LA Mayoral Race; Syria; Stanley Crouch
LA Mayoral Race
Larry Mantle talks with political consultant and strategist, Arnold Steinberg, Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, Political Analyst and Senior Scholar at USC’s School of Policy Planning and Development, and Fernando Guerra, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for the Study of Los Angeles, at Loyola Marymount University, to get an update on the contentious race for mayor of Los Angeles.
Syria
A look at recent news headlines suggests that Syria is fomenting all kinds of trouble in the Middle East. Syria allegedly assassinated the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri; it has been blamed for the latest suicide bombing at a Tel Aviv nightclub, and also for training insurgents to fight in Iraq. Now, Lebanon’s pro-Syrian Prime Minister, Omar Karami, has resigned, along with his government. Is Syria about to withdraw from Lebanon? Is Syria responsible for the assassination of Rafik Hariri, and if so, why? Danielle Pletka, Vice President, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, Zeidan Atashi, leader in the Druze community of Israel and the first Arab-Israeli member of the Knesset, and Jeffrey White, Berrie Defense Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, join Host Larry Mantle to discuss Syria’s place in the geopolitics of the Middle East.
Stanley Crouch
Larry Mantle speaks with Stanley Crouch—former jazz drummer turned social critic and full-time writer—about his latest book, The Artificial White Man: Essays on Authenticity (Basic Books). His book is a collection of essays examining the problem of ethnic authenticity in contemporary America.