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Chuck D on How Hip-Hop Changed the World
Episode 681
Forty years ago, Chuck D showed listeners how exciting, radical, and unpredictable hip-hop could be. His song “Fight the Power” became a protest anth…
3 years, 1 month ago
Salman Rushdie on Surviving the Fatwa
Episode 680
Thirty-four years ago, the Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, issued a fatwa calling for the assassination of the novelist Salman Rushdi…
3 years, 1 month ago
Bonnie Raitt Talks with David Remnick
Episode 679
You couldn’t write a history of American music without a solid chapter on Bonnie Raitt. From her roots as a blues guitarist, she’s created a gorgeous…
3 years, 1 month ago
The Custody Battles Awaiting Mothers of Children Conceived in Rape
Episode 678
Exceptions in the case of rape used to be considered a necessity in abortion legislation, even within the pro-life movement. But today ten states hav…
3 years, 1 month ago
What Exactly Does “Woke” Mean, and How Did It Become so Powerful?
Episode 677
Many on the right blame “wokeness” for all of America’s ills—everything from deadly mass shootings to lower military recruitment. Florida’s governor,…
3 years, 1 month ago
Michael Schulman on Oscars History, and a Visit with “Annie” Composer Charles Strouse
Episode 676
Despite years of controversy, the Academy Awards and the other awards shows remain must-watch television for many Americans. The awards may be “unrel…
3 years, 1 month ago
A Local Paper First Sounded the Alarm on George Santos. Nobody Listened.
Episode 675
George Santos is hardly the first scammer elected to office—but his lies, David Remnick says, are “extra.” Most Americans learned of Santos’s extraor…
3 years, 1 month ago
Deepti Kapoor Discusses “Age of Vice” with Parul Sehgal
Episode 674
Deepti Kapoor describes New Delhi, the setting of her novel “Age of Vice” as “extremely beautiful, but also violent. . . . It’s a place where you thi…
3 years, 2 months ago
In Politics, How Old Is Too Old?
Episode 673
It wasn’t so long ago that Ronald Reagan was considered over the hill, too old to govern. Now a sitting President has turned eighty in office, and a …
3 years, 2 months ago
The Photographer Who Documented a Long-Forgotten Pan-African Festival
Episode 672
Forty-six years ago, a young photographer named Marilyn Nance got the opportunity of a lifetime. A student at the Pratt Institute, an art school in B…
3 years, 2 months ago