By Robert Harrison
The narcotic of intelligent conversation
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A conversation about bioregionalism and reinhabitation with Mark Gonnerman, author of “A Sense of the Whole: Reading Gary Snyder.” Songs in this episode: “Comin’ Back to Me” by Jefferson Airplane and “Dear Mother Earth” by Canned Heat. PLEASE NOTE: In...
A meandering monologue on rivers with our host, Professor Robert Harrison. Songs in this episode: “Getting Ready” by Frans Bak, and “You Better Move On” by Arthur Alexander.
A conversation about crime in America with Scott Thomas Anderson, author of “Shadow People,” journalist for Sacramento News & Review, and producer of the podcasts “Drinkers with Writing Problems” and “Trace of the Devastation.” Songs in this episode: “Helen” by...
A conversation with Nate Klemp, a philosopher, writer, and founding partner at Mindfulness Magazine, on practicing mindfulness in our fast-paced, technology-dependent world. He is also co-author of the New York Times bestseller “Start Here.” Songs in this episode: “Nausicaa” by...
In this philosophy-heavy episode, Professor Robert Harrison and David Bates, Professor of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley, discuss the “unnatural” origins of human technology and the difficulty of drawing sharp distinctions between artificial and natural intelligence. Songs in this episode: “Bourée”...
A monologue on Dante’s unflattering (and unjustified) portrait of his teacher, Brunetto Latini. This episode wraps up the first season of Robert Harrison’s series on “Dante’s Characters.” Songs in this episode: “La nuit du rat” by La Féline and “Preludio”...
A monologue on Guido da Montefeltro, a false counselor whose speech foreshadows literary modernism’s stream of consciousness. Songs in this episode: “Present Tense” by Radiohead and “Prufrock Blues” by Robert Harrison and Anne-Sophie Bine.
A monologue on Dante’s Ulysses, the Homeric hero who, in Dante’s retelling, foregoes his return to Ithaca and opts instead to venture into the unknown and unpeopled world, at his own peril. Songs in this episode: “Winter Mind” by Robert...
A monologue on Dante’s famous love heroine, Francesca da Rimini. This episode is part one of a new mini-series on “Dante’s Characters,” set to air over the coming weeks, in which Professor Robert Harrison discusses some of the most fascinating...
A conversation with Garry Nolan, who is the Rachford and Carlota Harris Professor of Immunology in the Department of Pathology at Stanford. He has authored numerous medical research papers, has founded biotechnology companies, two of which are on the NASDAQ, and...
A conversation with Maria Massucco, who earned her PhD in Italian at Stanford in 2023. Her dissertation is titled “Woundedness and Reintegration: The Phenomenology and Transmission of Women’s Trauma in Modern and Contemporary Italy.” Songs in this episode: “Helen” by...
A conversation with Corey Dansereau, a PhD Candidate in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford, about the impact of Giambattista Vico on James Joyce’s writing. Songs in this episode: “Echo” by Glass Wave, and “I Might Be Wrong” by Radiohead.
A monologue in which our host, Professor Robert Harrison, discusses the originality and continued relevance of Giambattista Vico’s New Science (1748). Songs in this episode: “Riders on the Storm” by The Doors, “Nausicaa” by Glass Wave, and “Cycle of Eternity”...
A conversation with gardener, social entrepreneur, and venture investor William Rosenzweig about the ethics of care in the private and public spheres. Songs in this episode: “Bourée” by Jethro Tull and “A Lotus On Irish Streams” by Mahavishnu Orchestra.
A conversation with philosopher and professor Lydia Moland about the life and thought of Lydia Maria Child, one of the best known American writers and abolitionists of the 19th century. Songs in this episode: “Bourée” by Jethro Tull and “Trampled...
A conversation with Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Albert Guérard Professor of Literature (Emeritus) at Stanford University. He is a recurring guest on Entitled Opinions, and he is back to discuss amor mundi, our collective future, and the role of love in...
