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Extremists on the Ballot, and America’s Endless War in Afghanistan
Episode 160
The 2016 Presidential primaries were a rebuke to moderates in both parties. Bernie Sanders, a sometime Democratic Socialist, built a grassroots movem…
8 years, 3 months ago
Ryan Zinke’s Deregulation Quest, and the Future of Meatless Burgers
Episode 159
As a congressman from Montana, Ryan Zinke was considered a moderate—he resisted radical suggestions, for example, to turn over federal land to the st…
8 years, 3 months ago
Laura Kipnis on the State of #MeToo, and a Night at Richard Nixon’s
Episode 158
Laura Kipnis is a professor at Northwestern University and a provocative feminist critic. Her book “Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campu…
8 years, 3 months ago
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Discovering America
Episode 157
The novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has had commercial and critical success: Her best-seller “Americanah” won a National Book Critics Circle Award …
8 years, 3 months ago
Nathan Lane, Getting Serious, Plays Roy Cohn
Episode 156
Nathan Lane may be best known for supplying the voice of the fun-loving meerkat in “The Lion King,” but in recent years he’s turned his focus to more…
8 years, 3 months ago
The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan
Episode 155
The Ku Klux Klan was originally focused on maintaining the old racial order in the postwar South, chiefly through the violent suppression of African-…
8 years, 4 months ago
David Attenborough’s Planet (We Just Live on It)
Episode 154
David Attenborough’s films for the BBC—impeccably researched, ambitiously filmed, and executed with style and imagination—have set a high bar for nat…
8 years, 4 months ago
Deportation in America
Episode 153
A tougher stance on immigration is the signature position of the Trump Administration, and the President’s first year in office has been marked by sh…
8 years, 4 months ago
Tracee Ellis Ross on Being a “Black-ish” Woman and Jon Hamm Gets His Life Back from Don Draper
Episode 152
Tracee Ellis Ross, who plays Dr. Rainbow Johnson on ABC’s “Black-ish,” joins Doreen St. Félix for a conversation about television, race, and self-acc…
8 years, 4 months ago
Jerry Seinfeld Gets Technical
Episode 151
Jerry Seinfeld talks with David Remnick about his Netflix special “Jerry Before Seinfeld,” which is part standup show, part memoir. They discuss his …
8 years, 4 months ago