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On today’s show: Michael S. Roth, the president of Wesleyan University, defends the value of a liberal education in today’s world. We’ll take a look inside the cut-throat business of antiquarian map collecting and a startling criminal case of theft. Find out how Frederick Law Olmsted virtually created the field of landscape architecture. And we’ll talk about some films at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival—a look at the Abiola family and their role in Nigeria’s independence, and a series of documentaries smuggled out of war-torn Syria that reveal the chaos its people are forced to live in.

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Ahead of next week’s primary for New York’s 13^th Congressional District, hear from all three candidates vying for the job: incumbent Rep. Charles Rangel, State Senator Adriano Espaillat and Harlem pastor Michael Walrond. Plus: Unaccompanied child migrants are making their way to the New York area; notes on the final push of this legislative session in Albany; stories of women around the world overcoming poverty; And transplants, get your questions ready for “Ask a Native New Yorker” with Gothamist’s Jake Dobkin…and Brian. 

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