Live From The Greene Space: National Political News; Gov. Florio Reflects; The Role of Muslim Men in #MosqueMeToo; The Need For and Limits of Empathy

Backdropped by the Suleymaniye Mosque people walk on the Galata Bridge over Istanbul's Golden Horn, in Istanbul, Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017.

Live from The Greene Space, you'll hear:

  • Michelle Goldberg, op-ed columnist for The New York Times and former Slate columnist, talks about the national political news of the day.
  • As a new governor's term in office gets underway, Jim Florio, former governor (1990-1994) and congressman (D-1) of New Jersey, and the author of the forthcoming memoir Standing on Principle: Lessons Learned in Public Life (Rutgers University Press, 2018), reflects on his own achievements in cleaning up and protecting the environment and what he learned about  the risks of raising taxes in New Jersey.
  • In response to the #MeToo Movement, many Muslim women began sharing their experiences of sexual assault within their communities online, much to the delight of anti-Muslim conservatives. Aymann Ismail, Slate video producer and host of Who’s Afraid of Aymann Ismail, discusses the role of Muslim men in the emerging #MosqueMeToo.
  • Cris Beam, assistant professor at William Paterson University and the author of I Feel You: The Surprising Power of Extreme Empathy (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018), examines empathy and how it’s used in marketing, criminal justice, classrooms, and in her own life.

You can watch our broadcast LIVE starting at 10 AM: