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A.E. Stallings on writing poetry
Jun 22, 2026
Unknown duration
Abbas Milani on Ali Khamenei: A Profile in Dogma
Apr 14, 2026
34m 54s
Yahia Lababidi - Czesław Miłosz and Thomas Merton; Secretaries of Silence
Mar 31, 2026
33m 36s
James Wolcott - Gloire Days
Mar 6, 2026
24m 32s
Dan Sinykin - Close Reading
Feb 9, 2026
35m 40s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/22/26 | A.E. Stallings on writing poetry | A.E. Stallings discusses her recent essay "How Poems Happen (For Me)" with Morten Høi Jensen. | — | ||||||
| 4/14/26 | Abbas Milani on Ali Khamenei: A Profile in Dogma✨ | politicsIran+3 | Abbas Milani | Ali Khamenei: A Profile in Dogma | — | Ali KhameneiAbbas Milani+3 | — | 34m 54s | |
| 3/31/26 | Yahia Lababidi - Czesław Miłosz and Thomas Merton; Secretaries of Silence✨ | literatureessays+4 | Yahia Lababidi | — | — | Yahia LababidiCzesław Miłosz+5 | — | 33m 36s | |
| 3/6/26 | James Wolcott - Gloire Days✨ | politicsmedia+3 | James Wolcott | Gloire Days | Mar-a-Lago | James WolcottGloire Days+4 | — | 24m 32s | |
| 2/9/26 | Dan Sinykin - Close Reading✨ | literary analysisbook discussion+3 | Dan Sinykin | Princeton University PressClose Reading For The Twentieth Century | — | close readingliterature+4 | — | 35m 40s | |
| 1/27/26 | Morten Høi Jensen and Celeste Marcus -- Mann and Soutine✨ | literatureart+4 | Morten Høi JensenCeleste Marcus | The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of the Magic MountainChaim Soutine: Genius, Obsession, and a Dramatic Life in Art | — | Thomas MannChaim Soutine+4 | — | 44m 40s | |
| 1/5/26 | Lance Richardson - Peter Matthiessen, True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen,✨ | biographyenvironmentalism+3 | Lance Richardson | CIAPeter Matthiessen, True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen | Bigfoot Legend | Peter Matthiessenbiography+3 | — | 39m 01s | |
| 11/11/25 | Aatish Taseer - Return to Self: Excursions in Exile✨ | citizenshipexile+4 | Aatish Taseer | Return to Self: Excursions in Exile | India | Aatish TaseerMorten Høi Jensen+6 | — | 35m 24s | |
| 10/15/25 | Daniel Elkind - Dr Chizhevsky's Chandelier✨ | USSR20th Century+3 | Daniel Elkind | Dr Chizhevsky's ChandelierThe Decline of the USSR and other Heresies of the Twentieth Century | — | Daniel ElkindMorten Høi Jensen+5 | — | 34m 39s | |
| 9/9/25 | Oliver Moody - Baltic: The Future of Europe✨ | Baltic SeaEuropean history+3 | Oliver Moody | Baltic: The Future of Europe | — | BalticEurope+5 | — | 36m 20s | |
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| 8/27/25 | Luka Ivan Jukić - Central Europe: The Death of a Civilization and the Life of an Idea✨ | Central Europecivilization+3 | Luka Ivan Jukić | Central Europe: The Death of a Civilization and the Life of an Idea | — | Central Europecivilization+4 | — | 41m 24s | |
| 8/18/25 | Alissa Wilkinson: We Tell Ourselves Stories | Alissa Wilkinson and Morten Høi Jensen discuss Wilkinson's most recent book We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine. The book is about Didion, but it's also about America in her lifetime. This episode includes talk about the Dustbowl, Hays Code, Bonnie and Clyde and the human addiction to delusion. | — | ||||||
| 8/1/25 | Ben Libman - The Third Solitude; A Memoir Against History | Ben Libman and Morten Høi Jensen discuss Ben's new book The Third Solitude, religion, tradition, and a modern Jew's relationship with and responsibility to his inheritance. | — | ||||||
| 7/2/25 | Guy Stagg - The World Within | Guy Stagg joins Required Reading's new host Morten Høi Jensen to discuss his new book The World Within.On writing the book: "All my life I have dreamed of retreat. Of letting go each responsibility and cutting every tie. And I know I’m not the only one. But, when I learnt about the creative figures who left their lives behind, I began to ask myself: what is gained and what is lost when we withdraw from the world?" | — | ||||||
| 5/7/25 | Carlos Fraenkel and Agnes Callard: Open Socrates | Carlos Fraenkel and Agnes Callard discuss Carllard's new book Open Socrates and make the case for a life of philosophical inquiry. | — | ||||||
| 3/26/25 | Scott Spillman: MAKING SENSE OF SLAVERY: America’s Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Today | Scott Spillman on his recent book Making Sense of Slavery which illustrates how the study of slavery has been at the heart of American intellectual and political life for the past two centuries. | — | ||||||
| 2/3/25 | 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. | — | ||||||
| 1/10/25 | Ryan Ruby on Context Collapse | Ryan Ruby discusses his new book Context Collapse with Christopher McCaffery and Celeste Marcus. | — | ||||||
| 12/20/24 | Jessica Pishko on Trumpian Immigration policies | Jessica Pishko and Celeste Marcus discuss what immigration policies will look like in the next Trump administration | — | ||||||
| 12/4/24 | Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh | Henry Oliver and Celeste Marcus discuss Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece Brideshead Revisited. | — | ||||||
| 11/19/24 | 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. | — | ||||||
| 10/22/24 | 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. | — | ||||||
| 10/17/24 | 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. | — | ||||||
| 10/4/24 | 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. | — | ||||||
| 9/27/24 | 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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