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The Long-Distance Con, Part 2
Episode 231
This is part two of a two-part series. Part one can be heard here.
On the day that Maggie Robinson Katz learned that her father had only a few days…
7 years, 5 months ago
Rebecca Traister Is Happy to Be Mad
Episode 230
After the election of Donald Trump, the feminist journalist Rebecca Traister began channeling her anger into a book. The result, “Good and Mad: The R…
7 years, 5 months ago
Joan Jett’s Reputation
Episode 229
Joan Jett cut a massive figure in rock and roll, starting in the nineteen-seventies and continuing with a string of hits including “I Love Rock and R…
7 years, 5 months ago
The Long-Distance Con, Part 1
Episode 228
On the day that Maggie Robinson Katz learned that her father had only a few days to live, she also found out that her wealthy family couldn’t pay his…
7 years, 5 months ago
Into the Woods with Scott Carrier
Episode 227
After a thirty-year lobbying effort, Congress designated the Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail in 2009. Unlike the well-known Appalachian Trail…
7 years, 5 months ago
Lisa Brennan-Jobs on the Shadow of Steve Jobs, and Jill Lepore on the Long Sweep of American History
Episode 226
Lisa Brennan-Jobs’s memoir, “Small Fry,” shares a common theme with many memoirs: the absent parent and the mark left by that absence in the adult wr…
7 years, 5 months ago
Rachel Carson Dreams of the Sea
Episode 225
Before she published “Silent Spring,” one of the most influential books of the last century, Rachel Carson was a young aspiring poet and then a docto…
7 years, 5 months ago
Illeana Douglas Steps Forward
Episode 224
The day after The New Yorker published Ronan Farrow’s exposé about Harvey Weinstein, Farrow got a phone call from the actress and screenwriter Illean…
7 years, 6 months ago
Kwame Anthony Appiah on the Complications of Identity
Episode 223
Kwame Anthony Appiah is one of leading thinkers on identity. A professor of philosophy and law at New York University, Appiah also writes the New Yor…
7 years, 6 months ago
Parenting While Deported
Episode 222
Idalia and Arnold came to this country nearly two decades ago, from Honduras. They settled in a small city in New England and found the working-class…
7 years, 6 months ago