92NY Talks

What does it take to force the most powerful institutions in America to keep their promises? For John Feal, it took unimaginable personal loss, relentless determination, and an unlikely partnership with Jon Stewart that would help change history.

Together, Stewart and Feal join us for a moving, inspiring conversation about Feal's new memoir, I Will Follow You Anywhere: The True Story of the 9/11 Responders Who Took On Congress — the extraordinary story of the 9/11 responder who transformed personal tragedy into one of the most influential advocacy campaigns of our time.

On September 11, 2001, Feal rushed to Ground Ze...

Sarah Longwell wants to build a winning political coalition to defeat MAGA-style politics — and she's ready to tell you how. Hear her in a conversation about her new book, How to Eat an Elephant: One Voter at a Time.

Longwell is the CEO and publisher of The Bulwark, one of the largest and fastest-growing independent media companies in the country. Her unlikely political journey from the Republican Party to the front lines of the anti-MAGA movement has brought her to the center of the debate about how to defeat Donald Trump — and Trumpism.

After Trump won...

October 7, 2023 forever changed the dynamics of the Middle East, the global conversation about Israel and Palestine, and the lives of so many in the region and beyond. 

Three years later, Jaser AbuMoussa and Jonathan Dekel-Chen — two fathers from Gaza and Israel whose families and communities have endured profound loss — have chosen to reach across the divide. 

Jonathan is a member of Kibbutz Nir Oz, a small agricultural community devastated by the October 7 attack, when Hamas and Islamic Jihad murdered or kidnapped one in four of its 400 residents, among them his son Sagui who was held hostag...

#1 New York Times-bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell takes our stage with a bold new lens on one of America's most urgent crises. The gun violence epidemic in America seems unstoppable. Why can we find no bipartisan consensus to stop this painful cycle? What are we missing? Deeply reported and characteristically fascinating, Malcolm Gladwell's new book poses new questions about why our efforts to confront one of American society's greatest challenges have fallen short. Gladwell moves beyond familiar debates to uncover hidden patterns, unlikely histories, and uncomfortable truths. Through vivid stories — from a miraculous gunshot survival in Washington, D.C. to a...

What did Francis Fukuyama mean when he declared that the world had reached "the end of history" — and does he still believe it?

One of the most consequential conservative political thinkers of our time, best known for his international bestseller The End of History and the Last Man and for his work advising the presidential administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, Francis Fukuyama has spent decades shaping the way policymakers, scholars, and everyday citizens think about power and the fate of liberal democracy. Now, with In the Realm of the Last Man, he offers a...

American politics has never been louder, more polarized, or more exhausting. Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov are fed up with it.

For a live recording of their hit podcast Raging Moderates, Galloway and Tarlov bring their signature mix of sharp analysis, candid debate, and unapologetic frustration with the political extremes that dominate today's discourse. Being a moderate doesn't mean sitting on the sidelines — it means pushing back against bad ideas, wherever they come from.

A professor at NYU's Stern School of Business and founder of nine companies, Scott Galloway has become one of the most in...

Fauda, the acclaimed Israeli action-drama, returns for a fifth season with a conversation with co-creators Lior Raz, who also stars in the series, and Avi Issacharoff. CNN's Bianna Golodryga moderates.

Two years after the October 7 massacre, the members of the Fauda unit are still grappling with a tragedy that struck Israel and transformed their lives at the most personal and painful level. What begins as an unrestrained quest for vengeance soon becomes a perilous mission to prevent a major terrorist attack emerging from an unexpected direction, one that threatens Israel at its most vulnerable point.

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Award-winning New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan join us for an inside look at the forces driving President Trump in his second term — and their new book, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump.

No reporters have tracked Donald Trump more closely than Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan. Now, with Regime Change, they deliver their most riveting, intimate, and revelatory account of the most radical and consequential presidency of our time. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and unparalleled access, their reporting shows that the indictments, the convictions, the assassination attempts, and four ye...

