Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSenator Raphael Warnock on America’s “Moral and Spiritual Battle”
Episode 931
When Raphael Warnock was elected to the Senate from Georgia in the 2020 election, he made history a couple of times over. He became the first Black D…
1 year, 7 months ago
The Trans Athletes Who Changed the Olympics—in 1936
Episode 930
In “The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports,” the journalist Michael Waters tells the story of Zdeněk Koubek, one of…
1 year, 7 months ago
Cécile McLorin Salvant Finds “the Gems That Haven’t Been Sung and Sung”
Episode 929
When the jazz singer Cécile McLorin Salvant was profiled in The New Yorker, Wynton Marsalis described her as the kind of talent who comes along only …
1 year, 7 months ago
Ilana Glazer on Motherhood and Friendship, On- and Off-Screen
Episode 925
In their breakout comedy series, “Broad City,” Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson played raucous and raunchy best friends who were the glue in each other…
1 year, 7 months ago
Love Is Blind, and Allegedly Toxic
Episode 924
On the reality-TV dating show “Love Is Blind,” the most watched original series in Netflix history, contestants are alone in windowless, octagonal p…
1 year, 7 months ago
Miranda July’s New Novel Takes on Marriage, Desire, and Perimenopause
Episode 920
Some time in her forties, something shifted in Miranda July. She started having “this new, grim feeling about the future, which was weird, because I’…
1 year, 7 months ago
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Isn’t Going Away
Episode 919
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who has never held elected office but is related to many people who have, is emerging as a potential threat to Democrats and …
1 year, 7 months ago
How a Tech Executive Lobbied Lawmakers for the TikTok Ban
Episode 915
David Remnick talks with a proponent of the TikTok ban that just passed in Washington. Jacob Helberg, an executive with the data giant Palantir who s…
1 year, 8 months ago
Wired’s Katie Drummond: The TikTok Ban Is “Rooted in Hypocrisy”; Plus, Hannah Goldfield on Culinary TikTok
Episode 914
David Remnick talks with Katie Drummond, the global editorial director of Wired magazine, about the TikTok ban that just passed with bipartisan suppo…
1 year, 8 months ago
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Could Swing the Election. Who Should Be More Worried—Biden or Trump?
Episode 909
When Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., appeared on this show back in July, it was early in his run for President, and he was considered a fringe candidate. He …
1 year, 8 months ago