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(soulfish/flickr)Cities and Nations
Author and satirist P.J. O’Rourke takes a fresh look at a book that changed the world—Adam Smith’s “The Wealth of Nations.” Also, your reactions to Mayor Bloomberg’s State of the City address, and former Israeli government spokesman Zev Chafets on the relationship between Jews and evangelicals.
City State
Christine Quinn, speaker of the City Council, represents District 3 (West Side of Manhattan)
- reacts to the State of the City address
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
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
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
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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