Is a Recession Looming?; Inland Empire Journalists Roundtable; The Secret History Of The American Left From Mussolini To The Politics Of Meaning; Jews And Power
Is a Recession Looming?
A slowdown in business and consumer activity, combined with the ongoing housing slump, has led to a sharp downturn in financial markets and concerns that a recession might be on the horizon. President Bush and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke are embracing calls for an economic stimulus package to avert the possibility. Larry talks with Tom Petruno, Staff Writer for the Los Angeles Times, about the risk of recession, and with Brian Naylor, Congressional Correspondent for National Public Radio, about the political solutions being considered.
Inland Empire Journalists Roundtable
Larry Mantle talks with Steven Cuevas, KPCC's Inland Empire Reporter, Cassie MacDuff, Columnist with The Press Enterprise, about the latest news, events, and developments in the Inland Empire.
The Secret History Of The American Left From Mussolini To The Politics Of Meaning
In his new book Liberal Fascism, columnist and author Jonah Goldberg offers his perspective on the theories and practices that define fascist politics. Goldberg argues that the original fascists were really on the left, and that liberals from Woodrow Wilson to FDR to Hillary Clinton have advocated policies and principles remarkably similar to those of Hitler's National Socialism and Mussolini's Fascism. The author joins Larry Mantle to discuss his controversial views about the American Left and its ideological relationship to Fascism.
Jews And Power
Ruth Wisse, professor of comparative literature at Harvard joins Larry Mantle to discuss her theory that the Jewish people have been corrupted, not by power but by powerlessness. In her new book Jews and Power, Wisse examines how from the Kingdom of David to the Oslo Accords to more recent confrontations between Israel and the Arab world, Jews have often tried to make a virtue out of powerlessness, while their enemies have exaggerated and demonized Jewish power. Wisse offers a radical new way to think about the Jewish relationship to power that is sure to be controversial both inside and outside the Jewish world.