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Jul 18, 2017 • 21min
The Man Who Would Be King (of Mars)
Dr. Phil Davies, a country doctor in England, says that he owns Mars. What if he’s right?
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Jul 14, 2017 • 36min
Trumpcare Revisited
An Obamacare veteran keeps fighting the fight—even into the White House. And Jill Lepore explains the century-long battle for universal coverage.
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Jul 11, 2017 • 20min
Lucinda Williams Talks with Ariel Levy
Lucinda Williams talks with Ariel Levy about God, Flannery O’Connor, and her long and twisting path through the music industry.
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Jul 7, 2017 • 38min
James Taylor Will Teach you Guitar
Adam Gopnik talks with James Taylor and tries not to go all Chris Farley Show: “Remember when you wrote ‘Fire and Rain’? That was great.”
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Jul 3, 2017 • 29min
My Night at Mar-a-Lago
Taking the political temperature of Palm Beach at a swinging party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s palace away from home.
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Jun 30, 2017 • 29min
"Okja" and Other Strange Stories by Jon Ronson
Jon Ronson’s nonfiction has often seemed too strange to be true; in the screenplay for “Okja,” he goes all in for surreal fiction. Plus, Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith.
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Jun 23, 2017 • 55min
Ai Weiwei, and Doing Business with China
Ai Weiwei reflects on censorship and the refugee crisis, a congressman asks us to reconsider trade with China, and Chinese students explain the country’s Ivanka Trump fever.
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Jun 16, 2017 • 55min
Virtual Reality, and the Politics of Genetics
In this episode, Siddhartha Mukherjee discusses the intimate and global implications of genetic science, and we look for the Orson Wells of VR.
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Jun 9, 2017 • 55min
Merchant Ivory’s Gay Love Story, and a Visit with Noriega
James Ivory talks about E. M. Forster’s “Maurice,” a gay love story with a happy ending. Plus, Jon Lee Anderson talks about the rise and fall of Manuel Noriega.
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Jun 2, 2017 • 55min
Wedding Hair on Fire, and William Barber’s Religious Politics
Kristen Wiig plays a bride whose idea for her wedding hair is out of control. And the Reverend William Barber tells David Remnick that politics needs to get religion again.
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