The Brian Lehrer Show

Miller Genuine Draft

Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Gifford Miller’s career in the City Council is coming to a close, and now the Speaker has his eyes on Gracie Mansion. As part of the New York 51 series Miller talks about life in the Upper East Side and life on the campaign trail.

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Thou Shalt Not Mess with the Establishment Clause

Susan Jacoby, Director of the New York Office of the Center for Inquiry, a secularist think tank and author, Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism (paperback edition: Owl Books, 2005)
» Center for Inquiry
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Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, Co-director of Fordham Center on Religion and Culture,
» Center on Religion and Culture
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Nancy Pearcey, Francis A Schaeffer Scholar at World Journalism Institute and author, Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity (Crossway Books, 2004), on the proper role of religion in civic life
» Total Truth

DIY Knowledge

Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia, the online, user-edited encyclopedia
on the reliability of an encyclopedia anyone can edit
» Wikipedia Main Page
» Wikipedia's WNYC entry

Environmentalism RIP

Ted Nordhaus, Vice President with the Evans McDonagh polling firm, works with Strategic Values - a long term project to understand the social values of America
says the environmental movement is as good as dead without a radical overhaul
» Ted Nordhaus Bio
» Death of Environmentalism Reading Project
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Jon Coifman, Acting Communications Director for the Natural Resources Defense Council says there's no need for an obituary of the environmental movement
» NRDC