Take A Walk With Me?

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 21, 2023

Don't ask Lydia Polgreen, New York Times opinion columnist and co-host of the “Matter of Opinion” podcast, to go on a walk with you. In a recent column she celebrates the "solitary amble" and laments the "social tyranny" of the walking date or meeting. Polgreen join us to make her case, and listeners respond.

→ No, I Don’t Want to Go for a Walk With You

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