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Will the End of Affirmative Action Lead to the End of Legacy Admissions?
Episode 735
The practice of legacy admissions—preferential consideration of the children of alumni—has emerged as a national flash point since the Supreme Court …
2 years, 5 months ago
James McBride on His New Novel, “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store”
Episode 734
James McBride’s new novel, “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store,” centers on the discovery of a skeleton at the bottom of a well in a small town in Penn…
2 years, 5 months ago
Emily Nussbaum on the Culture Wars in Country Music
Episode 733
Last month, the country singer Jason Aldean released a music video for “Try That in a Small Town,” a song that initially received little attention. B…
2 years, 5 months ago
A Trip to the Boundary Waters
Episode 732
Alex Kotlowitz is known as a chronicler of Chicago, and of lives marred by urban poverty and violence. His books set in the city include “An American…
2 years, 5 months ago
Regina Spektor on “Home, Before and After”
Episode 731
Twenty years ago, Regina Spektor was yet another aspiring musician in New York, lugging around a backpack full of self-produced CDs and playing at li…
2 years, 5 months ago
Colson Whitehead on “Crook Manifesto”
Episode 730
Colson Whitehead is one of the most lauded writers working today. His 2016 novel “The Underground Railroad” won the National Book Award and the Pulit…
2 years, 5 months ago
Adapting Robert Oppenheimer’s Story to Film, Plus Greta Gerwig on Becoming a Director
Episode 729
In making “Oppenheimer,” which opens in theatres this weekend, the director Christopher Nolan relied on a Pulitzer Prize-winning 2005 biography of th…
2 years, 5 months ago
Donovan Ramsey on “When Crack Was King”
Episode 728
“When people think of the crack epidemic, they think of crime,” the journalist Donovan X. Ramsey tells David Remnick. “But they don’t necessarily kno…
2 years, 5 months ago
A Mysterious Third Party Enters the Presidential Race
Episode 727
No Labels, which pitches itself as a centrist movement to appeal to disaffected voters, has secured a considerable amount of funding and is working b…
2 years, 6 months ago
How to Buy Forgiveness from Medical Debt
Episode 726
Nearly one in ten Americans owe significant medical debt, a burden that can become crippling as living costs and interest rates rise. Over the past d…
2 years, 6 months ago