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The Brian Lehrer Show

Summer Friday: Project 2025; The Jersey Shore; Young Men & the Left; Decade-by-Decade Best Sellers

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

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4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summer Friday: Catching Up on Project 2025; 100 Years of The Jersey Shore; How the Left Can Connect with Young Men; 100 Years of Best Sellers

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0:00.0

It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC.

0:13.2

Good morning, everyone.

0:14.5

We have a summer Friday edition of the show today.

0:16.7

We put together some conversations from the past year that we think you'll like,, edited a bit for clarity and time, including New Yorker staff writer Andrew Morantz on the so-called Manosphere and progressives wish for kind of a Joe Rogan of the left.

0:32.1

Plus a look at the history of the Jersey Shore from our 100 Years of 100 Hundred Things Centennial series, and another one on

0:38.5

what we can learn about American culture from the past hundred years of bestselling books.

0:43.7

But we start with David Graham, Atlantic Magazine National Politics staff writer who was on the

0:49.0

show in April to talk about his new book called The Project, how Project 2025 is reshaping America.

0:56.2

We pick it up here.

0:57.9

One thing David can boast, he read the whole thing, which not many people can say about the

1:02.7

900-page blueprint for this second Trump term that they hoped for that came out last year.

1:08.8

And spoiler alert, David broke out a piece of the book for an article

1:12.4

in the Atlantic that says the top goal of Project 2025 is still to come. So let's see what that is

1:19.5

and how much he thinks they're already reshaping America, as the book subtitle says. David,

1:25.0

always good to have you. Welcome back to WNYC.

1:28.5

Thank you for having me.

1:35.6

As you note, Project 2025 identifies four goals that their specific policies flow from.

1:36.9

Would you like to recite the list?

1:42.6

Yeah, the first one is to restore the family as the heart of American life.

1:46.7

I'm paraphrasing a little bit here. The second one is to dismantle the deep state and return power to the people. The third one is to secure the borders

1:52.8

and the bounty for America. And the fourth one is to restore the blessings of liberty for all

1:58.5

Americans. And before we get to that number one goal that

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