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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: William Bauer, professor of history at the University of Nevada Las Vegas where he is the Director of American Indian & Indigenous Studies. He is also a citizen of the Round Valley Reservation in northern California. He is the co-author of the book We Are the Land: A History of Native California. Previously he … Continued
Part I. Analysis on the infrastructure bill Guest: John Nichols is the Washington Correspondent for the Nation Magazine. He is the author of several books including his latest, “The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party: The Enduring Legacy of Henry Wallace’s Anti-Fascist, Anti-Racist Politics”. His latest pieces can be found in The Nation.com … Continued
Guest: Sarah Schulman is a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at College of Staten Island, a Fellow at the New York Institute of Humanities. She is also the cofounder of the MIX New York LGBT Experimental Film and Video Festival, and the co-director of the groundbreaking ACT UP Oral History Project. Professor Schulman is the author … Continued
Guest: Geoff Manaugh is a regular contributor for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Wired, and other publications. He is the coauthor, with Nicola Twilley, of Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine. Featured photo by Nicola Twilley. In the photo, Geoff Manaugh and Dr. Luigi Bertinato wearing plague gear … Continued
Part I – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Sexual Harassment Investigation Guest: Ross Barkan is a award-winning journalist, a columnist for the Guardian and Jacobin and a contributor for the Nation Magazine. He is the author the book The Prince: Andrew Cuomo, Coronavirus, and the Fall of New York. Part II – The Remarkable … Continued
Part I – The Politics of the Eviction Moratorium and Infrastructure Bill Guest: David Dayen is the executive editor of The American Prospect. He is the author of the latest book Monopolized: Life in an Age of Corporate Power and Chain of Title, winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize for a first book in the public interest (both … Continued
Guest: Laura Dassow Walls is the author of the book Henry David Thoreau: A Life, a biography of the naturalist, inventor and activist. He left behind a monumental legacy in addition to his essay Civil Disobedience, a paean to human freedom. Two hundred years after his birth, Walls restores Henry David Thoreau to us in all his profound, inspiring complexity. … Continued
Guest: John Nichols is the Washington correspondent for The Nation magazine, a contributing writer for the Progressive and In These Times, and the associate editor of Madison, Wisconsin’s Capital Times. He’s the author of several books, including The Death and Life of American Journalism, The Genius of Impeachment and The “S” Word and, The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party: The Enduring Legacy … Continued
Guest: Peter Afrasiabi is an Intellectual Property and Entertainment lawyer and a Faculty member at the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. He is Director of the Appellate Litigation Clinic at the University of California Irvine, School of Law. He is the author of the book Burning Bridges: America’s 20-Year Crusade To Deport Labor Leader Harry Bridges. SUPPORT KPFA! Donate TODAY
Guest: James Q. Whitman is Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale Law School. His books include Harsh Justice, The Origins of Reasonable Doubt, The Verdict of Battle, and his latest, Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law. SUPPORT KPFA! Donate TODAY
