Ask the Mayor; Politics, Taylor Swift, and Kanye West; 30 Issues: Climate Change; On the Teeter Totter Between Open Borders and Nationalism

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 12, 2018

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.

Tariro Mzezewa, staff editor at the New York Times Opinion section, discusses her most recent piece addressing the politics of Taylor Swift, Kanye West and celebrities in general.

Oren Cass, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, and Andrew Revkin, strategic adviser for environmental and science journalism for the National Geographic Society and author of (with Lisa Mechaley) Weather: An Illustrated History: From Cloud Atlases to Climate Change (Sterling, 2018), debate the effect the Trump administration's policies will have on the environment.

John B. Judis, editor at large at Talking Points Memo and author of The Nationalist Revival: Trade, Immigration, and the Revolt Against Globalization (Columbia Global Reports, 2018), asks if there is a way to find a more equitable international order that avoids the extremes of dislocation and xenophobia.

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