Wednesday Morning Politics; Calls for Civility; SCOTUS Finale; On 'On Whiteness'
The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 27, 2018
- Sabrina Siddiqui, political reporter at The Guardian, and Gabriel Debenedetti, New York Magazine national political correspondent, discuss the latest new from Washington, including reactions to the Supreme Court’s ruling to uphold the Trump administration’s travel ban, Congressional primaries, and more.
- Listeners weigh in on the place for politeness in political discourse in the wake of calls for disruptive activism by Maxine Waters and President Trump.
- Jami Floyd, host of WNYC’s All Things Considered and legal analyst, reviews the Supreme Court’s last day’s decisions and looks back at this term as a whole.
- Claudia Rankine, poetry professor at Yale University and author of Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press, 2014), and Monica Youn, former senior counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice, poet teaching creative writing at Princeton, and author of Blackacre (Graywolf Press, 2016), talk about the The Racial Imaginary Institute’s exhibit “On Whiteness” at The Kitchen.
