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Book Talk 69: American Medium, with Eyal Peretz
Free Speech 72: What is Free Speech with Fara Dabhoiwala
Book Talk 69: Uncanny E.T.A. Hoffmann with Peter Wortsman
Book Talk 68: Ham’s Heaven with Ori Gersht
Book Talk 67 : The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science
Book Talk 66: Political Hope, with Loren Goldman
Book Talk 65 Emily Dickinson, with Sharon Cameron
Book Talk 64 How to Fall in Love with Questions: A New Way to Thrive in Times of Uncertainty
Free Speech 71: Ruby Lowe on John Milton’s Definition of Free Speech
Free Speech 70: Michael S. Roth on the Rise of Student Protests, the Fall of Some College Presidents, and Why Liberal Education Matters
Book Talk 63: Nietzsche Now! with Glenn Wallis
Book Talk 62: Stefanos Geroulanos on "The Invention of Prehistory"
Book Talk 61: Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Threats to Democracy and H.L. Mencken’s "Notes on Democracy"
Book Talk 60: Cleo McNelly Kearns on Mark Twain’s "Huckleberry Finn"
Free Speech 69: Campus Misinformation with Bradford Vivian
Book Talk 59: Reading the Classics with Louis Petrich
Book Talk 58: Vivian Gornick on Emma Goldman
Book Talk 57: Anne Fernald and Rajgopal Saikumar on Virginia Woolf's "Three Guineas" (1938)
Book Talk 56: Roosevelt Montás on "Great Books"
Book Talk 55: Courtney B. Hodrick and Amir Eshel on Hannah Arendt's "Rachel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman"
Book Talk 54: Anne Fernald on Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway"
Book Talk 53: Paul Edwards on Toni Morrison's "Playing in the Dark"
Book Talk 52: Linda Patterson Miller on Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises"
Book Talk 51: Ardythe Ashley on Oscar Wilde
Book Talk 50: John Waters on James Joyce's "Dubliners"
Book Talk 49: “The Good Life” with Dora Zhang
Book Talk 48: Charlie Louth on Rainer Maria Rilke
Book Talk 47: Wendy Lee on Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice"
Book Talk 46: Marlene Daut on the Haitian Revolution in Literature
Book Talk 45: Paul Mendes-Flohr on Martin Buber's "I and Thou"
Book Talk 44: Samantha Hill on Hannah Arendt
Book Talk 43: Mark Wunderlich on Rainer Maria Rilke
Book Talk 42: Rafael Walker on Kate Chopin's "The Awakening"
Great Books 41: John Collins on F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"
Great Books 40: Mary Chapman on Sui Sin Far's "Mrs. Spring Fragrance"
Great Books 39: Robert Dale Parker on Jane Johnston Schoolcraft
Great Books 38: Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus on James Weldon Johnson's "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man"
Great Books 37: J. Gerald Kennedy on Edgar Allan Poe
Great Books 36: Doon Arbus's "The Caretaker"
Great Books 35: Susan Weisser on Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre"
Great Books 34: Vivek Chibber on Karl Marx's "The Communist Manifesto"
Great Books 33: Nicholas Frankel on Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
Great Books 32: Brenda Wineapple on Emily Dickinson--Isolation and Intervention
Great Books 31: Ann Stoler on Truth and Knowledge for Michel Foucault
Great Books 30: Carolin Weber on Albert Camus's "The Plague"
Great Books 29: Jenny Davidson on Daniel Defoe's "A Journal of the Plague Year"
Great Books 28: Béatrice Longuenesse on Kant's "What is Enlightenment?"
Free Speech 68: Henry Reichman--Can Professors Get Fired for a Tweet?
