Airlift from Berlin Review

Yale philosopher Lily Hu refuses to use AI in her own work and bans it in her classroom. She talks with Tobias Haberkorn about why a certain kind of philosophy is about to have its lunch eaten, why her older colleagues are less worried than her younger ones, and what the humanities are for when they no longer get you a job.

Anne Carson is the 2026 Nobel laureate, a translator of Sappho and the author of some of the most beloved poems on grief and beauty. We discuss some of her greatest works like Autobiography of Red, The Beauty of the Husband and The Glass Essay.

The editor of The New York Review of Books and a New Yorker critic on what magazines are for, and whether it's better to be big and rich or small and free.

The writer Miriam Stoney on the line between a person and a character and on who, in fiction and film, gets to be disliked without being reduced to a stereotype.

In this episode the historian and writer Faith Hillis speaks about the Jewish Labor Bund, a secular, socialist Jewish political party founded in the Russian Empire in 1897. She discusses two new books on Jewish radicalism and the danger of reaching for the past as a weapon in current political fights.