Alison Gopnik — The Evolutionary Power of Children and Teenagers
Alison Gopnik understands babies and children as the R&D division of humanity. From her cognitive science lab at the University of California, -Berkeley, she investigates the “evolutionary paradox”...
View ArticleNo Slumping With Twyla Tharp
Twyla Tharp's mother first put her in dance classes when she was a child living in Southern California. "I've always been highly programmed," Twyla told me. But when she got to New York and realized...
View Article[Unedited] Sandra Cisneros with Krista Tippett
The House on Mango Street by Mexican American writer Sandra Cisneros has been taught in high schools across the U.S. for decades. A poetic writer of many genres, she’s received a MacArthur “genius...
View ArticleSandra Cisneros — A House of Her Own
The House on Mango Street by Mexican American writer Sandra Cisneros has been taught in high schools across the U.S. for decades. A poetic writer of many genres, she’s received a MacArthur “genius...
View ArticleRobocalls
Eddie Doyle is being targeted by bots that are getting smarter all the time. Written by Louis Kornfeld Performed by Tom Ligon, Amy Warren, Louis Kornfeld, Tanyika Carey, Rebecca Robles, Rich Armstead,...
View ArticleMadeleine Albright On Ambition and Obsoleteness
Madeleine Albright was in her early 20s when she wrote in an essay, "I am obsolete." She'd just become a mother to twins, and since graduating college had moved several times for her husband's jobs in...
View ArticleKids These Days...And Yesterday, And Tomorrow
Economist John Quiggin wants to change the way we talk about millennials. That is, he thinks we should stop talking about them altogether. In a recent New York Times editorial, Quiggin argued that the...
View ArticleHow To Get Older, Better
Older, wiser and perhaps healthier? It may sound too good to be true, but Sue Armstrong, author of Borrowed Time: The Science of How and Why We Age, says that growing older doesn’t have to lead to...
View ArticleAn Election in Peril, and a New Film by Miranda July
This Presidential race is a battle for the soul and the future of the country—on this much, both parties agree. Yet the election process itself is threatened in a number of ways, some real, and some...
View ArticleA Century of Roger Angell
Roger Angell is best known as one of the greatest baseball writers in the history of the game. But, in a career at The New Yorker that goes back to the Second World War, he has written on practically...
View ArticleMiranda July’s Uncomfortable Comedies, and a Toast to Roger Angell
Miranda July’s third feature film is “Kajillionaire,” a heist movie centered on a dysfunctional family, and her first with a Hollywood star like Evan Rachel Wood. Like most of her work, it can be...
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Getting Real About Getting Older
The United States is a country that’s rapidly aging. According to Census Bureau estimates, the number of people over 65 in the U.S. will nearly double over the next 40 years. They’re also working...
View ArticleA Novel About Secret Families, and the Fight to Turn Georgia Blue
Georgia was a Republican stronghold, but in 2020 the state went for Joe Biden. Now it has two runoff Senate races looming that will determine the balance of power in Washington. The staff writer...
View ArticleAdam Gopnik Tries Out Being Old
In fifteen years, people of retirement age will outnumber children for the first time in U.S. history. But, the staff writer Adam Gopnik finds, the elderly are poorly served by the field of design,...
View ArticleA Novel About a Secret Family, and Adam Gopnik on Being Old
Sanaë Lemoine’s début novel, “The Margot Affair,” is about a seventeen-year-old high-school student whose father, a high-ranking official, does not acknowledge her or her mother publicly. In telling...
View ArticleMargaret Atwood Reads Saeed Jones
Margaret Atwood joins Kevin Young to read “A Stranger,” by Saeed Jones, and her own poem “Flatline.” Atwood, a prolific poet and novelist, is known for brilliant books such as “The Handmaid’s Tale” and...
View Article[Unedited] Gaelynn Lea with Krista Tippett
Gaelynn Lea’s voice and violin land like a balm — an offering of both clarity and gladness that can still be mustered in this midwinter, this upended Christmas season. She first came to the attention...
View ArticleGaelynn Lea’s Voice and Violin
Gaelynn Lea’s voice and violin land like a balm — an offering of both clarity and gladness that can still be mustered in this midwinter, this upended Christmas season. She first came to the attention...
View ArticleMore Getting Real About Getting Older
As we've been putting together our Getting Real About Getting Older series, we've come across a lot of great articles and research that we wanted to share with you. ‘Because of You Guys, I’m Stuck in...
View ArticleJust Ask Us: Your Stories About Life After 60
A few months ago, we asked our listeners over 60 to tell us about their experiences of getting older, especially during the past year. And it turns out, you had a lot to say about it. The United States...
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