Rudy on the Radio (The Brian Lehrer Show: Friday, 05 October 2007)

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:05 GMT
New York Times reporter Michael Powell, looks at Rudy Giuliani's comments on WABC during his tenure as NYC mayor and what it means for his presidential campaign.

Seeking Refuge (The Brian Lehrer Show: Friday, 05 October 2007)

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:28 GMT
Many Iraqi citizens are trying to leave their war-torn country, but it's not easy to leave, and many countries are reluctant to accept them. Human rights activist and Time Magazine columnist Samantha Power, looks at the issue.

Presumed Innocence (The Brian Lehrer Show: Friday, 05 October 2007)

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:42 GMT
Writers Ian Buruma, Richard Halpern and Annette Gordon-Reed discuss the idea of loss of innocence in American culture and history. All of them will be participants at an event on Saturday, October 5th at NYU's Cantor Film Center.

Showdown in Nassau County, part two (The Brian Lehrer Show: Friday, 05 October 2007)

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:19 GMT
Thomas Suozzi, Nassau County Executive (D) levels charges against federal immigration agents for questionable practices during gang raids.

Is Obama a PAC Man? (The Brian Lehrer Show: Friday, 05 October 2007)

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:19 GMT
Barack Obama disavowed the influence of special interests in recent presidential debates. But his campaign finance records show a more complicated truth. Paul Ryan, an attorney with the Campaign Legal Center, a non-partisan campaign finance watchdog, looks at the role of Political Action Committees in all the candidate's campaigns.

Following Up: What Did Rudy Know and When (The Brian Lehrer Show: Friday, 05 October 2007)

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:46 GMT
New York Times columnist Jim Dwyer follows up on the charge that Mayor Giuliani knew the twin towers were going to collapse 15 minutes before it happened. He is the author of 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers (Times Books, 2005)

Open Phones: Individual Identity and Group Identity (The Brian Lehrer Show: Friday, 05 October 2007)

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:43 GMT
Listeners call in and discuss how their group identities mix with their identity as an individuals.

Taxi Strike Part 2 (The Brian Lehrer Show: Thursday, 04 October 2007)

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:04 GMT
Bhairavi Desai, executive director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, explains why taxi drivers are planning to strike again over the use of GPS devices in cabs.

Showdown in Nassau County (The Brian Lehrer Show: Thursday, 04 October 2007)

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:04 GMT
Peter Schmitt, minority leader of the Nassau County Legislature (R-Massapequa), responds to claims that immigration officials used improper tactics in raids that were supposed to be targeting gangs.

Film Studies (The Brian Lehrer Show: Thursday, 04 October 2007)

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:04 GMT
Film critics Dana Stevens of Slate and Entertainment Weekly’s Owen Gleiberman join us for the month of October to talk about films. This week: the long & short of the New York Film Festival.

Dutch Treat (The Brian Lehrer Show: Thursday, 04 October 2007)

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:46 GMT
Abigail Esman, a writer based in NY and Amsterdam who has written for Salon.com and other publications on the clash between the West and Muslims in The Netherlands, discusses the latest wrinkle in the Ayaan Hirsi Ali story.

Three's a Crowd (The Brian Lehrer Show: Thursday, 04 October 2007)

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:48 GMT
A group of conservatives, many of them Christians, have stated that they would consider launching a third-party candidate if both the Republicans and Democrats nominate a pro-choice candidate. Charles W. Dunn, dean of Regent University's Robertson School of Government and the editor of The Future of Conservatism: Conflict and Consensus in the Post-Reagan Era (ISI Books, 2007) and author of The Seven Laws of Presidential Leadership (Prentice Hall, 2006) analyzes what a third party run would do to the Republican party.

Destination: Marriage Bureau (The Brian Lehrer Show: Thursday, 04 October 2007)

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:28 GMT
Las Vegas has Elvis, who should marry couples in New York? Mayor Bloomberg wants to redecorate the Manhattan Marriage Bureau to rival Las Vegas as a hip placed to get hitched. Listeners call in with design suggestions.

