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This grotesque kind of violence has become a self-perpetuating subculture, Malcolm Gladwell says. (article)
For the director Paul Schrader, movies and religion come from the same place, and should serve the same function in our lives. (article)
A New Yorker staff writer tries to explain the epidemic of senseless violence in our schools, and a legendary screenwriter and director makes a masterpiece. (episode)
School shooters have become part of a self-perpetuating subculture, Malcolm Gladwell says.
A self-described liberal thinks Democrats need to put aside identity politics to focus on winning elections.
For Paul Schrader, movies and religion come from the same place—and should serve the same function in our lives.
The author of “Gone Girl” and other books puts on a frozen-yogurt costume and wanders the mall, looking for victims.
Before becoming a writer, Akhil Sharma lied his way into a lucrative job as a banker, spinning stories that played into ethnic stereotypes.
Mistaken for a man, the cartoonist Alison Bechdel was offered a few bucks to move a piece of furniture. She took it.
Twenty-five years after “Last Splash,” the band talks about the toll of drugs, and Kim Deal has a few words for Black Francis about sexism. (article)
An architect of the Iran nuclear deal and a North Korea expert look at the upheavals of the Trump Administration’s foreign policy. (article)
The band—indie-rock royalty—plays live in the studio, and talks sexism, drugs, and rock and roll. Plus, diplomacy on the rocks in Iran and North Korea. (episode)
Wendy Sherman, who led the U.S. negotiating team in the historic agreement with Iran, has cautionary words for those who are dismantling it.
Evan Osnos speaks with a North Korea expert about the mixed signals coming from Pyongyang.
Twenty-five years after “Last Splash,” the band talks about the toll of drugs, and Kim Deal has a few words for Black Francis about sexism.
An Iraqi-born journalist and poet of war tells the stories of women imprisoned by ISIS. (article)
A senator thinks we’re preparing for one battle with Russia while they’re defeating us in another. Simon Parkin reports on the diplomats and officers who take their war games seriously. (article)
A prominent senator thinks that while we’re preparing for one battle with Russia, they’re defeating us in another. Plus, more deep thoughts from the former “Saturday Night Live” writer. (episode)
The vice-chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee fears that, with Russia, we’re confronting twenty-first-century threats with twentieth-century tools.
War-gaming is an old and low-tech tool, but officers and diplomats still turn to it to model today’s most complex geopolitical situations.
An Iraqi-born journalist and poet of war tells the stories of women who were kidnapped by the Islamic State, enslaved, and then rescued.
The novelist Michael Cunningham finds the essential parts of the human experience on display during a quick stroll through Washington Square Park.
Why is a man slipping on a banana peel funny, but not as funny as a man choking on a banana peel? Jack Handey considers this and other mysteries.
They’re complicated and difficult, but don’t call Glenn Close’s characters—even in “Fatal Attraction”—villains. (article)