The 10 Best The New Yorker Radio Hour Podcast Episodes
1) Samantha’s Journey into the Alt-Right, and Back
Since 2016, Andrew Marantz has been reporting on how the extremist right has harnessed the Internet and social media to gain a startling prominence in American politics. One day, he was contacted by a...Show More
serena recommended:
This story was so unexpected. I can't do it justice, you just have to listen. @mm @aliceko this is worth a listen!
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.2) Watching the Moon Landing
Some people have always believed that the moon landing was a government hoax, and, in the age of the Internet, that conspiracy theory continues to thrive. Andrew Marantz explores the value of skeptici...Show More
rmmiller364 recommended:
This episode reminded me of a really interesting documentary from a few years ago. It’s called Room 237 and it’s about all the different con...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.3) Atul Gawande and Andrew Bird Discuss the Art and Science of Cancer
Atul Gawande is a New Yorker staff writer, a practicing surgeon, and an indie-music fan, and he loves the work of the songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and whistling virtuoso Andrew Bird; Gawande has...Show More
Atul Gawande and Andrew Bird Discuss the Art and Science of Cancer
19:54 | Dec 29th, 2020
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benrempel recommended:
For fans of Andrew Bird's music (which I have in regular rotation) - a light discussion despite the topic and nice look into his creative pr...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.4) 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 America’s foundational racism. In the town of Easton, Maryland...Show More
mm recommended:
This episodes unravels the debate about whether to keep a Confederate Monument or not in a town in the South. Did not know that many monumen...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.5) N. K. Jemisin on H. P. Lovecraft
N. K. Jemisin is one of the most celebrated authors in science fiction’s history; the novels of her “Broken Earth” trilogy won the Hugo Award for three consecutive years, a unique achievement. Yet her...Show More
rmmiller364 recommended:
I honestly knew very little about Lovecraft until reading N.K. Jemisin’s recent book. This podcast is a great supplement to that book and al...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.6) A Local Paper First Sounded the Alarm on George Santos. Nobody Listened.
George Santos is hardly the first scammer elected to office—but his lies, David Remnick says, are “extra.” Most Americans learned of Santos’s extraordinary fabrications from a New York Times report pu...Show More
7) How Far Has the F.B.I. Gone to Protect White Supremacy?
Today, Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s work on civil rights is celebrated as bringing about one of the turning points of the twentieth century in America. But, in his own time, King was a divisive figure, ...Show More
How Far Has the F.B.I. Gone to Protect White Supremacy?
16:49 | Jan 18th, 2021
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AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.8) 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 since 1868, with the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment. But bir...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.9) Donald Trump’s War on Culture Is Not a Sideshow
Adam Gopnik discusses the Administration’s moves to dictate what is acceptable and unacceptable in American culture, and why pluralism remains essential to democracy.
10) Elissa Slotkin to Fellow-Democrats: “Speak in Plain English”
The Michigan senator on what she thinks Democrats have been getting wrong and why her state elected Donald Trump and her at the same time.