Gloria Steinem talks about her travels in this and other countries as an organizer, lecturer and frequent media spokeswoman on issues of equality and her work organizing across boundaries for peace and justice.

Recorded Feb 28, 2012 at The 92nd Street Y, New York.

Dave Portnoy didn't set out to be a political lightning rod — but love him or hate him, he's here to stay. Join the Barstool Sports founder for the unfiltered story of how he created a media empire.

Dave Portnoy built Barstool Sports by trusting his instincts — and refusing to soften his voice. Now, in his new memoir Cancel Me If You Can, he tells the story behind the persona: the risks, missteps, reinventions, and stubborn persistence that carried him from handing out a scrappy Boston sports paper to leading a sprawling digital brand.

What does it mean t...

Join us for a lively conversation about the 2025–2026 Supreme Court term — one of the most consequential terms in recent memory. The Court struck down President Trump's sweeping tariffs in a 6–3 ruling, issued an 8–1 First Amendment decision on conversion therapy, and unanimously ruled that double jeopardy prevents two gun convictions for the same act. We'll break down these big decisions and others (e.g., transgender athlete bans, birthright citizenship, and voting rights), and discuss what it all means for American law and daily life.

Join Supreme Court advocate and former Deputy Solicitor General of the United States, Neal Katyal...

Celebrity stylist Erin Walsh helps dress A-list stars including Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez. Now she wants to help you dress you. She joins us with New York Times-bestselling author and renowned spiritual speaker Gabby Bernstein to talk about her new book, The Art of Intentional Dressing: Your Essential Style Guide for Manifesting a Magnetic Life. Walsh's approach to fashion is centered on the idea that what you wear can empower you to manifest the life you want to live. Hear her talk with Bernstein about her "CREATE" method – the clarity, ritual, edit, align, truth, expansion she urges us all...

What will political power look like after the Trump era? Brian Tyler Cohen — #1 New York Times-bestselling author, MSNBC contributor, and creator of one of the most-watched independent political platforms in the country — joins us for a conversation with Don Lemon about his new book, The Day After: How to Wield Power in a Post-Trump World.

Time and again, Donald Trump has seemingly changed the laws of political gravity — and in order to wield power in the years ahead, Brian Tyler Cohen argues, progressives and Democrats need to learn how to adapt to a new political reality. In The Day A...

Are corruption and economic inequality becoming the defining issues in American politics — and the weapons that could drive a Democratic comeback in the 2026 midterms?

From Donald Trump's rise to Zohran Mamdani's insurgent win in New York City, economic anger has become one of the most powerful forces in American life. The chasm between the very rich and everyone else — between billionaires buying influence and voters struggling with rent, child care, and basic stability — is no longer in the background. It may be the central political fact of the moment.

But who can best channel that anger...

"Tell me about a complicated man."

So begins Emily Wilson's contemporary translation of Homer's Odyssey — establishing her as the definitive Homeric translator of our time and radically transforming how we understand a cornerstone of western literature. As The Odyssey enters the pop cultural arena this summer via Christopher Nolan's big-screen adaptation — a film inspired by Wilson's translation — she joins us for a conversation about why the The Odyssey has endured for nearly 3,000 years.

In the first English translation of The Odyssey by a woman, written in a vivid contemporary idiom, Wilson captures the beauty and enchantment of...

Join us for a candid conversation with former First Lady Jill Biden about her life in the White House during a singular moment in US history — and her new memoir, View from the East Wing. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, in the shadow of the January 6 insurrection, Joe and Jill Biden arrived at the White House for one of the most complicated periods in recent American memory. A tireless advocate for women's health initiatives, military families, cancer prevention, and education, Dr. Biden also made history as the only First Lady to hold a career outside the East Wi...

Join MS NOW legal analyst Andrew Weissmann — a lead prosecutor in Robert Mueller's Special Counsel's Office and FBI General Counsel — with MS NOW anchor Lawrence O'Donnell for a conversation about the political culture of deceit that threatens to undermine our democracy. These are the subject of Weissmann's new book, Liar's Kingdom: How to Stop Trump's Deceit and Save America.

