Arc: The Podcast
Arc Magazine’s editor-in-chief, Mark Oppenheimer, is joined by guests to talk religion, politics, et cetera.
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Episodes

Jul 30, 2026
Jul 30, 2026
1 hr 29 min
Mark sits down with New Yorker staff writer Nicholas Lemann to talk about nearly-lost religious histories, the hive-minds of higher education, and the state of American media

Jul 9, 2026
Jul 9, 2026
1 hr 8 min
A poet, a theologian, and Mark walk into a podcast studio: a conversation about faith, doubt, mortality, and friendship.

Jul 2, 2026
Jul 2, 2026
1 hr 7 min
In honor of America's 250th, a special episode featuring Harvard's Danielle Allen on "The Declaration of Independence: Why an Old Text Serves Us Now"

Jun 25, 2026
Jun 25, 2026
1 hr 12 min
Mark sits down with Paul Elie to discuss art and religion in the 1980s, from Madonna to Prince to Leonard Cohen to Martin Scorsese, and the age old question of whether God cares about pop music

May 29, 2026
May 29, 2026
55 min
Mark sits down with Zachary Davis to talk about the Latter Day Saints' rebrand, the role of religion in a secular age, and the commonalities between Mormons and Jews (aside from the fact that they’re both disliked)

May 13, 2026

May 1, 2026
May 1, 2026
26 min
Mark sits down with Jay Michaelson to talk about the 17th century (Jewish) origins of Candace Owens's antisemitism

Apr 16, 2026
Apr 16, 2026
1 hr 16 min
Mark sits down with Jeremy Carl to talk "white culture," leaving Judaism for the Presbyterian church, and whether politics trump truth in Washington

Apr 1, 2026
Apr 1, 2026
1 hr 7 min
Mark sits down with Jacques Berlinerblau to talk woke politics and the canceling of comedians, whether public apology tours ever work, and how to think about free speech in the digital age

Mar 19, 2026
Mar 19, 2026
1 hr 48 min
Mark sits down with Arielle Angel, editor in chief of Jewish Currents, to talk the Jewish left, the war in Israel and Gaza, and the job of an editor


