Ezra Klein, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and a Viable Ethics of Power
A great deal is at stake in the conflict between the two titans of our journalistic era| Eminent Americans
Blake Smith and I talk death, therapy, art, Coates, and Klein.| Eminent Americans
A great deal is at stake in the conflict between the two titans of our journalistic era| Eminent Americans
R.I.P. Jonathan Lear, 1948-2025| Eminent Americans
Baseball, literature, masculinity, and faded dreams of glory with Alex Perez and Ross Barkan.| Eminent Americans
Our tortured love/hate affair with the left continues...| Eminent Americans
Lillian Fishman and I discuss the obscene archive| Eminent Americans
Matt Dinniman and I talk LitRPg, his breakout series Dungeon Crawler Carl, and more.| Eminent Americans
A truly right-wing Matt Yglesias is our worst nightmare| Eminent Americans
Crypto reporter Brady Dale and I discuss our crypo past, present and future| Eminent Americans
The man, the myth, the legend| Eminent Americans
Ken Ilgunas and I talk Terry Real, therapy, my shadow fantasy of a normie left, and more.| Eminent Americans
Norman Holmes Pearson and the apotheosis and decline of the old American elite| Eminent Americans
Blake Smith and I reflect on whether, in the age of Trump, our high class critiques of wokeness were misplaced| Eminent Americans
The good doctor Awais Aftab and I explore contemporary psychiatry and its discontents.| Eminent Americans
Anna Gat, founder and CEO of InterIntellect, on Hungary, the art of facilitating conversation, and why the timeline may be short.| Eminent Americans
First they came for Maura Finkelstein...| Eminent Americans
Derek Guy and I talk men's clothes in the age of Trump| danieloppenheimer.substack.com
A newsletter and podcast about the contemporary American intellectual scene. Click to read Eminent Americans, by Daniel Oppenheimer, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.| danieloppenheimer.substack.com
Bill Deresiewicz and I try to grab hold of where we are now.| danieloppenheimer.substack.com
Naomi Kanakia and I discuss whether anti-woke is passé in a time of Trump unleashed| danieloppenheimer.substack.com
Literary critic, Substack sage, and novelist John Pistelli joins me in the weave,| danieloppenheimer.substack.com
A recording from Daniel Oppenheimer's live video| danieloppenheimer.substack.com
What is our ideal woke type actually thinking and doing?| danieloppenheimer.substack.com
Naomi and I dig deeper into the muck and murk| danieloppenheimer.substack.com
Naomi Kanakia and I discuss whether anti-woke is passé in a time of Trump unleashed| danieloppenheimer.substack.com
Geoff Shullenberger and I autopsy a movement, and moment, in time| danieloppenheimer.substack.com
Shamus Rahman Kahn and I discuss his great book *Privilege,* the subtleties of the American elite, and more.| danieloppenheimer.substack.com
On Shamus Rahman Kahn's masterpiece "Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School"| danieloppenheimer.substack.com
John Pistelli, Ross Barkan and I explore whether we're entering a new age of romanticism.| danieloppenheimer.substack.com
Isaac Chotiner successfully profiles Ross Douthat; Jill Lepore unsuccessfully meditates on Elon Musk. Is The New Yorker the opiate of the educated liberal masses?| danieloppenheimer.substack.com
The rise and fall and rise (and fall?) of writer Wesley Yang, plus an unrelated discussion about the rising influence of humanities PhD on the broader discourse.| danieloppenheimer.substack.com
