David Simon’s “The Deuce” Charts the Rise of Pornography
David Simon believes in the dignity of labor, “even when it’s undignified.” What “The Wire” (which he created) did for the drug trade in Baltimore, “The Deuce,” also on HBO, does for sex work and the ...
29 Sep 201731min
Julia Louis-Dreyfus Wins Again
Julia Louis-Dreyfus recently won her sixth consecutive Emmy for Best Actress in a Comedy for the role of Selina Meyer, the hapless Vice-President turned President, in HBO’s “Veep.” The show has been o...
26 Sep 201732min
At the Brink with North Korea
Donald Trump mocked Kim Jong Un by calling him “rocket man,” and threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea if the U.S. or its allies were attacked. Kim, in turn, dismissed Trump as a “barking dog Ev...
22 Sep 201723min
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
