From WNYC Studios.

I'm Brian Lerer.

This is my daily politics podcast.

It's Thursday, May 16th.

Frank Bruny has a new book.

You may know him as a New York Times opinion columnist or remember his book about President

George W. Bush called ambling into history.

But Frank has done it all at the times.

He worked in the New York Metro Department, worked in the D.C. Bureau.

He was bureau chief in Rome for a while.

And some of you may remember when Frank Bruny was the New York Times

restaurant critics. So all over the map, literally, figuratively, and gastronomically. These days,

he writes a weekly newsletter for the Times and periodic op-ed essays. And he's a professor

of public policy at Duke University. In Frank's new book, he's more of a culture critic.

It's called The Age of Grievance.

We'll also ask about his recent piece for The Times called Chris Christie and Bill Barr have some explaining to do.

And that's even more relevant now that Biden and Trump have agreed to debate on television next month.

Frank, thanks for coming on

today. Congratulations on the new book. Welcome back to WNYC. Thank you. It's great to be here.

The Age of Grievance. Want to frame your basic thesis? My basic thesis is that we are living in a

moment right now in our culture and especially in our politics where people are too quick to

take offense. They're too quick to look for signs or evidence that they've been wronged,

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