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Our Worst War

Posted April 29, 2015

Legendary journalist Seymour Hersh helped us count the ways. Hersh returned to Vietnam this year for The New Yorker to visit the scene of the My Lai...

The Making of Xi Jinping

Posted April 29, 2015

Evan Osnos writes about international affairs for The New Yorker. On the occasion of a recent profile, we're speaking about the "ruthlessly pragmatic"...

Can China Lead?

Posted April 21, 2015

The People’s Republic has arrived and is applying for co-trusteeship of the globe. We got a good look at the co-trustee, China’s enigmatic...

The Rebirth of A Nation

Posted April 14, 2015

The question we didn’t quite nail in this conversation was: how did the Lincoln Republicans blow the victory they’d won on the battlefield?...

Beethoven at the Piano

Posted December 25, 201400:50:02

This show originally aired December 2014.We’re getting the Beethoven fundamentals, as never before, at my own piano. At a short safe distance from...