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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
With Gerald Russell, former British and United Nations diplomat, who spent 14 years representing Britain in the Middle East. His book Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East is featured as part of the Letters and Politics Religion Pack Interviews offered on the current KPFA fund drive. Other interviews featured on … Continued
With Arlie Russell Hochschild author of the book Strangers in Their Own Land Anger and Mourning on the American Right. About the book: In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country—a stronghold of the conservative … Continued
With Robert Warrior, professor of American Studies and English at the University of Kansas. Warrior is co-author of Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee with Paul Chaat Smith. About the book: It’s the mid-1960s, and everyone is fighting back. Black Americans are fighting for civil rights, the counterculture is … Continued
Studs Terkel, historian, actor, and broadcaster. Terkel was acclaimed for his efforts to preserve American oral history. His 1985 book “The Good War”: An Oral History of World War Two, which detailed ordinary peoples’ accounts of the country’s involvement in World War II, won the Pullitzer Prize. For Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression, Terkel … Continued
With Adele Stan, Washington editor at AlterNet; columnist at The American Prospect. Peter Montgomery, senior fellow at People For the American Way and a freelance writer where he contributes to the Right Wing Watch blog, and is an associate editor at Religion Dispatches, where he writes a weekly column on global developments at the intersection … Continued
With Paul Taylor, former Executive Vice President of the Pew Research Center. Taylor was president and board chairman of the Alliance for Better Campaigns, which sought to reduce the cost and improve the content of political campaign communication on television. For 25 years, Taylor was a newspaper reporter, the last 14 with The Washington Post. He … Continued
With Suzy Kim, professor of Korean History at Rutgers University. Author of the book Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950. About the book: During the founding of North Korea, competing visions of an ideal modern state proliferated. Independence and democracy were touted by all, but plans for the future of North Korea differed … Continued
With James S. Henry, senior advisor to the Tax Justice Network, a global justice fellow at Yale, a senior fellow at the Columbia University Center for Sustainable investment and former chief economist of McKinsey and Company. Henry‘s books include The Blood Bankers: Tales from the Global Underground Economy and The Pirate Bankers.
With Adam Kokesh, libertarian activist who plans to run as presidental nominay with the Libertarian Party in 2020. Kokesh is an Iraq war veteran well known for his anti-war activism which has envolved numerous arrests including for dancing with Medea Benjamin. Kokesh is author the book Freedom!.
With journalist and author Deena Stryker. During the 1960’s Stryker traveled to Cuba and interviewed Fidel Castro, Raul Castro, Che Guevara, and Celia Sanchez. Deena Stryker just published her diary from this period Cuba: Diary of a Revolution, Inside the Cuban Revolution with Fidel, Raul, Che, and Celia Sanchez. We talked to Deena about Cuba today. About … Continued
