In a lovely essay on the shared experience of theater audiences, Wesley Morris, critic at large for The New York Times, memorably describes weeping in the dark with fellow audience members as offering “applause with mucus and salt.” This is part of...
If we ever settled on one universal language that everyone spoke, it would last about a minute before variants of slang started popping up. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “The Evolution of a Universal Language” You’re listening to...

