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Peter Savodnik

Things Worth Remembering: ‘Jaws’ Was Never About a Shark

The 50-year-old film is all about the hardest confrontation in the world: with your own fear.

August 17, 2025

How New York Became a City of Billionaires

How did this city become so rich and so impoverished? Jonathan Mahler, author of a new history, will join my colleague Peter Savodnik live at 4 p.m…

August 7, 2025

How Intellectuals Found God

Almost 150 years after Nietzsche said ‘God is dead,’ some of our most important thinkers are getting religion. Peter Savodnik meets the new theists.

December 28, 2024

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