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Jimmy Carter on China and Human Rights; Money Milestones for Retirement; Legal Affairs; Nutrition Myths; Last Chance!: Refik Anadol at MoMA
The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 3, 2023
- Just over a week ago, the Carter Center announced that Jimmy Carter had entered hospice care. To conclude our series of excerpts of interviews with the former president from The Brian Lehrer Show archives, we hear him speak about China from 2015 and about the use of sanctions from 2010. Then, Jonathan Alter, MSNBC analyst, author of the Substack newsletter, "Old Goats," and the book, His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life (Simon & Schuster, 2020), joins Brian to reflect on the former president's accomplishments after leaving office.
- Michelle Singletary, personal finance columnist for The Washington Post, offers advice for listeners over age 65 on some money goals and milestones they should aim to hit during this time in their lives.
- The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Biden's student debt forgiveness program this week. And, in other legal news, Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch testified that network hosts endorsed the stolen election lie. Mark Joseph Stern, senior writer at Slate covering courts and the law, provides an update on these and other legal affairs headlines.
- All this week, the Brian Lehrer Show will be taking a closer look at some of the most pervasive nutrition myths with Sophie Egan, author of How to Be a Conscious Eater: Making Food Choices That Are Good for You, Others, and the Planet (Workman, 2020), and contributor to the New York Times, most recently the article "10 Nutrition Myths Experts Wish Would Die." Today, busting the myths that consuming soy products increases the risk of breast cancer and that nutrition advice keeps changing a lot with Marion Nestle, professor emerita of nutrition, food studies, and public health at NYU and the author of many books, including her latest, Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics (University of California Press, 2022).
- This week, hear about some soon-to-close art shows around town. Today: Michelle Kuo, curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), talks about Refik Anadol's stunning "Unsupervised" digital artwork, extended through April 15th.
