Comprehensive.

Witty.

Speculative.

Critical.

Insightful.

Profound.

Wide-ranging.

Hopefully doesn't take itself too, too seriously.

I'm David Remnick, and each week on the New Yorker Radio Hour, my colleagues and I try to make sense of what's happening in this chaotic world.

I hope you'll join us for the New Yorker Radio Hour wherever you listen to podcasts.

A thoughtful, exquisite, just, you know, real.

An eyewitness to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo tells us how people are feeling there right now.

It doesn't take very much to scratch under the surface to realize that there is a deep current of frustration and fear.

I'm Marco Wurman.

And I'm Carolyn Beeler.

Also today in Syria, the urgency of holding the old regime accountable.

We cannot wait until we have a good army and a good governance and a good economy.

And this is, we have to be realistic.

Plus, our walking globe trekker always asks strangers a series of questions.

Who are you? Where do you come from? Where's you going?

And a South African basis remembers meeting Paul Simon.

When my boss told me it was from Jamaica, he didn't say Jamaica Queen, so I thought it was a rascal.

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