A brief item to say that I think you really would do well to give a listen to Vlad Vexler’s video chat posted yesterday, no matter who you are.
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A personal post in which I get all radical with Rick Perlstein, Vlad Vexler, and Michael Ignatieff.
A brief item to notice Jeet Heer’s recent conversation with Yousef Munayyer about Netanyahu’s Israel and Trump’s America.
Another brief item, another except — this one from Sophie Lewis’s return visit on the Ordinary Unhappiness show this week.
A brief item excerpting some of Paris Marx’s conversation with The Mechanic and the Luddite author Jathan Sadowski on Marx’s show this week.
A brief item (extending in a way the theme of the preceding one) to mark some new listening in Asian literary & political history, with book talks by Sam Hodgkin on his Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism as point of entry.
A personal post for thinking about my ignorance of some American-music things not at all divorced from the popular mainstream.
A personal post sort of clumsily bringing Vlad Vexler into conversation (or at any rate collision) with Pankaj Mishra.
A brief item for holding a few paragraphs from near the end of 2012’s From the Ruins of Empire, by Pankaj Mishra.
A new personal post in which I spend a little time with professors of religion (and more) Shaul Magid and Jay Carter.