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Eminent AmericansBig Tent EnergyThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit danieloppenheimer.substack.comMy guest on the show this week in Timothy Shenk, assistant professor of history at The George Washington University and author, most recently, of Left Adrift: What Happened to Liberal Politics, which I reviewed for Air Mail some…
2026-02-1959 min
Eminent AmericansThe Mandarins, Their Virtues and VicesMy guest on the show today is Ash Carter, writer and editor for Air Mail magazine and all around chronicler of the post-war cultural elite. I asked Ash to come on after reading the most recent in a series of profiles he’s written about great editors of the 20th century, some of whom, for reasons we discuss, were semi-cancelled in the last decade or two. He’s written about, for instance, former New Republic editor and owner Marty Peretz, Peretz’s longtime literary editor Leon Wieseltier, Vintage Classics legend Gary Fisketjon, New York Review Classics visionary Edwin...
2026-02-051h 04
Eminent AmericansHomosexual, Gay, Queer (and a soupçon of porn)My frequent conversation partner Blake Smith is back on the pod today to talk about his book-in-progress on the pioneering gay editor Michael Denneny as well as a related essay, “For the Love of the Gay World,” just published in a new anthology.In both endeavors, I think, he’s doing some version of the same thing, which is to make his case, that gay men briefly had, then lost, but could have again a coherent, self-reflective cultural and intellectual world by and for themselves. As he writes:Part of what the playwright Larry Kramer called...
2026-01-291h 22
Eminent AmericansWhittaker, William, Sam, and MeThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit danieloppenheimer.substack.comIf you want to hear my guest on the show today, Sam Tanenhaus, talk in depth about his magisterial new biography of William F. Buckley, which if there’s justice in the world will win all the awards, I recommend you listen to Andrew Sullivan’s interview with Tanenhaus, or the Know Your Enemy interview with Sam, or the
2026-01-151h 01
Eminent AmericansThe Fall of Affirmative ActionMy guest on the show today is Justin Driver, the Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law at Yale Law School and, more importantly, an old friend of mine.Among his many recognitions, he was appointed by President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. to serve on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, and is also a recipient of the American Society for Legal History’s William Nelson Cromwell Article Prize.He’s the author of two books, the first of which was The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Batt...
2026-01-081h 29
Eminent AmericansIs the Cat in the Cradle?On this special Christmas episode of the podcast, my 9-year-old son Gideon interviews me for a school assignment about my writing, my day job, and my theories on why I’m an interesting person. He’s hoping there will be comments, so if you have any thoughts please share them. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danieloppenheimer.substack.com/subscribe
2025-12-2513 min
Eminent AmericansTaking On the Texas 10thThis episode, with Democratic congressional candidate Caitlin Rourk, has an interesting backstory. Back in May my wife wrote an op-ed for the Austin American Statesman criticizing Republic congressman John Carter, whose district is adjacent to the one we live in. Carter isn’t particularly noxious, as these people go, but nor is he at all in possession of actual principles. He’s just a stooge for Trump and MAGA. My wife was frustrated and feeling powerless, as many of us were and are, and this was a small way to feel like she’s doing something, putting Carter...
2025-12-191h 13
Enciende Tu Mente¡Sálvese Quien Pueda! - Resumen Del Libro¡Sálvese Quien Pueda! es otra obra fundamental de Andrés Oppenheimer, el periodista, escritor y analista político argentino-estadounidense.Publicado en 2018, este libro es una investigación exhaustiva y preocupante sobre el impacto que las tecnologías disruptivas (inteligencia artificial, big data, robots) tendrán en el mercado laboral y en la vida de millones de personas, especialmente en América Latina.El libro parte de la premisa de que no solo los trabajos manuales y repetitivos están en riesgo de ser reemplazados por máquinas, sino también muchas profesiones de cuello blanco (abo...
2025-12-1513 min
The GistFinding the Next Terry Gross with Daniel OppenheimerIn this special Saturday edition, Mike sits down with Daniel Oppenheimer of Eminent Americans to tackle a high-stakes question: Who is worthy of the Fresh Air throne? They dissect the craft of interviewing, critique the "unprepared celebrity" podcast trend, and evaluate potential successors ranging from Colin McEnroe to Jon Ronson. Produced by Corey Wara Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com To advertise on the show, contact ad-sales@libsyn.com or visit https://advertising.libsyn.com/TheGist Subscribe to The Gist: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Subscribe to The Gist Youtube Page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4_bh0w...
2025-12-1340 min
Enciende Tu MenteCrear O Morir - Resumen Del LibroCrear o Morir" (Create or Die) es una obra clave del reconocido periodista y presentador de televisión hispano Andrés Oppenheimer. Publicado en 2014, este libro es un exhaustivo análisis sobre la innovación en América Latina y un llamado urgente a la acción para que la región adopte una cultura de creatividad y emprendimiento para no quedarse atrás en la economía global.Oppenheimer parte de una premisa contundente: en el siglo XXI, el progreso económico y la prosperidad social ya no dependen de los recursos naturales o de la mano de ob...
2025-12-1214 min
Eminent AmericansThe Terry Gross Project: Part DeuxThis is part two of my two-part episode on Terry Gross. In part one, which was a paid episode, I talked to Sarah Hepola, Jason Thurlkill, and Meghan Daum about Terry Gross, what makes her great, and who should replace her whenever she chooses to retire. On this episode, which is a freebie, I talk to Mark Oppenheimer, Mike Pesca, and Jesse Adams/The Ivy Exile.Aside from being my brother, Mark Oppenheimer is host of his own podcast, the Arc podcast, or Arc with Mark, which is the flagship podcast of the magazine he edits. He...
2025-12-042h 01
Eminent AmericansThe Terry Gross Project: Part 1 of 2This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit danieloppenheimer.substack.comThis is episode one of my long-awaited Terry Gross Project, where I tackle the question of who Terry Gross’s successor should be on Fresh Air and what we can learn, by playing around with that question, about the magic of Terry Gross, the cultural meaning and trajectory of NPR, the art of the interview, and various other related topics.
2025-11-2041 min
Eminent AmericansConversation with KieseThe text for today’s episode is Conversations with Kiese Laymon, which is a new anthology of interviews with Laymon. My guests are Laymon himself, , a previous guest on the podcast and one of the best nonfiction writers of my generation, and the editor of the book, Constance Bailey.Laymon’s memoir Heavy, which came out in 2018, was #60 on the New York Times list of the best hundred books of the 21st Century, and that really understates its brilliance. It’s a pretty amazing book, which you should read. He is also the author of the novel Long D...
