Naftali Bennett and the New Hard Line in Israeli Politics
In 2013, David Remnick published a profile of Naftali Bennett. He wrote that Bennett was something new in Israeli politics, a man who would “build a sturdy electoral bridge between the religious and ...
18 Jun 202113min
A Rift over Racism Divides the Southern Baptist Convention, Plus, the Fallout from Gamestop
The largest Protestant denomination in America is in crisis over the group’s reluctance to acknowledge systemic racism; our reporter talks with the Reverend Dwight McKissic, who considered himself a l...
14 Jun 202133min
Jon M. Chu on “In the Heights”
It’s easy to see why the director Jon M. Chu was adamant that the release of “In the Heights” wait until this summer, when more people could see it in theatres: it’s big, it’s colorful, the dance sequ...
11 Jun 202116min
Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax on Beethoven’s Politics of the Cello
Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax have both been playing Beethoven’s Cello Sonata No. 3 in A Major for over forty years. But it took a global pandemic for the two of them to fully understand it. “This is such o...
8 Jun 202121min
A Vaccinated Day at the Ballpark, and Sarah Schulman on ACT-UP
The staff writer Patricia Marx checks out the new vaccinated sections at New York’s Major League Baseball parks. The author and activist Sarah Schulman talks with David Remnick about her new book on t...
4 Jun 202128min
Looking Back at the Year of Protest Since the Death of George Floyd
We look back on the year since the murder of George Floyd galvanized the nation. David Remnick talks with Vanita Gupta, the No. 3 official in the Justice Department, who is charged with delivering on ...
1 Jun 202134min
Spike Lee on the Knicks’ Resurgence
Spike Lee is one of the most passionate and committed fans of the New York Knicks—not to mention one of the most celebrated filmmakers of our time. Underdogs for many years, the Knicks are enjoying a ...
28 Mai 202115min
Can We Finally End School Segregation?
By many accounts, American schools are as segregated today as they were in the nineteen-sixties, in the years after Brown v. Board of Education. WNYC’s podcast “The United States of Anxiety” chronicle...
21 Mai 202149min
