Letters and Politics – September 18, 2019
A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
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Letters and Politics
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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Guest: Jeremy Rifkin, economic advisor to China, Germany and the European Union and author of the book The Green New Deal: Why The Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse, and The Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth.
Guest: Amitav Ghosh, author of Gun Island
Guest: Lewis Dartnell, Professor of Science Communication at the University of Westminster and author of Origins: How Earth’s History Shaped Human History.
Guest: Max Elbaum is a historian, author, and social activist. He has written extensively about the New Left, Civil Rights Movement and anti-war movement. He is the author of of Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che.
Guest: Gordon H. Chang is the Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities and Professor of History at Stanford University, where he also serves as Director of the Center for East Asian Studies and co director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project. He is the author of Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story … Continued
Guest: Richard Seymour is a writer, a broadcaster, and an activist. He is the author of book Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics. His writings can be found at Patreon.com
Guest: Jay Sexton is the Kinder Institute Chair in Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri and emeritus fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford University. Author of A Nation Forged by Crisis: A New American History.
Guest: Gerald Nicosia, journalist, and author of several books including Memory Babe and his latest Kerouac: The Last Quarter Century.
Guest: Peter Gatrell is a renowned historian of modern migration and a professor of economic history at the University of Manchester. He is the author of the book The Unsettling of Europe: How Migration Reshaped a Continent.
Letters and Politics – September 2, 2019
A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.