Syria, The World’s Nightmare
This week’s show examines the origins of the conflict and evaluates what the future might hold for Syria.
This week’s show examines the origins of the conflict and evaluates what the future might hold for Syria.
At the 2016 New Yorker Festival, a panel of experts from across the political spectrum discusses the hypothetical first term of President Trump. And Atul Gawande, a surgeon and self-avowed music …
This week, Mikhail Baryshnikov talks about playing the troubled genius and revolutionary choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky and having an awkward dinner with Donald Trump. Burkhard Bilger explores the …
In this episode, Cathy O’Neil, the author of “Weapons of Math Destruction,” takes a break from a bluegrass jam session to explain how the national crisis of bad algorithms affects us all. David …
Harry Belafonte, at age eighty-nine, has been a star for more than sixty years, as well as an activist, he says, since birth. But he feels that the civil-rights movement is in decline, and he’s …
How did the 2016 Presidential-primary debates become insult-laden, substance-free shouting contests? Jill Lepore explores the history of debate broadcasts and wonders what we might expect from the …
In this episode: ‘Transparent’ creator Jill Soloway, high fashion hijabs, and the tragic life of guitar legend John Fahey.
In trendy places like Brooklyn and Silicon Valley, the drug of the moment is ayahuasca: a psychedelic brew that makes its users vomit, cry, envision their deaths, and, occasionally, even attain …
Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Presidential candidate, was once a staunch advocate for legalizing marijuana. The former New Mexico governor joins David Remnick in a discussion about his new pot-free …
Gary Johnson, a former two-term governor of New Mexico, was once a staunch advocate for legalizing marijuana. He’s given up smoking pot now that he is running for President. Johnson joins David …