Great Books 26: Vivian Liska on Franz Kafka (not the way you know him)
Affirmative Action: Margaret Chin on Affirmative Action After Harvard's Win
Great Books 27: Eduardo Cadava on Ralph Waldo Emerson--America's Intellectual Independence
Great Books 25 : Ismail Muhammad on Jean Toomer's "Cane"
dGreat Books 24: Melissa Schwartzberg on Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "Social Contract"
Great Books 23: Dale Jamieson on the Morality of Climate Action
Free Speech 67: Susan Neiman on Monuments, the Holocaust, and the Legacy of the Confederacy
Great Books 19: Nicholas Johnson on Samuel Beckett
Free Speech 66: Robert Quinn on the Values of the University
Free Speech 65: Mary Anne Franks on the Cult of the Constitution
Free Speech 64: Aziz Rana on the Two Faces of American Freedom
Free Speech 60: Yassin Nacer--Language Changes Over Time, and Students Know That
Free Speech 59: Jonathan Friedman on the Chasm in the Classroom--Campus Speech in a Divided America
Great Books 20: Rowan Ricardo Phillips on Phillis Wheatley and the African-American Tradition
Free Speech 57: Laura Weinrib on the ACLU's Controversial Approach to Hate Speech
Great Books 26: Vivian Liska on Franz Kafka (not the way you know him)
Great Books 21: Richard J. Bernstein on the Alarmingly Relevant Hannah Arendt
Free Speech 56: Hadas Aron on the Populist Attacks on Academia
Free Speech 63: David Cole on the ACLU's Defense of Liberty
Free Speech 52: Eugene Volokh on What We Mean by "The First Amendment"
Affirmative Action: Van Tran on the Dream and Reality of College Admissions
Free Speech 62: Stephen Solomon--Raucous, Robust, and Radical: The Founders and Free Speech
Free Speech 55: Jacob T. Levy--Can Universities Make Their Own Rules?
Free Speech 61: Jeffrey Sachs--The Free Speech Crisis . . . Is It Real?
Free Speech 53: Eric Segall--Should You Trust the Supreme Court?
Free Speech 54: Adrienne Stone on Free Speech (or Lack Thereof?) Around the World
Free Speech 50: Sophia Rosenfeld on Truth and Democracy
Affirmative Action: Liliana Garces--Let's Create a Level Playing Field
Great Books 18: Jessica Benjamin's "The Bonds of Love"
Great Books 22: Maureen McLane on William Wordsworth
Great Books 15: Julie Carlson on Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"
Great Books 16: Amir Eshel on Paul Celan's Poetry
Great Books 13: Hillary Chute on Art Spiegelman's "Maus"
Great Books 14: John Callahan on Ralph Waldo Ellison's "Invisible Man"
Great Books 12: Peter Brooks on Sigmund Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents"
Great Books 17: Denis Hollier on Claude Lévi-Strauss's "Tristes Tropiques"
Great Books 10: Emily Bernard on Nella Larsen's "Passing"
Great Books 11: Deborah Plant on Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
Free Speech 48: Susan Williams on Truth, Autonomy, and Free Speech
Affirmative Action: OiYan Poon on Race, Admissions, and Achievement
Great Books 9: Caroline Weber on Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time"
Free Speech 47: Ekow Yankah--With Freedom Comes Responsibility
Free Speech 46: Alexander Tsesis on Safe Spaces, Trigger Warnings, and Free Speech
Free Speech 45: Pamela Newkirk on Staying Media-Savvy in an Age of Distrust
Great Books 7: Catharine Stimpson on Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex"
Affirmative Action: Mark Tseng-Putterman on Asian-American Activism in Context
Free Speech 42: Jack Tchen--Must Columbus Fall?
Affirmative Action: Natasha Warikoo on How to Think About Affirmative Action--Colorblindness, or Diversity?
Affirmative Action: Randall Kennedy--FOR Discrimination. A Case for Affirmative Action
Great Books 8: Benjamin Reiss on Henry David Thoreau's "Walden"
Free Speech 39: Martha Jones on Birthright Citizenship
Great Books 6: Glenn Wallis on Kahil Gibran's "The Prophet"