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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 Mark Blyth, Scottish political scientist, professor of international political economy at Brown University, and author of several books including his most recent Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea. About the Book: Politicians today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the … Continued
Andrew Hodges is a British mathematician and author of the definitive biography of Alan Turing, Alan Turing: The Enigma. The 2014 movie, The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, is based on Hodges’ book. About the book: It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved … Continued
On the second day of KPFA’s May Fund Drive: Mark Potok is a senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center and a contributor to the center’s recent report The Age of the Wolf. The Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama is a nonprofit organization that arose from the anti-segregation movement to counter extremism … Continued
Kicking off the first day of our May Fund Drive with a tribute to Eduardo Galeano, a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist considered, among other things, “global soccer’s pre-eminent man of letters” and “a literary giant of the Latin American left.”
With Sam Quinones, journalist and author of the book Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic. The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review has called Quinones “the most original writer on Mexico and the border.” His new book is about the opiate trade.
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on inequality, the TPP, rent, and more. His new book of essays, The Great Divide, is out now. About the book: How has America become the most unequal advanced country in the world, and what can we do about it? In The Great Divide, Joseph E. Stiglitz expands on the … Continued
Megan Garber, staff writer at the Atlantic. Her most recent piece is The History of ‘Thug’ : The surprisingly ancient and global etymology of a racially charged epithet. Elizabeth Nix, assistant professor of Legal, Ethical and Historical Studies at the University of Baltimore and co-author of the book Baltimore ’68: Riots and Rebirth in an … Continued
Dayvon Love, Director of Research and Public Policy for Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle and resident of Northwest Baltimore City. Stephen Janis, Baltimore-based investigative reporter with The Real News and author of You Can’t Stop Murder: Truths About Policing in Baltimore and Beyond. Peniel Joseph, author of Stokely: A Life.
How geography shapes interpretation of the US constitution. Tomorrow the US Supreme Court will begin hearing oral arguments on marriage equality in four cases consolidated under the name Obergefell v. Hodges. We’ll talk about that and more with Yale Political Science Professor Akhil Reed Amar, author of the new book The Law of the Land: … Continued
Alexander Harcourt, Professor Emeritus at UC Davis and author of the forthcoming book Humankind: How Biology and Geography Shape Human Diversity. And social justice advocate Hilary Klein, author of Compañeras: Zapatista Women’s Stories, about women’s involvement in the Zapatista movement, the indigenous rebellion in Chiapas, Mexico.
