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David Remnick is the editor of The New Yorker.\n\n \u201cI think it\u2019s important \u2014 not just for me, but for the readers\xa0\u2014\xa0that this thing exists at the highest possible level in 2016, in 2017, and on. That there\u2019s a continuity to it. I know, because I\u2019m not entirely stupid, that these institutions, no matter how good they are, all institutions are innately fragile. Innately fragile.\u201d\n\nThanks to MailChimp, Audible, EveryLibrary, and Igloo for sponsoring this week's episode.\nRemnick on Longform\n[2:00] This week's New Yorker cover\n[5:45] "Cover Story: Bert and Ernie\u2019s \u2018Moment of Joy\u2019" (Fran\xe7oise Mouly, Mina Kaneko \u2022 New Yorker \u2022 Jun 2013)\n[9:00] "David Remnick Looks Back on Tough Decisions as \u2018The New Yorker\u2019 Turns 90" (Fresh Air \u2022 Feb 2015)\n[11:15] "Going the Distance" (New Yorker \u2022 Jan 2014)\n[15:00] The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama (Vintage Books \u2022 2010)\n[15:15] "Soul Survivor" (New Yorker \u2022 Apr 2016)\n[17:15] The New Yorker Radio Hour\n[25:00] "Sending Smoke Signals to Our Former Editor in Chief" (Justin Cook \u2022 The Smoke Signal \u2022 Apr 2015)\n[27:45] I Married a Communist: American Trilogy (Philip Roth \u2022 Houghton Mifflin Company \u2022 1994)\n[29:45] Lenin\u2019s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Vintage Books \u2022 1994)\n[30:00] "The Struggle for Memory" (John Lloyd \u2022 The New York Times \u2022 May 1993)\n[43:15] "Beyond the Soviet Abyss" (Washington Post \u2022 Mar 1991)\n[48:30] "Journey to Jihad" (Ben Taub \u2022 New Yorker \u2022 Jun 2015)\n[50:00] Wesley Morris on the Longform Podcast\n[51:45] King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero (Vintage Books \u2022 1998)\n[53:15] The 40s: The Story of a Decade (New Yorker, Henry Finder \u2022 Random House \u2022 2014)\n[53:15] The 50s: The Story of a Decade (New Yorker, Henry Finder \u2022 Random House \u2022 2015)\n[53:15] The 60s: The Story of a Decade (New Yorker, Henry Finder \u2022 Random House \u2022 2016)\n[55:00] "The Crackin\u2019, Shakin\u2019, Breakin\u2019 Sounds" (Nat Hentoff \u2022 New Yorker \u2022 Oct 1964)\n[55:40] "Letter From a Region in My Mind" (James Baldwin \u2022 New Yorker \u2022 Nov 1962)\n[56:00] The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Lawrence Wright \u2022 Vintage Books \u2022 2007)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices