Hosted by Daniel Oppenheimer · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 72 episodes
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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
Daniel Oppenheimer hosts Eminent Americans, a news show with 72 episodes published.
My guest on the show today is audio producer Robert Scaramuccia, my longtime collaborator on the podcast. Robert is leaving me, as of the end of this episode, so that he can get a healthy work/life balance in place in ad
My guest on the show today is the inimitable Sherman Alexie, poet, novelist, Substacker, and occasional screenwriter. I would be surprised if you don’t already know who Alexi ise, given that he’s been an award winning an
My guests on today’s episode are historians Andrew Hartman and James Livingston. Andrew is a professor of history at Illinois State University and the author, most recently, of Karl Marx in America. Jim is professor emer
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit danieloppenheimer.substack.com This converstion with Greg Berman, former longtime CEO of the Center for Justice Innovation and author of the Small Sanities Su
My guest today is friend of the pod Blake Smith We talk mostly about Blake’s recent essay for Colossus magazine, “The Education of the Broligarchy,” which is about what we can learn about the tech elite from what’s becom
My guest on the show today is Jonny Thakkar. Jonny is an Assistant Professor in Political Science at Swarthmore College and one of the founding editors of The Point. He’s the author of various articles, most recently “Be
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit danieloppenheimer.substack.com My guest on the show this week in Timothy Shenk, assistant professor of history at The George Washington University and author,
My guest on the show today is Ash Carter, writer and editor for Air Mail magazine and all around chronicler of the post-war cultural elite. I asked Ash to come on after reading the most recent in a series of profiles he’
My frequent conversation partner Blake Smith is back on the pod today to talk about his book-in-progress on the pioneering gay editor Michael Denneny as well as a related essay, “For the Love of the Gay World,” just publ
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit danieloppenheimer.substack.com If you want to hear my guest on the show today, Sam Tanenhaus, talk in depth about his magisterial new biography of William F.
My guest on the show today is Justin Driver, the Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law at Yale Law School and, more importantly, an old friend of mine. Among his many recognitions, he was appointed by President Joseph Rob
On this special Christmas episode of the podcast, my 9-year-old son Gideon interviews me for a school assignment about my writing, my day job, and my theories on why I’m an interesting person. He’s hoping there will be c
This episode, with Democratic congressional candidate Caitlin Rourk, has an interesting backstory. Back in May my wife wrote an op-ed for the Austin American Statesman criticizing Republic congressman John Carter, whose
This is part two of my two-part episode on Terry Gross. In part one, which was a paid episode, I talked to Sarah Hepola, Jason Thurlkill, and Meghan Daum about Terry Gross, what makes her great, and who should replace he
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit danieloppenheimer.substack.com This is episode one of my long-awaited Terry Gross Project, where I tackle the question of who Terry Gross’s successor should b
The text for today’s episode is Conversations with Kiese Laymon, which is a new anthology of interviews with Laymon. My guests are Laymon himself, , a previous guest on the podcast and one of the best nonfiction writers
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit danieloppenheimer.substack.com Blake and I talk about the long essays that each of us has written recently: Blake’s essay in Aeon on the New York intellectual
I invited Alex Perez and Ross Barkan to join me for this episode of the podcast because I’d seen both of them write essays or posts recently reflecting on their days as baseball players. Ross, as you’ll hear, topped out
This episode of the podcast, with Sam Kahn and David Sessions, was recorded after Sam, David, and I happened to have all written essays about our divorce from, or ongoing issues with, the American left. The conversation
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit danieloppenheimer.substack.com One of the essays in my private canon of great essays that no one else seems to have read is philosopher Nancy Bauer’s essay “P
Sherman Alexie
poet, novelist, Substacker, screenwriter
1 appearance on this show
Andrew Hartman
professor of history · Illinois State University
1 appearance on this show
Greg Berman
actor, comedian and tattooist · Center for Justice Innovation
1 appearance on this show
Blake Smith
Narrow Gate Leather
2 appearances on this show
Timothy Shenk
assistant professor of history · The George Washington University
1 appearance on this show
Sam Tanenhaus
journalist and historian
1 appearance on this show
Gideon
Rev. · The Bottle Shop
1 appearance on this show
Mark Oppenheimer
CEO · magazine he edits
1 appearance on this show
Jesse Adams
The Ivy Exile
1 appearance on this show
Meghan Daum
1 appearance on this show
Mike Pesca
1 appearance on this show
Sarah Hepola
staff writer at the Dallas Morning News
1 appearance on this show
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