Guest: Robert Elder, professor of history at Baylor University. Author of the book Calhoun: American Heretic.
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: Nelson Lichtenstein is Research Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His books include State of the Union: A Century of American Labor, and his latest, A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism coauthored with Judith Stein (1940–2017).
Guest: John Ganz (@lionel_trolling) writes the widely acclaimed Unpopular Front newsletter for Substack. He is the author of When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s.
Guest: DW Gibson is the author of several books including The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification in the Twenty-First Century, 14 Miles: Building the Border Wall, Not Working: People Talk About Losing a Job and Finding Their Way in Today’s Changing Economy, and his latest, One Week To Change the World: … Continued
Guest: Manisha Sinha is the Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition which won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, and her latest, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920.
Part I. Joseph Stiglitz vs Friedrich von Hayek: One Nobel Prize Winning Economist Takes On Another Guest: Joseph E. Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize–winning economist. He served as chief economist of the World Bank. Currently, he teaches at Columbia University and a Senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. He is the author of several books … Continued
Ari Berman is the national voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones and a reporting fellow at Type Media Center. He’s the author of several books including, Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America; Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics; and his latest, Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on … Continued
Guest: Anthony D’Agostino is an Emeritus Professor of History at San Francisco State University. He is an expert on the history of the Russian Revolution and the Cold War and the author of several books including Soviet Succession Struggles: Kremlinology and the Russian Question from Lenin to Gorbachev published in 1988 and republished in 2024. … Continued
Guest: Keith O’Brien is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist. He is the author of Paradise Falls, Fly Girls, Outside Shot, and his latest, Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball.
Guest: John Nichols is the national affairs correspondent for The Nation Magazine. He is the author of several books including his latest, co-written with Senator Bernie Sanders, “It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism.” His Latest piece in the Nation is: Donald Trump Was Convicted Because of Democracy—Not in Spite of It Photo (C): … Continued