Feb 26, 2017
We spoke a few years ago for one of our first episodes, when she was a correspondent for The Daily Show, before she created her own show, Full Frontal, and before we could even imagine a President Trump, who makes us so desperately need Full Frontal and powerful mind-numbing drugs. Smart, funny, and humane, she is given...
Feb 19, 2017
Before Freakonomics, before he set out as a journalist, Sphen Dubner abandoned a promising career as a musician because, "I didn't want to be doing something that I felt required adoration to give me validation." But sure every writer wants readers who value his work, so what's the difference? An artist's relationship...
Feb 11, 2017
Our friends provide kindness, but we are also drawn to harsher souls with "big personalities" and small social skills whose rigor makes us better people, and by "we," I mean playwright David Ives. A conversation about at Classic Stage Company about tenderness and severity with the author of Venus in Fur and CSC's...
Feb 4, 2017
Can local government protect us from the enormities being perpetrated by the White House? Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer is not entirely comforting, and yet it is encouraging to hear a public official with knowledge of her profession, respect for (and from) her constituents, and a fundamental sense of decency -...