Best Remnick Podcasts (2024)

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David Remnick (Editor: The New Yorker) 48:43

13d ago48:43

48:43

THE FIFTH — I want you to stop what you’re doing for just a moment and imagine we’re back in 1998. (Those of you born since then will have to use your imagination). We’re on an ASME panel exploring the future of magazines in the digital age. The moderator, eager to get the discussion off to a lively start, turns to you and asks, “What magazine that…

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David Remnick 34:41

25d ago34:41

34:41

It's a dream come true for Ina Garten when she invites Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist David Remnick to the barn. Ina welcomes him with Overnight Belgian Waffles and hosts a Parmesan Chicken cooking class before dinner in the garden. Recipes featured in this episode: Overnight Belgian Waffles Parmesan Chicken Recipe Hosted on Acast. Se…

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Kevin Costner on “Yellowstone,” “Horizon,” and Why the Western Endures 32:35

2h ago32:35

32:35

Kevin Costner has been a leading man for more than forty years and has starred in all different genres of movies, but a constant in his filmography is the Western. One of his first big roles was in “Silverado,” alongside Kevin Kline and Danny Glover; he directed “Dances with Wolves,” which won seven Oscars, including Best Director and Best Picture;…

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What to Expect from the Biden-Trump Debate, with the Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin 32:32

13h ago32:32

32:32

The Washington Roundtable: Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos discuss whether the debate will affect the outcome of the November election. The historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, who is the author of “An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s,” joins the conversation to look at what the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debate can tell us ab…

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Bibi's House of Cards - with special guest Rivka Ravitz 1:01:18

1h ago1:01:18

1:01:18

As rifts widen within Israel’s ruling coalition - and between Benjamin Netanyahu and both the White House and his own military, Yonit and Jonathan discuss whether the current government can hold together till the crucial deadline of July 28. And they talk to Rivka Ravitz, former chief of staff to an Israeli president and one of the ultra-orthodox c…

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Could the 2024 Election Be Decided by Memes? 32:16

20h ago32:16

32:16

The New Yorker staff writer Clare Malone joins Tyler Foggatt to analyze how President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are being skewered on social-media platforms like TikTok and Instagram. She discusses our shifting media habits, why the 2016 election is surfacing in new contexts online, and how both campaigns are relying on algorithms…

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Paul Scheer Picks the Very Best of the Very Worst Movies 14:42

2d ago14:42

14:42

Paul Scheer is a noted actor and comedian, and the author of the new memoir “Joyful Recollections of Trauma.” Off the screen, his true obsession is bad movies—even terrible movies. With his wife, the actor and comedian June Diane Raphael, and their friend Jason Mantzoukas, he presents the podcast “How Did This Get Made?,” picking apart all manner o…

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Is Being a Politician the Worst Job in the World? 35:44

3d ago35:44

35:44

On July 4th—while the U.S. celebrates its break from Britain—voters in the United Kingdom will go to the polls and, according to all predictions, oust the current government. The Conservative Party has been in power for fourteen years, presiding over serious economic decline and widespread discontent. The narrow, contentious referendum to break awa…

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Hunter Biden’s Conviction and Trump’s Risk to the Justice Department in 2024 36:49

5d ago36:49

36:49

The Washington Roundtable: Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos analyze the impact of Hunter Biden’s criminal conviction and how the trial turned the spotlight on the Biden family’s private struggles through grief and addiction. Plus, how Trump supporters are waging an attack on the justice system and making its integrity one of the core is…

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Is Being a Politician the Worst Job in the World? 36:24

6d ago36:24

36:24

On July 4th—while the U.S. celebrates its break from Britain—voters in the United Kingdom will go to the polls and, according to all predictions, oust the current government. The Conservative Party has been in power for fourteen years, presiding over serious economic decline and widespread discontent. The narrow, contentious referendum to break awa…

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Versha Sharma (Editor: Teen Vogue) 31:58

6d ago31:58

31:58

IT’S COMPLICATED — If Teen Vogue’s editorial still surprises you, it might be time to admit that this says more about you than it does about Teen Vogue. And also, perhaps, that you haven’t been paying attention. Teen Vogue is not the first magazine aimed at “the young” of course, and it’s not the first one to address multiple issues. But…Teen Vogue…

