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The Playwright Larissa FastHorse on “The Thanksgiving Play,” Broadway’s New Comedy of White Wokeness
Episode 701
“The Thanksgiving Play” is a play about the making of a play. Four performers struggle to devise a Thanksgiving performance that’s respectful of Nati…
2 years, 10 months ago
What’s Behind the Bipartisan Attack on TikTok?
Episode 700
A ban of the Chinese social-media app TikTok, first floated by the Trump Administration, is now gaining real traction in Washington. Lawmakers of bot…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Country Singer Margo Price Talks with Emily Nussbaum
Episode 699
Margo Price moved to Nashville from rural Illinois at the age of nineteen. After struggling for years to break through in the country-music scene, sh…
2 years, 11 months ago
Israel on the Brink: Understanding the Judicial Overhaul, and the Protests Against It
Episode 698
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed law changing the judiciary is described as a reform. To opponents, it’s a move to gut the independence o…
2 years, 11 months ago
Brooke Shields on the Sexualization of Girls in Hollywood
Episode 697
In the late nineteen-seventies and into the eighties, Brooke Shields was one of the most famous and most controversial people in America. At age elev…
2 years, 11 months ago
Jon Meacham on How the Trump Fever Breaks
Episode 696
In 2018, at the midpoint of the Trump Presidency, the journalist and historian Jon Meacham wrote a book called “The Soul of America,” warning of the …
2 years, 11 months ago
Who Was H. G. Carrillo? D. T. Max on a Novelist Whose Fictions Went Too Far
Episode 695
H. G. Carrillo was a writer’s writer—not a household name, but esteemed in literary circles. He began writing later in life, and was in his mid-forti…
2 years, 11 months ago
Jia Tolentino on the Ozempic Weight-Loss Craze
Episode 694
The prescription drug Ozempic was designed to help people with Type 2 diabetes manage their disease, and, under the name Wegovy, to treat obesity. Bu…
2 years, 11 months ago
How the Culture Wars Came to the Catholic Church
Episode 693
The pontificate of Pope Francis, which just reached its tenth year, has brought a greater willingness to engage with modern issues. Francis has addre…
2 years, 11 months ago
What if the Supreme Court Ends Affirmative Action?
Episode 692
In Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears likely to strike down affirmative action, in a decision…
2 years, 11 months ago