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Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax on Beethoven’s Politics of the Cello
Episode 505
Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax have both been playing Beethoven’s Cello Sonata No. 3 in A Major for over forty years. But it took a global pandemic for the …
4 years, 7 months ago
A Vaccinated Day at the Ballpark, and Sarah Schulman on ACT-UP
Episode 504
The staff writer Patricia Marx checks out the new vaccinated sections at New York’s Major League Baseball parks. The author and activist Sarah Schulm…
4 years, 7 months ago
Looking Back at the Year of Protest Since the Death of George Floyd
Episode 503
We look back on the year since the murder of George Floyd galvanized the nation. David Remnick talks with Vanita Gupta, the No. 3 official in the Jus…
4 years, 7 months ago
Spike Lee on the Knicks’ Resurgence
Episode 502
Spike Lee is one of the most passionate and committed fans of the New York Knicks—not to mention one of the most celebrated filmmakers of our time. U…
4 years, 7 months ago
Can We Finally End School Segregation?
Episode 501
By many accounts, American schools are as segregated today as they were in the nineteen-sixties, in the years after Brown v. Board of Education. WNYC…
4 years, 7 months ago
“Fire in Little Africa,” A Rap Album about a Historical Tragedy
Episode 500
The Tulsa massacre of 1921 was a coördinated assault on and destruction of the thriving Black community known as Greenwood, Black Wall Street, or Lit…
4 years, 8 months ago
The Post-Pandemic Dress Code, Plus Hilton Als on Alice Neel
Episode 499
When a very long year of doing business from home—in sweatshirts and pajamas and slippers—is over, how much effort will people be willing to expend o…
4 years, 8 months ago
Atul Gawande and Siddhartha Mukherjee on the State of the Pandemic
Episode 498
After a year of battling COVID-19, parts of the United States are celebrating a gradual turn toward normalcy, but the pandemic isn’t over—and it may …
4 years, 8 months ago
Thomas McGuane Reads “Balloons”
Episode 497
Thomas McGuane reads his story from the May 10, 2021, issue of the magazine. McGuane has published more than a dozen books of fiction, including the …
4 years, 8 months ago
Three Women Who Changed the World
Episode 496
“The Agitators” is a book about three women—three revolutionaries—who changed the world at a time when women weren’t supposed to be in public life at…
4 years, 8 months ago