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The Telos Press Podcast Podcast

Since 1968, the quarterly journal Telos has served as the definitive international forum for discussions of political, social, and cultural change. Readers from around the globe turn to Telos to engage with the sharpest minds in politics, philosophy, and critical theory, and to discover emerging theoretical analyses of the pivotal issues of the day. Don't miss a single issue—subscribe to Telos today at the Telos Press website, www.telospress.com.

  1. The TPPI Podcast, Episode 9: Israel's Year of Dangerous Living, Part 5: Conceptions and Consequences: A Conversation with Orian Morris and Gabriel Noah Brahm

    5 AUG

    The TPPI Podcast, Episode 9: Israel's Year of Dangerous Living, Part 5: Conceptions and Consequences: A Conversation with Orian Morris and Gabriel Noah Brahm

    Gabriel Noah Brahm talks with Orian Morris, a longtime close observer of Israeli politics and culture, a noted Israeli literary critic, a critically acclaimed novelist writing primarily in Hebrew, and a former IDF combat soldier. While serving as a paratrooper, he saw the death of his company commander in battle and participated in an ambush in which a number of Hezbollah terrorists were killed. He has authored numerous highly original and thought-provoking essays and stories for Haaretz, Makor Rishon, Tablet, and TelosScope. The release of his formally innovative 2016 book לרגל עבור מקום אחר (With My Little Eye) established him as the latest "enfant terrible of Hebrew literature."

    1h 25m
  2. The TPPI Podcast, Episode 8: Israel's Year of Dangerous Living, Part 4: A View from Israel's Center Left: A Conversation with Paul Gross and Gabriel Noah Brahm

    23 JUL

    The TPPI Podcast, Episode 8: Israel's Year of Dangerous Living, Part 4: A View from Israel's Center Left: A Conversation with Paul Gross and Gabriel Noah Brahm

    Gabriel Noah Brahm talks with Paul Gross, a Senior Fellow at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem. Previously, Gross served as speechwriter for Israel's Ambassador to the UK. He holds an MA in Middle East Politics from the University of London, and lectures widely on Israeli history and politics. His numerous published research articles and op-eds have appeared in a variety of media outlets in Israel, the UK, the US and Canada, including The Jerusalem Post, Haaretz, Fathom, The American Interest , and Persuasion. He was an active participant in the protest movement against judicial reform in Israel from December 2022 to October 2023.

    1h 20m
  3. The TPPI Podcast, Episode 7: Israel's Year of Dangerous Living, Part 3: On Ballots and Bullets: A Conversation with Prof. Michael S. Kochin

    22 JUL

    The TPPI Podcast, Episode 7: Israel's Year of Dangerous Living, Part 3: On Ballots and Bullets: A Conversation with Prof. Michael S. Kochin

    Gabriel Noah Brahm talks with Michael S. Kochin, Professor Extraordinarius in the School of Political Science, Government, and International Relations at Tel Aviv University. Kochin received his A.B. in mathematics at 19 from Harvard and his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago. He has held visiting appointments at Yale, Princeton, Toronto, and Claremont McKenna College. Through September 2025 Kochin is Visiting Scholar at the Hillsdale College Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship and at the Catholic University of America. He has written widely on the comparative analysis of institutions, political thought, politics and literature, and political rhetoric. Kochin is the author of three books: Gender and Rhetoric in Plato’s Political Thought (2002), Five Chapters on Rhetoric: Character, Action, Things, Nothing, and Art (2009) and (with the historian Michael Taylor) An Independent Empire: Diplomacy & War in the Making of the United States (2020). With Alberto Spektorowski he edited Michel Houellebecq, the Cassandra of Freedom: Submission and Decline (2021).