“SCHIP” On His Shoulder (The Brian Lehrer Show: Wednesday, 03 October 2007)

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:21 GMT
President Bush vetoed the expansion of the SCHIP program today. Elisabeth Ryden Benjamin, director, New York Healthcare Restructuring Initiatives at the Community Services Society, thinks this is a wrong move, while Ben Zycher, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, sides with the President.

Hot Tickets (The Brian Lehrer Show: Wednesday, 03 October 2007)

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:23 GMT
Scott Wenger, assistant managing editor for money and business and editor of the "Your Money" section in the Daily News and Neil Best, sports writer for Newsday, talk about whether Yankees season ticket holders can resell their tickets on StubHub.

MSG Penalty (The Brian Lehrer Show: Wednesday, 03 October 2007)

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:38 GMT
Liz Shalet, employment discrimination attorney and partner at Lippman and Plesur, discusses the legal implications of the sexual harassment verdict against Madison Square Garden and Knicks coach and president Isiah Thomas.

Molding Young Minds (The Brian Lehrer Show: Wednesday, 03 October 2007)

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:12 GMT
When is it safe to seat your young children in front of the television? Lisa Guernsey, an education, science and technology writer, explores the subject in her new book Into the Minds of Babes: How Screen Time Affects Children from Birth to Age Five (Basic Books, 2007).

Into the Minds of Babes is available for purchase at Amazon.com

Open Phones: Fishing in New York City (The Brian Lehrer Show: Wednesday, 03 October 2007)

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:13 GMT
New York City anglers call in and talk about the "catch" of the day, a City Council hearing on the safety of fishing in and around New York City.

Where's the Beef? (The Brian Lehrer Show: Tuesday, 02 October 2007)

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:24 GMT
This weekend 21.7 million pounds of beef patties from Topps Meat were recalled due to contamination from E.coli bacteria. Chris Waldrop, director of the Food Policy Institute at the Consumer Federation of America, talks about inspection standards by the USDA and FDA, and whether technology might help stop health recalls such as this.

Bloomberg Abroad (The Brian Lehrer Show: Tuesday, 02 October 2007)

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:46 GMT
Ellen Tumposky, London-based reporter for the Daily News and Edward-Isaac Dovere, editor of City Hall, a monthly "trade journal" for New York City elected officials, recap the mayor's trip to Paris and London.

Engineering Your Life (The Brian Lehrer Show: Tuesday, 02 October 2007)

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:27 GMT
Andrew Burroughs, engineer, and location head at the Chicago office of IDEO, a design and engineering firm, and author of Everyday Engineering: How Engineers See (Chronicle Books, 2007), on what you should know about the inner workings of your phone and other engineering feats.

Everyday Engineering is available for purchase at Amazon.com.

Spitzer's Union (The Brian Lehrer Show: Tuesday, 02 October 2007)

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:27 GMT
Liz Benjamin, columnist for The Daily News, and writes " The Daily Politics" blog talks about Governor Eliot Spitzer courting the Transit Workers Union.

Might and Right (The Brian Lehrer Show: Tuesday, 02 October 2007)

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:32 GMT
Ruth Wisse, Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Studies and professor of comparative literature at Harvard University, argues that Jews have overemphasized moral power over political power in her new book, Jews and Power (Schocken/Nextbook, 2007).

Jews and Power is available for purchase at Amazon.com.

Open Phones: Presidential Hopefuls and 9/11 (The Brian Lehrer Show: Tuesday, 02 October 2007)

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:46 GMT
Thomas Friedman's latest New York Times column laments that some candidates are exploiting 9/11. Listeners discuss how 9/11 will affect their vote for President.

"9/11 is Over" by Thomas L. Friedman

Back in Court (The Brian Lehrer Show: Monday, 01 October 2007)

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:48 GMT
Jeffrey Toobin, writer for the New Yorker and legal analyst for CNN, and author of The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, analyzes the second year of the Roberts Court.

