Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFrom In the Dark: “Blood Relatives”
The New Yorker contributing writer Heidi Blake has been investigating a new story for the Pulitzer Prize-winning podcast In the Dark. This season is …
2 months, 1 week ago
Jon Stewart on the Perilous State of Late Night and Why America Fell for Donald Trump
Jon Stewart has been a leading figure in political comedy since before the turn of the millennium. But compared to his early years on Comedy Central’…
2 months, 1 week ago
It’s Not Just You: The Internet Is Actually Getting Worse
“Sometimes a term is so apt, its meaning so clear and so relevant to our circumstances, that it becomes more than just a useful buzzword and grows to…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Zadie Smith on Politics, Turning Fifty, and Mind Control
Since Zadie Smith published her début novel, “White Teeth,” twenty-five years ago, she has been a bold and original voice in literature. But those wh…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Richard Linklater on His Two New Films, “Blue Moon” and “Nouvelle Vague”
Richard Linklater is one of the most admired directors working today, and yet moviegoers may admire him for very different things. There are early co…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
How the Trump Administration Made Higher Education a Target
The swiftness and severity with which the Trump Administration has tried to impose its will on higher education came as a shock to many, not least un…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
John Carpenter Picks Three Favorite Film Scores
The filmmaker John Carpenter has a whole shelf of cult classics: “They Live,” “The Thing,” “Escape from New York,” “Halloween,” and so many more. And…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Zohran Mamdani Says He's Ready for Donald Trump
Next month, New York City may elect as its next mayor a man who was pretty much unknown to the broader public a year ago. Zohran Mamdan, who is curre…
3 months ago
How Lionel Richie Mastered the Love Song
Lionel Richie has been making music for fifty years. He has sold more than a hundred million albums, his hits too numerous to list, and he has endear…
3 months ago
A Conservative Professor on How to Fix Campus Culture
Robert P. George is not a passive observer of the proverbial culture wars; he’s been a very active participant. As a Catholic legal scholar and philo…
3 months, 1 week ago