Harold Meyerson
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The GOP's Security Gap

The conventional wisdom on this year's election is that John McCain would be the strongest candidate the Republicans could send against the Democrats come November. I believe it myself. And yet, as the economy continues to deflate, the prospects for a McCain presidency are deflating as well.

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Where's the Exit Strategy?

In "The Exterminating Angel," a 1962 film by Luis Buñuel, the great Spanish anarcho-surrealist director, the guests at a dinner party find that, mysteriously, they cannot leave. Though there are no external constraints to their exiting, none can cross the threshold of the music room to which they've adjourned. For days and days they stay, some growing to hate one another, some lapsing into despair and most eventually determining to sacrifice their host in the hope that killing him will set them free. (They manage to get out before the host has been dispatched.)

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Recent and Upcoming Events

Recent and Upcoming Events

PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.  
 Harold joins Lehrer and David Brooks for the weekly political roundtable, which airs in the second half of the 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. broadcast. 
Click here to view broadcast

CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood.  
Harold discusses the wit and wisdom of Groucho Marx, commemorating the 30th anniversary of the comedian’s death.  
 (Show airs locally 7:00 a.m.)

Harold's Book

Who Put the Rainbow in the Wizard of Oz?: Yip Harburg, Lyricist


". . . required reading for anyone interested in the great American songs."
--New York Times
   Book Review

Published by University of Michigan Press
Paperback, 472 pages
ISBN 0472083120

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