64 Brahmin Left 4: Adaner and John wrap up with Elizabeth
Our Summer series on the Brahmin Left, winding down as Fall approaches, was inspired by our bracing but terrifying interview with Thomas Piketty. It starts from the assumption that a major realignment...
16 Sep 202132min
63 Brahmin Left 3: Arlie Hochschild (AU, JP)
Our Brahmin Left investigation was inspired by Adaner and John’s eye-opening interview with Thomas Piketty. Piketty maintains that Left parties have abandoned the working-class for an increasingly hig...
2 Sep 202133min
62 Brahmin Left 2: Jan-Werner Müller (AU, JP)
This new series on the Brahmin Left was inspired by Adaner and John’s bracing but terrifying interview with Thomas Piketty. Piketty maintains that Left parties have abandoned the working-class for an ...
19 Aug 202148min
61 Brahmin Left 1: Matt Karp on class dealignment (AU, JP)
This new series on the Brahmin Left was inspired by our bracing but terrifying interview with Thomas Piketty. So what even is the Brahmin Left? There seems to be little disagreement that a major reali...
5 Aug 202137min
60 Sean Hill on Bodies in Space and Time (EF, EB)
Elizabeth is joined by Elizabeth Bradfield, poet, naturalist and professor of poetry at Brandeis, in a conversation with the poet Sean Hill, author of Blood Ties and Brown Liquor (2008) and Dangerous ...
8 Jul 202137min
59 Recall This B-Side #4: Pardis Dabashi on “My Uncle Napoleon” (JP)
Iraj Pezeshkzad‘s My Uncle Napoleon is a slapstick and at times goofy love story, but it is also in the best tradition of sly anti-imperial satire. Scholar Pardis Dabashi came to it late, but she has ...
24 Jun 202114min
58 Recall this B-Side #3: Caleb Crain on Daisy Ashford’s “The Young Visiters” (JP)
John’s favorite avocation is editing a Public Books column called B-Side Books, where writers resurrect beloved but neglected books. Now comes a book that collects 40 of these columns (the Washington ...
17 Jun 202111min
57 Recall this B-side #2: Elizabeth Ferry on “The Diary of ‘Helena Morley'” (JP)
Given this podcast’s love of neglected books, you won’t be shocked to know that John has a side-hustle–in which Elizabeth plays a significant part. He edits a Public Books column called B-Side Books, ...
10 Jun 202112min
