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The Brian Lehrer Show

Wednesday, December 28, 2005
  • How Will You Be Voting in '06?

    A federal law requires that New York State replace its voting machines with new ones by the ’06 elections. But local officials say that’s practically impossible. Will New York miss the deadline, and miss out on federal funding to boot?

Body and Soul

Paul Bloom, professor of psychology and linguistics at Yale University and author, Descartes' Baby: How the Science of Child Development Explains What Makes Us Human (Basic Books, 2004),
on why humans are hard-wired to believe in the supernatural

» Is God an Accident? (Atlantic Monthly, December 2005)

How Will You Vote in 2006?

Bo Lipari, executive director of New Yorkers for Verified Voting
- on the inadequacies of New York's electronic voting machines

» New Yorkers for Verified Voting homepage

The Train Has Left the Station

Beth Fertig, WNYC reporter
- on the transit workers' new contract
and
Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Grad Center Professor of Sociology, author How Class Works: Power and Social Movement (Yale University Press, 2003)
- on the pros and cons of the TWU contract

» Stanley Aronowitz's bio and publications

Sending Limbo to Hell

Ed Vacek, Weston Jesuit School of Theology Professor of Moral Thought
- on doing away with limbo

Your Fab Cab

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Who is in your fantasy Obama cabinet? Pick anyone!

Word from Abroad

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John Burns, London bureau chief for the New York Times, reflects on his work in China, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, and Iraq.

Chief of Technology

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Andrew Rasiej, founder of Personal Democracy Forum, talks about the potential presidential cabinet position of Chief Technology Officer. Who's in your fantasy cabinet? Visit our Fab Cab page and let us know.

Digesting Politics

A weekly podcast with Brian Lehrer and Andrea Bernstein

New Episode Posted November 13
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.

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