Letters and Politics

Islam in America & Populism and the Enlightenment

A conversation on the first Muslims in the United States and Thomas Jefferson’s Quran.
Guest: Denise Spellberg, author of Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an: Islam and the Founders.
Then, a conversation on the Enlightenment, Populism and the debate between Voltaire and Rousseau with guest Pankaj Mishra, author of the Age of Anger: A History of the Present.

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