A books and ideas podcast with Flagg Taylor. From the unjustly neglected, to the underappreciated, to the oft-cited but seldom read, to the just plain obscure, we aim to give important books and essays of enduring interest a wider audience. Some works will allow us to revisit permanent questions, while others might provide a unique perspective on a very contemporary problem. We hope to educate and entertain and take listeners away from the pressure of the present and the new.<br /><br />Listen to <i><a href="https://ricochet.com/series/enduring-interest/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Enduring Interest</a>,</i> along with more than 40 other original podcasts, at <a href="https://ricochet.com/podcast/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><b>Ricochet.com</b></a>. No paid subscription required.
Enduring Interest
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A books and ideas podcast with Flagg Taylor. From the unjustly neglected, to the underappreciated, to the oft-cited but seldom read, to the just plain obscure, we aim to give important books and essays of enduring interest a wider audience. Some works will allow us to revisit permanent questions, while others might provide a unique perspective on a very contemporary problem. We hope to educate and entertain and take listeners away from the pressure of the present and the new.<br /><br />Listen to <i><a href="https://ricochet.com/series/enduring-interest/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Enduring Interest</a>,</i> along with more than 40 other original podcasts, at <a href="https://ricochet.com/podcast/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><b>Ricochet.com</b></a>. No paid subscription required.
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June 5, 2024
SPEECH AND CENSORSHIP #8: Season Four Wrapup with Alex Duff, Yuval Levin and Jonathan Rauch
Today we bring you the final episode in our series on speech and censorship. We wrap up a series by bringing back guests from previous episodes to discuss the broader themes and dilemmas that have persisted over the course of the series. In this conversation we discuss if and how making distinctions among different kinds of speech might improve our ability to navigate the dilemmas around free speech. We discuss the recent phenomenon of campus protests and this extent to which this sort of activity should be protected in higher education. And we wonder if the idea of self-restraint is gone forever or how it might make a comeback. We’re excited to have three guests back with us to bring the series to a close: Alex Duff, Yuval Levin and Jonathan Rauch. <br /><b></b><br /><b>Alex Duff</b> was with us before to discuss Herbert Marcuse’s “Repressive Tolerance.”<b> </b>is the author of <i>Heidegger and Politics: The Ontology of Radical Discontent</i>. He teaches at the University of North Texas where he is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Director of the Constitutionalism and Democracy Forum <b> </b><br /><br /><b>Yuval Levin</b> discussed essays by Walter Berns and Irving Kristol on obscenity and censorship. He is the director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He’s the founder and editor of <i>National Affairs </i>and author of the forthcoming book <i>American Covenant</i>. <br /><b></b><br /><b>Jonathan Rauch</b> launched our series with a discussion of his book <i>Kindly Inquisitors</i>. He is Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and his most recent book is <i>The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth</i>.
May 1, 2024
SPEECH AND CENSORSHIP #7: Rochelle Gurstein on her book The Repeal of Reticence
This month we continue our series on speech and censorship by discussing an extraordinary book published in 1996, <i>The Repeal of Reticence: America’s Cultural and Legal Struggles Over Free Speech, Obscenity, Sexual Liberation, and Modern Art</i>. It’s terrific book of political, social, cultural history and analysis. It covers an amazingly broad range of topics, from 19th century literary sensibilities to early 20th century Supreme Court obscenity jurisprudence to the midcentury New York public intellectual scene. Its author, Rochelle Gurstein, sketches two broad, cultural movements: the party of reticence and the party of exposure. Our conversation is devoted to elucidating the discourse around privacy and obscenity in a variety of contexts. We take up invasive journalism, sexual education, and literary realism. We try to understand why the party of exposure seemed to gain victory after victory as the decades passed. Gurstein articulates what the party of reticence understands about human life that partisans of exposure often miss. At the conclusion of our conversation, Gurstein reflects on her mentor, the great Christopher Lasch.
March 27, 2024
SPEECH AND CENSORSHIP #6: Alexander Duff on Herbert Marcuse's "Repressive Tolerance"
This month we continue our series on speech and censorship by discussing a famous critique of free speech from the left. My guest and I dig into Herbert Marcuse’s famous essay and try to make sense of its critique of tolerance and free speech. We discuss Marcuse’s background and role as a leading thinker of the New Left. We also analyze Marcuse’s goal of liberation or autonomy, his understanding of the relationship between speech and action, his use of the term totalitarian, and his understanding of the duty of the intellectual.<br /><br />Our guest is Professor Alexander Duff<b>. </b>Alex<b> </b>is a scholar of the history of political philosophy, focusing on the ontology and psychology of statecraft and politics. He was trained at the University of Notre Dame, where he earned his Ph.D. from the department of Political Science and was educated in the humanities and history at Carleton University, Ottawa. He is the author of <i>Heidegger and Politics: The Ontology of Radical Discontent</i> (Cambridge University Press) and numerous articles on classical, Renaissance, modern, and contemporary political philosophy which have appeared in the <i>American Journal of Political Science</i>, <i>Journal of Politics</i>, <i>Political Review Quarterly</i>, the <i>Review of Metaphysics</i>, the <i>Heidegger- Jahrbuch</i>, and other scholarly and popular publications. His work has been translated into Estonian and Farsi.<br /><br />He teaches at the University of North Texas where he is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Director of the Constitutionalism and Democracy Forum. He has held fellowships from the Tocqueville Program for Inquiry into Religion and American Public Life at the University of Notre Dame and from the Program for the Study of the Western Heritage at Boston College and has delivered lectures at many colleges and universities, including Oxford, Harvard, Yale, the University of Notre Dame, Boston College, the University of Texas: Austin, and Louisiana State University. He lives in Little Elm, Texas.
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