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Profiles, storytelling and insightful conversations, hosted by David Remnick.

    The Trans Athletes Who Changed the Olympics—in 1936

    The Trans Athletes Who Changed the Olympics—in 1936

    A track star’s gender transition in the nineteen-thirties, and the response of Olympic officials, foreshadowed today’s culture-war battles over gender and sports.

    • 19 min
    Cécile McLorin Salvant Finds “the Gems That Haven’t Been Sung and Sung”

    Cécile McLorin Salvant Finds “the Gems That Haven’t Been Sung and Sung”

    Though rooted in the jazz tradition, the singer's interests and repertoire reach across eras, languages, and continents.

    • 31 min
    Ilana Glazer on Motherhood and Friendship, On- and Off-Screen

    Ilana Glazer on Motherhood and Friendship, On- and Off-Screen

    Glazer’s new movie, “Babes,” delves into the absurd, paradoxical, graphic realities of pregnancy and parenthood.

    • 23 min
    Love Is Blind, and Allegedly Toxic

    Love Is Blind, and Allegedly Toxic

    Lawsuits and the labor movement come to reality TV, by way of the Netflix hit.

    • 27 min
    Miranda July’s New Novel Takes on Marriage, Desire, and Perimenopause

    Miranda July’s New Novel Takes on Marriage, Desire, and Perimenopause

    While the filmmaker, writer, and artist was writing her new book, “All Fours,” the character she created was influencing her own life.

    • 20 min
    Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Isn’t Going Away

    Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Isn’t Going Away

    David Remnick asks R.F.K., Jr., where his run for President and his beliefs are coming from.

    • 29 min

Customer Reviews

4.4 out of 5
230 Ratings

230 Ratings

HistoryObserver ,

Thought provoking and challenging

This episode on faith and politics in the USA was both thought provoking and challenging.
Giving a perspective from both (what one might call) the ‘Evangelical Left’ and Catholicism, the discussions frankly and openly discuss both the changing nature of this faith interaction with politics and contemporary issues and questions. Great podcast.

nathanpodcast ,

A sorry excuse for journalism

The fact that you would stand behind the dweebish mawkish aspersions cast by that sorry excuse of a journalist in his interview of RFK Jr. Keep going - you’re just proving his point.

JA in UK ,

Essential Listening

Intelligent, erudite, eloquent and vitally informative news and views from the thankfully sane body of U.S. opinion.

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