# Arash Azizi and Celeste Marcus: Who Needs Cultural Critics Anyway?

What do young cultural critics think about their role in the world, where people have been encouraged to think that critics aren’t necessary? Arash Azizi, author of “What Iranians Want” and Celeste Marcus, the managing editor of Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics, discuss the pleasures and difficulties of being writers who explain and criticize the world with Robin Givhan at the 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2024
- Runtime: 59 min
- By: Givhan, Robin
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/video-10198/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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