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Will the Government Get Tough on Big Tech?
Episode 298
Apple, Amazon, Alphabet (which owns Google), and Facebook—known in the tech world as the Big Four—are among the largest and most profitable companies…
7 years, 2 months ago
From Stonewall to the Present, Fifty Years of L.G.B.T.Q. Rights
Episode 297
Masha Gessen co-hosts this episode of the New Yorker Radio Hour, guiding David Remnick through the fifty years of civil-rights gains for L.G.B.T.Q. p…
7 years, 2 months ago
Ava DuVernay on “When They See Us,” About the Boys Who Became the Central Park Five
Episode 296
Ava DuVernay doesn’t like using the term Central Park Five—a moniker created by the press in the aftermath of the notorious and brutal assault of a t…
7 years, 2 months ago
Emily Nussbaum on TV’s “Deluge” of #MeToo Plots
Episode 295
The #MeToo movement of recent years started in the entertainment industry, with revelations about moguls such as Harvey Weinstein and CBS’s Les Moonv…
7 years, 2 months ago
Who Should Receive Reparations for Slavery and Discrimination?
Episode 294
The idea of reparations—real compensation made to the descendants of slaves or the victims of legalized discrimination—has gained traction since the …
7 years, 2 months ago
Is America Ready to Make Reparations?
Episode 293
Late in the Civil War, the Union general William T. Sherman confiscated four hundred thousand acres of land from Confederate planters and ordered it …
7 years, 3 months ago
Lucinda Williams Talks with Ariel Levy
Episode 292
Despite winning a Grammy for her song “Passionate Kisses,” which was performed by Mary Chapin Carpenter, Lucinda Williams spent many years overlooked…
7 years, 3 months ago
James Taylor Will Teach you Guitar
Episode 291
James Taylor’s songs are so familiar that they seem to have always existed. Onstage at the New Yorker Festival, in 2010, Taylor peeled back some of h…
7 years, 3 months ago
What the Constitution Means to the Playwright Heidi Schreck
Episode 290
Few Americans dispute the centrality of the Constitution as a statement of our country’s goals; it is as though holy. But what the Constitution actua…
7 years, 3 months ago
Bill McKibben and Elizabeth Kolbert: Is It Too Late to Save the World?
Episode 289
After years of languishing far down the list of voters’ priorities, climate change has moved to the top of many voters’ concerns, according to a new …
7 years, 3 months ago