A Year of the War in Ukraine
In the year since Russia’s invasion, Ukrainians have shown incredible fortitude on the battlefield. Yet an end to the conflict seems nowhere in sight. “Putin’s strategy could be defined as ‘I can’t ha...
17 Feb 202330min
Martin McDonagh Talks with Patrick Radden Keefe
Martin McDonagh burst onto the London theatre scene as a young playwright in the nineteen-nineties. At one point, he had four plays running simultaneously on stages across London. But McDonagh also as...
14 Feb 202314min
Chuck D on How Hip-Hop Changed the World
Forty years ago, Chuck D showed listeners how exciting, radical, and unpredictable hip-hop could be. His song “Fight the Power” became a protest anthem for a generation, and a Greek chorus in Spike Le...
10 Feb 202329min
Salman Rushdie on Surviving the Fatwa
Thirty-four years ago, the Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, issued a fatwa calling for the assassination of the novelist Salman Rushdie, whose book “The Satanic Verses” Khomeini declare...
6 Feb 202350min
Bonnie Raitt Talks with David Remnick
You couldn’t write a history of American music without a solid chapter on Bonnie Raitt. From her roots as a blues guitarist, she’s created a gorgeous melange of rock, R. & B., blues, folk, and country...
3 Feb 202321min
The Custody Battles Awaiting Mothers of Children Conceived in Rape
Exceptions in the case of rape used to be considered a necessity in abortion legislation, even within the pro-life movement. But today ten states have no rape exception in their abortion laws, and mor...
31 Jan 202321min
What Exactly Does “Woke” Mean, and How Did It Become so Powerful?
Many on the right blame “wokeness” for all of America’s ills—everything from deadly mass shootings to lower military recruitment. Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, recently signed a so-called Stop WOK...
27 Jan 202329min
Michael Schulman on Oscars History, and a Visit with “Annie” Composer Charles Strouse
Despite years of controversy, the Academy Awards and the other awards shows remain must-watch television for many Americans. The awards may be “unreliable as a pure measure of cinematic worth,” Schulm...
24 Jan 202327min
