Grandmaster Flash on “Birth of a Culture”
Grandmaster Flash has been an innovator in the art of d.j.’ing since he was practically a child growing up in the Bronx. As a young man named Joseph Saddler, he spent his days trying to figure out how...
22 Syys 34min
Malcolm Gladwell on “The American Way of Killing”
Malcolm Gladwell, a longtime staff writer at The New Yorker, often uses ideas from the social sciences and epidemiology and applies them to surprising topics. But his new book tackles an issue that’s ...
18 Syys 24min
From In the Dark: The Journey
A woman who acts as a surrogate, carrying a child for someone else, is said to be going on a “journey.”Kayla Elliott started her surrogacy journey at the age of twenty-six. She gave birth to a baby gi...
16 Syys 53min
John Wilson and “The History of Concrete”
John Wilson is a documentary filmmaker, a comedian, and a contemporary philosopher. On his hit HBO show, “How To with John Wilson,” he wandered around New York City filming everyday life, pontificatin...
15 Syys 19min
Colin Kaepernick, Ten Years After Taking a Knee
Colin Kaepernick had a stunning rise as an N.F.L. quarterback after becoming a full-time starter, in 2012. He was a legitimate dual threat—as effective running the ball as he was throwing it. And, to ...
11 Syys 49min
Edwidge Danticat on Haitian Americans in a Time of Peril
For more than thirty years, Edwidge Danticat has written about the experiences of Haitians and Haitian Americans in fiction, memoir, and journalism. In The New Yorker, she has covered the ways in whic...
8 Syys 22min
Sarah Longwell, a Former Republican, on “How to Eat an Elephant”
The political consultant Sarah Longwell runs focus groups of voters, and she has a lot of advice for Democrats seeking to wrest control of the government from MAGA. Longwell, a former Republican disaf...
4 Syys 27min
Gloria Steinem in Conversation with David Remnick, from 2015
Gloria Steinem, who died on September 2nd, at the age of ninety-two, was one of the most influential figures of our time in politics and feminism. Her work shaped the ideas of generations of Americans...
3 Syys 15min