A monologue in which our host, Professor Robert Harrison, reflects on different kinds of human love, and above all, love of the world.
Ana is a Mellon Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center and a Lecturer of French and Italian at Stanford. Her teaching and research focus on the relationship between literature, the industrial revolution, and technology from a Southern perspective.
May 22, 2007--A conversation with Brown University Professor Pierre Saint-Amand on the dark side of the French Enlightenment.
May 15, 2007--A continuation of the conversation with Professor Karen Feldman of Berkeley on the philosophy of Hannah Arendt.
May 15, 2007--A conversation with Professor Karen Feldman of Berkeley on the philosophy of Hannah Arendt.
May 8, 2007--A conversation with Poet and Professor of Philosophy Troy Jollimore on his award winning book of poetry. Tom Thomson in Purgatory won the 2007 Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.
May 1, 2007--A conversation with Stanford Professor Josiah Ober about democracy in ancient Athens.
April 24, 2007--A conversation with Stanford President John Hennessy about the vocation of higher education, the role of the Humanities at Stanford, and the general mission of Stanford University.
April 17, 2007
April 10, 2007
June 20, 2006
June 13, 2006. Listen to Robert Harrison conclude Entitled Opinions' first year on the radio with a few reflections on birds.
June 06, 2006. Listen to Irish novelist Colm Toibin speak about Henry James, the main character of his acclaimed novel, The Master.
May 30, 2006. Listen to Silicon Valley businessman Drew Gibson speak about the state of American corporations and the philosophy that governs them.
May 23, 2006. Listen to Stanford Art History Professor Bissera Pentcheva speak about the figure of the Virgin Mary in the early eastern and western churches.
May 16, 2006. Listen to Stanford Medical School Professor and Doctor Michael Hendrickson speak about Cancer as a disorder of life.
May 16, 2006. Listen to Stanford Medical School Professor and Doctor Michael Hendrickson address the question "What is Life?".
May 9, 2006. Listen to Stanford Professor Emerita Marjorie Perloff speak about the European Avantgarde.
May 2, 2006. Listen to Stanford Law Professor Kathleen Sullivan speak about the founding scriptures of the United States of America.
April 25, 2006. Listen to Stanford Professor Russell Berman speak about the historical and cultural causes of anti-Americanism.
April 18, 2006. Part 2 of a conversation with Tom Sheehan on the Christ's resurrection.
April 18, 2006. Part 1 of a conversation with Tom Sheehan on the Christ's resurrection.
April 11, 2006. Listen to Stanford Professor Cécile Alduy speak about the long tradition of American writers in Paris, from Gertrude Stein to the beats.
April 4, 2006. Listen to Stanford Professor Seth Lerer speak about the history and culture of the book.
March 14, 2006. Listen to KZSU DJ Lisa Dornell (aka "Decca") and Robert Harrison speak about and read love poetry from across the centuries.
March 07, 2006. Listen to Professor Thomas Harrison of UCLA speak about the culture of expressionism in pre-WWI Europe.
February 28, 2006. Listen to Stanford Senior Scholar Marilyn Yalom speak about the cemeteries of America, including the cemeteries of New Orleans and what happened to them in the wake of Katrina,.
February 21, 2006. Listen to Stanford Professor Paul Ehrlich speak about evolution, ecology, population, and consumption. How humans have changed the face of the Earth.
February 14, 2006. Listen to Stanford Professor Gregory Freidin speak about Isaac Babel and the fate of literature in the Soviet Union.
February 07, 2006. Listen to Stanford Professor Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht speak about the literary and philosophical aspects of Robert Musil's novel "The Man Without Qualities"
January 31, 2006. Listen to Stanford Professor Thomas Sheehan speak about the historicity of Jesus. Who was he? What do we really know?
January 24, 2006. Listen to Stanford graduate student and KZSU Program Director speak about Henry David Thoreau.
January 17, 2006. Listen to Cosmologist Andrei Linde speak about the theory of the inflationary universe.