# Kurt Andersen

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Kurt Andersen — The Breakup - with Sean Rameswaram

A marriage cracks apart as a near-future United States redraws its borders in this penetrating and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Fantasyland.Natalie and Asher’s marriage has long been marked by fault lines, quiet rifts in how they view their fellow Americans and navi ...

Kurt Andersen on our possible coming national ‘Breakup’

Kurt Andersen co-created Spy magazine, which published its first issue 40 years ago next month. And he hosted and co-created Studio 360, which ran on public radio stations for nearly 20 years. His new novel, The Breakup, follows the unraveling of a marriage … in 2045 … in a version of America t ...

August 18th, Hour 3- Thomas Sowell on education, civil war warnings, Trump-Ossoff feud, and the future of American politics.

Hour 3 features highlights from a recent interview with renowned economist and Hoover Institution scholar Thomas Sowell, who shares his views on why America's education system is struggling and the reforms he believes are needed. We also discuss author Kurt Andersen's new novel The Breakup and t ...

The Breakup

We’re between breakdown and breakup, or maybe between the AI monster and human extinction. Those are the rough choices that the all-purpose American writer Kurt Andersen is offering us in his vast portrait of a broken country as a sort of bad marriage. He’s written a novel called The Breakup. Is ...

Our Own Worst Enemies: Robert Pape on America’s Age of Violent Populism

“Democracies don’t die silently, sleepwalking. Democracies die by going through periods of pretty serious political violence.” — Robert Pape   Forget all the long-term civil war scenarios of everyone from Kurt Andersen to Stephen Marche. Today’s guest Robert Pape has spent the last thirty years ...

The New Mobocracy of Design

7 AM, Saturday, September 5, 2026 WPKN 89.5 FM wpkn.org Our mirrors have changed. We are living the reversal of two centuries of criticism and journalism. It is a time of the loss of commentators, critics, or writers. There are 3 – maybe 5 – full-time, dedicated national architecture critics lef ...

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, autho ...