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Faith Hillis on the Jewish Labor Bund

Friday, July 17, 2026 • Duration 46:27

In this episode the historian and writer Faith Hillis speaks about the Jewish Labor Bund, a secular, socialist Jewish political party founded in the Russian Empire in 1897. She discusses two new books on Jewish radicalism and the danger of reaching for the past as a weapon in current political fights.

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Eva von Redecker über den neuen Faschismus

Saturday, July 11, 2026 • Duration 01:03:58

Die Philosophin Eva von Redecker über ihre These, dass der Faschismus nicht mit Hass anfängt, sondern mit Besitz, auch wenn dieser nur eingebildet ist. Samir Sellami spricht mit ihr entlang von fünf Sätzen aus ihrem neuen Buch «Dieser Drang nach Härte. Über den neuen Faschismus». Sie diskutieren auch über Eigentum, die Angst vor dem Untergang, Longevity, Religion und die Frage, was die Linke dagegen tun kann.

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«Ich will mit Jesus konkurrieren»: Raphaela Edelbauer über Longevity und Technofaschismus

Thursday, July 2, 2026 • Duration 34:34

In diesem Gespräch geht es um die katholische Gebets-App «Hallow», in die Peter Thiel investiert hat, und um den Longevity-Influencer Bryan Johnson aus dem Silicon Valley. Raphaela Edelbauer beschreibt die Zusammenhänge zwischen der Optimierung des Körpers und dem Beten per App – und erklärt, warum der Wunsch nach ewigem Leben zu einem Problem für die Demokratie werden kann.

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“You’re Doing the Work for Them”: Claudia Durastanti on Class and Literature

Friday, June 26, 2026 • Duration 54:14

A writer grows up poor, escapes her circumstances and writes about it with a mix of shame, guilt and pride. It’s one of the most classic tales in modern literature, and Claudia Durastanti thinks the story stopped being true just as the genre boomed. In this conversation, she and Lauren Oyler talk about autofiction, transfuge de classe narratives and what could be written instead.

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Biao Xiang on Lonely Deaths, Involution, and the Disappearance of the Nearby

Wednesday, June 10, 2026 • Duration 46:50

Loneliness is no longer a luxury problem for philosophers and artists. Anthropologist Biao Xiang discusses how it became a mass condition and what gossip, Hannah Arendt, and hummingbirds reveal about a way out of this crisis.

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What Writers Get Wrong About AI

Friday, June 5, 2026 • Duration 47:08

In May 2026, an award-winning short story turned out to be likely written by AI, and none of the editors who published it noticed. Lauren and Tobias talk about the scandal and what most writers, even good ones, get wrong about the technology and what it takes to keep writing human.

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Florian Meinel über Meinungsfreiheit in Deutschland

Friday, May 29, 2026 • Duration 50:49

Florian Meinel, Professor für Staatstheorie an der Universität Göttingen, erklärt, wie das strafrechtliche Regime der Bundesrepublik entstanden ist und warum es heute zu einem dysfunktionalen System geführt hat, das niemanden mehr schützt, aber viele bedroht. Im Mittelpunkt steht der Streit um „From the River to the Sea," die Verpolizeilichung des Meinungsregimes und was Walter Benjamin damit zu tun hat.

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Maaza Mengiste on Photography, War, and the Stories History Forgot

Friday, May 22, 2026 • Duration 52:19

Recorded live at Chapters Bookshop in Berlin, novelist Maaza Mengiste talks with Meret Weber about photography and war, the research that reshaped The Shadow King, and her new novel set among the Black Germans and Africans living in Berlin as the Nazis came to power.

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Why Are They Even Together? Two Films on Modern Relationships

Tuesday, May 12, 2026 • Duration 43:54

A conversation on two new films about modern love: Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama and Anna Roller’s Allegro Pastel. Lauren Oyler and Tobias Haberkorn discuss open relationships, commitment, and the strange emotional logic of dating in an age of endless options and shrinking futures.

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Writers Read: Alaa Al-Qaisi on Gaza, Berlin, and the Reading That Was Cancelled

Monday, May 4, 2026 • Duration 24:25

Palestinian writer Alaa Al-Qaisi reads her Berlin Review essay “Better Than Berlin,” a diary of exile, Wannsee, and the public reading that was cancelled.

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