Episode 84: Philip Roth and Ecclesiastes

Episode 83: Resist and Howl

Episode 82: The Dark Mountains of Madness

Episode 81: In the Moral Wilderness with MacIntyre and Camus

Episode 80: Thomas Mann and Abraham Lincoln in Wartime

Episode 79: Kitsch, Pop, and Democratic Art

Episode 78: Reflections on the Atom Bomb

Episode 77: Fascist Apologetics and the Memoirs of an Anti-Semite

Episode 76: Against Poets

Episode 75: American Honor and the Iliad

Episode 74: Christmas Poetry and the Pogues

Episode 73: Is America Ready for a Religious Revival?

Episode 72: Revolutionary Art and Coat-Snatching Ghosts

Episode 71: Politics and Merciless Nature

Episode 70: Punk and Metal

Episode 69: Should We Bring Children Into Existence?

Episode 68: The Serious Artist

Episode 67: Wallace Stegner's Crossing to Safety

Episode 66: Hobbits, Goblins and the Very Adult World of Fairy-Stories

Episode 65: Orwell and Ukraine

Episode 64: Power of the Powerless and the Velvet Underground

Episode 63: How Money Culture Hurts the American Family and Girls

Episode 62: Last Men and Women: George Scialabba and the Challenge of Modernity

Episode 61: Red Music and Mal Waldron

Episode 60: The Palestinian People and the Western Observer

Episode 59: Israel and Hamas

Episode 58: The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu

Episode 57: Some Lying and Some BS

Episode 56: The Secular Saint

Episode 55: The Great Mating Debate

Episode 54: Nirvana and The Trials of the Young

Episode 53: Poe's Law and Philip K. Dick's Faith of Our Fathers

Episode 52: True Believers and the Case of the Writer Turned Congressman

Episode 51: A Public Address, A Colloquium, or Maybe Just a Q&A

Episode 50: El Greco, Picasso, and The Pleasures of Ignorance

Episode 49: Angry Popes and Architecture

Episode 48: The Ultimate Revolution

Episode 47: The Democracy Engineering Complex

Episode 46: Sunday Morning and God's Grandeur

Episode 45: Spielberg and Roxy Music

Episode 44: We're All Stars Now In the Dope Show

Episode 43: Tradition and the Individual Talent

Episode 42: The Transmogrifications of Gary Leib

Episode 41: To Be Incarnational

Episode 40: Flannery O'Connor versus Andre Dubus II

Episode 39: What Jazz Is and Isn't

Episode 38: My Quarrel with Authentic Reactionaries

Episode 37: Humane War

Episode 36: The Simple Art of Murder

Episode 35: Did You Kill Anyone?

Episode 34: Fratelli Tutti and Fairview

Episode 33: The Dream of Meritocracy Produces Monsters

Episode 32: Repressive Tolerance and The Judgement

Episode 31: Everything is Broken

Episode 30: King Lear or Endgame or Psalm

Episode 29: What Were We Thinking

Episode 28: They Will Eat the CIA Men First

Episode 27: The Owl of Minerva Trots at Dusk

Episode 26: On Pain and on Fallujah Revisited

Episode 25: The Plague

Episode 24: Vietnam Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry

Episode 23: Lord Jim and the Absurd

Episode 22: Reluctant Prophets

Episode 21: Class War and Auden

Episode 20: The Conversation

Episode 19: Stuckists and Bebop

Episode 18: Omni-Americans and Unlearning Race

Episode 17: The Unabomber and OK Computer

Episode 16: Walcott's New Adam and Gallant's Latehomecoming

Episode 15: Dadism and Public Enemy

Episode 14: New Conservative Manifestos and My Father Left Me Ireland

Episode 13: Personism and Ellen West

Episode 12: Accelerationism and Big Sex Object Mirrorfaces

Episode 11: The Modern Essay and the Decline of Civilization

Episode 10: Violence according to Hannah Arendt and Frank Miller

Episode 9: The Oulipo and the Naked City

Episode 8: Resentments, Justice, and the Sins of the Father

Episode 7: Patriotism and the Unknown Soldier

Episode 6: Revolution, Entropy, and Abstract Art

Episode 5: Everybody's Protest Novel and the Responsibilities of Art

Episode 4: My Twisted World and Martin Scorcese's Taxi Driver

Episode 3: Schiller's Aesthetic Letters and and Ian McEwan's The Use of Poetry

Episode 2: SCUM, Intercourse, and Cat Person

Episode 1: Humanism and Bloody Myths