Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
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Understanding Secretary Mayorkas’ Impeachment. Then, The Dangerous Dynamic Between Israel and Iran
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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…
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Climate Change From A to Z with Elizabeth Kolbert
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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. The post Climate Change From A to Z with Elizabeth Kolbert appeared first o…
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Guest: Philip Maldari is a host and producer at KPFA Radio, currently he is the host of the Sunday Morning show. The post Special – KPFA’s 75th Anniversary appeared first on KPFA.Av KPFA
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Guest: Jason De León is a professor of Anthropology and Chicana/o Studies and director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also the executive director of the Undocumented Migration Project, a research, arts, and education collective that seeks to raise awareness about migration issues globally …
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Inflation and the Economy with Richard Wolff. Then, Haiti’s Disaster Capitalism
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Part I. Inflation and the Economy Guest: Richard Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a Visiting Professor at The New School University in New York. Richard Wolff is the founder of Democracy at Work and host of the weekly national television and radio program Economic Update that airs on KPFA. Part II…
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U.S. Unconditional Support to Israel and the Imminent Assault on Rafah
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Guest: Phyllis Bennis directs the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), her work focuses on the Middle East, U.S. militarism, and UN issues. She serves on the national board of Jewish Voice for Peace. She is the author of several books including “Before & After: U.S. Foreign Policy and the War on Terror,” “Challeng…
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Congress, the Military Budget, and the Uncommitted Vote Campaign to Demand Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza
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Guest: John Nichols is the national affairs correspondent for The Nation Magazine. He is the author of several books including his latest co-written with Senator Bernie Sanders “It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism.” His Latest piece in the Nation is: More Than Half a Million Democratic Voters Have Told Biden: Save Gaza! The campaign to use “uncomm…
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The Sullivanians: Psychoanalysis, Marxism, & A Commune To Break The Traditional Family
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Guest: Alexander Stille is the San Paolo Professor of International Journalism at Columbia University. He is the author of many books including Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism; Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic. His latest, The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wil…
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American Democracy and the Tyranny of the Minority
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Guest: Daniel Ziblatt is a Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is the co-author of How Democracies Die, and most lately, Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point, also co-authored with Steven Levitsky. The post American Democracy and the Tyranny of the Minority appeared first on KPFA.…
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How The Opium Trade Fueled Global Capitalism
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Guest: Amitav Ghosh is the author of several bestselling books including, Ibis Trilogy, composed of Sea of Poppies (shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize), River of Smoke, and Flood of Fire. His other novels include The Circle of Reason, which won the Prix Médicis étranger, and The Glass Palace. He is the author of many works of nonfiction, includin…
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The Story of T’tc-Tsa and California Slavery
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Guest: Jean Pfaelzer is a public historian, commentator, and professor of American studies at the University of Delaware. Her books include Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans; Rebecca Harding Davis: Origins of Social Realism; The Utopian Novel in America; and her latest, California, a Slave State. The post The Story of T’tc-Tsa…
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Guest: Kelsy Burke is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the author of The Pornography Wars: The Past, Present, and Future of America’s Obscene Obsession. The post The Pornography Wars appeared first on KPFA.Av KPFA
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The Black Women in The Communist Party 1919-1956
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Guest: Charisse Burden-Stelly is associate Professor of African American studies at Wayne state. and a member of the Black Alliance for Peace Research and Political Education Team. She is the c-editor, along with Jodi Dean, of the book ORGANIZE, FIGHT, WIN: Black Communist Women’s Political Writing. The post The Black Women in The Communist Party 1…
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Guest: Shireen Al-Adeimi is a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and assistant professor of language and literacy at Michigan State University’s College of Education. The post The Houthis & Yemen: A History appeared first on KPFA.Av KPFA
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The Murder of Regina Martinez Perez