Political lies, Andrew Weissmann writes, are foundational to Donald Trump's policies: they fuel his administration's weaponization of law enforcement and unlawful deportation of immigrants, among other things. Other politicians, inspired by Trump's success, have flooded the public square with...

Join world-renowned psychologist and psychoanalyst Dr. Orna Guralnik for an exclusive advance screening ahead of the Season 5 premiere of her hit docuseries, Couples Therapy, followed by a conversation.

Following Dr. Guralnik as she deftly guides couples through real-life therapy sessions, Couples Therapy brings viewers into the intimate sessions to witness the conflicts – and extraordinary breakthroughs – typically hidden behind closed doors. Providing a rare, authentic look into real therapeutic, evidence-based, psychoanalytic interventions, Couples Therapy is a cultural phenomenon.

Following the special advance screening of the first two episodes of Season 5, which premieres in May on Paramount+, hear Gura...

Across decades of public life — as First Lady, Senator, Secretary of State, and presidential candidate — Hillary Rodham Clinton has become one of the most consequential American leaders of our time.

She sits down with The New Yorker's David Remnick for a candid, live conversation — a taping of The New Yorker Radio Hour — about the state of American life as the nation approaches its 250th anniversary, and the extraordinary political moment we find ourselves in: the pressures testing democratic institutions at home; mounting instability abroad in the Middle East, Asia, and Ukraine; and the uneasy intersection of leadership, power, medi...

Emmy Award winning MS NOW host Rachel Maddow and Pulitzer Prize finalist Steven J. Ross join us for an urgent conversation about the new threat of white supremacy and antisemitism in the US, and what the rise and fall of hate groups in the wake of WWII can teach us about fighting it — and Ross' new book, The Secret War Against Hate: American Resistance to Antisemitism and White Supremacy.

The American myth of a steady march toward tolerance and freedom has been shattered in the last decade by a rising tide of bigotry and antisemitism. But the tr...

Twenty-five years ago, Roger Rosenblatt published the national bestseller Rules for Aging, a wry, witty guide to growing older. Not one to rush things, Roger's sequel, More Rules for Aging will be out this spring. On May 21, he will sit with Joy Behar and Alan Alda to talk about the rules in general, and as they apply to their own lives. Join us with good old friends as they consider the gifts and difficulties of one's later years, and tell hilarious, moving stories about three wonderful lives.

Join renowned economist Tyler Cowen for a live taping of his hit podcast Conversations with Tyler, featuring special guest Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist and Craig Newmark Philanthropies. Together, they'll explore trust, cybersecurity, and the building blocks of resilient civic institutions.

Newmark has become a deeply consequential civic leader of the internet age. Best known for creating Craigslist—a platform celebrated for its radical simplicity and user-first ethos—he has spent the last two decades supporting philanthropy that strengthens democracy. His work spans cybersecurity ("cyber civil defense"), veterans and military families, trustworthy journalism, and combating misinformation. In an er...

Adam Phillips, the foremost psychoanalytic writer of our time, joins renowned psychoanalyst and critic Jamieson Webster for a conversation about necessity, desire, and reimagining our lives — and Phillips' new book, The Life You Want.

What do we really want from our lives — and what gets in the way? In The Life You Want, the beloved psychoanalyst and essayist Adam Phillips turns his attention to that deceptively simple question with curiosity, wit, and intellectual imagination. Phillips has long been a rare figure: a thinker who writes about desire, ambition, boredom, freedom, and frustration in ways that feel less like i...

What does it mean to be a true communicator? Two of the best, Academy Award-nominated actor Alan Alda and astrophysicist and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson discuss Alda's book, If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face? It's a guide to improving the way we relate to each other using improv games, storytelling, acting, empathy, science and our own innate abilities.

Few public intellectuals have anticipated the shape of the present moment with such prescience as Garry Kasparov.

In a major live conversation, Kasparov joins Bret Stephens to discuss his bracing new book, The World of Fake Values: Ukraine Under Fire, A.I. Amok, and the Putinization of America Under Donald Trump.

