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Anthony Hopkins on “The Father,” and Patricia Lockwood’s First Novel
Episode 479
At an age when many actors are slowing down or long retired, Anthony Hopkins has kept up a feverish pace, with recent roles including Pope Benedict X…
5 years, 6 months ago
Atul Gawande on the COVID Vaccine, and Daniel Kaluuya on “Judas and the Black Messiah”
Episode 478
Atul Gawande, the staff writer and public-health expert, talks with David Remnick about the progress of the vaccine rollout, the new strains of the c…
5 years, 6 months ago
Congressman Jamie Raskin on Impeaching Donald Trump—Again
Episode 477
Tommy Raskin, a twenty-five-year-old law student, took his own life on New Year’s Eve, after a long battle against depression. His family laid him to…
5 years, 6 months ago
The People Who Will Decide Donald Trump's Fate on Facebook
Episode 476
Facebook created the Oversight Board to adjudicate high-level claims about what can and can’t be posted, independent of the company’s leadership. Thi…
5 years, 6 months ago
The Supreme Court of Facebook
Episode 475
Facebook is at the center of the hottest controversies over freedom of speech, and its opaque, unaccountable decisions have angered people across the…
5 years, 6 months ago
Amanda Petrusich Talks with the Weather Station’s Tamara Lindeman
Episode 474
Amanda Petrusich describes herself as a “diehard fan” of folk music, but not when it feels precious or sentimental. That’s why she loves the Weather …
5 years, 6 months ago
Trump Closed the U.S. to Asylum Seekers. Will Biden Reopen It?
Episode 473
Immediately after Inauguration, the Biden Administration began trying to unwind some of Donald Trump’s most notorious policies on immigration. But, o…
5 years, 6 months ago
Kurt Vile Talks with Amanda Petrusich
Episode 472
Kurt Vile—that’s his real name—helped found the rock band the War on Drugs. But he left that band shortly after its début to make records of his own.…
5 years, 6 months ago
William Barber, and the Question of Faith and Politics
Episode 471
The North Carolina pastor William Barber, who spoke at the inaugural prayer service at the start of the Biden Administration, wants politics to be gu…
5 years, 7 months ago
Unearthing Entombed
Episode 470
Now that we are some sixty years into the digital era, the early days of modern computers are growing distant and mysterious to us. The field of game…
5 years, 7 months ago