The Fight in Texas Over Trans Youth; How Bringing War Crimes Charges Works; Oscar-Nominated Docs: Summer of Soul; 'Life by the Numbers' Quiz Potpourri

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 15, 2022

Coming up on today's show:

  • Chase Strangio, deputy director for transgender justice with the ACLU’s LGBT & HIV Project, and Jack Turban, a chief fellow in child and adolescent psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine, talk about the legal battle in Texas over Governor Abbott's order directing state officials to investigate parents for child abuse who seek puberty-suppressing drugs or hormones for their transgender children.
  • Amb. David Scheffer, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and former U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues who headed the U.S. delegation to the talks on the International Criminal Court during the Clinton administration, plus the author of All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals (Princeton University Press, 2011), talk about war crimes, the calls for charges against Putin, as well as the wider context of international law and the U.S. reluctance to join the International Criminal Court.
  • Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, musician, songwriter, director of "Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)", talks about the Oscar nomination for his film, which was put together from long-forgotten footage of 1969's Harlem Cultural Festival.
  • The Brian Lehrer Show "Life By the Numbers" quiz is back for one more round as Brian quizzes listeners on numbers related to public opinion, population, climate change, TV ratings, New York City and infrastructure.

 

Transcripts are posted to each segment page as soon as they are available.

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