A former world chess champion who gave up the game at the height of his power to confront Vladimir Putin's authoritarian rise, Kasparov has spent decades thinking about how democracies fail – and how they might be saved. Drawing on fresh reporting, recent essays, and con...

Award-winning composer and co-lyricist Marc Shaiman (Hairspray, Sister Act, Smash and many others) joins fellow Tony Award winner Nathan Lane for a look behind the curtain of life on Broadway, in Hollywood and on Television, with a conversation about Shaiman's new memoir, Never Mind the Happy: Showbiz Stories from a Sore Winner.

Emerging from community theater in his teens, sparking a decades-long collaboration with Bette Midler in the '70s, surviving the AIDS crisis of the '80s and bursting into Hollywood and Broadway glory, Marc Shaiman has spent 50 years making some of the most beloved musicals and...

Pulitzer Prize-winning The New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman and Politico's Alex Burns return with moderator Jeff Greenfield for an illuminating conversation about Donald Trump and what lies on the horizon of American politics ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

How far will Donald Trump go to crack down on immigration? Are fissures beginning to show in the MAGA coalition? Will Democrats find their footing to push back against Trump's reshaping of the American order? The coming midterm elections stand to be supremely consequential — and for the eighth time on our stage, 92NY favorites Maggie Haberman and Alex Burn...

Join the stars of Outlander — Sam Heughan, Sophie Skelton, Richard Rankin, John Bell, David Berry, plus executive producers Maril Davis and Matthew B. Roberts — for a conversation about the eagerly-awaited eight and final season of Starz's smash hit series, including clips from the show.

Captivating fans for more than a decade with an iconic, time-travelling love story based on the internationally-bestselling books by Diana Gabaldon, Outlander is a perennial 92NY favorite — but all great things must come to end. In the final season, the Frasers must grapple with questions of time, fate, and prophecy — and whether they can finally...

Join Michael Lynton, former CEO of Sony Entertainment, and Joshua Steiner, former US Treasury Department Chief of Staff, for a conversation with Malcolm Gladwell about transforming failure into discovery — and Lynton and Steiner's new book, From Mistakes to Meaning: Owning Your Past So It Doesn't Own You.

We all make mistakes. Longtime friends Michael Lynton and Joshua Steiner made mistakes that shaped their careers and lives, but it wasn't until the isolation of the pandemic that they began to open up to each other about them. When Lynton was the CEO of Sony Entertainment, he greenlit the fil...

Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison helped Americans of all races see themselves with radical clarity in modern classics like Sula and Beloved. Her lectures on American literature and racial imagination, now available for the first time, have never been more necessary.

Join The New Yorker's poetry editor Kevin Young, novelist Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, writer Sasha Bonét, and poet Reginald Dwayne Betts for a conversation that breaks open the taboos about race in American literature — and a celebration of her new collection, Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon.

Drawing a direct line from the...

Michael Douglas embodied the ruthless extremes of 1980s capitalism with his Oscar-winning portrayal of investor Gordon Gekko, the coldly calculating corporate raider who takes eager young stockbroker Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) under his wing.

"There's no nobility in poverty anymore," Bud tells his working-class dad (real-life father Martin Sheen), before embarking on a series of ethical compromises in the pursuit of quick wealth, adding an art-savvy interior designer (Daryl Hannah) to his portfolio along the way. Writer-director Oliver Stone was inspired by his own father, a longtime Wall St. broker, and several real-world financiers when he delivered...

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro joins us for a conversation about the intersection of public service, personal faith, and Jewish values — and his new memoir, Where We Keep the Light: Stories from a Life of Service.

From an early age, Josh Shapiro learned and practiced the power of showing up, listening, and working to make peoples' lives a little better. And as Governor of Pennsylvania, he's delivered. Reflecting on what he's learned by knocking on doors, serving his community, and tackling the tough issues we face, Where We Keep the Light is Shapiro's testament to how the Jewish value...