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Guest: Katherine Corcoran is a former Associated Press bureau chief for Mexico and Central America and is currently co-coordinator of MasterLAB, an investigative editor training program in Mexico City. She is the author of In The Mouth Of The Wolf: A Murder, A Cover-up, and The True Cost Of Silencing The Press. The post The Murder of Regina Martine…
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The Pursuit of Happiness, The Founders, and America Today
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Guest: Jeffrey Rosen is President and CEO of the National Constitution Center, where he hosts We the People, a weekly podcast of constitutional debate. He is also a professor of law at the George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. His latest book is, The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue …
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The Roots and Legacy of the Qur’an
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Guest: Mohamad Jebara is a scriptural philologist and prominent exegetist. A semanticist and historian of Semitic cultures, he has served as Chief Imam as well as headmaster of several Qur’anic and Arabic language academies. He is the author of Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait, and his latest, The Life of the Qur’an: From Eternal R…
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The Axis of Resistance: Palestine & West Asia Fight Against Imperialism
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Guest: Ibrahim Aoude is a Professor Emeritus of Ethnic Studies at the University of Hawaii-Manoa. He is the editor of the journal Arab Studies Quarterly (which was founded by Edward Said in 1979). Professor Aoude is an expert on Hawai‘i Political Economy and Middle East politics. The post The Axis of Resistance: Palestine & West Asia Fight Against …
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The Balfour Declaration: How the British Empire Broke Its promises to the People of Palestine
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Guest: Peter Shambrook is an independent scholar and historical consultant to the Balfour Project, which works to advance equal rights for all in Palestine/Israel. He is the author of French Imperialism in Syria, 1927–1936, and his latest, Policy of Deceit: Britain and Palestine, 1914-1939. The post The Balfour Declaration: How the British Empire B…
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How The Female Body Drives Evolution
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Guest: Guest: Cat Bohannon is a researcher specialized in the evolution of narrative and cognition. She is the author of Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon. The post How The Female Body Drives Evolution appeared first on KPFA.Av KPFA
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Palestinian Identity Through Culture and Exile
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Guest: Tahrir Hamdi is a Professor of Decolonial Studies at Arab Open University, Jordan. She is the author of the book Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity. She has published widely about resistance literature in several prestigious journals. The post Palestinian Identity Through Culture and Exile appeared first on KPFA.…
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Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan.
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Guest: Ruby Lal is a professor at Emory University, and the author of three books and numerous essays, op-eds, and literary pieces. She is the author of Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan, and her latest, Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan. The post Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan. appeared first on KPF…
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Linked Histories: The Holocaust & The Nakba
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY_zSUlv0K0 Guest: Omer Bartov is the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. Bartov is a historian of the Holocaust and is considered one of the world’s leading authorities on genocide. He is the author of numerous books, including Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in P…
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KPFA Special: Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh (Part IV)
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Host Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts from Stephen Mitchell’s Gilgamesh: A New Version. Gilgamesh is considered the oldest epic in the world and a masterpiece of literature. Gilgamesh is the story of a historical king of Uruk in Babylonia and his journey of self-discovery. Along the way, Gilgamesh discovers that friendship can bring peace to a whole c…
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KPFA Special: Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh (Part III)
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Host Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts from Stephen Mitchell’s Gilgamesh: A New Version. Gilgamesh is considered the oldest epic in the world and a masterpiece of literature. Gilgamesh is the story of a historical king of Uruk in Babylonia and his journey of self-discovery. Along the way, Gilgamesh discovers that friendship can bring peace to a whole c…
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KPFA Special: Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh (Part II)
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Host Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts from Stephen Mitchell’s Gilgamesh: A New Version. Gilgamesh is considered the oldest epic in the world and a masterpiece of literature. Gilgamesh is the story of a historical king of Uruk in Babylonia, and his journey of self-discovery. Along the way, Gilgamesh discovers that friendship can bring peace to a whole …
