The Brian Lehrer Show

City State

Christine Quinn, speaker of the City Council, represents District 3 (West Side of Manhattan)
- reacts to the State of the City address

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State of the City

Robert Jackson, City Council Member represent District 7 (West Harlem; parts of Washington Heights, Inwood, Central Harlem and Morningside Heights) and Chair of the Education Committee
then
Andrea Batista Schlesinger, executive director of the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy
and
Robert George, New York Post editorial writer and columnist and blogger at Ragged Thoughts
- discuss Mayor Bloomberg's State of the City Address

Listen to the whole speech

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Invisible Handshake

P. J. O'Rourke, journalist, political satirist and author, Books that Changed the World: On The Wealth of Nations (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007)
- explains why Adam Smith's book is one that changed the world

On The Wealth of Nations is available for purchase at Amazon.com

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Evangelical Zionists

Zev Chafets, journalist, former Israeli official and author, A Match Made in Heaven: American Jews, Christian Zionists, and One Man's Exploration of the Weird and Wonderful Judeo-Christian Alliance (Harper Collins, 2007)
- on the alliance between Evangelical Christians and American Jews

Reading tonight:
6:45-8:30 p.m. New York University, Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life, 7 E. 10th St., Between 5th and University Avenues

A Match Made in Heaven is available for purchase at Amazon.com

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Open Phones

Listeners call in with their reactions to a testy exchange between Senator Barbara Boxer and Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice at a recent hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

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