New Yorker columnist Adam Gopnik explores the social history of the Big Apple, through the best and the worst of times, and sees a sense of optimism for the future. Show more
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Adam Gopnik: Role Reversal
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A weekly reflection on a topical issue.
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Adam Gopnik: Long-Form Television
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Adam Gopnik reflects on the reason for our obsession with long-form television series and sees a link to the current brevity of all our other forms of discourse. Show more
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Anti-Political Punditry
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Adam Gopnik argues that the results of America's primary in New Hampshire say far less about shifts in political opinion than the pundits and commentators claim. Show more
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Vanilla Happiness
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Adam Gopnik says the secret of happiness lies in unexpected pleasures, like finding yoghurt is vanilla when you expect it to be plain. Show more
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Moral Futures
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Adam Gopnik thinks future generations will be as appalled by some practices that are accepted today as we are by aspects of the past. Show more
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The Love of Honours
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Adam Gopnik reflects on our age-old love of honours and prizes in every walk of life. Show more
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Human Hybrids
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Adam Gopnik deplores the fashion for attacking so-called 'cultural expropriation', as in the recent fuss over American students wearing sombreros at a Mexican theme party. Show more
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Resolutions
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Adam Gopnik struggles to keep his new year's resolutions to find a 'monastic moment' in the day to meditate and listen to good music. Show more
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A Staircase in Sunlight
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Adam Gopnik reflects on art, life and 'the sketchbook of the twenty first century' - the iPhone. Show more
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What To Call Him?
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Adam Gopnik reflects on the first six months of Donald Trump's presidency. "You can't call him crazy, because it isn't fair to crazy people.". Show more
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My Encounter with Shingles
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Adam Gopnik reflects on why he turned to marijuana during his recent bout of shingles. Show more
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The Week Gone By
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A reflection on a topical issue. Adam Gopnik asks what hope there is of a liberal, open society in America during the next four years. Show more
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Bob Dylan and the Bobolaters
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Adam Gopnik - a lifelong fan of Bob Dylan - muses on Dylan's "utterly predictable lack of gratitude" towards his Nobel Prize. Show more
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Adam Gopnik: Words and Music
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A weekly reflection on a topical issue. Adam Gopnik's experience of writing a libretto casts light on the mysterious relationship between words and music. Show more
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Adam Gopnik: Family Reunions
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A weekly reflection on a topical issue. Adam Gopnik's ten-year family reunion brings into focus the passage of time. Show more
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Adam Gopnik: Power, Persecution and Pluralism
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Adam Gopnik wonders why religious people are feeling 'persecuted' following the US Supreme Court ruling making same-sex marriage legal in all 50 states. Show more
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Adam Gopnik: In Praise of Privacy
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Adam Gopnik likes reading collections of private letters but is offended by glee over the publishing of private emails. What should be the limits of privacy in the internet age? Show more
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Science, Magic and Madness
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What is the difference between magic and science? According to Adam Gopnik it's the experimental method, the looking and seeing and testing that goes with true science. Show more
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Sex and the French
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Adam Gopnik reflects on the attitude of the French to the sex lives of their statesmen, and gives his opinion that the price of privilege is prudence. Show more