Overview
314 Episodes
Jennifer Palmieri explains what she learned working on the 2016 election, and how the race that Harris faces differs from those of other women who’ve run for President.
Transcribed - Published: 26 July 2024
The writer talks with David Remnick about writing the lives of the undocumented, in journalism and in fiction. Her previous work, a memoir, was a finalist for the National Book Award.
Transcribed - Published: 23 July 2024
CNN’s data guru Harry Enten says that, unless the race shifts significantly, Donald Trump will win. And the pollster Ann Selzer explains how the polls know what they know.
Transcribed - Published: 19 July 2024
Three masters talk about the craft of investigative journalism, and how the bad guy makes the story tick.
Transcribed - Published: 16 July 2024
A former Presidential candidate, Castro tells David Remnick why Democratic leaders concerned about President Biden’s age were afraid to challenge the establishment and run against him.
Transcribed - Published: 12 July 2024
The singer and band leader talks with John Seabrook about finding her voice as a songwriter, and her struggles with alcohol. Welch plays two songs live with Florence and the Machine.
Transcribed - Published: 9 July 2024
The legendary historian and biographer explains how, from a background in daily journalism, he came to write one of the most revered nonfiction books of the twentieth century.
Transcribed - Published: 5 July 2024
David Remnick asked listeners for their questions about the Presidential election, and a crack team of The New Yorker’s political writers came together to answer them.
Transcribed - Published: 2 July 2024
Once a beacon for progressives, the senator has put the left at a distance and moved past centrist Democrats with his unconditional support of Israel’s conduct during the war in Gaza.
Transcribed - Published: 28 June 2024
The staff writer picks three pioneering entries to the genre. “If you hate reality television,” she says, “I'm trying to talk to you.”
Transcribed - Published: 25 June 2024
The actor and director, whose film “Horizon: An American Saga” has been in the making for decades, thinks of the Western as America’s Shakespeare.
Transcribed - Published: 21 June 2024
The co-host of “How Did This Get Made?” enlightens David Remnick on the art of terrible film. Plus, the New Yorker film critic Justin Chang praises Coppola’s divisive “Megalopolis.”
Transcribed - Published: 18 June 2024
Rory Stewart, a former Conservative Party Member of Parliament, explains the upcoming U.K. elections, the “catastrophic” Brexit, and the soul-crushing sham of a life in politics.
Transcribed - Published: 14 June 2024
Eric Smokes and David Warren were convicted as teen-agers. Even after serving their sentences, the “Times Square Two” argued their innocence. It took decades for prosecutors to agree.
Transcribed - Published: 11 June 2024
The Democratic senator and Baptist pastor, who preaches from the same pulpit in Atlanta as Martin Luther King, Jr., did, says that Trumpism has exacerbated a “spiritual crisis.”
Transcribed - Published: 7 June 2024
A track star’s gender transition in the nineteen-thirties, and the response of Olympic officials, foreshadowed today’s culture-war battles over gender and sports.
Transcribed - Published: 4 June 2024
Though rooted in the jazz tradition, the singer's interests and repertoire reach across eras, languages, and continents.
Transcribed - Published: 31 May 2024
Glazer’s new movie, “Babes,” delves into the absurd, paradoxical, graphic realities of pregnancy and parenthood.
Transcribed - Published: 28 May 2024
Lawsuits and the labor movement come to reality TV, by way of the Netflix hit.
Transcribed - Published: 24 May 2024
While the filmmaker, writer, and artist was writing her new book, “All Fours,” the character she created was influencing her own life.
Transcribed - Published: 21 May 2024
David Remnick asks R.F.K., Jr., where his run for President and his beliefs are coming from.
Transcribed - Published: 17 May 2024
In lobbying Congress to force the sale of TikTok, a Palantir executive called it a national-security threat—a digital Trojan horse controlled by the Chinese government.
Transcribed - Published: 14 May 2024
A tech journalist sees Silicon Valley making policy—and lawmakers refusing to regulate social media. Plus, salmon in the dishwasher, and other highlights of culinary TikTok.
Transcribed - Published: 10 May 2024
For Democrats and Republicans, it’s time to pay attention to R.F.K., Jr. Three writers discuss his possible impact on the election.
