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The New Yorker Radio Hour

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

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

 

#987

Leon Panetta on the Trump Administration’s Venezuelan Boat Strikes

In the course of his long career, Leon Panetta was a lieutenant in the Army, a congressman... more

12 Dec 2025

26 MINS

26:21

12 Dec 2025


#986

Marshall Curry and Judd Apatow on “The New Yorker at 100,” a Documentary

This year marked a hundred years since the birth of The New Yorker, and a documentary abou... more

09 Dec 2025

32 MINS

32:30

09 Dec 2025


#985

Chloé Zhao on “Hamnet,” Her Film About William Shakespeare’s Grief

Chloé Zhao was the second woman to ever win an Oscar for Best Director, for her 2020 film ... more

07 Dec 2025

23 MINS

23:38

07 Dec 2025


#984

Senator Adam Schiff on How the Trump Administration Targets Its Opponents

As a California congressman, Adam Schiff was the lead manager during the first impeachment... more

05 Dec 2025

27 MINS

27:15

05 Dec 2025


#983

Noah Baumbach on “Jay Kelly,” His New Movie with George Clooney

The filmmaker Noah Baumbach can recall when he may have fallen out of love with his craft.... more

02 Dec 2025

20 MINS

20:53

02 Dec 2025


#982

Ian McEwan on Imagining the World After Disaster

In his latest novel, Ian McEwan imagines a future world after a century’s worth of disaste... more

28 Nov 2025

29 MINS

29:20

28 Nov 2025


#981

Why Is Leaving MAGA So Difficult?

Only thirty per cent of the American public identifies with the MAGA movement, according t... more

25 Nov 2025

22 MINS

22:53

25 Nov 2025


#980

Senator Chris Van Hollen on the Epstein Files, and the Leadership Crisis in Washington

Both major parties are experiencing a crisis of leadership in Washington. President Trump’... more

21 Nov 2025

27 MINS

27:18

21 Nov 2025


#979

Rewriting Art History at the Studio Museum in Harlem

The curator Thelma Golden is a major presence in New York City’s cultural life, having mou... more

18 Nov 2025

16 MINS

16:12

18 Nov 2025


#978

Andrew Ross Sorkin on What 1929 Teaches Us About 2025

When President [Donald Trump] (https://www.newyorker.com/tag/donald-trump) began his tarif... more

14 Nov 2025

34 MINS

34:05

14 Nov 2025


#977

Patti Smith on Her Memoir “Bread of Angels,” Fifty Years After Her Début Album, “Horses”

Patti Smith’s album “Horses” came out fifty years ago, on November 10, 1975, launching her... more

11 Nov 2025

40 MINS

40:01

11 Nov 2025


#976

What Resistance Means to Governor J. B. Pritzker

Few Democratic officials have been more outspoken in opposition to the Trump Administratio... more

07 Nov 2025

27 MINS

27:08

07 Nov 2025


#975

From In the Dark: “Blood Relatives”

The New Yorker contributing writer [Heidi Blake] (https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/h... more

04 Nov 2025

44 MINS

44:27

04 Nov 2025


#974

Jon Stewart on the Perilous State of Late Night and Why America Fell for Donald Trump

Jon Stewart has been a leading figure in political comedy since before the turn of the mil... more

31 Oct 2025

46 MINS

46:22

31 Oct 2025


#973

It’s Not Just You: The Internet Is Actually Getting Worse

“Sometimes a term is so apt, its meaning so clear and so relevant to our circumstances, th... more

28 Oct 2025

21 MINS

21:36

28 Oct 2025


#972

Zadie Smith on Politics, Turning Fifty, and Mind Control

Since Zadie Smith published her début novel, “ [White Teeth] (https://www.penguinrandomhou... more

24 Oct 2025

28 MINS

28:19

24 Oct 2025


#971

Richard Linklater on His Two New Films, “Blue Moon” and “Nouvelle Vague”

Richard Linklater is one of the most admired directors working today, and yet moviegoers m... more

21 Oct 2025

21 MINS

21:11

21 Oct 2025


#970

How the Trump Administration Made Higher Education a Target

The swiftness and severity with which the Trump Administration has tried to impose its wil... more

17 Oct 2025

29 MINS

29:26

17 Oct 2025


#969

John Carpenter Picks Three Favorite Film Scores

The filmmaker John Carpenter has a whole shelf of cult classics: “They Live,” “The Thing,”... more

14 Oct 2025

12 MINS

12:25

14 Oct 2025


#968

Zohran Mamdani Says He's Ready for Donald Trump

Next month, New York City may elect as its next mayor a man who was pretty much unknown to... more

10 Oct 2025

48 MINS

48:19

10 Oct 2025


#967

How Lionel Richie Mastered the Love Song

Lionel Richie has been making music for fifty years. He has sold more than a hundred milli... more

07 Oct 2025

30 MINS

30:41

07 Oct 2025


#966

A Conservative Professor on How to Fix Campus Culture

Robert P. George is not a passive observer of the proverbial culture wars; he’s been a ver... more

03 Oct 2025

26 MINS

26:02

03 Oct 2025


#965

Jimmy Kimmel and the Power of Public Pressure

The Political Scene’s Washington Roundtable—the staff writers Jane Mayer, Susan Glasser, a... more

30 Sep 2025

43 MINS

43:58

30 Sep 2025


#964

Ezra Klein’s Big-Tent Vision of the Democratic Party

The author and podcaster Ezra Klein may be only forty-one years old, but he’s been part of... more

26 Sep 2025

50 MINS

50:02

26 Sep 2025


#963

The Cartoonist Liana Finck Picks Three Favorite Children’s Books

[Liana Finck] (https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/liana-finck) is a cartoonist and an ... more

23 Sep 2025

11 MINS

11:38

23 Sep 2025


#962

Is The 2026 Election Already in Danger?

“The Constitution gives the states the power to set the time, place, and manner of electio... more

19 Sep 2025

37 MINS

37:32

19 Sep 2025


#961

Kevin Young on His Book “Night Watch,” Inspired by Death and Dante

Kevin Young is the [poetry editor] (https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/kevin-young) fo... more

16 Sep 2025

17 MINS

17:39

16 Sep 2025