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Eminent Americans is a podcast about the writers and public intellectuals who either are key players in the American intellectual scene or who typify an important aspect of it. It also touches on broader themes and trends in the discourse. danieloppenheimer.substack.com
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Athens, Jerusalem, Babel, Sodom (opens the original)
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My guest on the show today is writer Ann Manov , the artist formerly known as personality girl and the author of a recent essay in Harper’s Magazine , “ Republican Machines: Can the GOP save the humanities ?” In it, Manov goes back to her alma mater, University of Florida, to report on the Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education, perhaps the best known of the growing number of schools and centers around the country, typically at state universities in red states, dedicated to some mix o
The David Sessions Session (opens the original)
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My guest on the show today is returning guest and all-around friend of the pod David Sessions , a Boston-based freelance writer and the co-host, along with Blake Smith , of the relatively new Off Christopher Street Podcast and and Substack newsletter, about the history and present of gay male life and culture in America. David, Blake and I have recorded a crossover episode of Eminent Americans that focuses on their new endeavor, which should be out in the next month or two or three, but on this
Who Killed the American Man? (opens the original)
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My guest on the show today, our special Fourth of July sesquicentennial episode, is Jacob Siegel . He's a writer and editor at Tablet Magazine , an Iraq and Afghanistan vet, co-host of the Manifesto! podcast , and author of the new book, The Information State , which we don’t discuss on the episode. Our topic, instead, is the “ The Disappearing American Man ,” the first installment of a column that Jacob is now writing for Tablet . To give you a sense of the essay, which is slightly to the left
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