Listen: The Comedy and Tragedy of Virtual Live Events
When events went online, they lost something indescribable. But did some of them gain something new?
On this episode of Social Distance, the comedian Maeve Higgins is back home in New York after weathering the pandemic’s first peak in her native Ireland. She joins James Hamblin to talk about her strange journey back to the United States, and the strange moment the country finds itself in.
James Fallows returns to reflect on the Democratic National Convention and why politics (unlike comedy) might actually
