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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Guests Jeff Spinner-Halev is the Kenan Eminent Professor of Political Ethics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of several books including his latest, Respect and Loathing in American Democracy: Polarization, Moralization, and the Undermining of Equality co-authored with Elizabeth Theiss-Morse. Elizabeth Theiss-Morse is the Willa Cather Professor of … Continued
Part I. Causes and Consequences of Homelessness in California Guest: Margot Kushel, MD is a Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco, She is the Director of the Principal Investigator of the California Statewide Study of People Experiencing Homelessness (CASPEH). Conducted by UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative (BHHI), (CASPEH) is the … Continued
Guest: Assaf Kfoury is a mathematician, computer scientist, and political activist. An Arab American of Lebanese-Palestinian background who grew up in Beirut and Cairo. Currently, he is a Professor of Computer Science at Boston University. He recently wrote Hamas: From Candidate Enforcer to Implacable Foe published by the International Union of Scientists. He is editor … Continued
Guest: David Dayen is the executive editor of The American Prospect. He is the author of several books including his latest, Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power (2020) and Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street’s Great Foreclosure Fraud (2016), which earned the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize. He won … Continued
Guest: John Nichols is the national affairs correspondent for The Nation Magazine. He is the author of several books including his latest co-written with Senator Bernie Sanders “It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism.”
Guest: Dean Baker is a Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). He is the author of several books, including Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer. Find his weekly commentary at Beat the Press. Photo by Vladimir Solomianyi … Continued
Guest: Kathleen DuVal is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she teaches early American and American Indian history. Her previous work includes Independence Lost, a finalist for the George Washington Prize, and The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent. She is a co-author of Give … Continued
Guest: Asaf Elia-Shalev is an Israeli American journalist. He is a staff writer for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and the author of the book, Israel’s Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation’s Founding Myth.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM7fb_nVqCg&t=2s Guest: Robert T. Mann is a former professor of mass communication at Louisiana State University and former Congressional aide to Senator Russell Long, Huey Long’s son. He is the author of several books including, Kingfish U: Huey Long and LSU. Feature photo: Senator Huey P. Long of Louisiana, 1935 on Wikimedia.
Guest: Miguel Tinker Salas is an Emeritus Professor of History and Chicana/o Latina/o Studies at Pomona College. He is the author of several books on Latin American history including Venezuela: What Everyone Needs to Know; The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela; co-editor of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez and the Decline of an Exceptional … Continued
