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Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner respond to questions from listeners on a wide range of topics, including the Psy hit "Gangnam Style," what defines a great acting...
View Article[Unedited] John Lewis with Krista Tippett
The civil rights movement John Lewis helped animate was -- as he tells it -- love in action. He opens up the art and the discipline that made nonviolence work then -- and that he offers up for our...
View ArticleJohn Lewis — The Art & Discipline of Nonviolence
The civil rights movement John Lewis helped animate was -- as he tells it -- love in action. He opens up the art and the discipline that made nonviolence work then -- and that he offers up for our...
View ArticleThe Culture Gabfest: Initiate Neural Handshake Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss the Guillermo del Toro film "Pacific Rim," the new Comedy Central show "Drunk History," and John Tierney's New York Times piece on...
View ArticleGabfest Extra: Day 16, The End, For Now
Slate's David Plotz and John Dickerson are joined by New York Times columnist Ross Douthat to discuss the longterm implications of the shutdown for the Republican party.
View Article[Unedited] Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons And Lucas Johnson With Krista Tippett
Wisdom for how we can move and heal our society in our time as the Civil Rights movement galvanized its own. Lucas Johnson is bringing the art and practice of nonviolence into a new century, for new...
View ArticleGwendolyn Zoharah Simmons and Lucas Johnson — Deromanticizing the Civil...
Wisdom for how we can move and heal our society in our time as the Civil Rights movement galvanized its own. Lucas Johnson is bringing the art and practice of nonviolence into a new century, for new...
View ArticleLiu Sues Campaign Finance Board
Former City Comptroller and failed mayoral candidate John Liu is suing the City's Campaign Finance Board in federal court.In a complaint filed Wednesday, attorneys for Liu said his campaign was...
View ArticleStoryCorps 397: Evolution of Forgiveness
Seventeen years after Darius Clark Monroe robbed a bank at gunpoint, he came to StoryCorps with David Ned, one of the customers who was in the bank during the robbery.
View ArticleOctober 2014 New Releases
It's that time of the month again for the new releases show on New Sounds, despite the fact that it's All Hallows' Eve. John Schaefer carefully sorts through the stacks, bins, downloads and boatloads...
View ArticleStoryCorps 400: Still a Superwoman
Trista Matascastillo speaks with her husband, Army 1st Sergeant Hector Matascastillo, about being sexually assaulted when she was in the Navy.
View ArticleStoryCorps 406: The Bridge
Writer Gay Talese interviews Bob Walsh, one of the ironworkers who built the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, the longest suspension bridge in the country.
View ArticleSlate: The Culture Gabfest: We're Saving Our Own Lives Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Jody Rosen, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss "We Are the World" take two, singer-songwriter John Mayer's disturbing Playboy Interview...
View ArticleSlate: The Culture Gabfest, Kung-Chung Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Jody Rosen, Dana Stevens, John Swansburg and Julia Turner discuss Law and Order the final episode, Breathless fifty years old and the vocal...
View ArticleCelebrate Lennon's Birthday, for a price
In addition to the new films (“Nowhere Boy” about his early, pre-Beatles days, and “LennonNYC,” the documentary of his New York years), and the memorial events taking place in Iceland and in...
View ArticleJohn Lennon, Inc.
In addition to the new films (“Nowhere Boy” about his early, pre-Beatles days, and “LennonNYC,” the documentary of his New York years), and the memorial events taking place in Iceland and in...
View ArticleSlate: The Culture Gabfest, Church of High Modernism and Puppies Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss MoMA’s Abstract Expressionist New York, John Adams’ Nixon in China at the Met, and the Westminster Dog...
View ArticleSlate: The Culture Gabfest, Where Are Our Manners? Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the death of Osama bin Laden. The recent royal wedding hoopla and John Swansburg’s New York feature on “The Comic Stylings of Brian Williams.”
View ArticleSlate: The Culture Gabfest, “Wild Oversimplification” Edition
Listen to Slate's show about Kony 2012, Game Change, and Werner Herzog’s On Death Row.
View ArticleThe Culture Gabfest: 25 Sex Moves He Secretly Wishes You'd Try Edition
Slate critics Julia Turner, Dana Stevens and John Swansburg discuss the death of Cosmo editor Helen Gurley Brown, the new film The Campaign starring Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis, and the merits...
View ArticleThe Culture Gabfest: Bringing a Gun to a Puppy Fight Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, John Dickerson, John Swansburg, and Farhad Manjoo discuss Bob Dylan's new album "Tempest," the 20th anniversary of the film "Sneakers", and a cheating...
View ArticleThe Culture Gabfest: I Did it for the Lulz Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the new Ben Affleck film "Argo" and the foodie institution "Cooks Illustrated," plus Gawker's Adrian Chen comes in to discuss his...
View ArticleThe Culture Gabfest: On Tenterhooks Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner and John Swansburg discuss the new Denzel Washington film "Flight," George Lucas selling Lucasfilm and the Star Wars franchise to Disney, and Twitter...
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Moon Graffiti
Episode #1: Moon Graffiti. In our pilot episode, we imagine what may have happened if the Apollo 11 mission ended in tragedy. Featuring performances by Matt Evans, Ed Herbsman, and John Ottavino....
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Human Intelligence
Written by Kurt Andersen, this story was originally heard on PRI's Studio 360. Narrated by Ed Herbstman, with John Ottavino as Nicholas, and Melanie Hoopes as Nancy. The story editor was David Krasnow....
View ArticleThe Political Gabfest: The You’ll Drag Me Out of this Supreme Court in a Pine...
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: A judge rules against NSA spying, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's refusal to resign strategically, and a...
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Paul Bowles: writer/outsider, Coyle & Sharp: men-on-the-street, and Ayahuasca tourism.
View ArticleMoon Graffiti
Episode #1: Moon Graffiti. In our pilot episode, we imagine what may have happened if the Apollo 11 mission ended in tragedy. Featuring performances by Matt Evans, Ed Herbsman, and John Ottavino....
View ArticleHuman Intelligence
Written by Kurt Andersen, this story was originally heard on PRI's Studio 360. Narrated by Ed Herbstman, with John Ottavino as Nicholas, and Melanie Hoopes as Nancy. The story editor was David Krasnow....
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