David Remnick

David Remnick on the gangster myth

April 4, 2019Culture

Why are we so fascinated with mob stories?

Special Guest: David Remnick

March 24, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Second inaugural addressess typically shorter, rarely well-remembered

August 15, 2013Global Politics

Gilad Shalit and the Future of the Middle East

August 15, 2013

The Political Ramifications of Bin Laden’s Death

August 15, 2013Global Politics

Obama Calls for ‘winning the future’ in State of the Union

August 14, 2013Global Politics

David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker and author of ‘The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama,’ responds to President Obama’s second annual State of the Union address.

In audio: the life of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

August 14, 2013Arts, Culture & Media

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn timeline: Birth: 1918, December 12; Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn is born in Kislovodsk, Russia on December 11, 1918, as World War I was ending. His father dies six months before his birth. A student of mathematics: 1937; Now an unpublished and frustrated young author, Solzhenitsyn reluctantly studies Mathematics at Rostov University in Russia. Natalia […]

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian author of ‘The Gulag Archipelago,’ dies at 89

August 14, 2013Global Politics

Guest: Archie Barron, producer and director of the documentary The Solzhenitsyns Take a Long Way Home’