2025-11-061h 11
Eminent AmericansCORRECTION! The Dan and Blake ShowThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit danieloppenheimer.substack.comBlake and I talk about the long essays that each of us has written recently: Blake’s essay in Aeon on the New York intellectual and art critic Harold Rosenberg, and mine on the recent back and forth between Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates. We also engage Blake’s feelings about the the recent death of his father, Billy Smith, or rather on his evasion of my effort to get him to talk about his feelings
2025-10-2349 min
Teaching in Higher EdRethinking Student Attendance Policies for Deeper Engagement and Learning, with Simon Cullen + Danny OppenheimerSimon Cullen + Danny Oppenheimer help us rethink student attendance policies toward deeper engagement and learning on episode 591 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
There’s a lot of evidence that coming to class is one of the best things a student can do to facilitate their learning and performance in class.
-Danny Oppenheimer
You can make students attend, and most faculty do. They set attendance as mandatory. And then students attend and they learn because they attend. But they also hate you, and they ha...
2025-10-0946 min
Eminent AmericansFields of DreamsI invited Alex Perez and Ross Barkan to join me for this episode of the podcast because I’d seen both of them write essays or posts recently reflecting on their days as baseball players.Ross, as you’ll hear, topped out as a decent high school player. Alex was recruited to play for a top college team, and for a while had not implausible dreams of playing professionally.Both have experienced an intimate relationship between baseball and their lives and identities as writers.We talk about that. We also talk about the lock...
2025-10-021h 00
Eminent AmericansLeft BehindThis episode of the podcast, with Sam Kahn and David Sessions, was recorded after Sam, David, and I happened to have all written essays about our divorce from, or ongoing issues with, the American left. The conversation isn’t an extended attack on the left, though. It’s more an exploration of what the left is or has been or could be, what our own personal relationships to it are, and how it exists in relationship to the liberal space that I think David and I inhabit and maybe Sam too, though he seems more unallied at this...
2025-09-251h 24
El Podcast de Oppenheimer¿Cómo destruir una democracia? Entrevista con Daniel MatamalaAndrés Oppenheimer entrevista al reconocido periodista chileno Daniel Matamala, sobre su nuevo libro, titulado "Cómo destruir una democracia", donde sostiene que nuestras democracias están siendo destruídas desde adentro por líderes populistas que siguen una especie de manual para atornillarse en el poder, y que nos están llevando a un mundo de autocracias o dictaduras.
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2025-09-1913 min
Eminent AmericansPornography and the Men and Women Who Watch ItThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit danieloppenheimer.substack.comOne of the essays in my private canon of great essays that no one else seems to have read is philosopher Nancy Bauer’s essay “Pornutopia,” which first ran in the winter 2007 issue of N+1 and then was included in Bauer’s 2015 book How to Do Things With Pornography.I don’t talk much about my enthusiasm for this essay because it’s embarrassing. You can’t r…
2025-09-1832 min
Eminent AmericansDungeon Crawler MattMy guest on the show today is Matt Dinniman, author of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, which is seven books into a projected 10 volume run.I happened upon the book when I was trawling Kindle unlimited for science fiction to read. It kept recommending it to me, and I kept resisting, because it was hard to take seriously a novel called Dungeon Crawler Carl. Finally I gave it a try, and literally within about three weeks I’d burned through all seven novels in the series, each of which runs around 600 pages or more.They ar...
2025-09-0451 min
Eminent AmericansCrypto DreamsMy guest on the show today is Brady Dale, crypto reporter for Axios and author of the 2023 biography of Sam Bankman-Fried, SBF: How The FTX Bankruptcy Unwound Crypto's Very Bad Good Guy.Our topic, as you may have guessed, is crypto. And more broadly: what are the ideologies and ideas swirling around the technology of cryptocurrency. I just re-listened to the conversation, and I think it ended up being a really good, smart but not too technical primer on crypto in general.I used Brady, in a sense, to answer all my questions about what...
2025-08-281h 05
Eminent AmericansFreddie deBoer Agonistes (now unpaywalled)Freddie deBoer an author, blogger, essayist, and now Substacker who has carved out a niche for himself as a left-wing critic of liberals and the left, with a particular emphasis on the characteristic flaws and sins of identity politics and what we now call wokeness. He's also a critic of education reform and certain modes of mental health and disability rights advocacy. He's also a bit of a pill. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danieloppenheimer.substack.com/subscribe
2025-08-211h 14
Eminent AmericansRust Belt HeroMy guest on the show today is John Pistelli, proprietor of the Grand Hotel Abyss Substack newsletter and its affiliated lecture course, The Invisible College. John is also the author of the novel Major Arcana, which was originally serialized on Substack. It was then picked up and republished by Belt Publishing, an indie press (now under the auspices of Arcadia, a larger indie press) founded to promote voices from the Rust Belt. We talk a lot of about John’s novel, which I enjoyed immensely, but we talk more about what the novel represents, and has led to, in te...
2025-08-071h 06
Eminent AmericansRidiculously Navel-Gazing and Out of TouchI'm not the host of today's episode, but rather the guest of writer and podcaster Ken Ilgunas, who had me on his podcast, Out of the Wild with Ken Ilgunas, to talk about my own writing, my life, my thoughts, et cetera. Ken is the author of among other books, Trespassing Across America: One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland and This Land Is Our Land: How We Lost the Right to Roam and How to Take It Back. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with...
2025-07-311h 19
Out of the Wild13. Daniel Oppenheimer on Couples Therapy, Terry Real, and the Dream of a Normie LeftDaniel Oppenheimer is a cultural and political critic, the author of Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American Century, and the host of the Eminent Americans Podcast.Subscribe nowWe discuss… Dan’s terrific NYT Magazine story, “How I Learned That The Problem In My Marriage Was Me.” Why some people expose themselves in front of a therapy audience (exhibitionism + desperation + wanting a really good therapist?) How epiphanies are a dime a dozen Terry Real’s I Don’t Want to Talk About It On raging near golf courses and roundabo...
2025-07-2856 min
Eminent AmericansMr. Blue Blood and His Marvelous AdventureMy guest on the show today is Greg Barnhisel, English professor at Duquesne University and author of the recent book Code Name Puritan: Norman Holmes Pearson at the Nexus of Poetry, Espionage, and American Power.Our conversation is in one sense about the subject of his book, Norman Holmes Pearson, who was a pioneer of both the American intelligence establishment and the modern study of the humanities. But it's also about the death of what Pearson represented, or embodied, which is the American cold war establishment, or—to abstract even further— the death of any unitary establishment whatsoever possessing the...
2025-07-2455 min
Eminent AmericansOur Sincerest RegretsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit danieloppenheimer.substack.comFriend of the pod Blake Smith is back for today’s episode, which is one of my once a month paid episodes, so if you’re not a paid subscriber you’ll only get the first 20 minutes or so.Our conversation turned out to be another installment in the informal series of post-mortems I seem to be conducting on the heterodox moment in the early 2020s when there coalesced a…
2025-07-2124 min
Eminent AmericansPsychiatric BluesI want to make a strong claim about psychiatrist and philosopher of psychiatry Awais Aftab, my guest on the podcast today. He is the single best writer out there today for anyone who is interested in intellectually understanding where the field of mental health is right now.Among the questions to which he has illuminating and often quite profound answers: Is there a crisis of overdiagnosis? What does the anti-psychiatry movement get right and wrong? What does the discipline of psychiatry get right and wrong? Who are the most interesting thinkers in the mental health realm right...
