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The Brian Lehrer Show

Friday, October 10, 2003
  • Statue of Liberty

    Give Me Liberty

    Last month Brian moderated a Harper’s Magazine Forum to debate ideas in the new book by Village Voice Columnist Nat Hentoff, The War on the Bill of Rights. We’ll play excerpts featuring Hentoff, plus authors Kurt Vonnegut and Steven Brill, Harper’s Editor Lewis Lapham, ACLU Executive Director Nadine Strossen and New York Sun Editor Ira Stoll.

Whither the Bill of Rights

Taped excerpts from a September 15th panel Brian moderated at The New School University called, "Is the Bill of Rights in Peril?" with Ira Stoll, Vice President and Managing Editor of the New York Sun, Nadine Strossen, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union, Lewis Lapham, Editor of Harper's, Stephen Brill, author, After: The Rebuilding And Defending Of America In The September 12 Era (Simon and Schuster, 2003), Kurt Vonnegut, writer, and Nat Hentoff, Village Voice columnist, and author, The War on the Bill of Rights and the Gathering Resistance (Seven Stories, 2003)

Open Phones

Your thoughts on the Bill of Rights.

Shirin Joy

Geneive Abdo, religion correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and co-author, Answering Only to God: The Struggle Between Religion and Democracy in Post-Revolutionary Iran (Henry Holt & Co., 2003), introduces Shirin Ebadi, this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner. And Louise Sherby, Associate Dean and Chief Librarian at Hunter College Library, and author, The Who's Who of Nobel Prize Winners 1901-2000 (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001), explains Shirin Ebadi's place in Nobel history.

How Great Was The Debate?

George Watson, Political Science professor at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University, reveals what Arizonans really think of the dems. And Rick Stengel, managing editor at Time magazine, tries to detect a winner in last night's nine-way frenzy. Lastly, we open the phones with your thoughts on the debate.

Step One: The Brainstorm

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Digesting Politics

A weekly podcast with Brian Lehrer and Andrea Bernstein

New Episode Posted 9/1
Eavesdrop on Andrea Bernstein and Brian Lehrer, two of the most political savvy minds around, as they eat lunch and break down the week’s political activities.

Slideluck Potshow

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Check out our contribution to the recent Slideluck Potshow, an event where folks share their love of food and photos!

ICANN, You Can…

Web Exclusive

Paul Twomey, president and CEO of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), on their recent decision to offer more top-level domain names.

Mixed Up

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We discuss the implications of our mixed-race future and how Barack Obama's candidacy has changed the discussion about mixed-race identity.