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Required Reading from Liberties episodes
- Rob Rubsam on Red Rooms and our Depravity
Rob Rubsam and Celeste Marcus discuss the movie Red Rooms and the case it makes for the inescapable depravity of contemporary human life.
46 min - Ryan Ruby on Context Collapse
Ryan Ruby discusses his new book Context Collapse with Christopher McCaffery and Celeste Marcus.
43 min - Jessica Pishko on Trumpian Immigration policies
Jessica Pishko and Celeste Marcus discuss what immigration policies will look like in the next Trump administration
1 hr 11 min - Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Henry Oliver and Celeste Marcus discuss Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece Brideshead Revisited.
1 hr 10 min - Little Journals, Local Papers, and Democracy
Dave Kelsey talks with Celeste Marcus about his projects to heal local journalism and literary culture -- at least a little bit.
46 min - Sean Wilentz and Johann Neem on the stakes of this election
Sean Wilentz and Johann Neem join Celeste Marcus to discuss their recent essays about the threat Trump poses to American liberal democracy.
32 min - Jessica Pishko - The Highest Law in the Land
Jessica Pishko joins Celeste Marcus to discuss her book The Highest Law in the Land, a meticulously researched and reported account of how sheriffs came to believe they were the final arbiters on American law.
1 hr 9 min - October 7 and The Meanings of Commemoration
In a conversation about two books recounting the horrors of October Seventh, Leon Wieseltier and Celeste Marcus explore the themes of collective memory, personal versus national trauma, commemoration, hope, and despair.
58 min - Zack Beauchamp - The Reactionary Spirit
Zack Beauchamp joins us for a discussion about the chapter of his book The Reactionary Spirit which focuses on Carl Schmitt, Schmittian anti-liberalism, and the relationship between liberalism and democracy.
32 min - How We Got Here by David Shields
The writer, director, and producer David Shields discusses his new book How We Got Here with Liberties' managing editor Celeste Marcus. How We Got Here tracks the history of ideas from the enlightenment to 2024 and makes the case that the same forces which yielded post-enlightenment intellectual freedom have led to the current contempt for truth.
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About Required Reading from Liberties
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On Required Reading we talk with writers and readers about the texts — old and new — that influence or express their worldview.