The New Yorker Radio Hour

Ian McEwan on Imagining the World After Disaster
Nov 28, 2025 · 00:29:20

In his latest novel, Ian McEwan imagines a future world after a century’s worth of disasters. The good news in “What We Can Know” is that humanity still exists, which McEwan calls “nuanced optimism.” He and David Remnic…

Why Is Leaving MAGA So Difficult?
Nov 25, 2025 · 00:22:53

Only thirty per cent of the American public identifies with the MAGA movement, according to a recent NBC poll, but that coalition remains intensely loyal to Donald Trump in the face of scandals and authoritarian measure…

Senator Chris Van Hollen on the Epstein Files, and the Leadership Crisis in Washington
Nov 21, 2025 · 00:27:18

Both major parties are experiencing a crisis of leadership in Washington. President Trump’s flip-flopping on the Epstein files acknowledges that, on this issue, at least, he has lost control of MAGA. For the Democrats, …

Rewriting Art History at the Studio Museum in Harlem
Nov 18, 2025 · 00:16:12

The curator Thelma Golden is a major presence in New York City’s cultural life, having mounted era-defining exhibitions such as “Black Male” and “Freestyle” early on in her career. Golden is the Ford Foundation director…

Andrew Ross Sorkin on What 1929 Teaches Us About 2025
Nov 14, 2025 · 00:34:05

When President Donald Trump began his tariff rollout, the business world predicted that his unprecedented attempt to reshape the economy would lead to a major recession, if Trump went through with it all. But the market…

Patti Smith on Her Memoir “Bread of Angels,” Fifty Years After Her Début Album, “Horses”
Nov 11, 2025 · 00:40:01

Patti Smith’s album “Horses” came out fifty years ago, on November 10, 1975, launching her to stardom almost overnight. An anniversary reissue came out this year, to rapturous reviews. Yet being a rock star was never Sm…

What Resistance Means to Governor J. B. Pritzker
Nov 7, 2025 · 00:27:08

Few Democratic officials have been more outspoken in opposition to the Trump Administration than J. B. Pritzker, the governor of Illinois. He seems almost to relish antagonizing Trump, who has suggested Pritzker should …

From In the Dark: “Blood Relatives”
Nov 4, 2025 · 00:44:27

The New Yorker contributing writer Heidi Blake has been investigating a new story for the Pulitzer Prize-winning podcast In the Dark. This season is about one of the most notorious crimes in modern British history: the …

Jon Stewart on the Perilous State of Late Night and Why America Fell for Donald Trump
Oct 31, 2025 · 00:46:22

Jon Stewart has been a leading figure in political comedy since before the turn of the millennium. But compared to his early years on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show”—when Stewart was merciless in his attacks on George…

It’s Not Just You: The Internet Is Actually Getting Worse
Oct 28, 2025 · 00:21:36

“Sometimes a term is so apt, its meaning so clear and so relevant to our circumstances, that it becomes more than just a useful buzzword and grows to define an entire moment,” the columnist Kyle Chayka writes, in a revi…

Zadie Smith on Politics, Turning Fifty, and Mind Control
Oct 24, 2025 · 00:28:19

Since Zadie Smith published her début novel, “White Teeth,” twenty-five years ago, she has been a bold and original voice in literature. But those who aren’t familiar with Smith’s work outside of fiction are missing out…

Richard Linklater on His Two New Films, “Blue Moon” and “Nouvelle Vague”
Oct 21, 2025 · 00:21:11

Richard Linklater is one of the most admired directors working today, and yet moviegoers may admire him for very different things. There are early comedies such as “Slacker” and “Dazed and Confused”; there’s the romance…

How the Trump Administration Made Higher Education a Target
Oct 17, 2025 · 00:29:26

The swiftness and severity with which the Trump Administration has tried to impose its will on higher education came as a shock to many, not least university presidents and faculties from Harvard to U.C.L.A. But for con…

John Carpenter Picks Three Favorite Film Scores
Oct 14, 2025 · 00:12:25

The filmmaker John Carpenter has a whole shelf of cult classics: “They Live,” “The Thing,” “Escape from New York,” “Halloween,” and so many more. And while he hasn’t directed a new movie in more than a decade, Carpenter…

Zohran Mamdani Says He's Ready for Donald Trump
Oct 10, 2025 · 00:48:19

Next month, New York City may elect as its next mayor a man who was pretty much unknown to the broader public a year ago. Zohran Mamdan, who is currently thirty-three years old and a member of the State Assembly, is a d…

How Lionel Richie Mastered the Love Song
Oct 7, 2025 · 00:30:41

Lionel Richie has been making music for fifty years. He has sold more than a hundred million albums, his hits too numerous to list, and he has endeared himself to younger generations as a judge on “American Idol.” He’s …

A Conservative Professor on How to Fix Campus Culture
Oct 3, 2025 · 00:26:02

Robert P. George is not a passive observer of the proverbial culture wars; he’s been a very active participant. As a Catholic legal scholar and philosopher at Princeton University, he was an influential opponent of Roe …

Jimmy Kimmel and the Power of Public Pressure
Sep 30, 2025 · 00:43:58

The Political Scene’s Washington Roundtable—the staff writers Jane Mayer, Susan Glasser, and Evan Osnos—discuss how, in the wake of the reinstatement of Jimmy Kimmel’s show, public resistance has a chance to turn the ti…

Ezra Klein’s Big-Tent Vision of the Democratic Party
Sep 26, 2025 · 00:50:02

The author and podcaster Ezra Klein may be only forty-one years old, but he’s been part of the political-culture conversation for a long time. He was a blogger, then a Washington Post columnist and editor, a co-founder …

The Cartoonist Liana Finck Picks Three Favorite Children’s Books
Sep 23, 2025 · 00:11:38

Liana Finck is a cartoonist and an illustrator who has contributed to The New Yorker since 2015. She is the author of several books, including the graphic memoir “Passing for Human.” Like many of her forebears at the ma…

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