#AskTheMayor; Trump Asks if West Has the 'Will to Survive'; Biking and Breathing; Church Connects with LGBT Catholics
The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 7, 2017
Coming up on today's show:
- Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York City, takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.
- According to a speech President Trump gave Thursday in Poland the West is in trouble, saying “the fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive." Carla Robbins, adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and runs the master of international affairs at the Marx School at Baruch College, unpacks Trump's speech in terms of western values and nationalism.
- Elaine Chen, project manager for WNYC's health unit, Darby Jack, assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, and Steven Chillrud, research professor at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, share results from the first part of their study on whether the pluses of biking to work are outweighed by the minus of breathing more polluted air.
- James Martin, SJ, a Jesuit priest, editor at large of America magazine, and author of Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivity (HarperOne, 2017), wants church leadership and LGBT Catholics to start a new dialog, much the way Newark Cardinal Tobin did at a recent mass.