2025-07-031h 15
Lean Out with Tara HenleyEP 202: Daniel Oppenheimer on How the Left Loses PeopleWith the excesses of 2020 now being examined in mainstream outlets like The New York Times, we are witnessing a moment of introspection on the American left. To unpack this development, we're joined by a writer who has studied the history of the left. And in this week's conversation, we wrestle with our own complicated — and at times conflicted — relationships to these politics.Daniel Oppenheimer is an American writer and podcaster. He runs the Substack newsletter Eminent Americans and hosts a podcast of the same name. He’s the author of Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left a...
2025-07-0252 min
Lean Out with Tara HenleyDaniel Oppenheimer on How the Left Loses PeopleWith the excesses of 2020 now being examined in mainstream outlets like The New York Times, we are witnessing a moment of introspection on the American left. To unpack this development, this week on the program, I’m joined by a writer who has studied the history of the left. And in today’s conversation, we wrestle with our own complicated — and at times conflicted — relationships to these politics.Daniel Oppenheimer is an American writer and podcaster. He runs the Substack newsletter Eminent Americans and hosts a podcast of the same name. He’s the author of Exit Right: The...
2025-07-0252 min
Eminent AmericansHer Empire of TalkAnna Gat is a political intellectual, so we talk some politics, e.g. on how things have changed for the worse in her native country of Hungary, why she thinks that a certain nerdy subset of American conservatives seems to have a raging hard-on for the country and its leader Viktor Orban, and what lessons it all holds for the potential of authoritarianism in the US. Mostly, though, we talk about InterIntellect, which is the company she created that hosts intellectual salons, both in person and online, and about what she’s learned from starting and running the company ab...
2025-06-261h 07
Eminent AmericansJewniversity BluesThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit danieloppenheimer.substack.comMy guests on the show today are Lila Corwin Berman and Mark Oppenheimer. We talk about Jews, higher education, Jews in higher education, free speech, Israel, Palestine, and the plight of the liberal intellectual Jew in a time when issues surrounding Jews are provoking decidedly illiberal reactions from both ends of the political spectrum.
2025-06-2323 min
Eminent AmericansThe Derek Guylander School for Conservatives Who Don't Read GoodStarting this month, I'm going to do two new things. One is that I'll plan on releasing episodes on a more regular schedule, on the first, third, and fourth Thursdays of each month. The other is that the second of those three episodes will be paywalled, and it will be a bit different in content from my usual podcast. It'll be shorter, typically a half hour give or take, and it will be much more topical than I usually like to be. I'll talk to my guest or guests about some current politics and news, and I'll talk about...
2025-06-0557 min
Eminent AmericansTuesdays with CillizzaMy guest on the show today is Chris Cillizza. You may know from his many years writing for the Washington Post, his many years on-air for CNN, or his recent third act on Substack, but I know Chris from way back when, as a friend and classmate in the Loomis Chaffee class of 1994. We didn't stay in close touch after we graduated, but we’ve stayed friendly and have crossed paths occasionally in the 30 years since. When Chris agreed to do this, I'd intended to focus on his long and successful career in journalism, concluding with a discussion of hi...
2025-05-2647 min
Eminent AmericansDeconstructing Sully, with Mary Jane EyreThis is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danieloppenheimer.substack.com/subscribe
2025-05-231h 29
Eminent AmericansThe Terry Real DealMy guest on this episode of the podcast is eminent couples therapist Terry Real, who is the author of various bestselling books on relationships and a great audio-only book, Fierce Intimacy, that I recommend to people all the time if they want a highly efficient rhetorical punch to the gut to change their lives for the better.Terry was also, briefly, my couples therapist. I wrote about this at great length in The New York Times Magazine, and then wrote a little bit more about it here on the Substack. He did eight sessions with my wife...
2025-05-071h 17
Eminent AmericansWhat's the Point?My guest on the show today is Jon Baskin, co-founder and editor of The Pointmagazine, which over the last 16 years has managed to carve out for itself a really distinctive and important space within the broader American literary intellectual scene. Jon and I have traded emails over the years, but like a lot of people who I think of as loose comrades within the broader scene, we had never actually gazed on each other’s faces or heard each other’s voices before we got on Zoom to do this. So it was nice to connect.We...
2025-04-241h 21
Eminent AmericansJustin Smith-Ruiu Is Not Who You Think He IsThis is the first episode of Eminent Americans where I’ve had the pleasure of talking to both the subject of a published profile and the profile writer at the same time. Kevin LaTorre, a return guest on the show, recently wrote “The 6,069 Fictions of Justin Smith-Ruiu,” a long piece about philosopher and metafictionist Justin Smith-Ruiu. Or maybe Justin wrote it himself, appropriating Kevin’s name and likeness as another one of his authorial alter-egos. Maybe “Kevin” doesn’t even exist. I mean, I think he does, since I’ve talked to him before on zoom, and perused his digi...
2025-04-151h 13
Give and TakeEpisode 283: Talking with Eminent Americans, with Daniel OppenheimerMy guest is Daniel Oppenheimer. Daniel is the host of Eminent Americans, 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.Special Guest: Daniel Oppenheimer .
2025-04-051h 23
Keen On AmericaEpisode 2477: How Daniel Oppenheimer Learned That the Problem in his Marriage Was HimselfThe writer Daniel Oppenheimer and his wife, Jessica, have been going to marriage therapy for many years. But, as he confessed in a recent New York Times magazine piece, he had to go to a superstar councillor to finally recognize that the biggest problem with his marriage was himself. Oppenheimer explains how renowned therapist Terry Real helped them, particularly by teaching him about healthy expressions of power. As with yesterday’s show with William Deresiewicz, our conversation expands to broader societal themes about modern masculinity, with Oppenheimer suggesting many men are now struggling with emotional maturity in relationships....
2025-03-2554 min
Eminent AmericansJ. Crew and the Romance of the Rollneck SweaterMy guest on the show today is Maggie Bullock, author of Kingdom of Prep, the Inside Story of The Rise and (Near) Fall of J Crew. Maggie’s also the co-author of the Substack newsletter The Spread, which offers an insider’s look and cultural commentary on the world of women’s magazines.Maggie and I talk primarily about the subject of her book, J Crew, which holds a special place in my heart, brain and psyche. We talk about our own respective experiences of preppy culture, particularly in high school, and about how fashion relates to issues...
