Arc: The Podcast

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

Episodes

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 30, 2026

1 hr 29 min

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 9, 2026

1 hr 8 min

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"

Jul 2, 2026

1 hr 7 min

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

Jun 25, 2026

1 hr 12 min

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 29, 2026

55 min

May 13, 2026

1 hr 30 min

May 13, 2026

1 hr 30 min

May 1, 2026

26 min

Mark sits down with Jay Michaelson to talk about the 17th century (Jewish) origins of Candace Owens's antisemitism

May 1, 2026

26 min

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 16, 2026

1 hr 16 min

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

Apr 1, 2026

1 hr 7 min

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

Mar 19, 2026

1 hr 48 min

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