Guest: Miri Rubin, Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History at Queen Mary University of London. Happy Birthday KPFA!! We want you and thank you for all you have done!!
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: Micah Uetricht is the Managing Editor of Jacobin Magazine, host of the Jacobin Radio podcast The Vast Majority. He is the author of Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity. Most recently, he co-authored with Meagan Day the book Bigger than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism. He is … Continued
Guest: Ganesh Sitaraman is chancellor’s faculty fellow, professor of law, and director of the Program in Law and Government at Vanderbilt Law School. He is co-founder of The Great Democracy Initiative and the author of several books including The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution, and most recently, The Great Democracy: How to Fix Our Politics, … Continued
Guest: Bart D. Ehrman is a Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Professor Ehrman is a leading authority on the New Testament and the history of early Christianity, and the author of several books, including Misquoting Jesus, How Jesus Became God, The Triumph of Christianity, and his latest Heaven … Continued
Guest: Richard Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a Visiting Professor at the New School University in New York. His latest book is Understanding Socialism. Richard Wolff is the founder of the non-profit: Democracy at Work. He’s also the host of the TV and Radio show Economic Update … Continued
Guest: Yanis Varoufakis is the former finance minister of Greece and the co-founder of the international grassroots movement, DiEM25, that is campaigning for the revival of democracy in Europe. He is the author of And the Weak Suffer What They Must? and The Global Minotaur. Currently, he is a professor of economics at the University of Athens.
Guest: Sylvia Allegretto is a labor economist and co-chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics, which is housed at UC Berkeley’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. Guest: John Nichols is the Washington Correspondent for the Nation Magazine. He is the author of several books including Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse and … Continued
Guest: Aaron Glantz is a Peabody Award-winning radio, print and television journalist. He is a senior reporter at Reveal and the author of several books including his latest, Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream.
Guest: John Tarleton is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He is the current editor of the newspaper The Indypendent in New-York. Guest: Ernesto Arce is an award-winning, independent journalist from Los Angeles. He currently serves as the news producer and Los Angeles Bureau Chief for KPFK, part of the … Continued
Guest: Constitutional scholar Alan Hirsch is an instructor in the Humanities and Chair of the Justice and Law Studies program at Williams College. He is the author of a number of books including Impeaching the President: Past, Present, and Future and For the People: What the Constitution Really Says About Your Rights. His latest is A … Continued