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Nov 18, 2016 • 56min
Episode 57: Zadie Smith and Conservatives Strike Back
A conservative keeps the faith in the age of Trump; Zadie Smith discusses the death of the novel; and a Thanksgiving side dish speaks out.
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Nov 11, 2016 • 56min
Episode 56: Leonard Cohen’s Last Days and Donald Trump’s First Term
David Remnick’s conversation with Leonard Cohen in the last months of the musician’s life, and Amy Davidson and George Packer grapple with the Trump Presidency.
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Nov 10, 2016 • 27min
Podcast Extra: Looking Back with Leonard Cohen
In Leonard Cohen’s last interview, he discusses his career, his spiritual influences, and what he is doing to prepare for death.
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Nov 4, 2016 • 56min
Episode 55: Final Notes on the 2016 Election
The 2016 election gets the Hollywood treatment, and an evangelical minister contemplates the decline of the Christian G.O.P.
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Nov 3, 2016 • 1h 6min
Podcast Extra: The State of The Union Songbook Live
Michael Friedman performs his State of The Union Songbook live — songs that capture the confusion, hope, and despair of the strangest presidential election in American history.
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Oct 28, 2016 • 56min
Episode 54: Syria, the World’s Nightmare
This special hour examines the effects of Syria’s civil war, the worst humanitarian crisis of the twenty-first century, from both inside the White House and on the ground in Aleppo.
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Oct 21, 2016 • 55min
Episode 53: Putting Trump in the White House, Playing Andrew Bird in the O.R.
In this episode, the surgeon Atul Gawande talks with the musician Andrew Bird, and a panel of experts discusses what a Trump Presidency would look like.
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Oct 14, 2016 • 55min
Episode 52: Mikhail Baryshnikov, T.C. Boyle, and Germany's Kriegskinder
Mikhail Baryshnikov talks about the playing the revolutionary choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky, and T.C. Boyle shares a blues musician he discovered on a college radio station.
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Oct 7, 2016 • 56min
Episode 51: David Axelrod on the Cubs and the Candidates, and Kenya Barris on “Black-ish”
In this episode, Obama’s former campaign strategist talks Clinton and the Cubs, a mathematician rocks out, and the “Black-ish” creator Kenya Barris vents a little.
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Sep 23, 2016 • 56min
Episode 49: The State of Debate and Colson Whitehead’s Underground Railroad
In this episode, Colson Whitehead reimagines the Underground Railroad, Jill Lepore assesses the sorry state of political debate,and Sharon Horgan finds humor in “Divorce.”
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