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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: Andrew Fiala is professor of philosophy and director of the Center for Ethics at California State University, Fresno. He is the author of a number of books, including a widely used ethics textbook, Ethics: Theory and Contemporary Issues, 9th edition (co-authored with Barbara MacKinnon). His latest book is Tyranny from Plato to Trump: Fools, Sycophants, … Continued
Guest: Michael Lewis is the best-selling author of Liar’s Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side, The Big Short, The Undoing Project, The Fifth Risk and his latest, The Premonition: A Pandemic Story. He is the host of the podcast, Against the Rules.
Guest: Moon-Ho Jung is Professor of History at the University of Washington and the author of Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation, and most recently, Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State.
Guest: Valerie Hansen is the Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University, where she teaches Chinese and world history. She is the author of The Silk Road: A New History and The Open Empire, her latest is The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World, and Globalization Began.
Guest: Christian Smith is an independent researcher based in Berlin and he is the author of the book Shakespeare’s Influence on Karl Marx: The Shakespearean Roots of Marxism. Photo: Canaletto on Wikimedia
Guest: Andrew Feinstein is Founding Director of Shadow World Investigations. He is the author of The Shadow World and After the Party and he was the writer for the 2016 documentary film also called The Shadow World.
Part 1. The Politics Behind Confirming Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Guest: John Nichols is National Affairs Correspondent for The Nation and author of several books including Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers: Accountability for Those Who Caused the Crisis. Part 2. Sentencing Child Pornographers Guest: Alissa Ackerman is a professor of criminal justice at CSU Fullerton … Continued
Guest: Richard Wolff is a renown Marxist economist and host of Economic Update. He also teaches at the New School University and is the co-founder of Democracy At Work. Photo credit: Richard Wolff at the People’s Forum, 2018.
Part 1. Another View of the War with Medea Benjamin. Guest: Medea Benjamin is an Anti-War activist and co-founder of Code Pink. She is the author of Drone Warfare (OR Books, 2012), Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S.-Saudi Connection (OR Books, 2016), and, Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic … Continued
Guest: Bill Weinberg is an award-winning 30-year veteran journalist in the fields of human rights, indigenous peoples, drug policy, ecology and war. He is the author of Homage to Chiapas: The New Indigenous Struggles in Mexico (Verso Books, 2000), among other books. He covers world affairs as he describes from a dissident-left point of view on his website … Continued
