30 Issues: The 2018 Culture War

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 2, 2018

Charlie Sykes, longtime conservative talk host, contributor/analyst at MSNBC, and author of How the Right Lost Its Mind, and Eddie Glaude, chair of Princeton's new department of African-American studies, the president-elect of the American Academy of Religion, and author of Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul, and Alexis Grenell, co-founder of Pythia Public, a political and public affairs firm, and a frequent contributor to the Daily News, look back at what issues both Democrats and Republicans have chosen to campaign on this election season, and what the choices say about the culture.

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