Transcribed - Published: 7 May 2024
Not since the Vietnam War has a protest movement reached college campuses with such fury. We look at the reverberations at one school, Harvard University.
Transcribed - Published: 3 May 2024
Amid threats, Georgia’s secretary of state describes how he convinces Republican voters that elections are fair.
Transcribed - Published: 30 April 2024
The comedian could have retired decades ago, but he continues to hone his craft onstage, and at age seventy he’s directed his first feature film, “Unfrosted.”
Transcribed - Published: 26 April 2024
The acclaimed actor talks with David Remnick about her new book, and a lifetime of performing Shakespeare.
Transcribed - Published: 23 April 2024
The evidence implicating social-media apps, the social psychologist says, is not another moral panic over technology. “Actually, this time is different,” he insists. “Here’s why."
Transcribed - Published: 19 April 2024
The popular actor and songwriter speaks with Rachel Syme about not going to college—the subject of her new single. And a novelist discusses the excitement and uncertainty of protests.
Transcribed - Published: 16 April 2024
Rare across-the-aisle coöperation in Austin aims to protect the lives of some women who need abortions—and protect their doctors from prosecution.
Transcribed - Published: 12 April 2024
The New Yorker’s new critic on three films he’s excited about this year.
Transcribed - Published: 8 April 2024
Why are so many states restricting what schools can teach about racism? Two leading journalist-historians discuss the efforts to ban or rewrite the teaching of Black history.
Transcribed - Published: 5 April 2024
The singer, banjo player, music scholar, and opera composer talks with David Remnick about the legacy of Black string music—and how not to be limited by genre.
Transcribed - Published: 2 April 2024
In her musical opening on Broadway, Keys tells a story very much like her own life, using her own hit songs—but don’t call it autobiographical.
Transcribed - Published: 29 March 2024
The author creates a new inner life for a “Huckleberry Finn” character.
Transcribed - Published: 26 March 2024
Adam Gopnik considers how Hitler came to power, and what it tells us about the 2024 election.
Transcribed - Published: 22 March 2024
The staff writer Louisa Thomas talks with the former sportswriter David Remnick about why men’s college basketball suffers a state of malaise, while the women’s game is electrifying.
Transcribed - Published: 19 March 2024
The philosopher popularized new ideas about gender—and has been burned in effigy. They talk with David Remnick about “Who’s Afraid of Gender?” Plus, Erin Reed on anti-trans legislation.
Transcribed - Published: 15 March 2024
The journalist’s autobiographical novel reflects his time working on Barack’s Obama’s campaign, and in his White House. Has the former President lived up to his expectations?
Transcribed - Published: 12 March 2024
The writer-director tells David Remnick that conducting an actual orchestra, in the role of Leonard Bernstein, was “the scariest thing I’ve ever done, hands down.”
Transcribed - Published: 8 March 2024
The staff writer Evan Osnos went to the White House for a rare, frank talk with the President about his reëlection battle. Can he persuade voters that his accomplishments outweigh his age?
Transcribed - Published: 2 March 2024
One of the most influential Silicon Valley reporters chronicles the rise of an industry, and moguls like Elon Musk, in “Burn Book.”
Transcribed - Published: 1 March 2024
“The Killers of the Flower Moon” star reflects on the challenges faced by Native actors. Plus, New Yorker film critic Richard Brody’s unique awards for the best of 2023.
Transcribed - Published: 27 February 2024
The former Trump White House attorney is sounding the alarm on the consequences of ignoring the ex-President’s rhetoric on Russia, and his actions on January 6th.
Transcribed - Published: 23 February 2024
The author of “Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt” and other books talks with Jeffrey Masters about his journey from go-go boy to Renaissance man.
Transcribed - Published: 20 February 2024
The co-host of the popular show explains how the withering of the media and the threat of political violence are warping the Presidential campaign, and what Biden’s team needs to do.
Transcribed - Published: 16 February 2024
In her Netflix special, the comedian uses an act of oral sex as a springboard for a rapid-fire rant about the human condition, along with human anatomy.
Transcribed - Published: 13 February 2024
Transcribed - Published: 9 February 2024
The author of the influential novel “How Should a Person Be?” culled decades of material from her own journals to take a radical approach to her new book.
Transcribed - Published: 6 February 2024
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