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September 9, 2013
David Bromwich on Democracy and War with...
There is a tendency of men of power, especially great power in the United States, to become so isolated that their thinking grows fantastic. I just mean: dominated by fantasy....| More

March 18, 2013
David Bromwich: on the Rand Paul “Convergence”
…During the Cold War we faced an enemy that could annihilate us, as we could annihilate them if there were a nuclear war. And yet we didn’t commit all of...| More

June 7, 2012
David Bromwich on The Emperor’s New Language
David Bromwich is locating our 2012 distress in our language — or lack of it. It is reunion season at Yale, 50 years after President Kennedy addressed my graduating class...| More

October 12, 2011
David Bromwich: Obama and the measure of...
Click to listen to Chris’ conversation with David Bromwich (32 minutes, 16 mb mp3) David Bromwich is my refuge from the chatter and fog of politics. Sterling Professor of English...| More

December 23, 2010
David Bromwich on the “Disappointment in Obama”
David Bromwich, the Sterling Professor of English at Yale, reads Barack Obama like a book — as if he were a book, that is. With the novelist Zadie Smith, he...| More

June 23, 2010
Bromwich’s Edmund Burke: “America is out of...
David Bromwich is channeling the lost conservative voice of Edmund Burke, the missing wisdom on our mad Afghanistan misadventure. This is what Yale’s Sterling Professors of Literature are for, now...| More

November 10, 2009
David Bromwich on Obama: Looking at Words...
Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with David Bromwich (41 minutes, 19 mb mp3). It’s a measure of the change in the discourse that David Bromwich, Yale’s Sterling Professor of...| More

June 2, 2022
Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?
A moral philosopher and a walking trove of literature’s wisdom walk into a radio conversation together. The question for one hour is the bleak time we’re all living in, this...| More

May 26, 2022
Paths of Dissent
Memorial Day can feel different every year, bittersweet at its best. It’s been the last Monday in May since 1868, first as Decoration Day, for marking the graves of our...| More

July 16, 2020
A Public Conversation Gone Sour
The All-American Thinking Class is beside itself: under pressure inside and out. It is a target already in Donald Trump’s reelection campaign, for lock-step conformity, he says, against “our magnificent...| More