Ask the Mayor; Cosby Convicted; Taking the Long View on the Trump Era; Theater of Teen Sexuality
The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 27, 2018
On today's show...
- Bill de Blasio, Mayor of New York City, takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.
- Jami Floyd, host of WNYC's All Things Considered and legal analyst, and Annette John-Hall, WHYY reporter and host of the podcast Cosby Unraveled, talks about the news that Bill Cosby was convicted of three counts of sexual assault in a retrial - and how the #Metoo movement may have affected the outcome.
- Jonah Goldberg, senior editor at National Review, American Enterprise Institute scholar, and the author of Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy (Crown Forum, 2018), argues that critiques of "white male privilege" threaten to undo the gains to human society provided by the Enlightenment.
- Katie Cappiello, director, playwright, and founder of GoodCapp Arts, a production company that works with young artists and actors, discusses her plays "Slut" and "Now That We're Men" with Fred Hechinger, an actor in "Now That We're Men," and Jasmine Niang, an actress in "Slut."
