Associate Professor of History, School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences
Associate Professor of History at the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences in Paris, and author of The Black Condition (in French); son of a Senegalese father and French mother
Overseas Reaction to Obama Election "We are dreaming, we Europeans, of Obamaland"—a place of sunshine and music, conciliation and concord. That's an abbreviated quotation from an editorial this week in the Independent of London, contemplating Barack Obama 's election. In the United States, Barack Hussein Obama won a comfortable majority. In the rest of the World, he won by a landslide. After much talk of America's decline, his election has restored it as a symbol of opportunity in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia. But biography is one thing, and policy is another. Obama may well have created expectations he'll never fulfill. We discuss the anticipation of radical change and possibility of a different scenario.
Dana Rohrabacher to KCRW: 'Public broadcasting has been so rotten' As Democrats work to take control of Congress in next week’s midterm elections, they’ve managed to turn a handful of solidly Republican districts into toss ups. One of those is held by Dana Rohrabacher and polls show a dead heat between Rohrabacher and his opponent Harley Rouda. KCRW’s Saul Gonzalez headed over to check in on Rohrabacher's campaign.