KPFA - Letters and Politics
Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Episodes
May 20, 2024 • 59 mins
Mitch Jeserich reads from Thoreau’s Essay Civil Disobedience.
Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay “Civil Disobedience” (originally published as “Resistance to Civil Government”), an argument in favor of citizen disobedienc...
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May 16, 2024 • 59 mins
Guest: Amy Tan is the author of several novels, including The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter’s Daughter. She is a co-producer and co-screenwriter of the film version of The Joy Luck Club and is on the board of American Bird Conservancy. Her latest book is The Backyard Bird Chronicles.
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May 15, 2024 • 59 mins
Guest: Gray Brechin has worked as a journalist and television producer and is coauthor of Farewell, Promised Land: Waking from the California Dream; and Imperial San Francisco, With a New Preface: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin.
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May 14, 2024 • 59 mins
Guest: Yanis Varoufakis is an economist and academic, a bestselling author, and the former finance minister of Greece. He is a co-founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025. His books include And the Weak Suffer What They Must? and Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, and his latest, Technofeudalism: WHAT KILLED CAPITALISM.
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May 13, 2024 • 59 mins
Guest: Brian Merchant is a journalist focusing on technology and the future of work. He is the author of The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone, and his latest, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech. He is also a founder of Terraform, Vice’s science fiction outlet.
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May 9, 2024 • 59 mins
Guest: Ilan Pappe is Professor of History, Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter, UK. He is the author of A History of Modern Palestine.
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May 8, 2024 • 59 mins
Guest: Benjamin Balthaser is an associate professor of multi-ethnic US literature at Indiana University, South Bend. He is the author of Anti-Imperialism Modernism: Race and Transnational Radical Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War, and Dedication, a personal history of growing up in a Jewish “red diaper” family. His forthcoming book from Verso, Citizens of the Whole World: The American Jewish Left and Cultures of A...
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May 7, 2024 • 59 mins
Guest: Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has reported from more than 50 countries. He spent 15 years at The New York Times as a foreign correspondent and bureau chief and is the author of several books, including his latest The Greatest Evil Is War. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University, The University of Toronto, and in the New Jersey prison system. He is the host o...
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May 6, 2024 • 59 mins
Guest: Angela Garcia is an anthropologist and writer. She is the author of the book, The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession Along the Rio Grande, and her latest, The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City’s Anexos.
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May 2, 2024 • 59 mins
Guest: Robert Cohen is a Professor of history and social studies at New York University. He is the author of several books including, Howard Zinn’s Southern Diary: Sit-ins, Civil Rights, and Black Women’s Student Activism and co-author with Sonia E. Murrow of Rethinking America’s Past: Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States in the Classroom and Beyond.
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May 1, 2024 • 59 mins
A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
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April 30, 2024 • 59 mins
Guest: Gray Brechin has worked as a journalist and television producer and is coauthor of Farewell, Promised Land: Waking from the California Dream; and Imperial San Francisco, With a New Preface: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin.
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April 29, 2024 • 59 mins
Guest: Asaf Elia-Shalev is an Israeli American journalist. He is a staff writer for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and the author of the book, Israel’s Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation’s Founding Myth.
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April 25, 2024 • 59 mins
Guests:
Michael Isikoff is an award-winning Washington investigative journalist and the author of three New York Times bestsellers: Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter’s Story; Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal and the Selling of the Iraq War (with David Corn); and Russian Roulette (also with David Corn). His latest coauthored with Daniel Klaidman is Find Me the Votes: A Hard-Charging Georgia Prosecutor, a Rogue President, and ...
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April 24, 2024 • 59 mins
Guest: Steve Coll is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Dean Emeritus of the Columbia Journalism School. Previously he was president of the public policy institute New America, in Washington, DC. He is an editor at The Economist in London and the author of several books, including The Bin Ladens, Private Empire, Directorate S, and his latest, The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion o...
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April 23, 2024 • 7 mins
Guest: Hamilton Nolan is a veteran journalist who writes about labor and politics. He is the author of the book The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor. His work can be found at HamiltonNolan.com.
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April 22, 2024 • 59 mins
Guest: Dr Frank Tallis is a clinical psychologist and a writer. He is the author of several books including his latest, Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna, and the Discovery of the Modern Mind.
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April 18, 2024 • 59 mins
Guest: Angela C. Sutton is an Assistant research professor at Vanderbilt University, where she has taught Seapower in History, the Golden Age of Piracy, and Comparative Slavery. She is the author of Pirates of the Slave Trade: The Battle of Cape Lopez and the Birth of an American Institution.
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April 17, 2024 • 59 mins
Part I. Understanding Secretary Mayorkas’ Impeachment
Guest: Frank O. Bowman III is a law professor, legal historian, and former federal and state prosecutor. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri, currently he is a Visiting Scholar at Colorado College.
His most recent book is High Crimes and Misdemeanors: A History of Impeachment for the Age of Trump. His latest article is Immigration Is Not an “...
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April 16, 2024 • 59 mins
Guest: Elizabeth Kolbert is the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change; The Sixth Extinction, for which she won a Pulitzer Prize, and Under the White Sky: The Nature of the Future; and her latest, H Is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z.
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