The Brian Lehrer Show

New Year's Day: Mayor Adams' Legacy; Wikipedia's Rules; Online Reading


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On this New Year's Day:

  • Ahead of the Mamdani swearing-in ceremony, a look back: Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist and WNYC reporter; Ben Max, host of the Max Politics podcast and executive editor and program director at New York Law School’s Center for New York City Law; and Jeffery Mays, New York Times metro politics reporter, weigh in on Mayor Adams' term in office and what he accomplished, where he fell short of his goals, and how history might view his mayoralty.
  • Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation and the author of The Seven Rules of Trust: A Blueprint for Building Things That Last (Crown Currency, 2025), talks about how Wikipedia was able to rely on the "wisdom of the crowd" even as distrust climbed in the larger culture.
  • If you put down your phone, will you grasp for a book? Jay Caspian Kang, staff writer for The New Yorker, where he writes a weekly column called Fault Lines, discusses his story, "If You Quit Social Media, Will You Read More Books?"

 

These interviews were lightly edited for time and clarity; the original web versions are available here:

Mayor Adams' Legacy (Dec 3, 2025)

Wikipedia Founder on Building Trust (Dec 11, 2025)

Is 'Online Reading' Still Reading? (Dec 11, 2025)

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