Ulrich Baer

Stimulating and engaging conversations on great books and big ideas. Listen, learn, and think more deeply about the topics that move our collective minds. I engage the nation's leading scholars on free speech but also talk with students, philosophers and writers about the ways in which freedom of expression is truly the lifeblood of democracy. In the Great Books section, I speak with writers, academics, and others about books that truly did something new: add a voice that had not been acknowledged or heard in the public before; account for experiences previously silenced, outlawed or forgotten; devise a new way of telling one's story; or celebrate the human capacity for invention and creation in pathbreaking ways.