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Jelani Cobb on the Kerner Report, an Unheeded Warning about the Consequences of Racism
Episode 535
In 1967, in the wake of a violent uprising in Detroit, President Lyndon B. Johnson assembled the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders to i…
4 years, 3 months ago
Joaquin Castro: “Americans Don’t Know Who Latinos Are”
Episode 534
On Tuesday, the U.S. Government Accountability Office issued a preliminary report on the long-standing underrepresentation of Latinos in the media. W…
4 years, 3 months ago
Wes Anderson and Jeffrey Wright on “The French Dispatch”
Episode 533
“I wanted to do a French movie, and I had this idea of wanting to do a New Yorker movie,” Wes Anderson explains. “Somehow, I also wanted to do one of…
4 years, 4 months ago
Bonus: “The French Dispatch” Reads The New Yorker
Episode 532
Wes Anderson’s new film, “The French Dispatch,” is about a magazine, and it was inspired by Anderson’s long-standing love of The New Yorker. In this …
4 years, 4 months ago
The Insidious Procedural Traps of the Texas Abortion Law
Episode 531
The new Texas law Senate Bill 8 effectively outlaws abortion in Texas, violating constitutional protections on reproductive rights. Yet the Supreme C…
4 years, 4 months ago
Remembering September 11th, and the Future of the Taliban
Episode 530
Twenty years after the events of September 11th, the writer Edwidge Danticat reads from her essay “Flight,” about the way that tragedies are memorial…
4 years, 4 months ago
The Child Tax Credit: One Small Step Toward Universal Basic Income?
Episode 529
David Remnick talks with Senator Michael Bennet, of Colorado, who campaigned for the Presidency in 2020 advocating for the child tax credit, which is…
4 years, 4 months ago
Riz Ahmed on “Mogul Mowgli”
Episode 528
As a rapper, Riz Ahmed has released critically acclaimed albums, and he was featured on the chart-topping “Hamilton Mixtape.” At the same time, he wa…
4 years, 4 months ago
The Joy of Beach Reads
Episode 526
Our guest host, Vinson Cunningham, looks at the joys of the beach read, hitting Brighton Beach on a hot, muggy day to peer over readers’ shoulders. H…
4 years, 4 months ago
Kim Stanley Robinson on “Utopian” Science Fiction
Episode 527
One of the premier writers of thinky sci-fi, Kim Stanley Robinson opened his book “The Ministry for the Future” with an all too plausible scenario: a…
4 years, 4 months ago