Host Mitch Jeserich in conversation with listeners about elections 2024. Photo by rawpixel.com
Letters and Politics
10:00 AM Pacific Time: Monday - Thursday
Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Host Mitch Jeserich in conversation with listeners about elections 2024. Photo by visuals on Unsplash
Guest: Paola Caridi is a journalist, historian, and the author of Hamas: From Resistance To Government (2nd edition, translated to English).
Guests: Charles Derber is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. He has written several books on politics, democracy, fascism, corporations, capitalism, climate change, war, the culture wars, and social change, most recently, he is the co-author with Yale Magrass of Who Owns Democracy? The Real Deep State and the Struggle Over Class and Caste in America. … Continued
Guest: Gideon Levy is an Israeli journalist and author. He writes regularly for Haaretz with a focus on the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. Most recently, he is the author of The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe. He has won a number of humanitarian awards for his work on the Israel/Palestine conflict including … Continued
Guest: Corey Brettschneider is a professor of constitutional law and politics at Brown University. He is the author of The Oath and the Office and his latest, The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It.
Guest: Barry C. Lynn is the executive director of the Open Market Institute, the author of Liberty from All Masters, and a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine. His latest article THE ANTITRUST REVOLUTION: Liberal Democracy’s last stand against Big Tech can be found here. Featured image: Harper’s Magazine Cover Story, October, 2024
Guest: Zinga A. Fraser is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at Brooklyn College and Director of the Shirley Chisholm Project on Brooklyn Women’s Activism. She is the author of Shirley Chisholm in Her Own Words: Speeches and Writings.
Guest: Nathan J. Robinson is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Current Affairs magazine. He is the author of Why You Should Be a Socialist, Responding to the Right, and his latest, The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World co-authored with Noam Chomsky, Professor Emeritus at MIT and Laureate Professor at … Continued
Part 1. Fascism, History, and Education Guest: Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He is the author of many books, including How Fascism Works; How Propaganda Works; and his latest, Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future. Part 2. Silicon Valley’s Techno-Feudalism Guest: Cédric Durand is Professor of Political Economy … Continued