A neuroscientist, a philosopher and a physicist convene to discuss one of the biggest and most significant questions of all time: human consciousness, what we know and don't know about it, and whether science will ever be able to understand what makes you, you.

Join bestselling Trump biographer Michael Wolff (author of Fire and Fury and All or Nothing) and the Daily Beast's Joanna Coles for a live recording of their hit podcast, Inside Trump's Head.

Combining expert reportage and in-depth character analysis, Coles and Wolff dissect the singular motivations of the most powerful man in the world. Diving deep into Trump's secrets and psyche and drawing on over a decade of incisive coverage of Trump's impact (including extensive interviews with Jeffrey Epstein), they ask to what lengths will the President go in his attempt to secure a third term? Is...

Join award-winning comedian Rose Matafeo for a screening and conversation with John Oliver on her hilarious new Max Original comedy special, Rose Matafeo: On and On and On.

Rose Matafeo's stand-up special crackles with insightful, self-deprecating wit as she gets candid on life in her 30s — dating culture, supporting friends through breakups, the stark differences between herself and her parents at the same age, how aging has impacted her comedy, and more. In a candid conversation, hear about the making of the special — how she took a 16,000-word note on her phone and turned it into comic gold...

Moderator Annette Insdorf will interview Ethan Hawke about his new film, Blue Moon.

The prolific actor, writer, director and musician offers a tour-de-force performance as the acerbic lyricist Lorenz Hart, whose songs include "My Funny Valentine," "The Lady Is a Tramp," and "Blue Moon." In addition to Hawke's Oscar-nominated performance opposite Denzel Washington in Training Day (2001), he is perhaps best known for indie collaborations with Richard Linklater on Boyhood (2014), Waking Life (2001), and the BEFORE trilogy (1995, 2004, 2013) – which he scripted with the director and co-star Julie Delpy. Among his other memorable films are First Reformed (2017), Born to Be Blue (2015), Good Kill (2014...

As Saturday Night Live marks its 50th anniversary, celebrate the genius behind one of television's most enduring cultural institutions — Lorne Michaels. In her definitive biography, Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Life, Susan Morrison — articles editor at The New Yorker — gains unprecedented access to Michaels himself, along with SNL's iconic cast and writers, offering a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the man who reshaped American comedy.

With razor-sharp insight and hundreds of interviews, Morrison reveals the warts-and-all portrait of Michaels: a visionary tastemaker, a shrewd businessman, a relentless perfectionist, and the enigmatic force behind SNL's star-making machine. From Will Fer...

Kate Winslet never stops.

From classic roles in films like Titanic to her indelible work on television in shows like Mare of Eastown, her acting is versatile as it is magnetic. Lee is the most recent chapter in an iconic career. Based on a true story, and following a pivotal decade in the life of American war correspondent and photographer Lee Miller (Winslet), Lee is a fascinating portrait the woman who captured some of the 20th century's most indelible images of war — including an iconic photo of Miller herself, posing defiantly in Hitler's private bathtub — in a full...

Join acclaimed novelist and poet Victoria Redel with Sarah Jessica Parker and editor Adam Moss for a conversation about Redel's absorbing new novel, I Am You, published by Parker's literary imprint, SJP Lit.

In this gorgeously crafted historical fiction set in 17th-century Holland, Redel excavates the long-overlooked story of one of the few female Dutch Masters painters, Maria van Oosterwijck, and the complex relationship she developed with her maidservant-turned-apprentice, Gerta Pieters. Following these two women as they navigate the ranks of an elite, male-dominated art world, Redel weaves a story that Sarah Jessica Parker calls "spellbinding… and imp...

Join Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Aaron Davis for a riveting conversation about their explosive new book, Injustice.

With unparalleled access to sources inside both the Trump and Biden administrations, they pull back the curtain on the Department of Justice — an institution meant to be above politics, yet shaken to its core by fear, dysfunction, and partisan warfare.

Leonnig and Davis take us inside the DOJ during and after Trump's presidency: how it was weaponized against political enemies, how long-serving employees were driven out, and how the department faltered in responding to the...