The New Yorker Radio Hour
WNYC Studios and The New Yorker
The New Yorker Radio Hour
WNYC Studios and The New Yorker
Tuesday 11 August 2020 : In this moment of historical reckoning, many Americans are being introduced to concepts like intersectionality, white fragility, and...
Friday 07 August 2020 : Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has been given a broad mandate to round up undocumented immigrants. The agency is infamously...
Friday 07 August 2020 : In this moment of historical reckoning, many Americans are being introduced to concepts like intersectionality, white fragility, and...
Tuesday 04 August 2020 : The Mueller Report documented enough crimes and scandals in Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign and in his Administration to sink the...
Friday 31 July 2020 : Before she became the mayor of Chicago, last year, Lori Lightfoot spent nearly a decade working on police reform. Now Lightfoot is facing...
Tuesday 28 July 2020 : In the United States, most of us take it for granted that every person born on American soil is granted citizenship; it’s been the law...
Friday 24 July 2020 : The decision about whether to reopen schools may determine children’s futures, the survival of teachers, and the economy’s ability to...
Thursday 23 July 2020 : This summer, the Public Theatre, in New York, is putting on Shakespeare’s history play “Richard II.” Because most theatre was...
Tuesday 21 July 2020 : In the past few years, there has been a growing bipartisan demand to reduce the extraordinarily high rate of incarceration in the United...
Friday 17 July 2020 : My generation was taught that the civil-rights movement ended in the sixties, and that the Civil Rights Act put things as they should be,”...
Tuesday 14 July 2020 : The protagonist of “I May Destroy You,” a young woman named Arabella, has her drink spiked at a party and discovers afterward that she...
Friday 10 July 2020 : Joe Biden all but locked up the Democratic Presidential nomination just as the coronavirius crisis began triggering national lockdowns. Now...
Tuesday 07 July 2020 : The thirty-year-old British singer/songwriter Laura Marling has produced seven albums of dense but delicate folk music, starting when she...
Friday 03 July 2020 : The 2019 New Yorker Festival was the twentieth edition of the annual event, and it was particularly star-studded. This program features...
Tuesday 30 June 2020 : Starting this spring, many states began releasing some inmates from prisons and jails to try to reduce the spread of COVID-19. But a huge...
Friday 26 June 2020 : In the summer of 1967, a young black boy in Brooklyn was shot in the back by a police officer. The writer Hilton Als recalls the two days of...
Tuesday 23 June 2020 : Phoebe Bridgers’s tour dates were cancelled—she was booked at Madison Square Garden, among other venues—so she performs songs from her...
Friday 19 June 2020 : Like everyone in the United States, John Legend has spent much of the past three months in lockdown. He has been recording new music (via...
Tuesday 16 June 2020 : This month, the Supreme Court is expected to decide a case with enormous repercussions: the Trump Administration’s cancellation of DACA, a...
Friday 12 June 2020 : George Floyd’s killing has prompted a national outcry and a wide reassessment of the ways in which racist systems are intrinsic to...
Tuesday 09 June 2020 : The film critic Richard Brody regards Josephine Decker as one of the best directors of her generation, and picked her 2018 film...
Friday 05 June 2020 : “To look around the United States today is enough to make prophets and angels weep,” James Baldwin wrote, in 1978. This week, the staff...
Tuesday 02 June 2020 : Mark Cuban identifies as a capitalist, but the billionaire investor, “Shark Tank” star, and Dallas Mavericks owner has been advocating...
Friday 29 May 2020 : Since January, Peter Hessler has reported from China under quarantine. Now, as restrictions lift, he tells David Remnick about his return to...
Monday 25 May 2020 : When schools were closed owing to the coronavirus outbreak, the English teacher Petria May did the most natural thing she could think of:...
The New Yorker Radio Hour
WNYC Studios and The New Yorker
Isabel Wilkerson on America’s Caste System
In this moment of historical reckoning, many Americans are being introduced to concepts like intersectionality, white fragility, and...
