Video & Audio

New Yorker staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert on the sixth extinction and state of the biosphere.

Literary historian Haun Saussy is working on reconstructing the overlapping cosmopolitan worlds of premodern East Asia.

Roberta Cooper Ramo on the role and duties of American lawyers in times of crisis.

Journalist Frances FitzGerald discusses evangelical voters in the United States.

Writer P. Carl discusses his memoir about gender transition, Becoming a White Man.

Rosalind Morris discusses the social and material consequences following the boom of gold mining in Southern Africa.

Filmmaker Gyula Gazdag is writing a screenplay about WWI German, French, and British soldiers who rise from the dead.

Political philosopher Michael Sandel talks about the rise of populist nationalism and the future of democracy.

Authors of a recent report by the National Committee on American Foreign Policy and the EastWest Institute highlight the need for immediate action by the US and the EU to head off conflict in the Balkans.

Tung-Hui Hu aims to articulate the "lethargy" of being caught inside digital systems of algorithmic control.