On October 26th at 7:30 p.m., New Yorker political
commentator Hendrick Hertzberg will speak alongside Michael Waldman,
prominent public interest attorney and current director of NYU’s
Brennan Center for Justice.  They will discuss pressing issues facing
the United States Constitution in the election year and beyond.

Over the past four decades Hertzberg has established himself as one
of America’s preeminent political journalists, putting in time as a
staff writer with the New Yorker, as a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter,
and later as the editor of the New Republic.  Following political and
cultural trends as diverse as the birth of rock ‘n’ roll, the war in
Vietnam, the rise of neoconservativism, and the increased influence of
the religious right, Hertzberg has amassed a unique body of knowledge,
crucial to the election year.

Michael Waldman, currently the director of the Brennan Center at
NYU, was both a high-level policy aide and a director of speechwriting
during the Clinton Administration.  He is a career public-interest
attorney and makes frequent television appearances during which he
speaks authoritatively on a wide range of topics, from politics to
legal theory to governmental reform.  His most recent book, "A Return
to Common Sense," was released by Sourcebooks, Inc.

The Where and When

October 26 at 7:30 p.m.
Congregation Beth Elohim
Garfield and 8th Avenue