2025-03-241h 10
Eminent AmericansThe Rise of the Not LeftMy guest on this episode of the podcast is William Deresiewicz, author of a number of books, most notably Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life, and the Substack newsletter Derisivist.Bill and I end up spending a fair amount of time discussing an as-yet-untitled essay of his that’s forthcoming in Salmagundi, and at what I'd say are the two poles of it. On the one hand, it’s a lament for the decline of the left, which he argues has made itself the enemy of cultural vitality. On the othe...
2025-03-121h 13
Eminent AmericansThe Carol Gilligan EpFor my recent New York Times Magazine article on my experience of doing couples therapy with noted therapist Terry Real, I interviewed Terry’s old friend and former collaborator Carol Gilligan. This is an edited version of that conversation, which is in part about Terry but also more broadly about issues of gender roles and relationships, patriarchy and politics.Gilligan, now in her 80s, is probably best known for her landmark 1982 book In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development, which proposed a new model of early psychological development that distinguished between how boys and girls de...
2025-03-0634 min
Eminent AmericansAmerican Ivy, Avery, and MeMy guest on today’s episode is podcast and radio producer Avery Trufelman. For about seven years, Avery was a producer for design and architecture podcast 99% Invisible, from which she eventually spun off her own podcast, Articles of Interest, which she describes as a podcast “about what we wear.” I asked Avery on the show to talk about season 3 of the show, the entirety of which was dedicated to one topic, the story of preppy clothes and style in America. I was totally mesmerized by the seven episode season, which she titled “American Ivy.” It incorporates so many of th...
2025-02-1048 min
Eminent AmericansSins of the Father: The Coates Chronicles Episode 3On this episode of the show I’m talking to Mark Oppenheimer, my older brother and the recently anointed editor of Arc, the magazine formerly known as Religion and Politics.Our text is recent article of his, “Why Is a Publisher of Antisemitic and Homophobic Authors Winning a National Book Award? Paul Coates, father of Ta-Nehisi Coates, is getting a lifetime achievement award from people who don’t want to talk about what he’s actually done.”We talk about the article, which goes into a lot of depth about the authors and texts published by Coates’s indie pres...
2025-01-091h 20
Eminent AmericansWhat Was the Post-Left?My guest on the show today is Geoff Shullenberger, managing editor of Compact magazine and host of their Blame Theory podcast. Geoff emailed me a few months back, after a post of mine that touched on the the risks of hitching one’s identity too thoroughly to hating on the left. What do I think, he asked, about the “post-left.”To which my answer was, “What’s that?”That’s the topic of much of this episode of the podcast. One answer comes from a piece on the phenomenon that Park MacDougald wrote a few years ag...
2024-12-171h 37
Eminent AmericansDreher's DemonsMy guest on the show today is Rod Dreher, conservative Christian writer and author of many books, most recently Living in Wonder: Finding Mystery and Meaning in a Secular Age, which came out in October from Zondervan press.This is the audio complement to a written interview I did with Dreher that’s just out in Arc, the magazine formerly known as Religion and Politics. It was recently re-branded and re-imagined under the auspices of its new editor in chief, my brother Mark Oppenheimer. I’ll link to the interview in the show notes. You should read it...
2024-12-0555 min
Eminent AmericansWinters Is ComingMy guest on the show today is novelist and TV writer Ben H. Winters. I first encountered Ben as the author of the wonder and wonderfully sad Last Policeman trilogy of science fiction novels, which are about a small town cop who keeps investigating and solving crimes even as a planet-destroying asteroid continues on its deadly trajectory toward Earth. I hadn’t thought of him in about a decade, since I finished the books, when I came across his name again in a surprising place, as one of the co-creators of the CBS show Tracker, the first se...
2024-11-2635 min
Eminent AmericansThese Hollow HallsOn this episode of the podcast, I talk to Sam Kahn and Julianne Werlin about how institutions and experts produce culture and authority; how two institutions in particular, the academy and journalism, are rapidly eroding in authority, resources, and maybe influence; and how Sam, Julianne, and I are reckoning, personally and professionally, with these big shifts.Among the issues we address: Why is Sam so bullish on Substack, and why is he is planning to launch a new publication on it soon? What is it like for Julianne to teach in an English department that has lost...
2024-11-201h 18
Eminent AmericansI Can Haz Dimes Square? w/Matthew GasdaI have a poor eye for specific sociological detail but a good brain for psychology and the things that drive people to block and hurt others. —Matthew GasdaMy guest on this episode of the podcast is poet, novelist, essayist and playwright Matthew Gasda, with playwright being the most salient of those descriptors. His play Denmark just finished up a short run at the Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research, which Gasda founded and runs, and he is best known for his play Dimes Square, which helped fix the notorious New York downtown microneighborhood in the pub...
2024-10-241h 56
Eminent AmericansOn PrivilegeMy guest on this episode of the podcast is Princeton sociologist Shamus Rahman Kahn, who is the author of a number of books, most notably for our purposes Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School.I described the book, in a previous post, thusly:Privilege is an extraordinary book. People throw that word around too easily, but I really mean it in this case. It blew my mind in a way that it hadn’t been blown in a long while. Khan is a very good writer of sentences, an insi...
2024-09-181h 30
Eminent AmericansLiterature w/out Lorentzen“The cynicism of this notion is impressive, if also disgusting.” – Christian Lorentzen, “Literature without Literature”“Publishing houses, publicists, agents, and even editors do not create works of literature. The creator does.” – Ross Barkan, “The War on Genius”In this episode of Eminent Americans, I talk with Christian Lorentzen, Ross Barkan, and Zain Khalid about Christian's recent piece in Granta, “Literature Without Literature,” which was the talk of the literary scene for a few weeks. Christian’s piece is both a (highly disparaging) review of Dan Sinykin’s Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and Amer...
2024-09-0359 min
Eminent AmericansClimate Therapy, Christ, and Jia TolentinoMy guest on this episode of the podcast is Kevin LaTorre, a poet and writer living with his family in North Carolina. His work has appeared in The Blotter, Echo Literary Magazine, Walter Magazine, Ad Fontes, and the Front Porch Republic. He writes about poetry, Christianity, and literature at A Stylist Submits.I asked Kevin to pick one text, idea, person, encounter that he thought captured something about where things are today, and his choice was What to Do with Climate Emotions, by Jia Tolentino, in the New Yorker.Kevin also suggested we have a...
2024-08-1251 min
Eminent AmericansTrapped by the Figure of the JewIn his recent essay in Tablet, “Why the Western Rebellion Against the Jews Produces Bad Art and Bad Politics,” Blake Smith writes about the Bulgarian-French-American critic and philosopher Julia Kristeva, and in particular her fruitful and fascinating analyses of the viciously anti-Semitic French novelist Louis-Ferdinand Céline. For Kristeva, Céline is, among many other things, a great example of how anti-Semitism is embedded in western culture in a way that precedes even the very early Christian antipathy to Jews for their role in rejecting Jesus. We are anti-Semitic, in the West, because our very psyches were formed...
