In this episode, host Mitch Jeserich speaks with Professor of Economics from Columbia University Richard D. Wolff about the current state of the globalized capitalist system and more.
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.
In this episode, host Mitch Jeserich speaks with renowned UC Berkeley Linguistics Professor George Lakoff, about the effectiveness of Trump’s political language, and the neuroscience of how to combat it.
In this episode, host Mitch Jeserich speaks with A. Brad Schwartz, author of Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News, about the original fake news broadcast. We also play clips of the 1938 War of the World’s broadcast.
In this episode host Mitch Jeserich speaks with John Nichols of the Nation Magazine about Trump’s new nominee for Secretary of Labor, Alexander Acosta after Andrew Puzder withdrew his nomination.
In this episode host Mitch Jeserich speaks with Victor Silverman, Professor of US and International history at Pomona College. He is co-author of California (On the Road Histories). Prof. Silverman is also an Emmy-award winning filmmaker. His latest film “Getting High,” a personal reflexion on family, addiction, and the criminal justice system, will be available … Continued
In this episode host Mitch Jeserich speaks with Mel Goodman, the Director of the National Security Project at the Center for International Policy, about Michael Flynn’s resignation and the history of the National Security Adviser position. Goodman was a CIA intelligence analyst for over twenty years and Division Chief of the Office of Soviet affairs for ten … Continued
On today’s show, we talk to Jean Felzer (professor of Asian studies and English at the University of Delaware) and Gabriel Jack Chin (professor of law at UC Davis) about Chae Chan Ping, the Chinese Exclusion Act, and immigration law in the United States. Source: Flickr
On today’s show, we talk to California Senators Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris about the current political landscape and resisting Trump. Then, we hear an interview with Ira Shapiro (author and international trade lawyer) about the weakening of congressional ability to provide checks and balances.
In this episode, host Mitch Jeserich speaks with Jared Bernstein, former Chief Economist and Economic Adviser to Vice President Joseph Biden, about the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the state of the US economy. Then he speaks with Joel Friedman, Vice President for Federal Fiscal Policy at the Center on Budget … Continued
In this episode Mitch Jeserich speaks with Sabrina Siddiqui, a political reporter with the Guardian US in Washington D.C., about how the political system is absorbing the shocks coming from Trump’s administration.