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KPFA Special: Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh (Part I)
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Host Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts from Stephen Mitchell’s Gilgamesh: A New Version. Gilgamesh is considered the oldest epic in the world and and a masterpieces of literature. It is the story of a historical king of Uruk in Babylonia, and his journey of self-discovery. Along the way, Gilgamesh discovers that friendship can bring peace to a whole ci…
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KPFA Special – Allen Ginsberg: The Great American Poet of the Twentieth Century
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Guest: Pat Thomas is a counterculture historian and archival music producer. He is the author of such books as Listen, Whitey!: The Sights & Sounds of Black Power 1965–1975, Did It! Jerry Rubin: An American Revolutionary; and his latest Material Wealth: Mining the Personal Archive of Allen Ginsberg. KPFA Special Combo $450. Includes: “Allen Ginsber…
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KPFA Special – Grief Turns to Rage: A Reading from The Iliad by Mitch Jeserich
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Guest: Emily Wilson who is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania and translator of both The Iliad and The Odyssey. Mitch Jeserich reads from Emily Wilson’s translation of the Iliad. Book Combo: Epic Verses 3-Pack $400 Contains: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Translated by Juan Cole. The Iliad by Homer, Translated by Emil…
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KPFA Special – The Odyssey and The Iliad, Why these Epic Verses Still Matter Today
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Guest: Emily Wilson is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been named a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in Renaissance and early modern scholarship, a MacArthur Fellow, and a Guggenheim Fellow. In addition to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, she has also published translations of Sophocles, Euripides, and Se…
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KPFA Special – The History Behind The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam
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Guest: Juan Cole is a public intellectual, prominent blogger and essayist, and the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is the translator of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam: A New Translation from the Persian. Omar Khayyam (1048 – 1131) was a Persian astronomer and mathematician born in Nishapur in nort…
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KPFA Special – The Corporate Origins of Colonialism: The East India Company
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Guest: William Dalrymple is the author of The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire. The Anti-Colonial Pack $475 Includes: A History of Modern Palestine by Ilan Pappe The Rebel’s Clinic by Adam Shatz The Wretched of the Earth (60th Anniversary Edition) by Frantz Fanon The Anarchy by William Dalrymple The …
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KPFA Special – The Life & Works of Frantz Fanon
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Guest: Adam Shatz is the US editor of the London Review of Books and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and other publications. He is the author of Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination and The Rebels Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon. He is the host of the…
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KPFA Special – Ilan Pappé on the History of the Palestinian Resistance
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Guest: Ilan Pappe is the Director of the European Center of Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter. He has published many books on the Middle East and the Palestine Question including, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, The Modern Middle East, Ten Myths about Israel, and A History of Modern Palestine. The post KPFA Special – Ilan Pappé on th…
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Guest: Dr. Keisha N. Blain is an award-winning historian of the 20th century United States with broad interests in African American History, the modern African Diaspora, and Women’s and Gender Studies. She is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh and the president of the African American Intellectual History Society. She…
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Biden’s Continued Support for the War on Gaza
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Part I. Biden Continues Supporting the War on Gaza Guest: Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renée Belfer professor of international relations at Harvard University. He is the author and coauthor of several such books, including The Hell of Good Intentions: America’s Foreign Policy; and The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy co-authored with John …
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Liberia: From the American Colonization Society to Firestone
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Guest: Gregg Mitman is the Vilas Research and William Coleman Professor of History, Medical History, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. An award-winning author and filmmaker, his recent films and books include The Land Beneath Our Feet; Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes; and his latest, Emp…
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Haiti’s Disaster Capitalism & Poverty and Homelessness at Home
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Part I. Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti Guest: Jake Johnston is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C., and the author of Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti. Part II. Poverty and Homelessness at Home Guests:…