2024-07-051h 56
Daniel Jung lädt ein 🎙Dr. Peter Heinrich packt aus: Oppenheimer, Physik-Hype und die Zukunft der Innovation in Europa!Im Talk mit Dr. Peter Heinrich (Strategy Lead Public Sector Germany bei Cisco). Mit einem Doktor in Physik haben wir natürlich über Oppenheimer gesprochen;), aber es gab auch einige andere Themen. Warum Physik auch cool sein kann und welche Innovation in diesem Bereich wir in Europa vorantreiben.
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2024-06-261h 14
Eminent AmericansSell Out With Me, or: Standing Athwart the Herd of Independent MindsBack on the ‘pod this week is Naomi Kanakia, author of the just released novel The Default World. We talk about Vekhi, a 1909 collection of essays from ex- and never-Marxist Russian intellectuals; Thomas Chatterton Williams, the dissident Black liberal writer; internecine battles in the trans woman world; why Naomi and I try (and fail) to stay out of bullshit culture war discussions; why we may go too easy on the right because we don’t really expect much from them; why everyone is so angry; and how all we really need is love. This is a publ...
2024-06-131h 15
Eminent AmericansYour Mother is a Pragmatist Philosopher, and Other Thoughts on the Contemporary Political SceneTwo quick opening notes on this episode of the Eminent Americans podcast:* According to some post by some guy that I read somewhere once, most podcasts don’t make it past 20 episodes. This is episode 21, which I take to mean not only that I’m more stubborn and self-absorbed than all those sub-21-ep scrubs—who have appropriately realized by episode 20 that the world doesn’t need another podcaster in it—but that this is surely one of those tipping point situations where if you make it past 20, then the next few hundred are all but assured. So I’ll be...
2024-05-231h 30
Eminent AmericansClap Your Hands Say OunsworthI first encountered Alec Ounsworth back in 2005 or 2006, when I was an arts writer for the Valley Advocate, an alt weekly in western Massachusetts that now, like so many other alt weekles, exists only in zombie form.The National was playing at the Iron Horse, Northampton’s storied small music venue, and I got tickets to go see them. Opening for them was Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, the band that Ounsworth had founded and fronted not too long before. I had a vague sense of who they were, and that they were hip, but I didn’t kn...
2024-05-1451 min
Eminent AmericansShe Came from Greece, She Had a Thirst for KnowledgeStella Tsantekidou begins her essay "I too am an unfuckable hate nerd" with the kind of inside-outside two-step that characterizes much of the writing on The Human Carbohydrate, her very compelling Substack newsletter. She's at a party in London talking to another writer. The topic is a recent piece they've both read on the phenomenon of the "unfuckable hate nerd," that very 21st century type who populates the nether regions of the internet, marinating in resentment and fury and impotence, taking out his unquenchable hate on the women of the world, particularly those with the gall to think they...
2024-04-221h 17
Eminent AmericansThe National College Basketball Team of Black AmericaOur text for today’s episode is “John Thompson, b. 1941,” a short eulogy essay by the writer Kiese Laymon in which he reflects on the special affection that not just he but also his “aunts, mother and grandmother” felt for Thompson and his Georgetown basketball team when Laymon was growing up. The coach was more than just a winning coach; he was an avatar of Black America, and a symbol of Black excellence and paternal strength and solidity. Laymon writes:From a distance, I saw Thompson as representative, our imaginary coach who was once a decorated player, who backed...
2024-04-0159 min
Eminent AmericansAll That Glitters Is Not GouldReading List* The Lure of Divorce, by Emily Gould* Goulded Cages, by Phoebe Maltz Bovy* The Sad Young Literary Man Is Now a Middle-Aged Dad, by Elizabeth Weil* Can polyamory save this marriage? by Phoebe Maltz BovyMy guest on today’s episode, which is part of my ongoing double secret probationary special series on the state of the discourse late winter/early spring 2024, is New York born, Toronto-based writer Phoebe Maltz Bovy.I reached out to Phoebe after reading her short post on Substack about the re...
2024-03-1856 min
Eminent AmericansBerlin, Trilling, and Niebuhr (and Strauss), Oh My!Reading List:* “When Liberalism Was at Its Best,” Parts 1 (Isaiah Berlin), 2 (Lionel Trilling), and 3 (Reinhold Niebuhr), by Damon Linker.* “Philosophy and the Far Right”—Part 1 and Part 2* “Conservatism and Skepticism”—Part 1 and Part 2My guest on the show today is Damon Linker, perhaps the nation's most enthusiastic, unapologetic center leftist (he and Matt Yglesias occasionally punch it out for the title in an underground fight club built in the tunnels under the charred timbers of the former headquarters of the New Republic). Damon is a senior lecturer in political science at the U...
2024-03-111h 26
Eminent AmericansWindex F*cksReading list:* Windex Ain’t Scared: Here’s Our Statement on Israel/Palestine, by Jeff Maurer* Hijackers Surprised To Find Selves In Hell, by The Onion* Not Knowing What Else To Do, Woman Bakes American-Flag Cake, by The Onion* American Life Turns Into Bad Jerry Bruckheimer Movie, by The OnionMy guests on the podcast today are Jeff Maurer, author of “Windex Ain’t Scared,” and my brother Mark Oppenheimer, who selected the text to be the subject of this installment of my special series on the state of the discou...
2024-03-0528 min
Eminent AmericansWanderers Above the Sea of Digital Fog: A state of the discourse episodeReading List:* The zeitgeist is changing. A strange, romantic backlash to the tech era looms, by Ross Barkan* Notes Toward a New Romanticism, by Ted Gioia* The Invisible College: Modern British Literature, by John Pistelli* The Three Segments of American Culture, by Ross Barkan* Major Arcana: Preface, by John PistelliMy guests on the show today are writers Ross Barkan and John Pistelli, and they’re here to help me launch something new on the podcast, which is a series of shorter episodes that are dedicated to ta...
2024-02-291h 05
Eminent AmericansThe Fall of the House of HitchReading List:* Oh, Mr Hitchens! by Laura Kipnis* The Journalist and the Editor, by Laura Kipnis* Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe, Laura Kipnis* My Title IX Inquisition, by Laura Kipnis* Christopher Hitchens' last years: Islam, the Iraq war and how a man of the left found his moment by breaking with the left, by Daniel OppenheimerMy guest on the show today is Laura Kipnis. Laura is a cultural critic and essayist whose work focuses on sexual politics, aesthetics, shame, emotion, acting out, moral messiness, and various other...
2024-02-141h 14
Let’s Talk Future™ - An Oppenheimer PodcastBio Banter: M&A Boom and Robust Private PlacementsThe biotech industry witnessed a mix of triumphs and challenges in 2023, setting the stage for an exciting 2024. In the latest Bio Banter episode, Michael Margolis, R.Ph., and Daniel Parisotto, Ph.D., discuss biotech's private placements and highlight areas attracting VC dollars. They also explore the M&A landscape in pharma and biotech and offer a sneak peek into the emerging trends of the IPO market.
