that became part of american pop culture i'm happy to welcome to the show jeffrey eugenides he joins us tonight from princeton university in the u.s. . he teaches creative writing geoffrey lived here in berlin i think during the time when he was writing middlesex jeffrey it's good to have you on the show this evening i want to ask you what do you think based look at based on your time here in berlin what do you think it is about germany that made today's ruling possible what is it about germany i don't know i think there's a fair amount of free thinking over there when i wrote middlesex i was living in shone a bit in berlin and right upstairs was the. sexual bit in shock. colin so there was a fair amount of. study and thought going into. what constitutes gender and different variations about it so i think this is something that you can trace back in germany to the one nine hundred twenty s. . you know investigations and now assess of gender and sexuality trying to figure out trying to understand how we can deal with it as a society so i would i would say that's probably why it's emerging in germany before som

that became part of american pop culture i'm happy to welcome to the show jeffrey eugenides he joins us tonight from princeton university in the us where he teaches creative writing geoffrey lived here in berlin i think during the time when he was writing middlesex jeffrey it's good to have you on the show this evening i want to ask you what do you think based on your time here in berlin what do you think it is about germany that made today's ruling possible. what is it about germany i don't know i think there's a fair amount of free thinking over there when i wrote middlesex i was living in shown to be going to berlin and then right stairs was the. sexual bit in shopped. so there was a fair amount of. study and thought going into. what constitutes gender and different variations about it so i think this is something that you can trace back in germany to the one nine hundred twenty s. . you know investigations and now assists of gender and sexuality trying to figure out trying to understand how we can deal with it as a society so i would i would say that's probably why it's emerging in germany before some oth

brent: jeffrey eugenides joining us tonight from princeton. thank you very much. ppreciate your time tonight. jeffrey: thank you. brent: in the united states, democrats are celebrating victories in several closely watched state and local elections. a year into donald trump's presidency the polls are being seen as a test of voter opinion. trump's republican party was set back majorly in virginia where democrat ralph northam has been elected governor. he netted a decisive victory over republican ed gillespie who had attacked him on divisive issues like immigration, crime, and confederate statues. the democrats also won the race for governor in new jersey and scored well in local elections scattered across the country. among the democratic victors in those regional elections is said to become the country's first openly transgender state legislator. danica roem is a 32-year-old journalist in virginia, where she ousted a pro-trump incumbent. take a look. reporter: danica roem celebrating a historic victory in virginia. not only issue the first openly transgender person

princeton professor. bill gross joins us in the next hour. jeffreyenberg here from julia from macro policy perspectives. because it is sort of a non-meeting we have the opportunity to go into the nation's growth, and the shock had all we will see the tax reform. dr. coronado, i suggest for jeff.of us, not you, not crystal clearer it is not 1986. bring up this chart. this is the debt to gdp. the green circle is 1986 and ronald reagan, the red is where we are. the backdrop of the new fed chair, for the leadership in washington is totally different for tax reform. julia: absolutely. it took years to put together the 1986 tax reform and a coalition of democrats and republicans, and a real sense they were broken things in the tax code. by the way, we are highly indebted and staring at a widening deficit just on --tom: jeff is the perfect person to talk about the raging debate. the dream here is you have to get 3% gdp. can blackrock frame that when you're having coffee with larry ink? jeff: you can break it down in terms of components. the big pieces come