#AsktheMayor; Where Do Police Stand on the Gun Debate?; American Politics and the White Southern Voter; How NYC's Subway Ads Got So Explicit
The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 16, 2019
Coming up on today's show:
- Bill de Blasio, New York City Mayor, takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.
- Jennifer Dawn Carlson, sociologist at the University of Arizona and author of Citizen-Protectors: The Everyday Politics of Guns in an Age of Decline (Oxford University Press, 2015), explains where police officers stand on the tougher gun laws and what shapes their attitudes on guns as they face down the threat of gun violence every day.
- Angie Maxwell, director of the Diane Blair Center of Southern Politics and Society and professor in Southern Studies at the University of Arkansas, and Todd Shields, dean of the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences and a professor of political science at the University of Arkansas, co-authors of The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics (Oxford University Press, 2019), talk about the GOP's Southern strategy beyond the Goldwater and Nixon moves to capture voters opposed to the civil rights movement.
- Jonah Engel Bromwich, reporter for the New York Times Styles section, discusses the history and current controversy over sexually explicit advertising on New York City's subway system.
