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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Guest: Gordon H. Chang is the Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities and Professor of History at Stanford University, where he also serves as Director of the Center for East Asian Studies and co director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project. He is the author of Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story … Continued
Guest: Richard Seymour is a writer, a broadcaster, and an activist. He is the author of book Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics. His writings can be found at Patreon.com
Guest: Jay Sexton is the Kinder Institute Chair in Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri and emeritus fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford University. Author of A Nation Forged by Crisis: A New American History.
Guest: Gerald Nicosia, journalist, and author of several books including Memory Babe and his latest Kerouac: The Last Quarter Century.
Guest: Peter Gatrell is a renowned historian of modern migration and a professor of economic history at the University of Manchester. He is the author of the book The Unsettling of Europe: How Migration Reshaped a Continent.
A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Guest: P. E. Moskowitz is a journalist and the author of the book How to Kill a City and his latest The Case Against Free Speech: The First Amendment, Fascism, and the Future of Dissent.
Guest: Dean Baker, Visiting Professor at the University of Utah and Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Guest: Josh Levin, national editor at Slate and the host of the sports podcast Hang Up and Listen. He is the author of the book The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth.
Ganesh Sitaraman is a long time policy adviser to Senator Elizabeth Warren and professor of law at Vanderbilt University. He is arguing for the creation of more public options even beyond healthcare in order to fill the gaps left by market base solutions. He is the co-author, with Harvard Professor Anne Alstott, of the book The … Continued
Renowned and radical anthropologist David Graeber joins us for a conversation about time and how the concept of time has evolved to be used in order to control people through hourly paid jobs. Now many of those jobs are not even necessary for a functioning society. David Graeber, well known for his role in jump-starting … Continued