The Nine is available for purchase at Amazon.com

Certain Leaders (The Brian Lehrer Show: Monday, 01 October 2007)

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:30 GMT
Robert Draper, national correspondent for GQ and the author of Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush, discusses his inside view of how Bush's Presidential certainty affects policy.

Dead Certain is available for purchase at Amazon.com.

Open Phones: The Lament of a Mets Fan (The Brian Lehrer Show: Monday, 01 October 2007)

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:12 GMT
Unhappy Mets fans call in.

Living in Captivity (The Brian Lehrer Show: Monday, 01 October 2007)

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:53 GMT
Ted Koppel, senior news analyst for National Public Radio, looks at strains on the California prison system. Koppel's documentary Breaking Point will air on the Discovery Channel on October 7th at 9pm ET/PT.

Which Comes First - Race or Class? (The Brian Lehrer Show: Monday, 01 October 2007)

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:37 GMT
Karyn R. Lacy, assistant professor in the departments of sociology and the Center for Afro-American and African Studies at the University of Michigan and the author of Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class, talks about her study of middle class African Americans.

Blue-Chip Black is available for purchase at Amazon.com.

How Much is Too Much? (The Brian Lehrer Show: Monday, 01 October 2007)

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:41 GMT
Rebecca Flournoy, associate director at PolicyLink and Tracy Shelton, consumer attorney at the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG, discuss why prices differ in supermarkets depending on their location. And associate producer Jim Colgan has results from "Are You Being Gouged?"

Airport Congestion (The Brian Lehrer Show: Friday, 28 September 2007)

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:44 GMT
Patrick Smith, airline pilot and Salon.com’s air travel columnist, and author Ask a Pilot: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel (Riverhead Books 2004) and Herb Jackson, Washington correspondent for The Record of Bergen County, NJ, discuss the Bush administration's plan to ease airport congestion.

Big Apple Health Disparities (The Brian Lehrer Show: Friday, 28 September 2007)

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:30 GMT
Dr. Nick Freudenberg, professor of public health at Hunter College and president of the Public Health Association of New York City, talks about the health disparities in New York City between the rich and the poor.

Dining In (The Brian Lehrer Show: Friday, 28 September 2007)

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:34 GMT
Underground clubs meet fine dining in New York’s supper clubs. Representatives of clubs based in Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan talk about this off-beat dining experience. “Danielle” helps run New York Bite Club; "Nancy" is the founder of Williamsburg’s Whisk and Ladle Supperclub, and Tamara Reynolds blogs about cooking and offers Sunday Night Dinner in Queens.

Other websites to check out:
The Roving Gastronome
Home Slice West

Following Up: I'm a Gay Iranian (The Brian Lehrer Show: Friday, 28 September 2007)

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:35 GMT
This Monday President Ahmedinejad stated that there were no homosexuals in Iran, Arsham Parsi would beg to differ. He is the executive director of the Iranian Queer Organization (IRQO) and is originally from Iran. He had to flee Iran in 2001 because of his activism surrounding homosexuality.

Following Up: Next Stop New York! (The Brian Lehrer Show: Friday, 28 September 2007)

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:35 GMT
This week Senators Barack Obama and John McCain came to New York. WNYC's Andrea Bernstein talks about what candidates get out of New York and what New Yorkers get in return. Also, presidential candidate John Edwards has decided to opt for public financing, does this mean his candidacy is in trouble?

Following Up: Men's Work (The Brian Lehrer Show: Friday, 28 September 2007)

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:43 GMT
Listeners call in about what household tasks men are "happy" to do, following up on Wednesday's interview with David Leonhardt about gender and happiness.

Republicans Balk (The Brian Lehrer Show: Thursday, 27 September 2007)

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:40 GMT
Tavis Smiley, host of The Tavis Smiley Show, which airs Fridays at 9PM and Saturdays and Sundays at 2PM on AM 820, editor of The Covenant with Black America, and host of the "All-American Presidential Forums on PBS", says the Republican candidates sitting out tonight's debate are making a mistake to ignore the African American vote.

