Guest: Dorothy Wickenden is the author of Nothing Daunted and The Agitators, and has been the executive editor of The New Yorker since January 1996. She also writes for the magazine and is the moderator of its weekly podcast The Political Scene.
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.
Guest: Claudio Saunt is Richard B. Russell Professor in American History and Co-Director of the Center for Virtual History at the University of Georgia. He is the author of four books, including West of the Revolution (2014), Black, White, and Indian (2005), and A New Order of Things (1999). His most recent book, Unworthy Republic (2020), was awarded the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist … Continued
Guest: Nobuko Miyamoto is a third-generation Japanese American songwriter, dance and theater artist, and activist, and is the Artistic Director of Great Leap. Her work has explored ways to reclaim and decolonize our minds, bodies, histories, and communities, using the arts to create social change and solidarity across cultural borders. Two of Nobuko’s albums are part of … Continued
Guest: David Harvey is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology & Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), the Director of Research at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics, and the author of numerous books, his latest is The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles. Professor Harvey has been teaching Karl Marx’s Capital for nearly 50 years. Follow him on … Continued
Guest: Pamela Haag is an award-winning nonfiction writer, essayist, cultural commentator, and historian. She has written several books including The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture.
Part 1 – The Return of the Mass Shootings Guest: Patrick Blanchfield is a writer and journalist who writes about gun violence, trauma, and masculinity. He is also an associate faculty member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. His book, Gunpower: The Structure of American Violence, will be released by Verso Books this coming … Continued
Part 1 – Access to the Ballot Box Guest: Steven Rosenfeld is the Editor and Chief Correspondent for Voting Booth, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Part 2 – Immigration at the Border Guest: Catherine Tactaquin, policy expert and analyst on immigration. She is the former director of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee … Continued
Guest: Celine Parreñas Shimizu is Director of the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University. She is the author of The Hypersexuality of Race (2007), Straitjacket Sexualities (2012) and her latest, The Proximity of Other Skins: Ethical Intimacy in Global Cinema.Her films include The Celine Archive (2019), The Fact of Asian Women (2004) and Birthright: Mothering Across Difference (2009).
Guest: Viet Thanh Nguyen is a Vietnamese- American author. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations. He is the author of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize The Sympathizer. He is also the author … Continued
Guest: Alice L. Baumgartner is assistant professor of history at the University of Southern California. She is the author of South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War.