The Documentary ICE Doesn’t Want You to See
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has been given a broad mandate to round up undocumented immigrants. The agency is infamously...
Isabel Wilkerson on America’s Caste System
In this moment of historical reckoning, many Americans are being introduced to concepts like intersectionality, white fragility, and...
Jeffrey Toobin Explores Donald Trump’s “True Crimes and Misdemeanors”
The Mueller Report documented enough crimes and scandals in Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign and in his Administration to sink the...
Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Violence in Chicago, and William Finnegan on the Power of Police Unions
Before she became the mayor of Chicago, last year, Lori Lightfoot spent nearly a decade working on police reform. Now Lightfoot is facing...
Black Italians Fight to Be Italian
In the United States, most of us take it for granted that every person born on American soil is granted citizenship; it’s been the law...
Emily Oster on Whether and How to Reopen Schools
The decision about whether to reopen schools may determine children’s futures, the survival of teachers, and the economy’s ability to...
Podcast Extra: André Holland on Shakespeare’s “Richard II”
This summer, the Public Theatre, in New York, is putting on Shakespeare’s history play “Richard II.” Because most theatre was...
The Perils Prison Reform, and the Vision of a Visually Impaired Artist
In the past few years, there has been a growing bipartisan demand to reduce the extraordinarily high rate of incarceration in the United...
Chance the Rapper’s Art and Activism
My generation was taught that the civil-rights movement ended in the sixties, and that the Civil Rights Act put things as they should be,”...
Michaela Coel on Making “I May Destroy You”
The protagonist of “I May Destroy You,” a young woman named Arabella, has her drink spiked at a party and discovers afterward that she...
The State of the Biden Campaign
Joe Biden all but locked up the Democratic Presidential nomination just as the coronavirius crisis began triggering national lockdowns. Now...
Laura Marling, a Briton in Los Angeles
The thirty-year-old British singer/songwriter Laura Marling has produced seven albums of dense but delicate folk music, starting when she...
Hasan Minhaj and Kenan Thompson
The 2019 New Yorker Festival was the twentieth edition of the annual event, and it was particularly star-studded. This program features...
Keeping Released Prisoners Safe and Sane
Starting this spring, many states began releasing some inmates from prisons and jails to try to reduce the spread of COVID-19. But a huge...
Hilton Als’s Homecoming and the March for Queer Liberation
In the summer of 1967, a young black boy in Brooklyn was shot in the back by a police officer. The writer Hilton Als recalls the two days of...
Live at Home Part II: Phoebe Bridgers
Phoebe Bridgers’s tour dates were cancelled—she was booked at Madison Square Garden, among other venues—so she performs songs from her...
Live at Home Part I: John Legend
Like everyone in the United States, John Legend has spent much of the past three months in lockdown. He has been recording new music (via...
The Supreme Court Weighs the End of DACA
This month, the Supreme Court is expected to decide a case with enormous repercussions: the Trump Administration’s cancellation of DACA, a...
Getting White People to Talk About Racism
George Floyd’s killing has prompted a national outcry and a wide reassessment of the ways in which racist systems are intrinsic to...
Josephine Decker’s “Shirley”
The film critic Richard Brody regards Josephine Decker as one of the best directors of her generation, and picked her 2018 film...
Can Police Violence Be Curbed?
“To look around the United States today is enough to make prophets and angels weep,” James Baldwin wrote, in 1978. This week, the staff...
Mark Cuban Wants to Save Capitalism from Itself
Mark Cuban identifies as a capitalist, but the billionaire investor, “Shark Tank” star, and Dallas Mavericks owner has been advocating...
Life After Lockdown, and the Politics of Blaming China
Since January, Peter Hessler has reported from China under quarantine. Now, as restrictions lift, he tells David Remnick about his return to...
Reading “The Plague” During a Plague, and Memorial Day by the Pool
When schools were closed owing to the coronavirus outbreak, the English teacher Petria May did the most natural thing she could think of:...
