Justice Alito's Upside-Down Flag; Wedding Vows; 10-Question Quiz: 'All Of It'; Searching for Something in Our Childhood Homes; Summer Culture Preview: Books

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 23, 2024
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Coming up on today’s show: 

  • An upside-down American flag was displayed outside Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's house just after January 6, 2021. Emily Bazelon, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, co-host of Slate's "Political Gabfest" podcast, Truman Capote fellow for creative writing and law at Yale Law School and author of Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration (Random House, 2019), talks about this act - widely thought to symbolize belief in "the big lie" promoted by former President Trump - and what it says about the ethics of the Supreme Court.
  • Cheryl Mendelson, author of Home Comforts (Scribner, 1999), and her latest, Vows: The Modern Genius of an Ancient Rite (Simon & Schuster, 2024), reflects on the state of marriage today, through the traditional wedding vows, from their feudal origin to contemporary interpretations.
  • Each day during the spring membership drive, The Brian Lehrer Show is inviting listeners to try their hand at quiz questions, this time loosely based on the titles of radio shows that air on WNYC. Today's quiz questions are inspired by the title "All Of It."
  • Faith Hill, staff writer at The Atlantic, talks about what people are looking for when they visit their childhood homes, and how it can be stressful, or sweet.
  • Jordan Lauf, producer for All Of It and its book club, Get Lit with All Of It, shares some of the new on-or-off the beach reads.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.

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