30 Issues: A Whole New Constitution?; Former Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe; Siddhartha Mukherjee on Medicine at the Cellular Level; Your Diwali
The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 28, 2022
Coming up on today's show:
- In today's issue, Russ Feingold, former U.S. senator, president of the American Constitution Society, and co-author of The Constitution in Jeopardy: An Unprecedented Effort to Rewrite Our Fundamental Law and What We Can Do About It (Public Affairs, 2022), discusses the calls -- coming from both the right and the left -- to update the U.S. Constitution, and what that could mean for our democracy.
- Laurent Lamothe, businessman, economist and former Prime Minister of Haiti from 2012-2014, joins the show to discuss the rise in gang violence amid the Haiti's power vacuum and the series of crises in the country.
- Siddhartha Mukherjee, physician and author of several books including The Emperor of All Maladiesc, The Gene, and his latest, The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human (Scribner, 2022), talks about his new book that explores the new world of cellular medicine.
- Listeners call in to share how they celebrated Diwali this year, and how having the holiday recognized by NYC schools (starting next year) might impact their celebrations going forward.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as soon as they are available.
