Eminent Americans

Eminent Americans is a podcast about the writers and public intellectuals who either are key players in the American intellectual scene or who typify an important aspect of it. It also touches on broader themes and trends in the discourse. danieloppenheimer.substack.com

Eminent Americans is a news podcast hosted by Daniel Oppenheimer, with 79 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Daniel Oppenheimer hosts Eminent Americans, a news show with 79 episodes published.

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  Non-Producer Character (NPC)

  Apr 21, 20261h 27mS0

  <p>My guest on the show today is audio producer Robert Scaramuccia, my longtime collaborator on the podcast. </p><p>Robert is leaving me, as of the end of this episode, so that he can get a healthy work/life balance in place in advance of starting an MFA writing program in the fall. We talk about the things you’d expect — our experience of working together, his thoughts on Eminent Americans, his plans for the future — but we also, fortuitously, focus a fair amount on a topic that I’ve thought about addressing on the show, in the past, but have...

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  The Reservation Broadcasting System

  Apr 2, 20261h 21mS0

  <p>My guest on the show today is the inimitable Sherman Alexie, poet, novelist, Substacker, and occasional screenwriter.</p><p>I would be surprised if you don’t already know who Alexi ise, given that he’s been an award winning and best-selling writer for decades now and is almsot certainly the best known Native American writer of our time.</p><p>I asked him on, naturally, to talk about genre television. I’d noticed over the past few years that whenever I posted something to Substack about whatever random genre TV I happened to watching at the moment, Alexie would...

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  I Get Schooled on Marx

  Mar 26, 20261h 26mS0

  <p>My guests on today’s episode are historians Andrew Hartman and James Livingston. Andrew is a professor of history at Illinois State University and the author, most recently, of Karl Marx in America. Jim is professor emeritus of history at Rutgers University and the author, most recently, of No More Work: Why Full Employment Is a Bad Idea. </p><p>I asked Andrew and Jim on the show to talk to me about Karl Marx and his continued influence on the American left. Really, if I’m being honest, I asked them on to help me solve a problem that...

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  Crime Story

  Mar 19, 20261h 36mS0

  This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit danieloppenheimer.substack.com<br/><br/><p>This converstion with Greg Berman, former longtime CEO of the Center for Justice Innovation and author of the Small Sanities Substack, is both like and unlike a lot of previous conversations I’ve had in the anti-woke liberal space. It’s like it…</p>

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  Deconstructing the Broligarchy

  Mar 5, 20261h 49mS0

  <p>My guest today is friend of the pod Blake Smith We talk mostly about Blake’s recent essay for Colossus magazine, “The Education of the Broligarchy,” which is about what we can learn about the tech elite from what’s become known as the Silicon Valley Canon, a widely shared list of books that all aspiring tech overlords should read. .</p><p>Unrelated to that, I want to share an exchange I had on Substack notes with Vladislav Davidzon, an Eastern European Jewish writer now based in the US. It began when I posted this note. </p><p>I don’t re...

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