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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
The history and psychology of solitary confinement with forensic psychiatrist Terry Kupers, professor at the Wright Institute Graduate School of Psychology. Ishmael Reed, renowned literary figure, on his book The Complete Muhammad Ali. About the book: More than a biography and ‘bigger than boxing’, The Complete Muhammad Ali is a fascinating portrait of the twentieth … Continued
Mike Smith, foreign correspondent for AFP news agency and former Western Africa bureau chief, based in Nigeria. He has extensively covered the Boko Haram insurgency and is author of the book Boko Haram: Inside Nigeria’s Unholy War. And Niles Eldredge, a paleontologist formerly on the curatorial staff of the American Museum of Natural History. He developed the theory of … Continued
With Abdel Bari Atwan, editor-in-chief of Rai al-Youm, an Arab world digital news and opinion website, and author of the book Islamic State: The Digital Caliphate. About the book: ISIS stunned the world when it overran an area the size of Great Britain on both sides of the Iraq-Syria border in a matter of weeks and proclaimed … Continued
From yesterday’s shooting deaths of the television crew in Virginia to police violence nationally and to ISIS executions, the internet is saturated with videos of extreme violence. Today, a perspective about media, social media and violence with Pat Blanchfield. He writes about gun culture, violence and politics on his blog Carte Blanchfield. Then, we’ll talk … Continued
A wide-ranging discussion on the history, understanding, and application of the 14th Amendment, which grants citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States.” In addition, it forbids states from denying any person “life, liberty or property, without due process of law” or to “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection … Continued
With Robert Pollin, American economist, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and founding co-director of its Political Economy Research Institute. And Gerard Roland, Belgian economist, and a professor of economics and political science at the University of California, Berkeley, on China’s transition to state capitalism from communism.
As tensions flare once again in the Korean Peninsula, we’ll look at the history of the Korean Conflict with Paul Liem, chair of the Korea Policy Institute.
David Kertzer, Professor of Social Science and Professor of Anthropology and Italian Studies at Brown University and author of The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe. About the book: The Pope and Mussolini tells the story of two men who came to power in 1922, … Continued
Sven Beckert, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History, Professor of History at Harvard University, and author of Empire of Cotton: A Global History. About the book: The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism. Cotton is … Continued
Chelsea Manning is facing a disciplinary board at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and could face solitary confinement for possessing unapproved reading material. We speak to one of Manning’s lawyers, Nancy Hollander, of the ACLU. Then, Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs, Emerita Professor of Medicine at Stanford University and author of Jonas Salk, A life. About the book: When a waiting … Continued
