Guest: Laura Shin is a writer, crypto journalist, and podcaster. A former senior editor at Forbes, host of the podcast Unchained and Unconfirmed and author of the book The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze.
Letters and Politics
10:00 AM Pacific Time: Monday-Thursday
Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Part I. Constance Baker Motley: Civil Rights Queen Guest: Tomiko Brown-Nagin is Dean of Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School, and Professor of History at Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She is the author of Courage to Dissent that won the … Continued
Guest: Rachel E. Gross is an award-winning science journalist and the author of the latest book Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage. She writes for BBC Future, the New York Times, and Scientific American.
Part 1. What Is A War Crime? Guest: Rebecca Gordon, teaches at the University of San Francisco. She is the author of Mainstreaming Torture, American Nuremberg: The U.S. Officials Who Should Stand Trial for Post-9/11 War Crimes and is currently working on a new book about the history of torture in the United States called The House That … Continued
Guest: Andrew Fiala is professor of philosophy and director of the Center for Ethics at California State University, Fresno. He is the author of a number of books, including a widely used ethics textbook, Ethics: Theory and Contemporary Issues, 9th edition (co-authored with Barbara MacKinnon). His latest book is Tyranny from Plato to Trump: Fools, Sycophants, … Continued
Guest: Michael Lewis is the best-selling author of Liar’s Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side, The Big Short, The Undoing Project, The Fifth Risk and his latest, The Premonition: A Pandemic Story. He is the host of the podcast, Against the Rules.
Guest: Moon-Ho Jung is Professor of History at the University of Washington and the author of Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation, and most recently, Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State.
Guest: Valerie Hansen is the Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University, where she teaches Chinese and world history. She is the author of The Silk Road: A New History and The Open Empire, her latest is The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World, and Globalization Began.
Guest: Christian Smith is an independent researcher based in Berlin and he is the author of the book Shakespeare’s Influence on Karl Marx: The Shakespearean Roots of Marxism. Photo: Canaletto on Wikimedia
Guest: Andrew Feinstein is Founding Director of Shadow World Investigations. He is the author of The Shadow World and After the Party and he was the writer for the 2016 documentary film also called The Shadow World.