National Politics; Parkland Students; The Eights | Climate Change & Its Backlash in 1978; Atlas Obscura Highlights
The Brian Lehrer Show | May 22, 2018
On today's show:
- Philip Bump, national correspondent for The Washington Post, rounds up the news from Washington;
- Parkland student activists Samantha Fuentes and Cameron Kasky are joined by PEN America C.E.O. Suzanne Nossel to talk about this year's PEN America Freedom of Expression Courage Award;
- Naomi Oreskes, Harvard professor of the history of science and affiliated professor of earth and planetary sciences, discusses how the environmentalism movement in the 70s led to sweeping policy changes and the resulting backlash which turned the debate on climate change into a culture war as "The Eights" looks back at 1978;
- Ella Morton, Atlas Obscura's senior editor, talk about more of her favorite hidden gems from the Atlas Obscura trove.
