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Conversations on the State of American Politics with Bob Merry: Guest Jerry Seib

  • Whidbey Island Center for the Arts PO Box 52 | 565 Camano Avenue Langley, WA 98260 (map)

The Robert Merry conversation series continues with special guest, Gerald Seib. Jerry recently retired after 45 years as a noted Wall Street Journal reporter, editor, and columnist, as well as an author and television analyst on national and international politics. He served 12 years as the Journal’s Washington bureau chief (in two stints), six years as executive Washington editor, 29 years as a weekly Washington columnist, and three years as a Middle East correspondent. During his Middle East stint he was kidnapped in Iran in 1987 and incarcerated for four harrowing days.

Seib is the author of two books: Pennsylvania Avenue: Profiles in Backroom Power, with John Harwood (2008), a lively travelog through Washington’s official corridors; and We Should Have Seen It Coming: From Reagan to Trump (2020), a history of the country’s political trajectory of conservative politics from the 40th president to the 45th.

Friday, May 19 | 7:30 PM

Tickets:
WICA Star: $45
Standard: $30
available from box office: $20

Earlier Event: May 17
Whim W'him: Spring
Later Event: May 21
Ensemble Sangineto

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral homelands, originally known as Tscha-kole-chy (SHA-KOL-CHI) in Lushootseed (LU-SHOOT-SEED), of the Coastal Salish Peoples, on the lands of the lower Skagit, Tulalip (tuh·lay·luhp), Swinomish (SWIN-ə-mish), Snohomish (snō-hō-mish), Stillaguamish (still-uh-GWAH-mish), and Suquamish (soo-kwah-mish), who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial and have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands.

We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this territory and for their enduring care and protection of the land in which we currently occupy and share through the Treaty of Point Elliott signed by 82 tribes in Múckl-te-óh (Mukilteo) on January 22, 1855.