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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, 10 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 months ago
Rev. Franklin Graham Offers an Evangelist’s View of Donald Trump
Episode 221
Like his father, Rev. Billy Graham, before him, Rev. Franklin Graham is one of the nation’s most prominent preachers, influential in the evangelical …
7 years, 11 months ago
For a Palestinian Candidate, a Contested Election in Jerusalem
Episode 220
Ramadan Dabash is a civil engineer and a mukhtar—an Arab community leader—in his neighborhood of East Jerusalem. His run for a seat on the city counc…
7 years, 11 months ago
David Simon’s “The Deuce” Charts the Rise of Pornography
Episode 219
David Simon is sympathetic to the sex workers he depicts in “The Deuce,” which will return to HBO for its second season in September. He is even symp…
7 years, 11 months ago
An N.Y.P.D. Sergeant Blows the Whistle on Quotas
Episode 218
Sergeant Edwin Raymond is the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit filed by a group of New York City police officers who have become famous as “the N.Y.P.D.-1…
7 years, 11 months ago