David Simon is sympathetic to the sex workers he depicts in “The Deuce,” but unambiguously critical of porn’s effect on America. Plus, Karl Ove Knausgaard on life and death in the city.
September 29, 2017
The growing tensions between the U.S. and North Korea make war sound inevitable; Evan Osnos investigates. Plus, Julia Louis-Dreyfus on President Selina Meyer.
September 22, 2017
In a long interview with David Remnick, Clinton makes her case that a Trump ally or allies colluded with Russia and WikiLeaks to derail her election.
September 15, 2017
Hillary Clinton harbors no doubts that allies of Donald Trump, as yet unknown, colluded with Russia and WikiLeaks to derail her election.
September 13, 2017
When is speech no longer just speech? Unrest in Charlottesville and protests on campuses are testing the liberal consensus on freedom of expression.
September 8, 2017
In this episode, an isolated tribe emerges from the forest; Harry Belafonte discusses his lifelong activism; and we try out a voice-recognition gadget that doesn’t know when to shut up.
September 1, 2017
The writer and director confronts the legacy of racism without giving up hope, and the singer-songwriter confronts aging and mortality without giving up humor.
August 25, 2017
Russian spies in fiction and reality, why men should read romance novels, Annie Dillard describes a total eclipse, and a story by Sherman Alexie.
August 18, 2017
On this week’s show, David Remnick talks with a war-crimes expert about how to run a fair tribunal, and Patricia Marx goes foraging in Central Park.
August 11, 2017
The phone call that ended Anthony Scaramucci’s term as White House communications director; and Senator Al Franken, unbound.
August 4, 2017