Podcast Episodes featuring Leo Tolstoy

Richard Gunderman on Greed, Adam Smith, and Leo Tolstoy

EconTalk - April 04, 2022 10:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4K ratings
Physician and careful reader Richard Gunderman of Indiana University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how Adam Smith and Leo Tolstoy looked at greed. Drawing on Tolstoy's short story, "Master and Man," and adding some Thomas Hobbes along the way, Gunderman argues that a life well-live...

Episode 17 - Interview with Gary Saul Morson on Leo Tolstoy

Letter of Liberty - July 02, 2018 01:29 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this episode Gary Saul Morson, distinguished scholar of Russian literature, joins the Letter of Liberty to discuss the greatness of Leo Tolstoy, his ability to capture the consciousness of human beings, and his great search for truth that gave such depth and reality to his great novels and st...

Episode 2 - Letter of Liberty Interview with Michael Katz on Leo Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata

Letter of Liberty - February 01, 2018 20:17 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Michael Katz, C. V. Starr Professor Emeritus of Russian and East European Studies at Middlebury College joins Letter of Liberty to discuss Leo Tolstoy's late novella The Kreutzer Sonata. A production of WCWP Studios - LIU Post Public Radio. Visit us at WCWP.org

Leo Tolstoy

Legacy: the Artists Behind the Legends - June 02, 2017 04:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 118 ratings
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, arguably one of the best novelists of all time, was a complicated yet fascinating Russian writer who spent the majority of his days on earth chasing the meaning of life and the world around him. His two most famous novels, Anna Karenina and War and Peace, took the ...

Grisha Freidin on Leo Tolstoy and Anna Karenina

Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature) - April 16, 2014 08:01 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 263 ratings