    1h 32m
  4. The TPPI Podcast, Episode 6: Israel's Year of Dangerous Living, Part 2: "From the Battlefield of Ideas to the Battlefield, and Back": A Podcast Conversation with Dr. Jonathan Spyer

    16 JUL

    The TPPI Podcast, Episode 6: Israel's Year of Dangerous Living, Part 2: "From the Battlefield of Ideas to the Battlefield, and Back": A Podcast Conversation with Dr. Jonathan Spyer

    The TPPI Podcast, Episode 6: Israel's Year of Dangerous Living, Part 2: "From the Battlefield of Ideas to the Battlefield, and Back": A Podcast Conversation with Dr. Jonathan Spyer Gabriel Noah Brahm, director of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute’s Israel Initiative, speaks with Jonathan Spyer, editor of the Middle East Quarterly, the Middle East Forum's flagship publication, and director of research at the Forum. A journalist, he reports for Janes Intelligence Review, writes a column for the Jerusalem Post, and is a contributor to the Wall Street Journal and The Australian. He frequently reports from Syria and Iraq. He has a B.A. from the London School of Economics, an M.A. from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. He is the author of two books: The Transforming Fire: The Rise of the Israel-Islamist Conflict (2010) and Days of the Fall: A Reporter's Journey in the Syria and Iraq Wars (2017).

    1h 13m
  5. The TPPI Podcast, Episode 5: Israel's Year of Dangerous Living: From Judicial Reform to October 7 and Beyond

    1 JUL

    The TPPI Podcast, Episode 5: Israel's Year of Dangerous Living: From Judicial Reform to October 7 and Beyond

    Gabriel Noah Brahm, director of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute’s Israel Initiative, speaks with Gadi Taub, a Senior Lecturer at the Federmann School of Public Policy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Taub previously joined us for the TPPI webinar on “Our Troubled Institutions: The End(s) of Higher Education, Post-Journalism, and Antisemitism after October 7,” which also featured Russell A. Berman and Paulina Neuding, and which is available here. For more information about TPPI's Israel Initiative, visit our website.

    53 min
  6. The TPPI Podcast, Episode 4: The Nazi Roots of October 7: A Conversation with Dr. Matthias Küntzel and Gabriel Noah Brahm

    29 MAY

    The TPPI Podcast, Episode 4: The Nazi Roots of October 7: A Conversation with Dr. Matthias Küntzel and Gabriel Noah Brahm

    The TPPI Podcast, Episode 4: The Nazi Roots of October 7: A Conversation with Matthias Küntzel and Gabriel Noah Brahm Gabriel Noah Brahm, director of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute’s Israel Initiative, speaks with German political scientist Dr. Matthias Küntzel about the Nazi roots of the Hamas atrocities of October 7, 2023, and about the dangers posed today by Iran. This conversation follows TPPI’s webinar of February 7, 2024, “Historians on Ideology and Politics in the 1948 War” with Küntzel, Jeffrey Herf, and Benny Morris, available here: https://youtu.be/2-xT2ePXjfU. The video version of this podcast is available here: https://youtu.be/gQezPnV0kvw  For more information about TPPI's Israel Initiative, visit our website here: https://www.telosinstitute.net/israel-initiative/

    1h 7m
  7. The TPPI Podcast, Episode 3: Democracy in India: Mark Kelly Speaks with Salvatore Babones

    16 FEB

    The TPPI Podcast, Episode 3: Democracy in India: Mark Kelly Speaks with Salvatore Babones

    In the latest podcast of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute, TPPI's Mark G. E. Kelly, organizer of the 2024 Telos conference on "Democracy Today?," speaks with Salvator Babones of the University of Sydney about democracy in India, asking him in particular about his sympathetic reading of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A video version of this interview is available here: https://youtu.be/epeq67sOccg

    52 min
  8. The TPPI Podcast, Episode 2: Abe Silberstein on Frantz Fanon

    12 FEB

    The TPPI Podcast, Episode 2: Abe Silberstein on Frantz Fanon

    Gabriel Brahm, director of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute's Israel initiative, talks with Abe Silberstein, a writer and critic based in New York, whose essays have appeared in the New York Times, Ha’aretz, The Forward, Times Literary Supplement (UK), and Dissent, among other publications. Their discussion focuses on Frantz Fanon and the events of October 7. This conversation follows TPPI's webinar on January 7 on the same subject with Silberstein, Cary Nelson, and Manuela Consonni, available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWNDnQtLvLQ

    1h 7m
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Since 1968, the quarterly journal Telos has served as the definitive international forum for discussions of political, social, and cultural change. Readers from around the globe turn to Telos to engage with the sharpest minds in politics, philosophy, and critical theory, and to discover emerging theoretical analyses of the pivotal issues of the day. Don't miss a single issue—subscribe to Telos today at the Telos Press website, www.telospress.com.

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    Telos Press
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2024
  • Episodes
    84
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