Today on Boston Public Radio:
E.J. Dionne weighed in on President Joe Biden’s formation of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. He also shared his thoughts on calls for Justice Stephen Breyer to resign. Dionne is a columnist for The Washington Post and a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution. His latest book is " Code Red: How Progressives And Moderates Can Unite To Save Our Country .”
Next, we opened the phone lines, talking with listeners about local government transparency in the wake of a Boston Globe article detailing the child sexual abuse allegations against ex-Boston police officer and union leader Patrick Rose.
Charlie Sennott discussed increasing unrest in Northern Ireland and President Biden’s return to Iran nuclear deal talks. Sennott is a GBH News analyst and the founder and CEO of The GroundTruth Project.
Christopher Kimball previewed his latest Milk Street cookbook, “Tuesday Nights Mediterranean: 125 Simple Weeknight Recipes from the World's Healthiest Cuisine.” Kimball is the founder of Milk Street, a food media company which produces Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Magazine. He’s also the host of Milk Street Radio and Milk Street TV.
Revs. Irene Monroe and Emmett Price talked about the death of Daunte Wright and the ongoing trial of ex-police officer Derek Chauvin happening just miles away. They also shared their thoughts on the reluctance of white Evangelicals to get vaccinated. Monroe is a syndicated religion columnist, the Boston voice for Detour’s African American Heritage Trail, and a visiting researcher in the Religion and Conflict Transformation Program at the Boston University School of Theology. Price is an executive director of the Institute for the Study of the Black Christian Experience at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Together, they host GBH’s All Rev’d Up podcast.
We then asked listeners how they felt about plant-based alternatives to meat.
Latanya Sweeney discussed the prevalence of racial bias in popular search engines and called for more proactive responses to racial bias from tech giants. Sweeney is the professor of the Practice of Government and Technology at the Harvard Kennedy School and in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Editor-in-Chief of Technology Science, and the director and founder of the Data Privacy Lab. Sweeney appears in the NOVA documentary short, “ Search Engine Breakdown ,” on Wednesday night at 10:30 p.m. ET.
