Episodes 31
Avg. Duration 25m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.7 (3)
Since Jan 2025
Latest Episode Apr 2026

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Freedom and its Discontents, a politics and culture podcast with author & journalist Michael Scott Moore

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S2E31 031 Andrea Pitzer: The American Camps

Apr 07, 2026 1h 1m

Andrea Pitzer is a journalist and author of three books, including One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, which follows the modern development of irregular prisons beginning in the…

S2E30 030 Thomas Blubacher: Weimar Under the Palms

Mar 24, 2026 30m

Thomas Blubacher is a Swiss theater director and author on theatrical subjects who’s published a new book about European emigrés in Los Angeles called Weimar Under the Palms. Many of the artists who…

S2E29 029 Tom Jennings: Rovina’s Choice

Mar 10, 2026 11m

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelscottmoore.substack.comTom Jennings, an award-winning filmmaker for PBS Frontline, has a new documentary on the The New Yorker…

S2E27 027 Adam Skolnick: American Tiger

Feb 10, 2026 9m

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelscottmoore.substack.comAdam Skolnick is a journalist and author who’s written his first novel, American Tiger, about a large cat…

S2E26 026 Deborah Kapchan: Taking Leave

Jan 27, 2026 10m

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelscottmoore.substack.comDeborah Kapchan is an American folklorist and ethnographer who’s written a new memoir, Taking Leave, about…

S2E25 025 Ken Rosen: Polar War

Jan 13, 2026 10m

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelscottmoore.substack.comKenneth R. Rosen has spent a great deal of time above the Arctic Circle, and his new book POLAR WAR covers…

S1E24 024 Mo Ogrodnik: Gulf

Dec 16, 2025 14m

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelscottmoore.substack.comMo Ogronik is a documentary and feature filmmaker who teaches at NYU, and her first novel GULF is a stark…

S1E23 023 Jonathan Lethem: A Different Kind of Tension

Dec 02, 2025 13m

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelscottmoore.substack.comJonathan Lethem is the award-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn, which became a film with Ed Norton, and…

S1E22 022 Ben Weissenbach: Alaska!

Nov 18, 2025 16m

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelscottmoore.substack.comBen Weissenbach is a young writer from California who recently spent a lot of time adventuring through cold…

S1E21 021 Francisco Cantú: The Line Becomes a River

Nov 04, 2025 14m

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelscottmoore.substack.comFrancisco Cantú wrote THE LINE BECOMES A RIVER about working for the Border Patrol — and quitting — between…

S1E20 020 Brian Klaas: Corruptible

Oct 21, 2025 9m

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelscottmoore.substack.comBrian Klaas is an American political scientist who works at University College London and writes essays for…

S1E19 019 Tom Zoellner: The Road Was Full of Thorns

Oct 07, 2025 40m

Tom Zoellner won a National Book Critics’ Circle award for ISLAND ON FIRE, about the uprising in Jamaica that led to the end of slavery within the British Empire. His new book, THE ROAD WAS FULL OF…

S1E18 018 Sonia Kennebeck: Reality Winner

Sep 16, 2025 13m

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelscottmoore.substack.comSonia Kennebeck is the director of a 2023 documentary called REALITY WINNER, about the whistleblower who…

S1E17 017 Roger Carstens: The Search for Austin Tice

Sep 02, 2025 12m

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelscottmoore.substack.comRoger Carstens’ first job at the State Department covered Austin Tice’s strange disappearance in Syria.…

S1E16 016 Saumya Roy: Castaway Mountain

Aug 19, 2025 14m

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelscottmoore.substack.comSaumya Roy started writing about the waste-pickers of Mumbai after a major fire started on its largest…

S1E15 015 Mark Sarvas: Underground Man

Jul 22, 2025 13m

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelscottmoore.substack.comMark Sarvas is the author of three novels and the founding editor of a well-known literary blog called The…

S1E14 014 Laurence Norman: Unknown Knowns about Iran’s Nuclear Program

Jul 08, 2025 42m

Laurence Norman has covered Iran’s nuclear program for the Wall Street Journal for over a decade, and for almost as long I’ve admired his pieces. He’s a Berlin-based journalist, measured and smart,…

S1E13 013 Khue Pham: Brothers and Ghosts

Jun 24, 2025 57m

Khuê Phạm’s first novel Brothers and Ghosts deals with a Vietnamese family scattered across three continents, from Saigon to Germany to Southern California. It was translated last year from German…

S1E12 012 Jessa Crispin: What Is Wrong With Men

Jun 10, 2025 50m

Jessa Crispin’s new book, What Is Wrong With Men, studies American masculinity through a close reading of Michael Douglas’ movie roles from the mid-’80s through the late ’90s. The son of Kirk…

S1E11 011 Thad Ziolkowski: Taking the Drop

May 27, 2025 43m

Thad Ziolkowski is a poet, novelist, and memoirist who has written a fascinating book about surfing and addiction called The Drop. He’s no stranger to difficult themes, and I have a feature in the…

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