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A History of Authoritarianism in El Salvador
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Guest: Héctor Lindo-Fuentes is Professor Emeritus of History at Fordham University. He is the author of several books including Weak Foundations: The Economy of El Salvador in the Nineteenth Century 1821-1898; Remembering a Massacre in El Salvador: The Insurrection of 1932, Roque Dalton, and the Politics of Historical Memory; and his most recent, c…
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Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Trump’s State Ballot Eligibility
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Guest: John Nichols is the national affairs correspondent for The Nation Magazine. He is the author of several books including his latest co-written with Senator Bernie Sanders “It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism.” His Latest piece in the Nation is: The Only Way Trump Stays on the Ballot Is if the Supreme Court Rejects the Constitution. Photo (c)…
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A History of the War on Immigrants & the Immigration Politics of an Election Year
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Part I. Immigration Politics of an Election Year Guest: Todd Miller is an independent journalist, border policy expert, and author of several books including Border Patrol Nation, Storming the Wall, Empire of Borders, and his latest Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders. Part II. A History of the War on Immigrants: The Bord…
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The Symbionese Liberation Army & The Kidnapping of Patty Hearst
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Guest: Roger D Rapport is an award-winning author, filmmaker, and playwright. He is the author of Searching for Patty Hearst. You can find more at pattyhearst.com The post The Symbionese Liberation Army & The Kidnapping of Patty Hearst appeared first on KPFA.Av KPFA
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Section 3 of the 14th Amendment & The Disqualification of a President
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Guest: Mark A. Graber is the University System of Maryland Regents Professor at Maryland Carey Law. Professor Graber is a leading scholar on constitutional law and politics. He is the author of A New Introduction to American Constitutionalism (2013), Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil (2006); and his latest, Punish Treason, Reward Lo…
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Case of Genocide Complicity Against Biden Dismissed & Gerald Horne on the Radical Origins of Black History Month
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Part 1: Dismissal of the Palestine v. Biden case in Federal Court Guest: Marc Van Der Hout is a practicing attorney and the founding member of Van Der Hout, LLP. He is a Co-Counsel in the case Defense for Children International – Palestine v. Biden. The court denied the plaintiffs’ preliminary injunction motion and granted the government’s motion t…
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The Meaning of Freedom: A History of White Resistance to Federal Power
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Jefferson Cowie holds the James G. Stahlman chair in history at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of several books, including Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class, and his latest, Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History, 2023). The post The Meaning of …
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Genocide: Meaning & History Guest: Barry Trachtenberg is the Michael H. and Deborah K. Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History at Wake Forest University, NC. He is the author of The Revolutionary Roots of Modern Yiddish, The United States and the Nazi Holocaust: Race, Refuge, and Remembrance (Perspectives on the Holocaust); and The Holocaust & t…
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Unfolding the Genocide: Palestine Takes on Biden
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Guest: Marc Van Der Hout is Counsel in the case Defense for Children International – Palestine v. Biden. Mr. Van Der Hout is a practicing attorney and the founding member of Van Der Hout, LLP. The Case Palestinian human rights organizations, together with Palestinians in Gaza and the U.S., filed a lawsuit in U.S. federal court against President Bid…
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Guest: Adam Shatz is the US editor of the London Review of Books and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and other publications. He is the author of Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination and The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon. He is the host of th…
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Solidarity with the People of Palestine: The Global and Local Movement (LIVE at L3Harris)
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Part I. (LIVE) Protest at L3Harris in San Leandro, California. L3Harris is a local manufacturer responsible for developing weapons technology that has targeted medical workers and infrastructure in Gaza. Guest: Dr. Jess Ghannam is a Professor of Psychiatry and Global Health at the University of California, San Francisco. He has worked in Gaza and t…
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New Hampshire Primary & the Rural Voter
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Guests: Nicholas F. Jacobs is a professor of government at Colby College. He is co-author of “What Happened to the Vital Center? Presidentialism, Populist Revolt, and the Fracturing of America” and his latest, “The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America” co-authored with Daniel M. Shea. Daniel M. Shea is professor and chai…
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