Summer Friday: Right's Women; West's Mistake; Culture Wars; Post-Literate; Wildflowers
Summary
Brian Lehrer interviews Katie Gadinis about her book *Esther’s Army*, which examines how Christian women power the American right through six distinct activist groups. The episode also features Yale political scientist Ian Shapiro, who argues in *After the Fall* that Western leaders’ post-Cold War choices, including NATO expansion and neoliberal economic policies, fueled the current global crisis of democracy.
Topics discussed
Katie Genovese on Christian conservative women and the right
Ian Shapiro on post-Cold War political failures
Isaac Butler on the 1980s culture wars and art funding
Rose Horowitz on the decline of reading in America
Muriel Czenzi on native plants and NYC biodiversity
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