Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKalief Browder: A Decade Later
Kalief Browder was jailed at Rikers Island at the age of sixteen; he spent three years locked up without ever being convicted of a crime, and much of…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
U2’s Bono on the Power of Music
In 2022, The New Yorker published a personal history about growing up in Ireland during the nineteen-sixties and seventies. It covers the interfaith …
10 months, 2 weeks ago
“Super Gay Poems”
In 2024, Harvard University offered a course on Taylor Swift. It was popular, to say the least. That course was taught by a professor and literary cr…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Bret Baier On Trump’s Love-Hate Relationship with Fox News
The relationship between Fox News and Donald Trump is not just close; it can be profoundly influential. Trump frequently responds to segments in real…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
America’s Oligarch Problem
A mega-donor to the Republican Presidential campaign, Elon Musk got something no other titan of industry has ever received: an office in the White Ho…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
Why Israel Struck Iran First
The Ayatollahs who have ruled Iran since 1979 have long promised to destroy the Jewish state, and even set a deadline for it. While arming proxies t…
11 months ago
The Unfolding Genocide in Sudan
The New Yorker recently published a report from Sudan, headlined “Escape from Khartoum.” The contributor Nicolas Niarchos journeyed for days through …
11 months ago
Barbra Streisand on “The Secret of Life”
Barbra Streisand has been a huge presence in American entertainment—music, film, and stage—for more than sixty years. She was the youngest person eve…
11 months, 1 week ago
John Seabrook on the Destructive Family Battles of “The Spinach King”
John Seabrook’s new book is about a family business—not a mom-and-pop store, but a huge operation run by a ruthless patriarch. The patriarch is aging…
11 months, 1 week ago
What Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Doesn’t Understand About Autism
When Donald Trump made an alliance with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., he brought vaccine skepticism and the debunked link between vaccines and autism into …
11 months, 2 weeks ago