Letters and Politics

Reflecting on Biden’s First 100 Days

Part I – Reflecting on Biden’s First 100 Days

Guest:  David Dayen is the executive editor of The American Prospect. He currently is authoring the Prospect Magazine special series First 100: An In-Depth Look at President Biden and the New Administration.  David Dayen is the author of Monopolized: Life in an Age of Corporate Power and Chain of Title, winner of the Ida and Studs Terkel Prize.

 

Part II: The Suppression of Speech in WWI and Why It Matters Today

Guest: Eric Chester, taught economics at the University of Massachusetts in Boston and San Francisco State University. A committed activist for more than fifty years, he was vice-presidential candidate for the Socialist Party in 1996.  His latest book is Free Speech and the Suppression of Dissent During World War I.

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