Episodios

  • ICE Campus Arrests & The 'Struggle For The Soul' Of America

    ICE Campus Arrests & The 'Struggle For The Soul' Of America
    Apr 2 2025
    As ICE agents arrest international students at campuses across the U.S., immigration law professor Daniel Kanstroom discusses the human cost. He says the round-ups are designed to "send a message... to scare people, and it's working."

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  • Writer, Critic & Curator Hilton Als Looks For The Silences

    Writer, Critic & Curator Hilton Als Looks For The Silences
    Apr 1 2025
    As a longtime staff writer at The New Yorker, Hilton Als's essays and profiles of figures like Toni Morrison, Joan Didion, and Richard Pryor have redefined cultural criticism, blending autobiography with literary and social commentary. Als is also a curator. His latest gallery exhibition is The Writing's on the Wall: Language and Silence in the Visual Arts, at the Hill Art Foundation in New York. The exhibit brings together the works of 32 artists across a range of media to examine how artists embrace silence. The show asked a powerful question: What do words — and their absence — look like? The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer spoke with Tonya Mosley.

    Also, Ken Tucker reviews new music from Lucy Dacus and Jeffrey Lewis.

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  • 'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why

    'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
    Mar 31 2025
    The Netflix miniseries follows a 13-year-old accused of murdering a girl from his school. Co-creator and star Stephen Graham says he read about similar crimes and wanted to know: "Why is this happening?" Graham spoke with Sam Briger about the crime that inspired the show, fatherhood, and the unusual way the show was shot — in one single take. Graham also stars as a bare-knuckle boxer in the period drama series A Thousand Blows.

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  • Best Of: A Writer Grapples With A Life-Changing Accident / The Post WWII 'Red Scare'

    Best Of: A Writer Grapples With A Life-Changing Accident / The Post WWII 'Red Scare'
    Mar 29 2025
    Hanif Kureishi began his new memoir just days after a fall left him paralyzed. He describes being completely dependent on others — and the sense of purpose he's gained from writing. The memoir is called Shattered.

    David Bianculli reviews the British series Ludwig.

    Writer Clay Risen describes a political movement which destroyed the careers of thousands of teachers, civil servants and artists whose beliefs or associations were deemed un-American. His book, Red Scare, is about post-World War II America, but he says there's a throughline connecting that era to our current political moment.


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  • After A Friend's Suicide, A Writer Inherits His Grieving Dog

    After A Friend's Suicide, A Writer Inherits His Grieving Dog
    Mar 28 2025
    Sigrid Nunez's 2018 novel The Friend won the National Book Award. It's now a film, starring Naomi Watts and Bill Murray, about a woman who inherits a dog after her friend's suicide. She spoke with Terry Gross about the book in 2019.

    Also, Justin Chang reviews the new French film thriller Misericordia.

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  • The Former Jihadist Trying To Remake Syria

    The Former Jihadist Trying To Remake Syria
    Mar 27 2025
    Atlantic writer Robert Worth talks about Syria's transitional president, Ahmed al-Sharaa. He was the founder of the Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda, but is now advocating unity and inclusion. Syria borders Iraq, Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon, so what happens in Syria impacts the whole region. We'll also talk with Worth about the Houthis in Yemen, and the Trump administration group chat that accidentally included Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg.

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  • Amanda Knox Is 'Free,' But Is That Enough?

    Amanda Knox Is 'Free,' But Is That Enough?
    Mar 26 2025
    Amanda Knox spent nearly four years in an Italian prison for a murder she didn't commit. After her exoneration, she reached out to the man who prosecuted her case. She talks about how she made herself useful while in prison, readjusting to being back home, and the survivor's guilt that follows her. Knox's new memoir is Free.

    TV critic David Bianculli reviews The Studio, starring Seth Rogen, on Apple TV+.

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  • Inside The 'Mad House' Of Congressional Disfunction

    Inside The 'Mad House' Of Congressional Disfunction
    Mar 25 2025
    The MAGA-controlled 118th House passed only 27 bills that became law — the lowest number since the Great Depression. Journalists Annie Karni and Luke Broadwater examine the chaos in a new book, Mad House: How Donald Trump, MAGA Mean Girls, a Former Used Car Salesman, a Florida Nepo Baby, and a Man with Rats in His Walls Broke Congress.

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