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Karl Ove Knausgaard on Near-Death Experiences, Raising Kids, Puberty, Brain Surgery, and Turtles
Episode 124
A crime reporter and a business writer try to figure out how the government can charge a bank a sixteen-billion-dollar fine for wrongdoing yet fail t…
8 years, 3 months ago
David Simon’s “The Deuce” Charts the Rise of Pornography
Episode 123
David Simon believes in the dignity of labor, “even when it’s undignified.” What “The Wire” (which he created) did for the drug trade in Baltimore, “…
8 years, 3 months ago
Julia Louis-Dreyfus Wins Again
Episode 122
Julia Louis-Dreyfus recently won her sixth consecutive Emmy for Best Actress in a Comedy for the role of Selina Meyer, the hapless Vice-President tur…
8 years, 3 months ago
At the Brink with North Korea
Episode 121
Donald Trump mocked Kim Jong Un by calling him “rocket man,” and threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea if the U.S. or its allies were attacked.…
8 years, 3 months ago
For Teen Activists, What Good Is a Protest Song?
Episode 120
Since the Inauguration, in January, there’s been a kind of protest renaissance for those on the left and some in the center of American politics; at …
8 years, 3 months ago
Hillary Clinton on the “Clear and Present Danger” of Collusion with Russia
Episode 119
Hillary Clinton harbors no doubts, she tells David Remnick in a long interview, that political allies of Donald Trump astutely “guided” the release o…
8 years, 4 months ago
What Was It Like Before the Internet?
Episode 118
A magical time of unfettered creativity but zero productivity, the days before the Internet were so strange that it’s hard to believe they were real.…
8 years, 4 months ago
After Charlottesville, the Limits of Free Speech
Episode 117
When is speech no longer just speech? David Remnick looks at how leftist protests at Berkeley, right-wing violence in Charlottesville, and open-carry…
8 years, 4 months ago
Neil Gorsuch and the Uses of History
Episode 116
We have yet to learn just how closely the views of the Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch resemble those of the late Justice Antoni…
8 years, 4 months ago
A Visit with Harry Belafonte, and an Isolated Tribe Emerges
Episode 115
We take for granted that popular entertainers can and should advocate for causes they believe in. But until Harry Belafonte pioneered that kind of ac…
8 years, 4 months ago