It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC.

Good morning, everyone, for this last summer Friday edition of the show for this summer.

We've put together some conversations we like from this year, edited just a bit

for clarity and time, including one foundation's efforts to reduce our political polarization

without diluting important values. A look at the promise and complicated reality of egg freezing,

a dollars and cents calculation of white privilege, have you ever dared to do

that math for your family, and stories of people who center friendships in their lives as opposed

to or alongside romantic partnerships. But we start here with Princeton professor Eddie Glaude Jr.

discussing his recent book, We are the Leaders We Have Been Looking for.

Those of you who know Eddie Glead's work may know him as a scholar of both religion and African American studies.

He's officially the James S. McDonald Distinguished University professor at Princeton.

Some of you know him as an MSNBC contributor. Also an author many times

over, including his bestseller from 2020, called Begin Again, James Baldwin's America,

and its urgent lessons for our own, for which he was on the show. And I think this book contains

some of what Eddie sees as urgent lessons for our time as well,

some of which may surprise you.

Again, it's called We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking for.

Eddie, always good of you to come on.

Welcome back to WNYC.

It's my pleasure.

Thank you for having me.

Do I understand correctly that you started writing this book back when Barack Obama was president?

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