David Remnick

Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

David Remnick appears in the following:

Emily Nussbaum on the TV Revolution, and Valeria Luiselli on the Border

Friday, June 28, 2019

The New Yorker’s television critic demands respect for her medium, and a Mexican writer goes to the Southwest to try to understand the vigilante mindset.

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The Trump Administration’s Plan to Deport Victims of Human Trafficking

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

The Trump Administration says it has made combatting human trafficking a priority, but it has undermined a critical visa program designed to help trafficking’s victims.

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Dexter Filkins on the Dangerous Escalations between the U.S. and Iran

Friday, June 21, 2019

The staff writer, an expert on the Middle East, says, “This is how wars start; everybody's playing chicken now.”

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The Trials of Human-Trafficking Victims; and Dexter Filkins on Ominous Signs from Iran

Friday, June 21, 2019

Victims of human trafficking are facing greater hurdles under the Trump Administration.  Plus, a look at what’s happening in a very tense moment between Iran and the U.S.

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David Remnick Talks with Robert Caro about “Working”

Tuesday, June 18, 2019

The historian and biographer has achieved a singular place in American letters by chronicling the masters of the art of political power.

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Will the Government Get Tough on Big Tech?

Friday, June 14, 2019

Sue Halpern, discusses the current antitrust investigations, and why tech giants are now asking the government to regulate them. Plus, Bryan Washington takes us to a Houston ice house.

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David Remnick Talks with Robert Caro, a Living Legend Among Nonfiction Writers

Friday, June 14, 2019

The celebrated historian and biographer talks about himself for a change; and Sue Halpern considers whether Big Tech’s honeymoon with Washington is over.

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From Stonewall to the Present, Fifty Years of L.G.B.T.Q. Rights

Friday, June 07, 2019

Masha Gessen on the sweeping changes for L.G.B.T.Q. people that have taken place since the 1969 Stonewall uprising. Can the movement advance in the face of political backlash?

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Ava DuVernay on “When They See Us,” About the Boys Who Became the Central Park Five

Tuesday, June 04, 2019

In a series of works about how the American justice system deals with black citizens, the filmmaker’s latest portrays the teens wrongly convicted of a terrible and notorious assault.

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Emily Nussbaum on TV’s “Deluge” of #MeToo Plots

Friday, May 31, 2019

The New Yorker’s television critic explains how a wide range of television shows—including comedies and animations—are bringing the #MeToo movement into their plotlines.

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Ava DuVernay on the Central Park Five, and #MeToo on TV

Friday, May 31, 2019

The director discusses her new film about five youths convicted and exonerated of an infamous crime; and critic Emily Nussbaum, explains a “deluge” of #MeToo plots on television.

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Who Should Receive Reparations for Slavery and Discrimination?

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Three prominent scholars discuss how reparations would work, and address a controversy over who would be eligible.

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Is America Ready to Make Reparations?

Friday, May 24, 2019

The debate on making reparations for slavery is as old as the Republic. Will the nation finally face up to its history?

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Lucinda Williams Talks with Ariel Levy

Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Lucinda Williams on God, Flannery O’Connor, and her long and twisting path through the music industry.  

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James Taylor Will Teach you Guitar

Friday, May 17, 2019

Adam Gopnik talks with James Taylor and tries not to go all “Chris Farley Show”: “Remember when you wrote ‘Fire and Rain’? That was great.”

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Live: James Taylor and Lucinda Williams

Friday, May 17, 2019

James Taylor gives Adam Gopnik a quick guitar lesson, and Lucinda Williams bares her soul to Ariel Levy.

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What the Constitution Means to the Playwright Heidi Schreck

Tuesday, May 14, 2019

A writer and performer reflects, in a Tony-nominated Broadway hit, on the distortions and falsehoods she peddled as a teen-age debate champion. Plus, Carrie Battan on SoundCloud rap.

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Bill McKibben and Elizabeth Kolbert: Is It Too Late to Save the World?

Friday, May 10, 2019

Two leading environmental writers wonder if the new sense of urgency around climate change is coming too late. And writer Karen Russell finds enchantment in her new home in Oregon.

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Karen Russell on Nature, and Bill McKibben and Elizabeth Kolbert on the End of Nature

Friday, May 10, 2019

Two leading environmental writers wonder if the sense of urgency is coming too late. Plus Heidi Schreck on the Constitution, and Karen Russell’s move from Florida to Oregon.

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David Remnick talks to Elizabeth Kolbert and Bill McKibbin about the new urgency on climate change

Thursday, May 09, 2019

Two leading climate writers wonder if the new sense of urgency is coming too late.