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Of Melville and Marriage

Posted March 14, 202400:36:44

We speak of the mystery of Herman Melville, or the misery of Melville, the American masterpiece man. For Moby-Dick alone, he is our Shakespeare,...

Against Despair

Posted February 29, 202400:56:40

The subject, in a word, is despair, both public and private. The poets and spiritual seekers Christian Wiman and his wife Danielle Chapman are back...

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Posted February 15, 202400:44:06

Frantz Fanon is our interest in this podcast. The man had charisma across the board in a short life and a long afterlife. A black man from the Caribbean,...

Algorithmic Anxiety

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The Humbling of Harvard

Posted January 18, 202400:39:53

Oldest and far the richest among American universities, Harvard is the apex, in some sense, of American intellectualism, and it will be a long time...