Louis Menand's Interviews
Louis Menand: 'Freedom Was the Slogan of the Times'
Why postwar culture from Jack Kerouac to Andy Warhol to James Baldwin to Susan Sontag to Yoko Ono battled boundaries hemming them in.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and cultural critic Louis Menand joins the show to celebrate his phenomenal new book, THE FREE WORLD: Art And Thought In The Cold War (FSG). We get into his process for chronicling the artistic, cultural, intellectual, technological and literary movements of the postwar era, the stories of
Louis Menand on The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
(4/19/21) The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas―economic and political, artistic and personal. In his new book The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War, Pulitzer Prize–winning scholar and critic and the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English at Harvard University Louis Me
Louis Menand of Harvard University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the state of psychiatry. Drawing on a recent article of his in the New Yorker, Menand talks about the state of knowledge in psychiatry and the scientific basis for making conclusions about mental illness and various therapies. Menand argues
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