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Think About It
A podcast featuring interviews with authors and thought leaders conduced by Uli Baer.
Uli Baer teaches literature and photography as University Professor at New York University. A recipient of Guggenheim, Getty and Humboldt awards, in addition to hosting "Think About It” he hosts (with Caroline Weber) the podcast "The Proust Questionnaire” and is Editorial Director at Warbler Press. Email ucb1@nyu.edu; Twitter @UliBaer.
January 3, 2026
American Medium, with Eyal Peretz
What is “America” not only as a political entity but in our imagination? How can we properly envision America, without repeating clichés that frame Am…
October 9, 2025
What is Free Speech
The speech debates have not abated, and it’s clear that invoking the First Amendment, and the importance of free speech for democracy, does not settle…
October 2, 2025
Uncanny E.T.A. Hoffmann
Step into the unsettling world of E.T.A. Hoffmann with translator Peter Wortsman to explore “The Sandman”—a tale that haunted Freud enough to spark hi…
September 11, 2025
Ham’s Heaven
Listen to Ori Gersht speak about his novel Ham’s Heaven (Warbler Press, 2025). Inspired by the true story of the first great ape in space, it explores…
July 29, 2025
The Knowledge Machine
What is reliable knowledge? Listen to philosopher Michael Strevens, author of The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science, to unde…
May 19, 2025
Book Talk 66: Political Hope
How to find hope in these times? I spoke with political scientist Loren Goldman about the principle of political hope: why we should have hope, how to…
April 18, 2025
Emily Dickinson, with Sharon Cameron
We need Emily Dickinson’s startling originality today more than ever. This is why I sat down with Sharon Cameron, one of the greatest commentators on …
April 15, 2025
How to Fall in Love with Questions
What do you do when faced with a big, important question that keeps you up at night? Many people seek quick answers dispensed by “experts,” influencer…
February 17, 2025
Ruby Lowe on John Milton’s Definition of Free Speech
British poet John Milton published one of the earliest and still tremendously important defenses of free speech for our modern world. From his famous …
September 28, 2024
Michael S. Roth on the Rise of Student Protests, the Fall of Some College Presidents, and Why Liberal Education Matters
The campus protests over conflict in Israel and Gaza have engulfed universities, and led to the resignation of several university presidents. In this …
May 1, 2024
Nietzsche Now!
What would Nietzsche say… about today’s divisive issues and debates? I spoke with Glenn Wallis, author of the new book, Nietzsche Now!, on how the Gre…
April 26, 2024
Stefanos Geroulanos on "The Invention of Prehistory"
What does it mean to be human? What do we know about the true history of humankind? In this episode, I spoke with historian and NYU professor Stefanos…
December 9, 2023
Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Threats to Democracy and H. L. Mencken’s "Notes on Democracy"
A century ago, journalist H. L. Mencken provocatively stated in Notes On Democracy (new edition by Warbler Press, 2023) that anti-democratic behavior…
May 20, 2023
Cleo McNelly Kearns on Mark Twain’s "Huckleberry Finn"
Celebrated, censored, canceled: Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn cannot be avoided. William Faulkner called Twain “the father of American l…
May 2, 2023
Campus Misinformation with Bradford Vivian
State censorship and cancel culture, trigger warnings and safe spaces, pseudoscience, First Amendment hardball, as well as orthodoxy and groupthink: u…
May 1, 2023
Reading the Classics with Louis Petrich
Why read the Classics, and how to do it best? Louis Petrich teaches at St. John’s College, the third-oldest college and “the nation's most contrarian …
March 17, 2023
Vivian Gornick on Emma Goldman
What Is to Be Done? In her luminous biography Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life (Yale UP, 2011), Vivian Gornick brings us back to this ques…
January 30, 2023
Anne Fernald and Rajgopal Saikumar on Virginia Woolf's "Three Guineas" (1938)
Virginia Woolf’s 1938 provocative and polemical essay Three Guineas presents the iconic writer’s views on war, women, and the way the patriarchy at h…
January 6, 2023
What is a "Great Book?": A Discussion with Roosevelt Montás
Roosevelt Montás is Senior Lecturer in American Studies and English at Columbia University. A specialist in Antebellum American literature and cultur…
September 12, 2022
Courtney B. Hodrick and Amir Eshel on Hannah Arendt's "Rachel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman"
Hannah Arendt said that she had one life-long “best friend.” That was Rachel Varnhagen, a Jewish woman who lived in Enlightenment-era Berlin around 18…