David Remnick
speaker
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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We remember of Joe Welsh saying, Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?
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That was the soundbite of the McCarthy era.
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It was the turning point for Joe McCarthy and probably the end of him.
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Exactly.
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I'm speaking with Kai Byrd.
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His new book is American Scoundrel, Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy.
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To Donald Trump.
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It was excerpted in the New Yorker and we'll continue our conversation in just a moment.
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This is the New Yorker Radio Hour.
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This is the New Yorker Radio Hour.
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I'm David Remnick, and I've been speaking with Kai Byrd, the historian whose remarkable new book is about the life of Roy Cohn.
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It's called American Scoundrel, and it's written with Susan Goldmark.
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As a young man, Roy Cohn worked for Joseph McCarthy.
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And earlier in our conversation, Kyberd was telling me that in his view, Cohn was the mastermind behind McCarthy's anti-communist purges in Washington.
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behind all the lies and the smears and the subterfuge that ruined so many lives and careers.
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Eventually, Senator McCarthy was repudiated and the purges subsided.
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But Colin was just getting started.
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I'll continue my conversation with Kyberd.
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Now, Joe McCarthy, after inflicting so much damage, falls apart.
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He lets go of Roy Cohn, who sets up as a lawyer in New York.
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