Affirmative Action; The Latest Orange County News; Judaism and Tolerance
Affirmative Action
Today, the Bush Administration is expected to file a "friend of the court" brief with the Supreme Court, arguing that the University of Michigan's race-based admissions policy is unconstitutional. Larry Mantle talks with legal experts Eugene Volokh, Professor of Law at UCLA, and Kimberle Crenshaw, Professor of Law at UCLA and Columbia Law School, about the President's move, and about how the Supreme Court is likely to rule on the two affirmative action cases it's scheduled to hear this Spring.
The Latest Orange County News
Larry Mantle talks with Chris Reed, editor of op-ed columns for the Orange County Register commentary section about the latest Orange County news.
Judaism and Tolerance
Are conservative Jews becoming less and less open to different points of view within the Jewish community? What is the state of discourse amongst American Jews? Larry Mantle talks with Milton Viorst, author of What Shall We Do With This People? Jews and the Fractious Politics of Judaism, (The Free Press), Rabbi David Eliezrie, President of the Rabbinical Council of Orange County, and David Myers, Professor of Jewish History at UCLA.