
Arc: The Podcast
Hosted by Mark · arcthepodcast
4.9from 41 ratings
- 31
- Episodes
- 5
- Transcribed
- 41
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About Arc: The Podcast
Arc Magazine’s editor-in-chief, Mark Oppenheimer, is joined by guests to talk religion, politics, et cetera.
- Publisher
- arcthepodcast
- Category
- religion & spirituality
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 23 Apr 2025
- Latest episode
- 30 Jul 2026
Latest episodes
5 of 31 episodes have a transcript.

30 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 31: Nicholas Lemann

9 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 30: Miroslav Volf and Christian Wiman

2 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 29: Danielle Allen
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Episode 31: Nicholas Lemann
Published 30 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] They were really the least... out Jews. That was the least openly Jewish generation. And by the time you get to people who are serving in World War II and living in the 50s and 60s and 70s, there's a little more acceptance of being American Jews, if they haven't assimilated out, you see a little more pride, especially after World War II. I mean, the thing your father did, which was double down on the German-ness and the kind of deracinated anti-Judaism, to double down on that in the 60s, 70s, and 80s was a somewhat anachronistic and peculiar thing. It was a time when even German Jews were, again, as you said, German wasn't really a category, and if they were going to be Jewish, they were going to have take some interest in Israel, take some interest in kind of the, the influence of the mass Eastern immigration into culture, into the movies, into the arts, et cetera. […]
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- Nicholas Lemann
- Miroslav Volf
- Christian Wiman
- Danielle Allen
- Paul Elie
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 26 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 15 ratings
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