#AskTheMayor; How Does the News Trigger Your Anxiety?; Legislated Sex in America; Historical Fiction Challenge Winners!

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 24, 2017

Coming up today:

  • Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York City, takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.
  • Which of life's risks get you personally anxious? How much does it have to do with what's in the news — and what do you do to fix it?
  • Geoffrey R. Stone, the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, constitutional scholar and author of Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America's Origins to the Twenty-First Century (Liveright 2017), discusses where sex, religion, law, and the Constitution intersect now and throughout history.
  • Christopher Bram, author of nine novels and The Art of History: Unlocking the Past in Fiction and Nonfiction (Graywolf Press, 2016), announces the three winners of WNYC's Historical Fiction Challenge!

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