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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: Alan Hirsch, Constitutional scholar and instructor in the Humanities and Chair of the Justice and Law Studies program at Williams College. He is the author of A Short History of Presidential Election Crises: (And How to Prevent the Next One) [City Lights Open Media, February 27, 2020]
Guest: Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He is an expert on far-right authoritarianism, fascist politics, and philosophy. Professor Stanley is the author of several books, including How Propaganda Works, and How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them. He also serves on the board of the Prison … Continued
Guest: John Nichols is the Washington correspondent for The Nation magazine, a contributing writer for the Progressive and In These Times, and the associate editor of Madison, Wisconsin’s Capital Times. He’s the author of several books, including The Death and Life of American Journalism, The Genius of Impeachment and The “S” Word and his most recent The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic … Continued
Guest: John Nichols, author of The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party: The Enduring Legacy of Henry Wallace’s Anti-Fascist, Anti-Racist Politics.
Part 1: Government COVID-19 Aid May Dry Up Guest: Ro Khanna, Democratic Representative who represents California’s 17th Congressional District, located in the Silicon Valley. Part 2: The Depiction of Disability in Film Through Time. Guest: Lawrence Carter-Long, disability rights activist and film buff. He is the Director of Communications for the Disability Rights Education … Continued
Guest: Emily L. Quint Freeman, author of Failure to Appear: Resistance, Identity and Loss. In 1969 in Chicago Emily L Quint Freemen broke into a military draft board office and destroyed 40 thousand draft records–potentially saving the lives of many men who would may have otherwise been drafted to serve in Vietnam. The act forced … Continued
Part 1: DHS Moves to Stop Domestic Protests. Guest: Karen J. Greenberg is director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School. She is the author of several books, most recently, Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State. She is a contributor to the Nation Magazine where you can find her latest writings. Part 2: … Continued
Guest: Stephanie Kelton is a professor of economics and public policy at Stony Brook University. She is a leading expert on Modern Monetary Theory and a former Chief Economist on the U.S. Senate Budget Committee. Author of The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy.
Guest: Manisha Sinha, the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut and author of The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition.
Guest: Sonia Shah is a science journalist and contributor to the Nation Magazine. She is the author of PANDEMIC: Tracking Contagion from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond, and most recently, The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move. Her latest article in the Nation is It’s Time to Tell the … Continued
