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Is Midtown Manhattan any place for a horse? A fixture of the New York tourist trade is the horse-drawn carriage ride around Central Park, but Queens City Councilman Tony Avella wants to abolish that business as cruelty to animals. Also: race and IQ, race and the Mormon Church, airport adjustments, the MTA fare hike and the public Webinar that went awry.
Guests:
Tony AvellaIf a Webinar falls in the Forest...
Sewell Chan, reporter for The New York Times, checks in on the technical errors on yesterdays MTA's Webinar. Then Lee Sander, CEO and Executive Director of the MTA, lets us in on the thinking behind the fare hike (and why that Webinar didn't quite work).
Ask Not What Your Airport Can Do for You
Alexandra Marks, a correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor, tells us about the new cap on flights to and from JFK airport, and runs down the options for air travel over the holidays.
Does Intelligence Have a Color?
Malcolm Gladwell, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and Eric Turkheimer, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, dig deeper into the idea that there is a correlation between race and IQ.
African Americans in the Mormon Church
Corey D.B. Walker, assistant professor of Philosophy and Religion in the Department of Africana Studies at Brown University, and and Armand Mauss, visiting scholar at the School of Religion at the Claremont Graduate University and author of All Abraham's Children: Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage, talk about the ...
Horsing Around
Tony Avella, New York City Council Member (D) representing the 19th District, on the proposal to ban horse-drawn carriages in New York City. But Steve Mallone, owner of the Clinton Park Stables, thinks that this proposed ban would hurt small business owners, and that the accusations of cruelty are false.
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