Facebook on the Hill; NYC Sex Industry Report; Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 11, 2018
    On today's show:
  • As Mark Zuckerberg testifies on Capitol Hill, Slate's April Glaser and Julia Angwin, discuss possible congressional action on privacy and data at Facebook and other social media platforms;
  • Washington Post national correspondent Philip Bump and Guardian Moscow correspondent Andrew Roth talk about the latest national political news, including House Speaker Paul Ryan’s announcement that he won’t seek reelection;
  • Rachel Swaner, managing research director at the Center for Court Innovation, Elise White, principal research associate, and "Jay," a research assistant (and former sex worker), discuss their new report on the sex work industry in New York City;
  • Nassim Nicholas Taleb, trader, NYU Tandon School of Engineering professor and author of The Black Swan, discusses his new book, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (Random House, 2018).

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