McCain's Pains (The Brian Lehrer Show: Thursday, 27 September 2007)

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:25 GMT
John McCain, U.S. Senator (R-AZ), presidential candidate, and author of Hard Call: Great Decisions and the Extraordinary People Who Made Them (12 Books, 2008), explains why he'd be a good president for New York.

Hard Call is available for purchase at Amazon.com

Wireless Neutrality (The Brian Lehrer Show: Thursday, 27 September 2007)

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:09 GMT
Siva Vaidhyanathan, associate professor of media studies and law at the University of Virginia, explains how Verizon banned the abortion rights group, Naral, from using their text messaging services, and then decided to reverse their decision.

Personal Counter-Terrorism (The Brian Lehrer Show: Thursday, 27 September 2007)

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:25 GMT
Martha Stout, a psychologist who served on the faculty of the Harvard Medical school and the author of The Paranoia Switch: How Terror Rewires Our Brains and Reshapes Our Behavior--and How We Can Reclaim Our Courage (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007), talks about how to handle our psychological response to terror.

The Paranoid Switch is available for purchase at Amazon.com

Street Value (The Brian Lehrer Show: Thursday, 27 September 2007)

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:42 GMT
Lockhart Steele, publisher of the Curbed blog, joins us every Thursday in September to talk real estate. This week we open the phones for your real estate horror stories.

U.N. Roundup (The Brian Lehrer Show: Wednesday, 26 September 2007)

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:50 GMT
The world's leaders are in New York this week at the United Nations. Blake Hounshell, Web Editor for ForeignPolicy.com, has been blogging on the UN, GA, and the Clinton Global Initiative. Then Pascale Richard, editor-in-chief of the US-based France Am�rique, tells us what has been happening at the UN the past two days.

What You Watch, Speaks Volumes (The Brian Lehrer Show: Wednesday, 26 September 2007)

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:57 GMT
The saying goes "you are what you eat," but what about what you watch? James Poniewozik, television critic for Time Magazine, looks into what our taste in television says about us.

Licensed to Drive (The Brian Lehrer Show: Wednesday, 26 September 2007)

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:01 GMT
Governor Spitzer announced that illegal immigrants will be eligible to get New York State driver’s licenses. We get a variety of viewpoints, from New York State Senators John J. Flanagan (R-2nd, Suffolk County) and Jose M. Serrano (D-28th, The Bronx and East Harlem), the Mayor of Danbury, Connecticut Mark Boughton, and David Verduin, president of the Riverside, New Jersey Coalition of Business Owners and Landlords.

Why Men Are Happier than Women (The Brian Lehrer Show: Wednesday, 26 September 2007)

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:01 GMT
David Leonhardt, who writes the "Economic Scene" column for the New York Times, looks at new research that shows a change in which gender is the happiest.

Playing Host to Controversy (The Brian Lehrer Show: Tuesday, 25 September 2007)

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:03 GMT
Lee Bollinger, president of Columbia University, explains the comments he made when he introduced Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday.

Open Phones: Students and Ahmedinejad (The Brian Lehrer Show: Tuesday, 25 September 2007)

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:51 GMT
We open the phones to students who want to react to the Iranian President's speech at Columbia University yesterday.

The Nuclear Question (The Brian Lehrer Show: Tuesday, 25 September 2007)

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:29 GMT
Jacqueline Shire, senior analyst at the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), analyzes Ahmadinejad's comments about nuclear proliferation.

Your cubicle has eyes! (The Brian Lehrer Show: Tuesday, 25 September 2007)

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:29 GMT
Some workers know to keep their personal emails out of the office server, but what do you do if you are punished professionally for a blog you write at home, or for a political bumper sticker on your car? Bruce Barry, professor of management and sociology at Vanderbilt University and author of the new book Speechless: The Erosion of Free Expression in the American Workplace, looks at how companies curb free speech at the work place.

