please welcome david remnick. (cheers and applause) thanks so much for coming on. have to get rid of these new yorkers, they stack up after a while. thanks for coming on, we have met before, i have never had you down for an interview. nice to finally have you here. >> great to be here. >> stephen: editor of "the new yorker" since 1998 also a pulitzer prize winning author of lenins tomb, have win over a hundred articles for your own magazine, you must know somebody. and you're the author-- not the author, you're here with a new book called the 40s. the story of a decade. and these are-- some of the best articles. >> it was a time when "the new yorker" grew up with the country, the magazine was a kind of comic light magazine of the jazz age and suddenly with the arrival of the war, the magazine really grew up. it was kind the birth of a literary journalism both at war and at home afterwards as the nation became this kind of singular power during the start of the american century. >> stephen: what was the most obvious change to the magazine? were all these dog psychia

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we begin this evening with david remnick, the editor of the new yorker magazine. >> the new yorker is doomed to success. doomed to success in the sense that there's a lot of, a lot more of everything now. and there are sites now that are people are terribly excited about that maybe here in 20 years they may be gone in a year, i don't know. but i think if we stick to what it is we value and do which has to do with depth, talent and really fine editing and sensibility and all those things, they sound awfully general but i think you know those go into the new yorker. and we apply that to any technology that we become involved with, and there are many. i think that we are going to be in really fine shape. >> we conclude this evening with daniel account, he is the creator and founder of spot fi, a company that streams music. >> with spotify which is controversial when you think about it because we're essentially saying hey you can get access to all that music for free but we knew that when people were listening to music and starting to listen, they would listen more. and that's when they s

david remnick said graduation speeches run so many risk use risk of gregg people, the risk of 15,000 different kind of cliches, there are all kind of risks and i'm aware an effectivuation speech is a very rare thing. one of the best i ever heard was george saunders last year because it was simple and deeply felt and had a certain clarity about it. >> from remnick, that's great. >> rose: david foster wallace your friend gave a commencement in 2005, and it went viral, and what he said-- he called his, this is water... he was a friend. did you know of that famous speech? and did it influence you to think about it? >> in 204 when i wrote the first chapter i didn't know. and i think in the meantime i'm i dave it. they have kind of beautist or eastern underpinnings. when you judge a question about ciens, why aren't we kind, i think you come back to the idea that we're trapped in these thoughts that we create. and by too vinlulently supporting the boards themselveses you end up self itch. we talked about one of the strangeification we're at are-- i also mentioned that we understand ourselve

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>> rose: welcome to the program i am david remnick for the new yorker sitting in for charlie rose who is away on assignment. we beg with a discussion of ukraine. tonight is victoria nuland, assistant secretary of state a for european and eurasian affairs. >> po chen co will have to demonstrate he is ready to change the way ukraine has done business, not only for the imf but for all of the people who went out to vote for him, and that's going to be the number one thing that people of all generations in ukraine are going to expect. and particularly the younger generation that led this effort. they are just sick of the country being ripped off and they are going to hold him to account. >> we continue the conversation on ukraine with fiona hill, steve kotkin and thomas graham. >> we have a very difficult situation in ukraine. par chen co has some form of legitimacy but him being able to put together a policy to bring together the various segments of ukrainian -- of the ukrainian and get a national consensus which is needed in particular to undertake the very difficult economic reforms i t

." >> i'm david remnick filling in for charlie rose on assignment. we begin with the elections in ukraine. pro-western billionaire petro poroshenko was elected by a larger margin on sunday. this is after a protest ousted victor yanukovych from office. russian president vladimir putin expressed support saturday saying he would respect any choice made by the ukrainian people. joining me now from washington is victoria nuland, the assistant secretary of state for european and eurasian affairs. welcome. tell me. there was the election in ukraine. it has enormous importance for ukraine. what does it have for u.s. ukraine wrote -- relations? >> it was a spectacular day for the country to go out in force and to say to their government and to the world that they wanted the future that is democratic, unified, rooted in europe. in terms of the u.s.-russia relations ship, i think time will tell. the president of russia said that you will risk that the result and work with whoever elected. it will be good for russian relations with the rest of the world. time wi

." >> david remnick is here. he is the editor of the new yorker magazine. he brings with him a new book that looks at 1940's history and culture through new yorker stories and pawns. -- end helen's. the collection represents the great turn. the magazine's artistic awakening. how do you decide to do this? >> in internet terms, you want to surface your material. the new yorker has been around for coming up on 90 years. >> in the south, we call this plowing the ground. if you are starting to read the new yorker, you have no idea -- e.b. white is not a name that comes up. by publishing to be like this, you bring -- first of all, you are showing how the new yorker developed. it started as a comic weekly. it was light, lively, age as a jazz age creation. it didn't ignore the depression, but the depression was in contradiction to the spirit of the magazine. it did not consider itself a political magazine. during the war, it grew up. it got more serious. >> that is because it took the war seriously? >> how could you not. this was the catastrophic world changing eve

let me read what the president said to david remnick of the new yorker.-class kids don't get locked up for smoking pot. poor kids do. african-american kids and latino kids are more likely to be poor and less likely to have resources and support to avoid penalties we shouldn't lock up kids or users for long stretches of jail time when some folks writing the laws have probably done the same thing. here in new york and what is so interesting and why we want to look at this tonight you have a may your who ran on this and has done, incrementally positive things on stop and frisk which is racially discriminatory. these numbers can't be spun? >> no they can't. what you have in other states progressivism on this issue, states changing laws, this is a national debate about changing this approach. it really doesn't make sense that in a city and a state that supposedly is, is as progressive as new york with a may your who rwho -- mayor who ran against this issue and it is appalling and unacceptable. this is quite frankly an example of the institutional racism you st