# Kurt Andersen

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How Does New York City Keep Reinventing Itself? (Bonus)

In a word: networks. Once it embraced information as its main currency, New York was able to climb out of a deep fiscal (and psychic) pit. Will that magic trick still work after Covid? In this installment of the Freakonomics Radio Book Club, guest host Kurt Andersen interviews Thomas Dyja, author o…

Trump can't stop gushing over Natalie Harp at awkward rally

What happened At a rally, President Donald Trump called aide Natalie Harp onstage to deliver an order expanding access to tax-exempt diesel, signed it, and then praised her as a “perfect person” while comparing the exchange to The Price Is Right, according to AlterNet’s account of Daily Beast repor…

Lawrence: There is no bigger story than, is Trump, who has the nuclear codes, ‘losing his mind’?

Tonight on The Last Word: Sen. Raphael Warnock says voters feel “betrayed” by “crushing prices.” Also, Democrats seek to flip the GOP-held Kansas Senate seat. And Spy Magazine is resurfacing vintage Trump articles. Sen. Raphael Warnock, Adam Hamilton, Susan Morrison, and Kurt Andersen join Lawrence…

Soderbergh Ep. 41: Full Circle/Command Z (2023)

They say Soderbergh's prolific, listener, but did you realize he released TWO television shows in the same WEEK in 2023? OK, sure, one of them is more like a series of webisodes that add up to about 90 minutes. But a couple of them have Liev Schreiber! He's a real guy! We did our due diligence and …

Kurt Andersen: The Breakup

On this week’s episode of You Are What You Read, we are joined by bestselling author Kurt Andersen with his new novel, The Breakup. Kurt’s work includes: Evil Geniuses, Fantasyland and the novels True Believers, Heyday and Turn of the Century, among other books. He contributes to The New York Times…

I Know Just How Bad Trump's Decline Is About to Be

Kurt Andersen and Joanna Coles revisit the Donald Trump that Spy magazine spotted 40 years ago: a blustering New York celebrity who claimed he could master nuclear missiles in an hour and a half. Andersen explains why Trump was a joke then but became president, and why today’s thin-skinned tech bil…

An American Tragedy in Five Acts: Janet Reitman on the Inheritance of 9/11

“They weaponized the fear, and the fear became institutionalized, and we internalized it.” — Janet Reitman Back in 2022, the ex-Marine Elliot Ackerman came on the show to talk about The Fifth Act, his account of America’s humiliating end in Afghanistan. The New York Times Magazine contributing writ…

How to Survive Living Next to Rome: John Ralston Saul on Canada, Trump and the Coming US Civil War

“Nobody in the United States wants to call it that. But I write history, and I know what a coup d’état looks like.” — John Ralston Saul As the leaves turn, it’s becoming Canada week. Yesterday we had the Newfoundland-based Paris Marx offering an incisive critique of American Big Tech. Today, it’s …

Fascinating and Funny Media Superstar Kurt Andersen Talks Glucose Management

Kurt Andersen has a lot of wonderful stories to tell, like when he worked at Spy Magazine and sent Donald Trump a check for thriteen cents to see if he would cash it (of course he did). And he tells some of those stories, sure, but pretty soon we get into detailed information about how he manages h…