Previewing Possible L.A. Mayoral Candidates; Iraq Update: One Year Later; The Rise of Monotheism
Previewing Possible L.A. Mayoral Candidates
Larry Mantle talks with Cal State Fullerton Professor of Political Science Raphael Sonenshein about the field of potential candidates for the Mayor of Los Angeles.
Iraq Update: One Year Later
Time magazine’s cover story for the week of March 15th is titled “Looking for a Way Out,” a special report on our year inside Iraq. Joining Host Larry Mantle is Vivian Walt, Time correspondent in Baghdad. She has been there for a year and interviewed L. Paul Bremer for this issue of Time. Also joining Larry is GI Wilson, a retired Infantry Colonel in the USMC, and military analyst for ABC, channel 7, and Imam Ali Al Qazwini, an active Iraqi American in Southern California. They discuss the handover of power to the Iraqis, the military situation in Iraq, and religious relations between Sunni and Shii’a Muslims there.
The Rise of Monotheism
Author, book critic and publishing attorney Jonathan Kirsch joins Larry to discuss his new book, God Against the Gods: The History of the War Between Monotheism and Polytheism (Viking).