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The Political Scene Podcast
Can the Royal Family Withstand Oprah’s Scrutiny?
The historian Simon Schama and the staff writer Doreen St. Félix discuss how the interview with Meghan and Harry plays into culture wars in the U.K. and the U.S.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Torrey Peters on the Taboo of Detransitioning, and Britain Faces Its Meghan-and-Harry Crisis
The writer discusses how she wrote a best-selling novel about a subject most trans authors have tried to avoid. Plus, Simon Schama and Doreen St. Félix on race and the royals.
Letter from the U.K.
The British Reaction to the Meghan-and-Harry Interview
In the less horrifying parts of the interview, Meghan might have been the invention of Henry James.
Daily Comment
What Meghan and Harry’s Oprah Interview Clarifies for Americans—and Maybe the British, Too
Why did we ever find all of this so amusing?
On Television
The Rigorous Empathy of “Oprah with Meghan and Harry”
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s Royal Family exit interview, an instantly iconic artifact of pop culture, could not have been without Oprah.
Shouts & Murmurs
Encouragement for Struggling Creatives
Richard Brody
Ava DuVernay’s “A Wrinkle in Time,” Reviewed
Cultural Comment
The Fever Dream of President Oprah
Satire from The Borowitz Report
Trump Warns That President Oprah Would Force Americans to Read
“If she were President, you better believe that she would make every single American join that book club,” Trump said.
Cultural Comment
The 2018 Golden Globes: Oprah Leads a Decisive Feminist Takeover
Man’s Best Friend Dept.
Puppies Behind Bars, with Glenn Close
Despite her famous role as Cruella de Vil, the actress champions an organization that teaches prison inmates to train service dogs.
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The Bath: A Polemic
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