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Malcolm Gladwell on the Sociology of School Shooters
Episode 191
Malcolm Gladwell spoke with The New Yorker’s Dorothy Wickenden in 2015 about the social dynamics of school shootings. Studying the literature of soci…
7 years, 9 months ago
Paul Schrader: Movies as Religion
Episode 190
Paul Schrader made an auspicious début as the screenwriter of “Taxi Driver” and the director of “Blue Collar” and “American Gigolo.” But as Hollywood…
7 years, 9 months ago
The Breeders on Sexism, Drugs, and Rock and Roll
Episode 189
This year, the original members of the Breeders—indie-rock royalty—are back together, twenty-five years after “Last Splash,” an album that fans regar…
7 years, 9 months ago
Diplomacy on the Rocks in Iran and North Korea
Episode 188
Susan B. Glasser, a staff writer for The New Yorker based in Washington, speaks with Wendy Sherman about the Trump Administration’s withdrawal from t…
7 years, 9 months ago
Dunya Mikhail on the Lives Stolen by ISIS
Episode 187
Before she was placed on the list of Saddam Hussein’s enemies, the poet Dunya Mikhail worked as a journalist for the Baghdad Observer. In her new boo…
7 years, 10 months ago
How to Contain the Threat of Russia
Episode 186
Senator Mark Warner is the vice-chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is trying to explore the possibility of Russian collusion with t…
7 years, 10 months ago
Glenn Close Doesn’t Play Evil (with One Exception)
Episode 185
Last year, Glenn Close was on Broadway as Norma Desmond in “Sunset Boulevard,” reprising a role she had originally played in 1993. Since 1974, when s…
7 years, 10 months ago
Robert Caro on the Fall of New York
Episode 184
In a career spanning more than forty years, the biographer Robert Caro has written about only two subjects. But they’re very big subjects: Robert Mo…
7 years, 10 months ago
Apocalypse Prepping, on a Budget
Episode 183
Inspired by “Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich,” by The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos, Patricia Marx gets herself ready for the apocalypse. The only problem…
7 years, 10 months ago
ICE Comes to a Small Town in Tennessee
Episode 182
This week, a reporter looks at a rural town where the largest immigration raid in a decade has ripped apart a community; Ronan Farrow talks about his…
7 years, 10 months ago