Hello pomocon subscribers!
I wanted to share the news that I have started a podcast that may be of interest. It’s called Enduring Interest and it aims to occupy the vast space between podcasts about the Great Books and podcasts about recently published books. More specifically, we will focus on books that have been forgotten, unjustly neglected, or simply deserve a wider audience. Another distinguishing feature is that we will group episodes around a particular theme. The first theme is totalitarianism and ideology and we’ll be releasing 6-7 episodes over the course of the summer and early fall that relate to this category. In addition to the just released episode on Yevgeny Zamyatin’s dystopian novel WE with Jacob Howland, we have Dan Mahoney on Raymond Aron’s Opium of the Intellectuals, Jim Pontuso on Vaclav Havel’s trilogy of plays Audience, The Unveiling, and Protest, Nathan Pinkoski on Francois Furet’s The Passing of an Illusion, and Clare Cavanaugh on Czeslaw Milosz’s poems “Child of Europe” and “You Who Wronged.” We hope to give listeners the feel of a course and perhaps get some guests back on the podcast to discuss connections between these works as the theme comes to an end. Future themes will include: education (essays by Strauss and Oakshott and Eva Brann’s Paradoxes of Education in a Republic), American constitutionalism (Jaffa’s Crisis of the House Divided, Alexander Bickel’s The Least Dangerous Branch), and race and culture (Albert Murray’s The Omni-Americans, Eugene Genovese’s Roll Jordan Roll).
I’d be grateful is you’d give us a listen. If you like with you hear, then rate, subscribe and share! Enduring Interest is now available on all of the major podcast platforms (Apple, Google play, Spotify, Stitcher, etc.). And please send me ideas for books and guests.
I will look forward to the American Constitutionalism discussions. Bickel actually cites Jaffa's "Crisis" in an important part of LDB
Likewise--there's no podcast anywhere on Crisis, is there?