David Remnick
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3,736 appearances
77 recordings
13 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 3d ago
David Remnick’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 77 in all, peaking in May 2026 with 21.
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Sammy Birch wrote the screenplay for Coyote vs.
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Acme, which opens this weekend.
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You can find Ian Fraser's original essay at neworker.com.
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And I really recommend that you do.
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You'll never read anything funnier.
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I'm David Remnik.
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That's our program for today.
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Thanks for listening.
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And I'll see you next time.
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Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour.
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I'm David Remnick.
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If Roy Cohn had never existed, it would have taken a novelist of real skill to have invented that life.
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Cohn started out as an ambitious prosecutor, and then he rose to the top of Washington's food chain at a very young age.
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He was already famous in his early 20s as Joseph McCarthy's attack dog in the anti-communist purges of the early 50s.
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And later as a lawyer for hire, Cohn was friends with presidents and celebrities while working for mob families in New York City.
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He reveled in his reputation as a ruthless operator.
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And he was, all around, a nasty piece of work.
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In the seventies, Roy Cohn acquired a young protege, a real estate heir named, you guessed it, Donald J.
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Trump.
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And through that formative relationship, it may be that Cohn is now more influential in Washington than he ever was during his own lifetime.
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