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The Nobel Prize Winner Maria Ressa on the Turmoil at Facebook
Episode 545
The roughly ten thousand company documents that make up the Facebook Papers show a company in turmoil—and one that prioritizes its economic interests…
4 years, 2 months ago
Jane Goodall Talks with Andy Borowitz
Episode 544
Jane Goodall is as revered a figure as modern science has to offer, though she prefers to call herself a naturalist rather than a scientist. Goodall …
4 years, 2 months ago
How a Girls’ School Fled Afghanistan as the Taliban Took Over
Episode 543
In the summer, Shabana Basij-Rasikh came on the Radio Hour to speak with Sue Halpern about founding the School of Leadership Afghanistan—known as SOL…
4 years, 2 months ago
Jon Stewart: “That’s Not Cancel Culture”
Episode 542
“The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” defined an era. For more than sixteen years, Stewart and his many correspondents skewered American politics. At the…
4 years, 2 months ago
Daniel Craig Takes Off the Tux
Episode 541
Daniel Craig made his career as an actor in the theatre and in British indie films. When he showed up in Hollywood, it was usually in smaller roles, …
4 years, 3 months ago
Kara Walker Talks with Thelma Golden
Episode 540
Kara Walker is one of our most influential living artists. Walker won a MacArthur Fellowship (the “genius” grant) before she turned thirty, and becam…
4 years, 3 months ago
An Interview with Merrick Garland, and Susan Orlean on Animals
Episode 539
At The New Yorker Festival, the renowned investigative journalist Jane Mayer asked Attorney General Merrick Garland about the prosecution of January …
4 years, 3 months ago
Broadway’s Unusual Reopening, and Amanda Petrusich Picks Three
Episode 538
Broadway theatres are welcoming audiences to a new season, mounting original works and restaging shows that closed in March, 2020. In this unusual se…
4 years, 3 months ago
Jonathan Franzen Talks with David Remnick About “Crossroads”
Episode 537
Jonathan Franzen’s sixth novel, “Crossroads,” is set in 1971, and the title is firmly on the nose: the Hildebrand family is at a crossroads itself, j…
4 years, 3 months ago
Should the Climate Movement Embrace Sabotage?
Episode 536
Andreas Malm, a climate activist and senior lecturer at Lund University, in Sweden, studies the relationship between climate change and capitalism. W…
4 years, 3 months ago