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2024-01-0422 min
Eminent AmericansFar From Respectable, Even NowIn this episode of the podcast, I talk to Blake Smith and Gary Kornblau about the 30th anniversary edition of Dave Hickey’s seminal 1993 book The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty. Blake is currently a fellow with the Center for Advanced Study in Sofia, Bulgaria, as well as the author a great (which is to say, very flattering) review of my 2021 book on Hickey, and he was a stalwart participant in the Substack “book club” I organized on the new edition of Dragon. Gary is faculty at the ArtCenter College of Design. More pertinently, he was Dave’s...
2023-12-201h 46
Eminent AmericansMoser the MoserianReading list:* A personal and stirring guide to the great Dutch painters, by Sebastian Smee* Benjamin Moser on What We Can Learn from Failed Dutch Painters, by Benjamin Moser* How Gayness Changed During My Lifetime, by Benjamin Moser* Enemies of Promise, by Cyril ConnollyMy guest on the podcast today is Benjamin Moser, who was born in Houston but has lived for the past twenty plus years in Utrecht in the Netherlands, a city he describes as the Brooklyn to Amsterdam’s Manhattan, close by but different vibe. H...
2023-12-121h 36
Eminent AmericansTa-Nehisi Coates, the Liberals Who Love Him, and the Leftists Who Don'tReading list:* An Open Letter to Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Liberals Who Love Him, by Cedric Johnson* The Enduring Solidarity of Whiteness [a reply to Johnson’s open letter], by Ta-Nehisi Coates* The Panthers Can’t Save Us Now, by Cedric Johnson* What Black Life Actually Looks Like, by Cedric Johnson* The Case for Reparations, by Ta-Nehisi Coates* The Coates Chronicles: The White Period, by Daniel OppenheimerMy guest on the show today is Cedric Johnson, professor of political science and black studies at the Univ...
2023-11-061h 32
Eminent AmericansThe LeftQueer Aesthete DilemmaReading List:* “Why the Culture of the So-Called Great Books is Hostile to Trans People,” by Naomi Kanakia* “Brandon Taylor’s online writing is vibrant, funny, and true. Why is his fiction trying so hard to be something else?” by Laura Miller* “A Review of ‘The Late Americans’ is Sending Book Twitter Into A Tailspin,” by Katherine Esters* “The New, Weirdly Racist Guide to Writing Fiction,” by Naomi Kanakia* “How to start your para-intellectual career,” by Naomi KanakiaMy guest on the podcast is Naomi Kanakia, author of 3 extant books as well...
2023-10-191h 05
Pop Culture By VolumeOppenheimer: A Movie for All SeasonsSend us a textOn this episode we discuss Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer. But before that we discuss the passing of Michael Gambon and our trip to Hollywood to see Oppenheimer in IMAX 70mm at the TCL Chinese Theater. And to get us started we enjoyed a bottle of De Fermo's "Concrete" Rosato. This was a surprising wine - a biodynamic Rosato of 100% Montepulciano. The wine if from the Abruzzo region in Italy. Visit your local wine shop and see if they have it, or ask if they can order it. Enjoy!
2023-10-091h 12
4 Al HiloDani's Cut 30: OppenheimerNo sólo Barbie... sino Oppenheimer se merecía un episodio completo, una de las mejores películas del año... ¿Es una obra maestra? ¿Es la mejor película de Nolan? ¿Que mensaje tiene está cinta? Todo esto lo analizamos.
2023-09-2150 min
Eminent AmericansOur Neighbor Elon and His Big GigaIf you live in Austin as I have for the past 17 years, the phrase “new Austin” is pretty self-explanatory. Over the past few decades, the population of Austin has exploded, going from about 340,000 in 1980 to just shy of a million today, and that's actually a little bit of an understatement. That's just Austin proper rather than the whole metro area.With that growth has come a comparably dramatic shift in the city's culture. What was once a relatively low key college town with a great music scene and a strong hippie vibe has become a tech yuppy wond...
2023-09-191h 06
Let’s Talk Future™ - An Oppenheimer PodcastBio Banter – Vital Signs Robust on Private SideIn the latest episode of Bio Banter, host Michael Margolis, R.Ph., and featured guest, Daniel Parisotto, Ph.D., examine private biotech market activity, comparing H1 2023 numbers to pre-pandemic metrics and the outlook and trends for the next several months. Together, they discuss novel small molecule therapeutics, genome editing, and other biologics, and explore what is attracting VC dollars. Tune in today.
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This podcast is the property of Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. and should not be copied, distributed, published or reproduced, in whole or in part. The information/commentary contained in this recording was...
2023-09-1118 min
SpätfilmSF317 – Resident Evil: Apocalypse (mit Jan)Wie alle sprechen wir über Atombomben, die abgeworfen werde. Aber im Gegensatz zu allen anderen interessieren Jan und ich uns nicht für Oppenheimer. Nein, hier werden die wahren Klassiker besprochen: Der zweite Teil der Resident-Evil-Reihe kündigt an, eine Apokalypse zu sein, bietet am Ende aber nur die üblichen Niederschläge. Dennoch finden wir einiges, was sich an diesem Zitate-Fest besprechen lässt, auch wenn die Ideen oft stärker als die Umsetzung sind.
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2023-08-211h 11
Så, ka syns du?Oppenheimer og dama som havna på rad sjuGutta krutt sparker høstsesongen i gang med en megaepisode. Første del av Barbenheimer. Så, ka syns vi om Cillian Murphy, Christopher Nolan og høy lyd på kino?
Bodegan begynner på 1:05:20.
Sett i det siste inkluderer:
Asteroid City, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 og Nimona
Verter: Daniel Stølan, Anders Hassel og Arne Johann Digernes
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Musikk og jingler: Iver Tandsether og Anders Hassel
2023-08-171h 31
Eminent AmericansWhere Be Your DFW Lit-Bros Now?Reading list:* “The Last Essay I Need to Write about David Foster Wallace,” by Mary K. Holland* “I Really Didn’t Want to Go,” by Lauren Oyler* “Lauren Oyler tries a fun thing David Foster Wallace never did again,” by Sophia Nguyen and Lauren Oyler* “Where be your jibes now?” by Patricia Lockwood* “The Wonder of Wallace-L,” by Maria Bustillos* “Reclaiming David Foster Wallace from the Lit-Bros,” by Jonathan Russell Clark* “Too Much Information,” by John Jeremiah Sullivan My guest on this episode of the podcast is...
2023-08-082h 04
Der Letzte Podcast#420 - Teilchenphysiker ist wütend auf OppenheimerZuerst erklärt Dr. Tobi Erdmann euch in Der Letzte Podcast, warum (nicht nur) die Wissenschaftswelt gerade in Aufruhr um ein mögliches neues Material ist, das als Supraleiter bei Raumtemperatur funktionieren kann. Und im Anschluss bekommt dann noch Oppenheimer von unserem hauseigenen Teilchenphysiker erbost die Hucke voll.
