The New Yorker is a magazine as American as apple pie. Its first edition hit newsstands on Feb. 21, 1925, when Calvin Coolidge was president, Europe was still recovering from World War I, and radio was just beginning to catch fire as the preferred medium of communication. The magazine is a constellation of art, fiction, in-depth journalism, and witty cartoons that very few publications have been able to master consistently over the decades. The New Yorker has been doing it for more than 90 years.

The New Yorker also represents a cultural and political phenomenon, a symposium of sorts where people with strong convictions from the uber-left and the far-right can have a heated but civilized discussion. That’s what the audience at this year’s New Yorker Festival would have had the privilege of watching when populist provocateur Steve Bannon took his seat on stage and fielded questions from David Remnick, the magazine’s editor and a chief anti-Trumpist.