Episode 19: Father Pfleger, Larry David, and the History of Autism

Episode 19: Father Pfleger, Larry David, and the History of Autism

This week, Father Michael Pfleger, a white priest on Chicago’s South Side, holds a funeral for a young man who threatened his life; Larry David applies his passive-aggression to Missed Connections listings; and the authors of a new book on autism discuss “patient zero,” an elderly man in Mississippi who was the first person ever to receive the diagnosis.

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Antony Blinken’s Exit Interview

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One Environmental Journalist Thinks that the U.S. Needs More Mining

One Environmental Journalist Thinks that the U.S. Needs More Mining

Donald Trump loves mining, and he would like to expand that effort in the U.S. At least one environmentalist agrees with him, to some extent: the journalist Vince Beiser. Beiser’s recent book is calle...

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Sara Bareilles Talks with Rachel Syme

Sara Bareilles Talks with Rachel Syme

Sara Bareilles broke out as a pop-music star in the late two-thousands. But she’s gone on to have a very different kind of career, writing music for Broadway and eventually performing as an actor on s...

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Rachel Aviv on Alice Munro’s Family Secrets

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Rachel Aviv reports on the terrible conundrum of Alice Munro for The New Yorker. Munro was a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and perhaps the most acclaimed writer of short stories of our time,...

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Julianne Moore Explains What She Needs in a Film Director

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Introducing Julianne Moore at the New Yorker Festival, in October, the staff writer Michael Schulman recited “only a partial list” of the directors Moore has worked with, including Robert Altman, Loui...

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The Art of Cooking with Ina Garten

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With the Food Network program “Barefoot Contessa,” Ina Garten became a beloved household name. An essential element of her success is her confiding, authentic warmth—her encouragement for even the mos...

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Christmas in Tehran During the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis

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In 1979, as Christmas approached, the United States Embassy in Tehran held more than fifty American hostages, who had been seized when revolutionaries stormed the embassy. No one from the U.S. had bee...

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