The New Yorker Radio Hour
WNYC Studios and The New Yorker
The New Yorker Radio Hour
WNYC Studios and The New Yorker
Friday 20 November 2020 : This month, Georgia flipped: its voters picked a Democrat for President for the first time since Bill Clinton’s first-term election. To a...
Tuesday 17 November 2020 : Between the two of them, Jerry Seinfeld and Steve Martin have nearly a century of experience in the delicate art of telling jokes. In a...
Friday 13 November 2020 : The President’s fantastical allegations about “illegal ballots” are being indulged by quite a number of prominent Republicans in...
Tuesday 10 November 2020 : In the nineteen-thirties, authoritarian regimes were on the rise around the world—as they are again today—and democratic governments...
Friday 06 November 2020 : No matter the vote count, legal challenges and resistance in Washington continue to make this election historically fraught. David Remnick...
Friday 30 October 2020 : The Presidency of Donald Trump has been unlike any other in America’s history. While many of his core promises remain unfulfilled, he...
Tuesday 27 October 2020 : It feels like a lifetime since the coronavirus pandemic transformed Americans’ daily lives, seven months ago, and fatigue is setting in...
Friday 23 October 2020 : Nicholas Lemann’s “The Republican Identity Crisis After Trump” explores what will happen to the movement Donald Trump created among...
Tuesday 20 October 2020 : Elvis Costello’s thirty-first studio album, “Hey Clockface,” will be released this month. Recorded largely before the pandemic, it...
Friday 16 October 2020 : At the 2020 New Yorker Festival, earlier this month, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Elizabeth Warren joined Andrew...
Tuesday 13 October 2020 : During the Presidential debate in September, Donald Trump was asked to denounce the white supremacists who were battling anti-racism...
Friday 09 October 2020 : At the moment that Donald Trump was leaving Walter Reed Hospital, not yet recovered from a case of COVID-19, Dr. Anthony Fauci sat down with...
Tuesday 06 October 2020 : Marilynne Robinson’s new novel, “Jack,” is the fourth to be set among the world and people of a fictional town called Gilead, Iowa....
Friday 02 October 2020 : Joe Biden leads the Presidential race in Pennsylvania by around ten per cent, according to most polls, but Eliza Griswold says you...
Tuesday 29 September 2020 : “Woke,” a new comedy on Hulu, is inspired by the life of its creator, Keith Knight. The show, which blends reality and animated fantasy,...
Friday 25 September 2020 : Jaime Harrison may seem like a long shot to become a South Carolina senator: he is a Black Democrat who grew up on food stamps in public...
Tuesday 22 September 2020 : Miranda July’s third feature film is “Kajillionaire,” a heist movie centered on a dysfunctional family, and her first with a Hollywood...
Friday 18 September 2020 : This Presidential race is a battle for the soul and the future of the country—on this much, both parties agree—and yet the pitfalls in...
Tuesday 15 September 2020 : The German composer Richard Wagner had an enormous influence not only on modern music but on artists of all stripes, and on political...
Friday 11 September 2020 : Across the South and well beyond, cities and states have been removing their Confederate monuments, recognizing their power as symbols of...
Tuesday 08 September 2020 : N. K. Jemisin has faced down a racist backlash to her success in the science-fiction community. But white supremacy in the genre is nothing...
Friday 04 September 2020 : This segment contains adult language. In the new film “Coastal Elites,” Bette Midler plays a New Yorker of a certain type: a retired...
Friday 28 August 2020 : “Reaganland” is the new volume in Rick Perlstein’s long chronicle of the American conservative movement; the four books, which he...
Tuesday 25 August 2020 : It has been six months since Ahmaud Arbery, a young Black man, was shot by three white men while he was out for a Sunday jog near his...
Sunday 23 August 2020 : Joe Biden has been playing it safe during the coronavirus pandemic, but Evan Osnos got the chance to sit down with the nominee in person. It...
The New Yorker Radio Hour
WNYC Studios and The New Yorker
The Fight to Turn Georgia Blue
This month, Georgia flipped: its voters picked a Democrat for President for the first time since Bill Clinton’s first-term election. To a...
