The New Yorker at 100 (with David Remnick)
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Higher Ground
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2025
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
In the first 100 years of The New Yorker, only five have edited the magazine. Since 1998, it’s been David Remnick at the helm, shepherding the publication into the 21st century.
We discuss Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral win in New York City (3:24), the new documentary, The New Yorker at 100, chronicling the magazine’s evolution (11:00), how comedian Jon Stewart understands the rising influence of the podcast Manosphere (26:20), and the future of media (47:00).
Then, we turn to our first talk with Remnick from 2023, reflecting on the art that influenced him growing up in New Jersey (54:00) to his pathway to journalism at Princeton University (1:03:30) and his start at The Washington Post under the tutelage of legendary editor Ben Bradlee (1:09:00). We close with lessons from his early days running The New Yorker (1:14:30), why he cautions against despair (1:26:20), and a tribute to the creative longevity of musician Joni Mitchell (1:34:00).
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| 2:04.6 | Today, editor, writer, journalist, David Remnick. |
| 2:11.3 | Remnick has been at the helm of the New Yorker since 1998 and the staff writer since 1992. |
| 2:19.1 | Before then, he was a reporter at the Washington Post under the tutelage of the late great Ben Bradley. His work as a foreign correspondent in Russia, where he chronicled the end of the Soviet Empire, resulted in the |
| 2:24.6 | Pulitzer Prize-winning book Lenin's Tomb in 1994. In the 27 years since he took over the New Yorker, |
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