Newsmakers meet New Yorkers as host Brian Lehrer and his guests take on the issues dominating conversation in New York and around the world. This daily program from WNYC Studios cuts through the usual talk radio punditry and brings a smart, humane approach to the day's events and what matters most in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts including Radiolab, On the Media, Death, Sex & Money, Nancy, and many others.
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History in Crises
Jay Sexton, professor of Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri and the author of A Nation Forged by Crisis: A New American History(Basic Books, 2018), reframes American history as less steady progress and more a series of responses to external forces.