Steve Martin and Jerry Seinfeld, and Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax
Between the two of them, Jerry Seinfeld and Steve Martin have nearly a century of experience in the delicate art of telling jokes. In a...
Jane Mayer on the G.O.P.’s Post-Trump Game
The President’s fantastical allegations about “illegal ballots” are being indulged by quite a number of prominent Republicans in...
Jill Lepore on Democracy in Peril, Then and Now
In the nineteen-thirties, authoritarian regimes were on the rise around the world—as they are again today—and democratic governments...
A Chaotic Election Ends—Maybe?
No matter the vote count, legal challenges and resistance in Washington continue to make this election historically fraught. David Remnick...
Trump in Review
The Presidency of Donald Trump has been unlike any other in America’s history. While many of his core promises remain unfulfilled, he...
Driving Through the Pandemic
It feels like a lifetime since the coronavirus pandemic transformed Americans’ daily lives, seven months ago, and fatigue is setting in...
The Future of Trumpism
Nicholas Lemann’s “The Republican Identity Crisis After Trump” explores what will happen to the movement Donald Trump created among...
Elvis Costello Talks with David Remnick
Elvis Costello’s thirty-first studio album, “Hey Clockface,” will be released this month. Recorded largely before the pandemic, it...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Elizabeth Warren on the State of Our Democracy
At the 2020 New Yorker Festival, earlier this month, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Elizabeth Warren joined Andrew...
The Battle Over Portland
During the Presidential debate in September, Donald Trump was asked to denounce the white supremacists who were battling anti-racism...
Anthony Fauci Then and Now, and the Writer-Director Radha Blank
At the moment that Donald Trump was leaving Walter Reed Hospital, not yet recovered from a case of COVID-19, Dr. Anthony Fauci sat down with...
Marilynne Robinson on Faith, Love, and Politics
Marilynne Robinson’s new novel, “Jack,” is the fourth to be set among the world and people of a fictional town called Gilead, Iowa....
The Election, as Seen from Swing States
Joe Biden leads the Presidential race in Pennsylvania by around ten per cent, according to most polls, but Eliza Griswold says you...
Keith Knight of “Woke,” and Jia Tolentino Picks Three
“Woke,” a new comedy on Hulu, is inspired by the life of its creator, Keith Knight. The show, which blends reality and animated fantasy,...
Can a Newcomer Unseat Lindsey Graham? Plus, Carlos Lozada on “What Were We Thinking”
Jaime Harrison may seem like a long shot to become a South Carolina senator: he is a Black Democrat who grew up on food stamps in public...
Miranda July’s Uncomfortable Comedies, and a Toast to Roger Angell
Miranda July’s third feature film is “Kajillionaire,” a heist movie centered on a dysfunctional family, and her first with a Hollywood...
An Election in Peril
This Presidential race is a battle for the soul and the future of the country—on this much, both parties agree—and yet the pitfalls in...
The Composer Richard Wagner and the Birth of the Movies
The German composer Richard Wagner had an enormous influence not only on modern music but on artists of all stripes, and on political...
What to Do with a Confederate Monument?
Across the South and well beyond, cities and states have been removing their Confederate monuments, recognizing their power as symbols of...
N. K. Jemisin on H. P. Lovecraft, and Jill Lepore on the End of a Pandemic
N. K. Jemisin has faced down a racist backlash to her success in the science-fiction community. But white supremacy in the genre is nothing...
Bette Midler and the Screenwriter Paul Rudnick on “Coastal Elites”
This segment contains adult language. In the new film “Coastal Elites,” Bette Midler plays a New Yorker of a certain type: a retired...
Rick Perlstein on Goldwater, Reagan, and Trump
“Reaganland” is the new volume in Rick Perlstein’s long chronicle of the American conservative movement; the four books, which he...
Everyone Knew Who Shot Ahmaud Arbery. Why Did the Killers Walk Free?
It has been six months since Ahmaud Arbery, a young Black man, was shot by three white men while he was out for a Sunday jog near his...
Will This Be Joe Biden’s F.D.R. Moment?
Joe Biden has been playing it safe during the coronavirus pandemic, but Evan Osnos got the chance to sit down with the nominee in person. It...
