Summer Friday: Project 2025; The Jersey Shore; Young Men & the Left; Decade-by-Decade Best Sellers

For this "Summer Friday" we've put together some of our favorite conversations this year:

• David Graham, staff writer at The Atlantic and an author of the Atlantic daily newsletter, plus author of The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America (Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2025), looks at where the initial actions of the Trump administration align with the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, and what's still to come.
• From our centennial series, Deb Whitcraft, founder and president of the New Jersey Maritime Museum, and Emil Salvini, author of several books on the history of the Jersey Shore and host of "Tales of the Jersey Shore" for NJTV, take us through the larger history as listeners share their memories and stories from the towns and beaches that fit under that giant umbrella of "the shore".
• Young men broke heavily for Trump in November. Andrew Marantz, staff writer at The New Yorker and author of Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation (Viking Press, 2019),discusses the reason behind this phenomenon and how the left might make gains in this demographic.
• From our centennial series, Tina Jordan, deputy editor of The New York Times Book Review, and a co-editor of The New York Times Book Review: 125 Years of Literary History (Clarkson Potter, 2021), looks at the history of best-selling books and what that says about the past century of American culture.

These interviews were lightly edited for time and clarity and the original web versions are available here:

Catching Up on Project 2025 (Apr 25, 2025)

100 Years of 100 Things: The Jersey Shore (Aug 12, 2024)

How the Left Can Connect with Young Men (Mar 28, 2025)

100 Years of 100 Things: Best Sellers (May 21, 2025)