Eminent Americans

About Eminent Americans

Eminent Americans is a podcast about the writers and public intellectuals who either are key players in the American intellectual scene or who typify an important aspect of it. It also touches on broader themes and trends in the discourse. danieloppenheimer.substack.com (https://danieloppenheimer.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

Daniel Oppenheimer

Category

news · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

21 Apr 2023

Latest episode

3 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

13 of 85 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   3 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The People’s (Podcast) Microphone

   Host Dan Oppenheimer interviews Jeffrey Lawrence, Professor of English at Rutgers University, about the legacy and lessons of Occupy Wall Street, exploring its populist power and evolving political strategies.

2. 

   25 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Gender Identity Episode

   Host Daniel Oppenheimer interviews UCLA Professor Rogers Brubaker about the social construction and historical evolution of gender identity, offering a nuanced understanding of this complex topic.

3. 

   15 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   On Off Christopher Street

   Host Dan Oppenheimer interviews David Sessions and Blake Smith about the current state and future of gay male intellectual life and literary culture.

Inside a recent episode

The People’s (Podcast) Microphone

Published 3 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] You know, you look at the class composition, and you can identify a kind of real, you know, gap, you know, and often a kind of vast gap between what the leadership who are claiming to speak for the downtrodden, you know, the kinds of policies and rhetoric they're using. And you can look at a kind of massive divergence between that and what you might want to identify as the kind of authentic interests of the people for whom they claim to be speaking. Right. And so it is a sort of potent critique in those respects. At the same time, it's not a catch all delegitimization of all movements. If you exclude middle class people, intellectuals, university educated people, from all movements that have made like a profound difference for good and ill throughout, you know, the world, you would get rid of most of the movements, right? […]

Who has been a guest on Eminent Americans

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Jeffrey Lawrence
• Rogers Brubaker
• David Sessions
• Blake Smith
• Ann Manov

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.3 / 5

26 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 45 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

58

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

81

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Books guests

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