'The Stakes' A New Podcast about Social Change

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 22, 2019

Kai Wright, editor and host of WNYC’s narrative unit, host of podcasts, United States of Anxiety and There Goes the Neighborhood and a columnist for The Nation magazine, talks about his new podcast called The Stakes. It's a show that seeks to understand why we live the way we do (and why it matters) and recaps his conversation with Eric Holder, the former attorney general of the United States.

 

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