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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 Jimena Canales, Professor of History of Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and author of the book The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time. And Gerry Spence, trial lawyer who has been practicing law since 1952 and author of Police State: How America’s Cops Get Away with Murder. … Continued
Annie Jacobsen, The Pentagon’s Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America’s Top-Secret Military Research Agency
Nelson Denis, author of War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America’s Colony About the book: “In 1950, after over fifty years of military occupation and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico staged an unsuccessful armed insurrection against the United States. Violence swept through the island: assassins were sent to kill … Continued
With James E. Strick, Associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Environment and Chair of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Franklin and Marshall College. About the book: Psychoanalyst, political theorist, pioneer of body therapies, prophet of the sexual revolution—all fitting titles, but Wilhelm Reich has never been recognized as a serious laboratory scientist, … Continued
With John Cassidy, columnist at the New Yorker and author of Dot.Con: How America Lost its Mind and Money in the Internet Age. About the Book: The Internet stock bubble wasn’t just about goggle-eyed day traders trying to get rich on the Nasdaq and goateed twenty-five-year-olds playing wannabe Bill Gates. It was also about an … Continued
With Suzy Kim, Associate Professor of Korean History at Rutgers University and 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 … Continued
With Larry Siems, human writes activist, writer, and editor of Guantanamo Diary, a handwritten memoir by Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi, of what he calls his “endless world tour” of detention and interrogation — an odyssey that began when he turned himself in for questioning in his native Mauritania in November 2001, and included renditions to Jordan, … Continued
With Laleh Khalili, author of the book Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies, on the film The Battle of Algiers. About the film: is a 1966 war film based on occurrences during the Algerian War (1954–62) against the French government in North Africa, the most prominent being the titular Battle of Algiers. An Italo-Algerian production, it was directed by … Continued
Listen to excerpts of the Richard Wolff speech at KFCF Fresno Annual Banquet 10/24/15. Richard Wolff, Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the New School University in New York City. He is host the the radio show Economic Update … Continued
About the Film: What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance we’ll ever get to build a better world? Filmed over 211 shoot days in nine countries and five continents over four years, This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. The film presents seven portraits … Continued