Speechless: The Erosion of Free Expression in the American Workplace is available for purchase at Amazon.com

Obama to New York (The Brian Lehrer Show: Tuesday, 25 September 2007)

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:29 GMT
Barack Obama, United States Senator (D-IL) and presidential candidate, discusses his presidential campaign and Thursday's rally in Washington Square Park.

Cafferty Files (The Brian Lehrer Show: Tuesday, 25 September 2007)

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:04 GMT
Jack Cafferty, host and commentator on CNN, former New York local news anchor, and the author of It's Getting Ugly Out There: The Frauds, Bunglers, Liars, and Losers Who Are Hurting America (Wiley, 2007), gives his take on national and international politics.

It's Getting Ugly Out There is available for purchase at Amazon.com.

Fare Play (The Brian Lehrer Show: Tuesday, 25 September 2007)

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:29 GMT
WNYC reporter Beth Fertig looks at the two ways the MTA is proposing to increase subway fares.

The World At Our Doorstep (The Brian Lehrer Show: Monday, 24 September 2007)

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:04 GMT
Every autumn world leaders congregate in New York City for the UN's General Assembly. Shashi Tharoor, former Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information and author of the forthcoming book The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone: India, the Emerging 21st-Century Power (Arcade Publishing 2007) talks about this years General Assembly meetings, and Michael Goodwin, Daily News columnist, Pulitzer Prize winner and the News' Executive Editor and Editorial Page Editor, chimes in about the politics and problems of hosting these world leaders here in New York.

The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone is available for purchase at Amazon.com

Open Phones: Columbia and Ahmadinejad (The Brian Lehrer Show: Monday, 24 September 2007)

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:56 GMT
Listeners tell us whether or not they think Columbia University should give a platform to President Ahmadinejad.

Are You Being Gouged? (The Brian Lehrer Show: Monday, 24 September 2007)

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:10 GMT
Our latest "crowdsourcing" project asks listeners to go to their local grocery store and find out the price of three goods: milk, lettuce and beer. You don’t have to buy them (or consume them), but we want to know how much they cost in different neighborhoods throughout the New York area.

Here’s the assignment:

Go to your local bodega, supermarket, or grocery store and get the prices for our predetermined basket of goods. Here’s the shopping list:

-a quart of regular, non-organic whole milk
-a head of iceberg lettuce
-a 6-pack of 12-ounce Budweiser (bottles)

Then, come back to our website and leave the following information in a comment:
-The prices of these goods
-The neighborhood where you bought them (please give exact address, or at least the block and cross street)
-The name of the supermarket
-Any distinguishing characteristic (e.g. local bodega, high-end retailer, etc.)
-Whether or not you were surprised (yes or no)?

We have extended this project until Thursday, October 4.
Stay tuned for when we report the findings, along with a map showing the most expensive and least expensive neighborhoods. Then we'll talk about what they mean on the air.

Associate producer Jim Colgan introduces the new project.

NOTE: Please limit your posts to reporting the actual price findings. We will take other comments once the segment ends. UPDATED: We have a new assignment: We want you to go to any neighborhood other than your own, but if you need a suggestion, we are particularly interested in the following: Flushing, Forrest Hills, East New York, and Bushwick.

Big Business/Big Egos (The Brian Lehrer Show: Monday, 24 September 2007)

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:56 GMT
Business consultants David Marcum and Steven Smith explain how ego and humility must balance for effective leadership in their new book, egonomics: What Makes Ego Our Greatest Asset (or Most Expensive Liability) (Fireside Books, 2007).

egonomics is available for purchase at Amazon.com.

Open Phones: What would you ask Mahmoud Ahmadenijad? (The Brian Lehrer Show: Monday, 24 September 2007)

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:46 GMT
Listeners tell us what they would ask Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadenijad if they were able to attend the Columbia University forum.

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