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In this week's episode, David Remnick speaks with feminist icon Gloria Steinem, Rebecca Mead shares her love of “Hamilton,” and we learn about hacking software made for the layperson. (episode)
Vauhini Vara, who writes about technology for The New Yorker, spoke with Vinnie Omari, a hacker associated with Lizard Squad, a group trying to make hacking software for the layperson.
Staff writer Jill Lepore concludes her three-part story about her friend Adriana Alty’s search for her biological father, a Greenwich Village street poet named William “Big” Brown.
Remnick spoke with Steinem about Black Lives Matter, Hillary Clinton, and a fundamental question for activist politics: which comes first, changing hearts or changing laws?
Staff writer Rebecca Mead talks about why she loves the Hamilton soundtrack, and also talks a classic a novel by a man without children that has surprising insights on motherhood.
This excerpt from a 1961 recording, from the WNYC Archives, features a man believed to be Big Brown reciting “The Ballad of Reading Gaol,” by Oscar Wilde.