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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
With John Cassidy, columnist at the New Yorker and author of Dot.Con: How America Lost its Mind and Money in the Internet Age. About the Book: The Internet stock bubble wasn’t just about goggle-eyed day traders trying to get rich on the Nasdaq and goateed twenty-five-year-olds playing wannabe Bill Gates. It was also about an … Continued
With Suzy Kim, Associate Professor of Korean History at Rutgers University and author of the book Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945–1950. About the book: During the founding of North Korea, competing visions of an ideal modern state proliferated. Independence and democracy were touted by all, but plans for the future of North Korea … Continued
With Larry Siems, human writes activist, writer, and editor of Guantanamo Diary, a handwritten memoir by Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi, of what he calls his “endless world tour” of detention and interrogation — an odyssey that began when he turned himself in for questioning in his native Mauritania in November 2001, and included renditions to Jordan, … Continued
With Laleh Khalili, author of the book Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies, on the film The Battle of Algiers. About the film: is a 1966 war film based on occurrences during the Algerian War (1954–62) against the French government in North Africa, the most prominent being the titular Battle of Algiers. An Italo-Algerian production, it was directed by … Continued
Listen to excerpts of the Richard Wolff speech at KFCF Fresno Annual Banquet 10/24/15. Richard Wolff, Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the New School University in New York City. He is host the the radio show Economic Update … Continued
About the Film: What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance we’ll ever get to build a better world? Filmed over 211 shoot days in nine countries and five continents over four years, This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. The film presents seven portraits … Continued
Excerpts from the film The Untold History of the United States and a Q&A with Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznik. About the series: There is a classified America we were never meant to see. From Academy Award-winning writer/director Oliver Stone, this ten-part documentary series looks back at human events that at the time went under … Continued
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With Michael Backes, specialist in cannabis science and policy issues at a southern California consultancy. He previously founded the first evidence-based medical cannabis dispensary. He’s author of the book Cannabis Pharmacy: The Practical Guide to Medical Marijuana. About the book: There are currently 4.2 million medical cannabis patients in the United States, and there are 20 states … Continued
With Laleh Khalili, author of the book Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies, on the film The Battle of Algiers. About the film: is a 1966 war film based on occurrences during the Algerian War (1954–62) against the French government in North Africa, the most prominent being the titular Battle of Algiers. An Italo-Algerian production, it was directed by … Continued