2023-08-0659 min
Half Measures Podcast176 - BarbenheimerJoin us for another week of laughter, TV shows, streaming, movies and all things entertainment.
THIS WEEK WE'RE TALKING
TV Shows
A Very English Scandal (Mini-series)
1923 (S1)
Movies
Barbie (2023)
Oppenheimer (2023)
The Covenant (2023)
MOVIE OF THE WEEK & PEAK PERFORMANCE
The Covenant. Staring Jake Gyllenhaal, Dar Salim, Sean Sagar, Jason Wong, Rhys Yates, Emily Beecham and Jonny Lee Miller. Directed by Guy Ritchie.
And finally our Peak Performance nominations are in for Keira Knightly.
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2023-07-281h 21
El Verso de Shadow256. Oppenheimer¿Realmente Oppenheimer es el logro titánico de Nolan?, ¿qué momentos nos parecieron sublimes?, ¿quién da la mejor actuación?
2023-07-261h 03
By Order Of The: Peaky Blinders"Oppenheimer" INSTANT REACTIONSCillian Murphy's starring big-screen role is finally here, and Daniel & Josh are foaming at the mouth to dissect and discuss this star-studded film by Christopher Nolan... Don't worry, more "Oppenheimer" content to follow (especially if you email us questions/thoughts)
The email to hit us at is: BOOTPeakyBlinders@gmail.com
You can watch Daniel and Josh break down "Oppenheimer" over at patreon.com/byorderofpeaky (only $5/month) along with an extra hundred or so bonus episodes, as well as early-looks at episodes and a change to discuss any shows/movies with...
2023-07-2538 min
Single Take, Canon Fodder & Dare DanielDaniel Talks “Oppenheimer” – Bonus Podcast Movie Reviewhttps://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Oppenheimer-Daniel.mp3
Oppenheimer (2023; Christopher Nolan)
Rating: Bump It
*Now playing everywhere.
In this change-of-pace mini-episode, Sacramento film critic Daniel Barnes shares his thoughts on Christopher Nolan’s new three-hour biopic Oppenheimer, starring Cillian Murphy as the father of the atomic bomb. Daniel recalls his The Two Popes-esque encounter with Nolan, praises Murphy’s haunted and haunting lead performance, and delves into the film’s many paradoxes.
If nothing else, Oppenheimer confirms Nolan’s status as the ultimate “chalkboard director.” He inevitably gives us scenes in which someone...
2023-07-2122 min
Eminent AmericansThe Souls of Wesley YangReading list for episode:* “John Pistelli,” by Blake Smith* “The Souls of Yellow Folk, by Wesley Yang,” by John Pistelli* “The Souls of Yellow Folk—A Review,” by Daniel Oppenheimer* “Platonic Complex: Why Do the Intellectuals Rage?"“ by John Pistelli* “The Face of Seung-Hui Cho,” by Wesley YangCritic, novelist, and sorta-academic John Pistelliand I have two things on our agenda for this episode of the podcast. The first is Wesley Yang, the author of the 2018 essay collection The Souls of Yellow Folk and arguably the single most influential write...
2023-07-131h 11
Eminent AmericansThe White EpisodeMy guest on this episode of the podcast is Timothy Lensmire, professor of Education at the University of Minnesota and the author or editor of, among other works, White Folks: Race and Identity in Rural America; Powerful Writing, Responsible Teaching; and Whiteness at the Table: Antiracism, Racism, and Identity in Education. He is also a co-founder of the Midwest Critical Whiteness Collective (MCWC).Tim and I talk primarily about two things: the powerful critique that he and his MCWC colleagues have made, from the anti-racist left, of Peggy McIntosh’s seminal essay on white privilege (commonly known as...
2023-06-301h 21
Eminent AmericansCorey Robin's Big Bold Facebook AdventureReading list:* Corey Robin's Facebook Page* Not Yet Falling Apart: Two thinkers on the left offer a guide to navigating the stormy seas of modernity, by moi* Straight Outta Chappaqua: How Westchester-bred lefty prof Corey Robin came to loathe Israel, defend Steven Salaita, and help cats, by Phoebe Maltz Bovy* Online Fracas for a Critic of the Right, by Jennifer Schuessler* Scholar Behind U. of Illinois Boycotts Is a Longtime Activist, by Marc ParryA few years ago, I got this text from a friend...
2023-06-091h 11
Eminent AmericansThe Fall of the White American GayEpisode Reading List:* From Queer to Gay to Queer, James Kirchick* How Hannah Arendt’s Zionism Helped Create American Gay Identity, Blake Smith* When the Pope Hits Your Eye Like a Big Pizza Pie, That’s Ahmari, James Kirchick* Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Big Fat Nonbinary Mistake, Blake Smith* Are Conservatives the New Queers?, Blake Smith* Wesley Yang, The Souls of Yellow Folk, John PistelliI have a working hypothesis that no one has suffered a more dramatic decline in a certain kind of social status...
2023-05-311h 05
Eminent AmericansIt Girl of the Trans World: Pulitzer Prize Winner Andrea Long ChuThis podcast was recorded about a week before its subject, Andrea Long Chu, was awarded the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for criticism, so it doesn't come up in the conversation with Blake Smith, but it's interesting to keep in mind as he and I analyze Chu and try to understand the particular role she plays in the broader intellectual and journalistic ecosystem.Our story begins in early 2018, when the hipster intellectual magazine N+1 published a long essay titled “On Liking Women.” The essay, which went rather viral, was about the author’s transition to being a woman, her fascination with t...
2023-05-1154 min
Eminent AmericansEzra Klein, Prince of New MediaIt would be very easy to hate Ezra Klein. He’s only 38, and already has been a pioneering political blogger, a pioneering explanatory journalist for the Washington Post, the founder of Vox.com, the author of the best-selling book Why We’re Polarized, and now a marquis podcaster and columnist for the New York Times.The amount of good fortune that’s come his way is staggering. Not just journalistic and political good fortune, but personal good fortune. His wife, the journalist Annie Lowrey, is a successful journalist with a national profile. Presumably their two kids, whose names...
2023-04-2140 min
Jews on Film: Exploring Jewish Stories & Themes in CinemaSchool Ties w/ Mark OppenheimerIn this week’s episode, Daniel & Harry are joined by writer and podcast host Mark Oppenheimer to discuss Robert Mandel’s 1992 film “School Ties,” starring Brendan Fraser and Matt Damon.They unpack how the film represents widespread antisemitism as it existed at the time, debate the accuracy of its depiction of Jewish practice, and discuss how screenwriter Dick Wolf infuses a Law and Order type intensity into the film.As always, they close out the episode by ranking the film’s "Jewishness" in terms of its cast & crew, content, and themes.IMDB - h...
