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About 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.
NBN Episodes hosted by Uli:
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…
July 1, 2023
Proust Questionnaire 38
Ricardo Alberto Maldonado is a poet residing in New York City who was born and raised in Puerto Rico. His first collection of poems, The Life Assignme…
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…
August 2, 2022
Anne Fernald on Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway"
Halfway through Mrs Dalloway, Septimus Smith mutters to himself: "Communication is health; communication is happiness, communication.” It’s easy to wr…
June 30, 2022
Paul Edwards on Toni Morrison's "Playing in the Dark"
Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination is a must-read for anyone interested in American literature and in the for…
May 16, 2022
Linda Patterson Miller on Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises"
When first published in 1926, Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises changed American literature forever. Hemingway follows a disillusioned group of ex…
April 18, 2022
Ardythe Ashley on Oscar Wilde
Secretly his unconscious body, still flickering with life, is spirited away by to an island monastery in the Venetian lagoon where he recovers his hea…
January 11, 2022
John Waters on James Joyce's "Dubliners"
James Joyce’s 1914 collection of fifteen short stories, Dubliners, is righty considered one of the greatest literary achievements of Western modernity…
December 6, 2021
“The Good Life” with Dora Zhang
“The good life” and “the American Dream “remain powerful animating principles in popular culture, politics, and also our individual psyches. I spoke w…
November 19, 2021
Charlie Louth on Rainer Maria Rilke
Charlie Louth’s illuminating recent book, Rilke: The Life of the Work (Oxford University Press, 2021) examines why Rilke’s poems have exercised such p…
September 1, 2021
Wendy Lee on Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice"
Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice delights, charms and entrances reader since its anonymous publication in 1813. The Bennett sisters need to mar…
May 27, 2021
Marlene Daut on the Haitian Revolution in Literature
To learn more about the Haitian Revolution in fiction, I spoke with Professor Marlene Daut specialized in pre-20th-century Caribbean, African American…
May 3, 2021
Paul Mendes-Flohr on Martin Buber's "I and Thou"
Today we talk a lot about a need for genuine dialogue, and for conversations across partisan divides and differences. What is a true, authentic, and m…
March 18, 2021
Samantha Hill on Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt's 1967 essay on "Truth and Politics" centers on the uneasy relation between truth-telling and politics. Lying has always been part of po…
February 19, 2021
Mark Wunderlich on Rainer Maria Rilke
"Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the order of angels?" This angsty cry opens poet Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies -- one of the greatest p…