What's the Deal With the Debt Limit?; Mayoral Election 2021: Eric Adams; How Would Your Life Change If You Quit Facebook?; Freedom to Write
The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 5, 2021
Coming up on today's show:
- President Biden criticized Republicans opposing efforts to keep the country from defaulting on its debt. Teresa Ghilarducci, labor economist focusing on retirement security, director of the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at The New School and a senior contributor for Forbes, explains what government shutdown would mean for ordinary Americans.
- Eric Adams, Brooklyn Borough President and Democratic NYC mayoral candidate, makes his pitch to voters to elect him mayor, ahead of the November general election.
- From spreading misinformation to promoting insecurity in young girls, what's good for Facebook is not always good for society at large, as confirmed yet again by a whistleblower this week. Listeners call in and talk about what they would lose if they quit Facebook and Instagram, from friendships to business, and why quitting is not as easy as it sounds.
- Suzanne Nossel, CEO of PEN America, the human rights and free expression organization, and Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Nigerian poet, writer and playwright, and author of the new novel, Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth (Pantheon, 2021), talk about the three imprisoned Iranian writers being honored by PEN America this year and the organization's work on behalf of writers and thinkers around the globe.
Transcripts are posted to the individual segment pages as soon as they are available.