2022-12-011h 12
The Curiosity ProjectThe science of memory retention with Professor Daniel OppenheimerBrew a cup and join Omar and Professor Daniel Oppenheimer for a chat! In today's episode we talk about the science of memory retention. Professor Daniel Oppenheimer walks us through his studies and research in to how to improve your long term and short term memory and whether or or multi tasking is a good thing.
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Microphones: Sennheiser MK4 and Neumann TLM 103 MT
Interface: Focusrite Scarlett 8i6
Cables: Kenable XLR 4m cables
2022-07-2047 min
Big TableEpisode 27: Daniel Oppenheimer on Dave HickeyThe Interview:Dave Hickey was an inspirational character—a writer of essays and songs, an astute art and literary critic, a one-time gallerist and, certainly, an art-world provocateur.Hickey published his two most famous books in the 1990s, The Invisible Dragon—a call to reconsider beauty in art—and Air Guitar, a cult classic essay collection that exposed the more personal and venerable style of cultural criticism.Dave passed away at the age of 82, a few weeks after we recorded this interview with his biographer, Daniel Oppenheimer. Hickey's pariah status had by then waned...
2022-01-2432 min
Talking Beats with Daniel LelchukEp. 116: Nuclear Roulette and the Cuban Missile Crisis with Martin Sherwin"As Kennedy said at the United Nations, there is a 'sword of Damocles hanging by a thread over humanity,' and we're still in that same position today and will remain in that position unless we figure out how to get rid of nuclear weapons."
This is a rebroadcast of Ep. 88, aired originally April 7th, 2021. Marty Sherwin died on October 6th, 2021.
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Pulitzer-prize winning historian Martin J. Sherwin is on the podcast, discussing his new book Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis. The book sheds new light a...
2021-10-1959 min
Outsider TheoryThe Death and Life of Pagan America: On Dave Hickey, with Daniel OppenheimerWriter Daniel Oppenheimer joins me to discuss his new book on the legendary art critic Dave Hickey, "Far From Respectable." We explore Hickey's case for the continued vitality of beauty as a criterion for thinking about art and culture, his defense of controversial artist Robert Mapplethorpe and simultaneous critique of Mapplethorpe's other defenders, his aesthetic populism, his abandoned project "Pagan America," and the relevance of all of these to the current cultural panorama. We also explore Hickey's critique of institutions alongside the ironic fact that institutions sustained his best work – and what that might mean for current institutional outsiders in...
2021-07-161h 42
Skylight Books Podcast SeriesSKYLIT: Daniel Oppenheimer, "FAR FROM RESPECTABLE"Regarded as both a legend and a villain, the critic Dave Hickey has inspired generations of artists, art critics, musicians, and writers. His 1993 book The Invisible Dragon became a cult hit for its potent and provocative critique of the art establishment and its call to reconsider the role of beauty in art. His next book, 1997's Air Guitar, introduced a new kind of cultural criticism--simultaneously insightful, complicated, vulnerable, and down-to-earth--that propelled Hickey to fame as an iconoclastic thinker, loved and loathed in equal measure, whose influence extended beyond the art world. Far from Respectable is a focused, evocative exploration of...
2021-06-1438 min
Talking Beats with Daniel LelchukEp. 88: Martin Sherwin"As Kennedy said at the United Nations, there is a 'sword of Damocles hanging by a thread over humanity,' and we're still in that same position today and will remain in that position unless we figure out how to get rid of nuclear weapons."
Pulitzer-prize winning historian Martin J. Sherwin is on the podcast, discussing his new book Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis. The book sheds new light and brings fresh insights into what was one of the most volatile, potentially catastrophic period of time in...
2021-04-0759 min
Behavioral Grooves PodcastDanny Oppenheimer: Governance and Helicopter ParentingDaniel Oppenheimer, PhD, known to all as “Danny,” is a professor of psychology in the Social and Decision Sciences department in the Dietrich College of Humanities & Social Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. This is the third episode in our Carnegie Mellon series, and Danny is a researcher with a wide variety of curiosities. His writings have been published in more than 50 peer-reviewed publications, as well as a number of book chapters and media contributions. Among his notable works, he co-authored Democracy Despite Itself: Why a System That Shouldn’t Work at All Works So Well, published by the MIT Press...
2019-04-141h 06
15 Minutes: a podcast about fame, with Jamie BergerEpisode 53 - Daniel Oppenheimer (returns, unexpectedly, serendipitously!)Daniel Oppenheimer 2Hello All,Part 2 of my conversation with Beth Lisick will be next up. For now, here's a timely interruption. You may recall, in the last episode, I mentioned that (to quote, well, me) :"This week I took a huge, manic, obsessive dive down the Aziz Ansari/#metoo rabbit hole, and like to think I have takes that haven't yet been took. But after writing about 18 (single space) pages of notes and compiling dozens of articles and audio and video (google Samantha Bee and Aziz for one of the most recent, and best, responses), when I went to record ... w...
2018-01-311h 31
The Hauenstein Center Collection#7: Daniel Oppenheimer On Exit RightIn today’s episode, we hear a June 29, 2016 interview with Daniel Oppenheimer, a writer and documentarian, and the author of Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left and Shaped the American Century. In his book, Daniel Oppenheimer writes about the political conversions of six figures whose names might be familiar—Whitaker Chambers, James Burnham, Ronald Reagan, Norman Podhoretz, David Horowitz, and Christopher Hitchens. Though each of these figures defected from the left in one if not all ways, their stories are certainly not identical: whereas Chambers and Burnham were both committed Marxists at one point, Reagan was never really of f...
2016-08-031h 00The Hauenstein Center Collection#7: Daniel Oppenheimer On Exit RightIn today’s episode, we hear a June 29, 2016 interview with Daniel Oppenheimer, a writer and documentarian, and the author of Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left and Shaped the American Century. In his book, Daniel Oppenheimer writes about the political conversions of six figures whose names might be familiar—Whitaker Chambers, James Burnham, Ronald Reagan, Norman Podhoretz, David Horowitz, and Christopher Hitchens. Though each of these figures defected from the left in one if not all ways, their stories are certainly not identical: whereas Chambers and Burnham were both committed Marxists at one point, Reagan was never really of f...
2016-08-031h 00
Write With Impact with Glenn Leibowitz17: Prof. Daniel Oppenheimer on Why the Pen is Mightier Than the KeyboardProfessor Daniel Oppenheimer holds joint positions in marketing and psychology at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
Previously he was a Professor at Princeton University for 8 years, where he held a joint appointment in psychology and public affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
He joined the faculty of Princeton after receiving his PhD from Stanford.
Professor Oppenheimer has received several prestigious awards for his research, which focuses on human decision making. His work has also been featured in top-tier media.
He’s the co-author of the bo...
2015-07-0428 min