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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Mitch hosts a round table on the Presidential election results–the how and the why with: Adele M. Stan is a columnist for The American Prospect, and AlterNet‘s Washington editor. Rick Perlstein, is the author of The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan. Before that, he published Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the … Continued
with Dr. Richard Wolff, a renowned American Marxist economist, and Professor of Economics Emeritus, about the state of the world economy, politics in the US and his ideas for rewriting the economic script. His latest book is Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism.
with Antonio Gonzalez, President of The William C. Velasquez Institute, an organization dedicated to political and economic participation in Latino communities, and Beth Harris, founder of Black Box Voting, a national elections watchdog group. then with Ellen FitzPatrick, Professor and Historian, about the extraordinary Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for President, all the way back … Continued
Mitch and Economist Robert Reich have a wide-ranging conversation — from the Cubs winning the World Series to the looming Election and the quality of this Election season. Will Hillary Clinton win North Carolina, the Rust Belt, the Union vote? Reich, for 25 years, has been talking about inequality, the people who have been left … Continued
with John B. Judis, an American journalist, a senior writer at The National Journal, an editor-at-large at Talking Points Memo, a former senior editor at The New Republic. He is the author of many books. His latest is The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics. About the week: What’s happening in … Continued
with Heather Ann Thompson, Professor of History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and author of the new book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its’ Legacy, a finalist for the National Book Award. About the book: On September 9, 1971, nearly 1,300 prisoners took over the Attica Correctional … Continued
with Dave Levinthal, Senior Reporter for the Center for Public Integrity. His latest piece is “Hilary’s Big Money Machine Steams Toward Election Day”. and Dean Baker, economist and Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and author of the book Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to … Continued
with Peter Fritzsche, Professor of History at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and author of many books. His latest is An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler. About the book: World War II reached into the homes and lives of ordinary people in an unprecedented way. Civilian men, women, and children made up the vast majority of … Continued
with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, an assistant professor of African American History at the University of Florida. He is an accomplished author. His second book, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, was recently released by Nation Books. About the book: In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the … Continued
with Akhil Reed Amar, Sterling Professor of Law at Yale University, renowned legal thinker, and the author of many books. His latest is The Constitution Today: Timeless Lessons for the Issues of Our Era. About the book: In The Constitution Today, Akhil Reed Amar, America’s preeminent constitutional scholar, considers the biggest and most bitterly contested debates … Continued
