Best of Design Matters: David Remnick

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Design Matters Media

Arts, Design

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Since 1998, David Remnick has been the editor of The New Yorker and has written hundreds of pieces for the magazine, including reporting from Russia, the Middle East, and Europe and Profiles of Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Katharine Graham, Mike Tyson, Bruce Springsteen and more. He also hosts the magazine’s national radio program and podcast, “The New Yorker Radio Hour.” He joins live at the On Air Fest to talk about his legendary life and career.

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0:00.0	This episode of Design Matters originally dropped in April of 2024.
0:05.7	Part of what shaped me is when I was a young reporter, the world was a very promising,
0:11.1	it was always filled with misery.
0:13.5	We are half conscious, crazy people doing the best we can and the worst we can all the time.
0:24.2	But there was this moment of promise in the Middle East,
0:28.7	in Eastern Europe, in Central Europe, in South America,
0:33.2	democratic promise. I'm not saying heaven on earth, but promise.
0:40.9	From the TAT audio collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Milman.
0:49.1	For 19 years, Debbie Milman has been talking with designers and other creative people about what they do,
0:52.7	how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about, and working on.
0:58.6	On this episode, David Rimnick, the editor of The New Yorker magazine, talks about his life and career and tests the limits of his memory.
1:01.9	Look, the story I'll tell you may be completely false.
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