The 2010's: Media, Music, Democracy, Social Movements and the Decade's Graduates

On the first day of 2020, we look at the decade that just concluded:

• Nicole Sperling, media and entertainment reporter for The New York Times covering the streaming business , talks about how Netflix, and other streaming services, took over Hollywood in the past decade;
• John Schaefer, WNYC host of New Sounds and Soundcheck, talks about the best music of the 2010s - plus how the way we listened to music changed in the past decade;
• Anne Applebaum, Atlantic staff writer, covering national politics and foreign policy, with a particular focus on Europe and the author of the forthcoming Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of the Authoritarian State (Doubleday July, 2020), looks at the changes in U.S. and European democracies in the 2010's;
• First, listeners who graduated from high school or college in 2010 reflect on the past ten years, then graduates from the 2010's look ahead to their expectations for the next decade;
• Alexis Grenell, co-founder of Pythia Public, a political and public affairs firm, and a frequent contributor to the Daily News and The Daily Beast; DeRay Mckesson, co-founder of Campaign Zero, host of the podcast "Pod Save The People," and author of On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope (Viking, 2018); and Mark Bray, historian of human rights, terrorism, and political radicalism in Modern Europe who was one of the organizers of Occupy Wall Street, lecturer at Rutgers University and the author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook (Melville House, 2017), talk about how social and political movements defined the last decade.

These interviews originally aired earlier this year. Links to the unedited audio are here:

• The 2010s in Hollywood: The Netflix Decade (December 10, 2019)
• Music of the 2010s (December 11, 2019)
• The Decade in Democracy (December 17, 2019)
• The Class of 2010 Reflects on the Decade (December 16, 2019) and 2010s Grads Look Forward to the 2020s (December 19. 2019)
• What Movements Might the 2020s Bring? (December 19, 2019)