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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Luddites of the 19th Century with Peter Linebaugh, an American Marxist historian who specializes in British history, Irish history, labor history, and the history of the colonial Atlantic. He is the author of the pamphlet Ned Ludd & Queen Mab: Machine-Breaking, Romanticism, and the Several Commons of 1811-12. Invest in listener-sponsored KPFA! BOOK … Continued
Professor Ganesh Sitaraman, author of The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic, joins host Mitch Jeserich in conversation about why income inequality is not only unfair but threatens our very republic. Ganesh Sitaraman is a Professor of Law at Vanderbilt Law School and long-time advisor to Senator Elizabeth Warren. Follow Professor … Continued
On today’s show, we are in conversation with Bart D. Ehrman, renowned religious scholar and author of the book The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World, about the spread of Christianity throughout the Western world. He relates the history of how the Roman Empire went from being a polytheistic pagan society, that now and … Continued
Yanis Varoufakis has been at the center of the Greek economic crisis for as long as it has been going on. Though out of the news it is still a reality for the people living in Greece and Europe. In 2014 Yanis Varoufakis helped propel the leftist party Syriza into power as his country was … Continued
Although corporations never marched on Washington, they employed many of the same strategies of many civil rights struggles: civil disobedience, test cases, and legal claims made in a purposeful effort to reshape the law. Adam Winkler, author of “We The Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights,” joins host Mitch Jeserich in conversation … Continued
Mitch Jeserich is in conversation with Dr. Marsha B. Cohen talking about the history of the US-Israeli relations and how it pertains to Palestine including the issue of moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Marsha B. Cohen is an independent scholar, lecturer, and news analyst who specializes in Middle Easterner social history and religion. Support Your Station! Click … Continued
Today on the 70th anniversary of Israel’s declaration of independence, the US moved its embassy to Jerusalem while Israeli soldiers have killed dozens of Palestinians and wounded thousands who were protesting and trying to cross the Gaza border. We hear excerpts from a speech of scholar Norman Finkelstein on how holding Israel to human rights … Continued
We are in conversation with Vijay Prashad to talk about the origins and the political history of the twentieth-century attempt to knit together the world’s impoverished countries in opposition to the United States and Soviet spheres of influence in the decades following World War II. Vijay Prashad is Professor of International Studies at Trinity College, where … Continued
Marking the bicentennial of the birth of Karl Marx, we continue our series of conversations about Marxist ideas and their influence in history. Today we talk to the renowned economist, Richard Wolff to talk about the period when Marx was writing the communist manifesto, his long exile in England and his writing of Das Capital. Invest … Continued
Karl Marx remains the most influential and controversial political thinker in history. He has been viewed as a philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, even a literary craftsman. But who was Marx? What informed his critiques of modern society? And as new generations are discovering Marx after the aftermath of the recurrent financial crisis, social … Continued
