# Louis Menand
פרקי פודקאסט מובילים
מְעוּדכָּן:
louis menand (; born January 21, 1952) is an American critic, essayist, and professor, best known for his Pulitzer-winning book The Metaphysical Club (2001), an intellectual and cultural history of late 19th and early 20th century America.
== Life and career ==
Menand was born in Syracuse, New York, and raised around Boston, Massachusetts. His mother, Catherine (Shults) Menand, was a historian, who wrote a biography of Samuel Adams.
The Right Stuff
Neil is off this week doing super-secret stuff: all will be revealed eventually. But today, I am delighted to offer an episode featuring former New York Times journalist Sam Tanenhaus. The author of two previous books on conservatism in the United States, including a biography of anti-Communist Wh…
Soufflés and Time Travel
Dave gives a lesson involving balloons and the science of a soufflé rising, then he makes two soufflés. He talks about how the soufflé is a dish of time travel, how science helped him improve as a chef, and how the term "molecular gastronomy" was a mistake. At the end, he has some guests show up t…
The “Sincerest Form of Flattery” Edition
This week, a Quinta-less Alan and Scott were joined by their Lawfare colleagues senior editor Molly Reynolds and managing editor Tyler McBrien to talk over some copycat-ing that's been taking place in the national security space, including:
“Hoppin’ the Fence at Lulapalooza.” In a clear echo of t…
Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Bite Is A Gift Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turnerdiscuss Dan Kois’s NYT Magazine Riff on “Eating Your Cultural Vegetables,” MTV’s newTwilight-style series Teen Wolf, and Louis Menand’s recent New Yorker article on “Debating the Value of College in America…
Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Bite Is A Gift Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turnerdiscuss Dan Kois’s NYT Magazine Riff on “Eating Your Cultural Vegetables,” MTV’s newTwilight-style series Teen Wolf, and Louis Menand’s recent New Yorker article on “Debating the Value of College in America…
QBism: A Subjective Way to Take Ontic Indeterminism Seriously
Christopher Fuchs (MPQ Garching) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (20 November, 2014) titled "QBism: A Subjective Way to Take Ontic Indeterminism Seriously". Abstract: The term QBism, invented in 2009, initially stood for Quantum Bayesianism, a view of quantum theory a few of us had been develo…
Europe's last dictator, Native American dispossession, the real Joe McCarthy.
Is it the end of the line for Alexander Lukashenko? Former British Ambassador to Belarus, Nigel Gould-Davies, assesses the situation of the man known as 'Europe's last dictator'. Claudio Saunt examines the history of Native dispossession in America. Who was the real Senator Joe McCarthy ? Louis Me…
מנוע חיפוש PODCAST
אתה יכול להשתמש באתר שלנו כדי לחפש3,824,941פודקאסטים ופודקאסטים195,792,323לפי אנשים, מקומות או נושאים.
If I have seen further than others, it is by listening to podcasts and standing upon the shoulders of
giants.
‐ Isaac "Llamacorn" Newton
