Masha Gessen on Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Gaza; Independent Review of the City Budget; Surviving New York in 2020; Modern (or Not) Lent Sacrifices

Coming up on today’s show

Masha Gessen, The New Yorker staff writer and the author of Surviving Autocracy (Riverhead Books, 2020), talks about Russia and Ukraine and Israel and Gaza.
Louisa Chafee, director of the New York City Independent Budget Office (IBO), a non-partisan source of information on the budget and economy, talks about their review of the Mayor’s preliminary budget and economic forecast.
Eric Klinenberg, professor in the social sciences and director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University and the author of 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed (Knopf, 2024), tells the story of New York in 2020 through the lens of seven New Yorkers, and talks about the ongoing effect of that traumatic year.
During Lent, Christians commonly choose a Lenten sacrifice, abstaining from pleasures such as chocolate, sugar, alcohol, or even social media. Listeners observing Lent call in and share what they are giving up.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.

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