From WNYC Studios.

I'm Brian Lerer.

This is my daily politics podcast.

It's Wednesday, May 15th.

Now, New York Times columnist Nicholas Christoph,

who has now been with the Times for 40 years and who has just

published a memoir about a lot of that called Chasing Hope, a reporter's life. And you know, we could

use some hope in these pessimistic times, right? Interesting that it comes from Christoph,

who has devoted his career, as you regular readers would know,

to exposing some of the worst suffering in the world. That's what he's done. But maybe you saw his

recent times up ed, his column that draws on the book called The Case for Hope. We'll talk about that.

He also has a book-related New York event tonight that brought him in physically

from Oregon. It's Nicholas Christoff in conversation with the author Tara Westover at the Stryker

Cultural Center of Temple Emmanuel at 65th and 5th in Manhattan tonight at 630. Check the Temple

Emmanuel Striker Center website for tickets. They're selling ticket plus

book combos, I see. We'll also have a link on our site. Nick, congratulations on the book and

welcome back to WNYC. Thank you. Great to be with you. So I see that even when you were a kid in

Yamhill, Oregon, what a name, Yamhill, you thought of growing up to be a foreign correspondent.

How did you get that bug early on? Was it from your parents or some other way?

You know, my dad was a World War II refugee, and so, you know, in a very mixed-up household,

he would speak to his brother in Polish and to his sister in Romanian.

And so I think I had that sort of sense of the world.

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