40 episodes
LibertiesTalk Liberties
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4.5 • 27 Ratings
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The podcast of Liberties, a Journal of Culture and Politics.
LibertiesTalk offers two sorts of conversations: The first is hosted by Celeste Marcus, the managing editor of Liberties, and features conversations with members of the Liberties community about whatever is on our minds. The other is a monthly series of wide-ranging conversations on culture and politics hosted by Celeste Marcusand Chris McCaffery, founder of the Washington Review of Books. These lively discussions will feature our writers and the larger intellectual community in Washington, D.C.
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WRB x Liberties Salon 5 - Is Loyalty Possible Without Nationalism?
Christopher McCaffery, of the Washington Review of Books, and Celeste Marcus host their spiciest salon yet. Is nationalism inherently evil? Is it the least important of our identities? It is the most important? Can one be loyal to a people but not that people's government? We ask and offer answers to these and more related questions.
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WRB x Liberties Salon 4 - Should art be useful?
Christopher McCaffery, of the Washington Review of Books, and Celeste Marcus host a salon of interested parties who together ask and offer answers to the question ‘Should art be useful?’
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WRB x Liberties Salon 3 — Should love be healthy?
Christopher McCaffery, of the Washington Review of Books, and Celeste Marcus host a salon of interested parties who together ask and offer answers to the question ‘Should love be healthy?’
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WRB x Liberties Salon 2 — Is Forgiveness Possible?
Christopher McCaffery, of the Washington Review of Books, and Celeste Marcus host a salon of interested parties who together ask and offer answers to the question ‘Is forgiveness possible?’
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Episode 34 - Celeste Marcus
Host Chuong Nguyen talks to Celeste Marcus about her most recent essay, After Rape: A Guide For The Tormented. They consider questions like, "Why is rape so difficult to talk about?" "How long does it take to feel okay afterwards?" "Why do so many rapists not think of what they did as rape?"
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WRB x Liberties Salon 1 - Are Books Worthwhile?
Chris McCaffery, of the Washington Review of Books, and Celeste Marcus, managing editor of Liberties, host a salon in which they and a group of lively invested parties ask whether or not books are worthwhile.
Speakers in order of appearance: Jerome Copulsky, Carlos Lozada, Becca Rothfeld, Mikra Namani, Laura Field, Osita Nwanevu, Nic Rowan, Ari Schulman, Steven Larkin, Zach Wehrwein, Lars Schonander, and Hannah Rowan.
Customer Reviews
Very Thorough discussions
This podcast features either Wieseltier or Marcus speaking to Liberties writers. The writers are given time to explain the roots of their argument and why they arrived at their opinions. The hosts are curious and have insight as well. Great discussions on specific books and films.
Disappointing.
These discussions are disappointing. This is a gathering of people who see themselves as intellectuals, yet the discussions sound like the conversations we had as freshmen in our college dorms. The navel-gazing discussion about the book as a “totalitarian” form was exasperating. Very dim ideas here. A better use of time would be David Runciman’s Past, Present, & Future. His discussion of various important essays is terrific. His discussions with Lea Ypi have also been good.