Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature)

Reflections by our host, Professor Robert Harrison.  Songs in this episode: “Winter Mind” by Robert Harrison “St. Lucy” by Robert Harrison “Adagio per archi” by Samuel Barber “Annabel Lee” by Glass Wave

Aishwary Kumar is Professor and Shri Shantinath Endowed Chair in Political Nonviolence at California State and Polytechnic University, Pomona, Los Angeles. Aishwary is the author of “Radical Equality: Ambedkar, Gandhi, and the Risk of Democracy”– subject of two Entitled Opinions episodes back in 2016. He returns to the show today to speak on what he calls […]

A conversation with Maria Elena Monzani, lead scientist at SLAC national accelerator laboratory and one of the world’s pioneer investigators of dark matter.Songs in this episode:“The World Spins” by Julee Cruise

Andrew J. Mitchell is professor of philosophy at Emory University. He has appeared on Entitled Opinions in the past, and he is back today to discuss Nietzsche's “The Birth of Tragedy” with our host, Professor Robert Harrison.  Songs in this episode: “Echo” by Glass Wave “Tenerè” by Agricantus Image: a scene from the Franco-Prussian War

In this episode our host, Professor Robert Harrison, speaks on the topic of depression.  Songs in this episode: “All Along The Watchtower” by Jimi Hendrix “Ophelia” by Glass Wave “Little Wing” by Jimi Hendrix

A conversation with Scott Thomas Anderson, writer and producer of the documentary podcast series “Drinkers with Writing Problems”. Season 2  of Scott's podcast premiered on January 20, 2022. Songs played in this episode: “Moby Dick” by Glass Wave “Fat Angel” by Jefferson Airplane

Cynthia L. Haven is a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar and author of Czesław Miłosz: A California Life, from Berkeley’s Heyday Books and 2018’s Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard, the first-ever biography of the renowned French theorist. She has also published two previous books on Czesław Miłosz: An Invisible Rope: […]

Dr. Miles Osgood received his Ph.D. in English Literature from Harvard University, and he is currently a Lecturer in the Structured Liberal Education program at Stanford. He has designed and taught classes on Ulysses, modernist women writers, and global short fiction. In this episode, Dr. Osgood and Robert Harrison discuss the 1927 novel by Virginia […]

Dr. Chloe Summers Edmondson is a Lecturer in the Civic, Liberal, and Global Education program at Stanford. She received her PhD from Stanford in the French & Italian Department in 2020, and MA in Communication in 2014. Her research is situated at the crossroads of literary criticism, cultural history, and media studies, with a focus […]

Sophus Helle is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Freie Universität Berlin. He previously translated “The Epic of Gilgamesh” into Danish with his father. His English translation of the epic was recently published by Yale University Press.  Songs in this episode: “Helen” by Glass Wave  “Gilgamesh Blues” by Glass Wave