Episode 210: Ben Taub, New Yorker Staff Write...

Have you ever wondered how your favorite movie or book—or podcast, TV series, documentary, or article—got made? Origin Stories has you covered. Each week, veteran journalist Matthew Shaer talks to a different writer or director about the creation of a work close to their own hear ...  Show more

John Jeremiah Sullivan is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine and has written for Harper's, The New Yorker, and GQ. He is the author of Pulphead and the forthcoming The Prime Minister of Paradise: The True Story of a Lost American History. “I love making pieces o ...  Show more

0:00 Intro 5:15 How would you define yourself? 11:05 'Lebanon Shot Twice' 22:34 'Beirut Guilty Pleasures' 38:39 Television 54:40 Freedom 1:03:23 Career 1:13:19 Q&A 1:35:22 Prime We're with Zaven Kouyoumdjian for Episode 353 of The Beirut Banyan, recorded live at Aaliya's Books. C ...  Show more

0:00 Intro 2:25 Life in Beirut 10:48 Learning through Podcasting 17:20 Is consensus-driven governance the core problem? 23:04 Reflections 44:28 The Ultimate Stumbling Block 1:01:42 Freedom of Expression Click to watch: https://youtu.be/sDm5PSdUeOc We're with the Lebanese Politics ...  Show more

A conversation with Bashshar Haydar - professor of philosophy and the Mohammad Atallah chair of ethics at the American University of Beirut. Click to watch: https://youtu.be/kBFTpM-J3QY Discussing the wider topic of war ethics in philosophy, difficulties of academic/scholarly deb ...  Show more

0:00 Intro 6:21 Post-elections 16:21 Independent 25:47 Social media 32:20 Jamil Al Sayyed 41:02 Charbel Nahas 1:02:56 Curiosity in politics 1:08:29 Syria in the background 1:16:52 2000 1:24:53 2005 1:28:56 July 2006 1:38:11 May 2008 1:41:13 2019 1:48:45 The last chapter 2:02:02 Q ...  Show more