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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
We’re on live with Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, activist, author, Presbyterian minister, and the best-selling author of several books including War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002)—a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction—Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009), Death of the … Continued
Richard Rothstein is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute and senior fellow of the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy at the University of California Berkeley School of Law. His newest report is From Ferguson to Baltimore: The Fruits of Government-Sponsored Segregation. And Rad American Women A-Z, written by … Continued
Alan Watts, British-born philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Eastern Philosophy for a Western audience.
B. Lynn Ingram is Professor of Geography and Earth and Planetary Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Frances Malamud-Roam is an Associate Environmental Planner and Biologist at Caltrans, and visiting scholar in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at the University of California, Berkeley. They co-wrote The West without Water: What Past Floods, … Continued
Michelle Alexander is an associate professor of law at Ohio State University, a civil rights advocate and author of the book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. About the book: The New Jim Crow is a stunning account of the rebirth of a caste-like system in the United States, one … Continued
With Mark Blyth, Scottish political scientist, professor of international political economy at Brown University, and author of several books including his most recent Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea. About the Book: Politicians today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the … Continued
Andrew Hodges is a British mathematician and author of the definitive biography of Alan Turing, Alan Turing: The Enigma. The 2014 movie, The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, is based on Hodges’ book. About the book: It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved … Continued
On the second day of KPFA’s May Fund Drive: Mark Potok is a senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center and a contributor to the center’s recent report The Age of the Wolf. The Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama is a nonprofit organization that arose from the anti-segregation movement to counter extremism … Continued
Kicking off the first day of our May Fund Drive with a tribute to Eduardo Galeano, a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist considered, among other things, “global soccer’s pre-eminent man of letters” and “a literary giant of the Latin American left.”
With Sam Quinones, journalist and author of the book Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic. The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review has called Quinones “the most original writer on Mexico and the border.” His new book is about the opiate trade.