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Big Fires Everywhere - with special guest Amos Harel 1:02:04

6d ago1:02:04

1:02:04

The week began with a daring hostage rescue operation that brought four Israeli captives home, but the relief did not last long. Hezbollah rocket fire from the north is growing ever more intense, while Israel’s war cabinet saw the long-awaited exit of Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot – and all while Benjamin Netanyahu and the Supreme Court remain on a…

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Biden’s Executive Order on Immigration and the Politically “Toxic” Puzzle of the Border 38:19

8d ago38:19

38:19

The New Yorker writers Stephania Taladrid and Jonathan Blitzer join Tyler Foggatt to unpack President Biden’s stringent new executive order on asylum and the border. They discuss the strained diplomatic relations between the United States and Mexico and the political calculations underpinning Biden’s decision, and imagine what negotiations between …

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After Serving Decades in Prison for Murder, Two Men Fought to Clear Their Names 28:01

9d ago28:01

28:01

For years, the staff writer Jennifer Gonnerman has reported on the case of Eric Smokes and David Warren. When they were teen-agers in Brooklyn, in 1987, Smokes and Warren were convicted of second-degree murder during the mugging of a tourist; the papers called them “the Times Square Two.” It was the testimony of another teen-ager, who received a re…

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Senator Raphael Warnock on America’s “Moral and Spiritual Battle” 21:38

10d ago21:38

21:38

When Raphael Warnock was elected to the Senate from Georgia in the 2020 election, he made history a couple of times over. He became the first Black Democrat elected to the Senate from the Deep South. At the same time, that victory—alongside Jon Ossoff’s—flipped both of Georgia’s Senate seats from Republican to Democrat. Once thought of as solidly r…

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A G.O.P. Strategist on the Republican Voters Who Could Abandon Trump 34:49

15d ago34:49

34:49

The Washington Roundtable: Susan B. Glasser and Jane Mayer speak with Sarah Longwell, a longtime G.O.P. strategist and publisher of the Bulwark. Longwell has conducted focus groups across the country for the past eight years, and her research provides an unparalleled look at what motivates certain Republican voters to stay with Trump and what cause…

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Senator Raphael Warnock on America’s “Moral and Spiritual Battle” 22:38

13d ago22:38

22:38

When Raphael Warnock was elected to the Senate from Georgia in the 2020 election, he made history a couple of times over. He became the first Black Democrat elected to the Senate from the Deep South. At the same time, that victory—alongside Jon Ossoff’s—flipped both of Georgia’s Senate seats from Republican to Democrat. Once thought of as solidly r…

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No Quiet On The Northern Front - with special guest “Nas Daily” 1:05:51

14d ago1:05:51

1:05:51

With the war in Gaza now eight months old, fears turn to the possibility of an all-out confrontation in the north - against a Hezbollah force far mightier than Hamas. Plus: Yonit and Jonathan talk to the man behind Nas Daily, the YouTuber with an audience of 70 million - on why he now defines himself not as a Palestinian-Israeli but an Israeli-Pale…

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What Do We Know About How the World Might End? 30:30

15d ago30:30

30:30

The New Yorker staff writer Rivka Galchen joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss a class at the University of Chicago with a tantalizingly dark title: “Are We Doomed?” It’s in the interdisciplinary field of existential risk, which studies the threats posed by climate change, nuclear warfare, and artificial intelligence. Galchen, who spent a semester observ…

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The Trans Athletes Who Changed the Olympics—in 1936 19:47

16d ago19:47

19:47

In “The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports,” the journalist Michael Waters tells the story of Zdeněk Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European women’s sports. Koubek shocked the sporting world in 1935 by announcing that he was transitioning, and now living as a man. The initial press coverage of Koubek a…

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The Trans Athletes Who Changed the Olympics—in 1936 18:43

17d ago18:43

18:43

In “The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports,” the journalist Michael Waters tells the story of Zdeněk Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European women’s sports. Koubek shocked the sporting world in 1935 by announcing that he was transitioning, and now living as a man. The initial press coverage of Koubek a…

