For Teen Activists, What Good Is a Protest Song?
Since the Inauguration, in January, there’s been a kind of protest renaissance for those on the left and some in the center of American politics; at rallies and marches, they’ve dusted off chants and ...
19 Sep 201715min
Hillary Clinton on the “Clear and Present Danger” of Collusion with Russia
Hillary Clinton harbors no doubts, she tells David Remnick in a long interview, that political allies of Donald Trump astutely “guided” the release of hacked e-mails by WikiLeaks and the planting of f...
13 Sep 201742min
What Was It Like Before the Internet?
A magical time of unfettered creativity but zero productivity, the days before the Internet were so strange that it’s hard to believe they were real. Clearly no one got anything done, ever. Jenny Slat...
12 Sep 201715min
After Charlottesville, the Limits of Free Speech
When is speech no longer just speech? David Remnick looks at how leftist protests at Berkeley, right-wing violence in Charlottesville, and open-carry laws around the country are testing the traditiona...
8 Sep 201740min
Neil Gorsuch and the Uses of History
We have yet to learn just how closely the views of the Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch resemble those of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, a staunch conservative and a standard-bea...
5 Sep 201724min
A Visit with Harry Belafonte, and an Isolated Tribe Emerges
We take for granted that popular entertainers can and should advocate for causes they believe in. But until Harry Belafonte pioneered that kind of activism in the middle of the last century, stars lar...
1 Sep 201731min
Nick Lowe Gets Better with Age
Nick Lowe made it big as a pioneer of what the English called “pub rock” and Americans usually call power-pop. Lowe had his biggest successes in the New Wave era but continues to release records and p...
29 Aug 201728min
John Ridley on Charlottesville and the Legacy of Racism
John Ridley has been active in in film and television since the nineteen-nineties; he also has seven novels under his belt, as well as a play and several graphic novels. And, since the release of “12 ...
25 Aug 201728min
