As the guitarist for the Roots, the band for the “Tonight Show,” Kirk Douglas plays anything and everything. So David Remnick put him to the test on some holiday classics. Jia Tolentino, Alexandra Schwartz, and Doreen St. Félix talk about the year in pop culture. Roz Chast rings a bell to collect pennies for a good cause: saving the globe from destruction by asteroid. And a religion scholar who just translated the New Testament from the original Greek explains how we’ve been getting the text wrong all these years.
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