December 2 – Tom Lutz sits in for Ian Masters: Anti-War Activism, from Vietnam to Afghanistan; Obama’s Second Term and the Supreme Court; “Boom and Bust in the New Old West”

Full Program

Part 1

First we are joined by Tom Hayden, the founder and director of the Peace and Justice Resource Center in Culver City and founding member of Students for a Democratic Society who went on to serve for eighteen years in the California legislature. We discuss anti-war activism, from Vietnam to Afghanistan.

We continue the conversation about anti-war youth activism with Seth Greenland, a novelist, screenwriter and playwright whose latest book is "The Angry Buddhist."

Part 2

Then we examine the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts and the possibility that the 5-4 majority may change in Obama’s second term. Don Franzen, a lawyer and UCLA professor, joins us.

Part 3

Finally, we are joined by the Emmy award-winning journalist and the Fletcher Jones Chair of Literature and Writing at Loyola Marymount University, Rubén Martínez, to discuss his new book, "Desert America: Boom and Bust in the New Old West".