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Anna Deavere Smith Retells Rodney King’s Story in Theatre
Episode 549
“Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992” premièred nearly thirty years ago, but it’s one of the most current and important plays on Broadway right now. Anna Dea…
4 years, 9 months ago
Rachel Held Evans and Her Legacy
Episode 548
Growing up, Rachel Held Evans was a fiercely enthusiastic evangelizer for her faith, the kind of kid who relished the chance to sit next to an atheis…
4 years, 9 months ago
Will the Office Survive the Pandemic?
Episode 547
Cal Newport, the author of “A World without Email” and other books, has been writing about how the shutdown has affected businesses and the culture o…
4 years, 9 months ago
Wole Soyinka on His New Satire of Corruption and Fundamentalism
Episode 546
Wole Soyinka is a giant of world literature. A Nobel laureate, he’s written more than two dozen plays, a vast amount of poetry, several memoirs, and …
4 years, 9 months ago
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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 months ago