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A “Stunningly Decisive” End to Donald Trump’s Trial 36:10

20d ago36:10

36:10

The Washington Roundtable: Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos discuss the consequences of a major moment in American history and politics: the first-ever trial and conviction of a former President in a court of law. Will Donald Trump’s guilty verdict threaten his campaign, or will it only shore up support from his party? This week’s readi…

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Cécile McLorin Salvant Finds “the Gems That Haven’t Been Sung and Sung” 31:07

20d ago31:07

31:07

When the jazz singer Cécile McLorin Salvant was profiled in The New Yorker, Wynton Marsalis described her as the kind of talent who comes along only “once in a generation or two.” Salvant’s work is rooted in jazz—in the tradition of Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan and Abbey Lincoln—and she has won three Grammy Awards for Best Jazz Vocal Album. Bu…

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Gail Bichler (Designer: The New York Times Magazine) 59:27

20d ago59:27

59:27

THE FINE ART OF MAGAZINE MAKING — Imagine this: You’re a 42-year-old designer who’s only worked at one magazine. Ever. Then one day, unexpectedly, you’re tasked to lead the design of that magazine. Now imagine that the magazine is universally lauded as a design masterpiece. Add to that, your immediate predecessors have both been enshrined into ever…

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Israel GPS - with special guest Fareed Zakaria 1:23:39

21d ago1:23:39

1:23:39

In a week that saw international fury over an air strike on Rafah that led to the deaths of dozens of civilians - and which came just days after an order from The Hague for Israel to halt its operations in the city - Yonit and Jonathan talk to one of America’s foremost analysts of geopolitics and CNN host: Fareed Zakaria. How might this war end? Is…

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Kerry Diamond (Founder & Editor: Cherry Bombe) 41:09

21d ago41:09

41:09

THE CHERRY ON TOP — Cherry Bombe is a full-course meal. Its founder, Kerry Diamond, created the magazine after working in titles like Women’s Wear Daily and Harper’s Bazaar, and after working for brands like Lancôme. And in the restaurant industry. She worked in restaurants at a time when everything culinary was in the ascendance in the zeitgeist. …

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David Remnick (Editor: The New Yorker) 48:43

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David Remnick 34:41

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Kevin Costner on “Yellowstone,” “Horizon,” and Why the Western Endures 32:35

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What to Expect from the Biden-Trump Debate, with the Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin 32:32

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Bibi's House of Cards - with special guest Rivka Ravitz 1:01:18

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Could the 2024 Election Be Decided by Memes? 32:16

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Paul Scheer Picks the Very Best of the Very Worst Movies 14:42

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Is Being a Politician the Worst Job in the World? 35:44

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Hunter Biden’s Conviction and Trump’s Risk to the Justice Department in 2024 36:49

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Is Being a Politician the Worst Job in the World? 36:24

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Versha Sharma (Editor: Teen Vogue) 31:58

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Big Fires Everywhere - with special guest Amos Harel 1:02:04

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Biden’s Executive Order on Immigration and the Politically “Toxic” Puzzle of the Border 38:19

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After Serving Decades in Prison for Murder, Two Men Fought to Clear Their Names 28:01

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Senator Raphael Warnock on America’s “Moral and Spiritual Battle” 21:38

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A G.O.P. Strategist on the Republican Voters Who Could Abandon Trump 34:49

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Senator Raphael Warnock on America’s “Moral and Spiritual Battle” 22:38

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No Quiet On The Northern Front - with special guest “Nas Daily” 1:05:51

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What Do We Know About How the World Might End? 30:30

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The Trans Athletes Who Changed the Olympics—in 1936 19:47

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The Trans Athletes Who Changed the Olympics—in 1936 18:43

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A “Stunningly Decisive” End to Donald Trump’s Trial 36:10

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Cécile McLorin Salvant Finds “the Gems That Haven’t Been Sung and Sung” 31:07

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Gail Bichler (Designer: The New York Times Magazine) 59:27

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Israel GPS - with special guest Fareed Zakaria 1:23:39

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Kerry Diamond (Founder & Editor: Cherry Bombe) 41:09

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