Episode 190 | Christian Parenti

Episode 190 | Christian Parenti

Author: SOCIETY • CULTURE • POLITICS • NEWS • FILM • MUSIC January 8, 2025 Duration: 2:07:48
Christian Parenti is an investigative journalist, academic, and author whose recent articles have appeared in Compact Mag and others.  We discuss Kash Patel as the potential FBI Director, President Jimmy Carter's legacy and other news. Parenti is Professor of Economics at John Jay College, City University of New York. His undergraduate and graduate teaching, and research, focus on: American economic history, environmental history, and the history of capitalism; climate change and sustainable energy; as well as war, policing, and political violence. His books include Radical Hamilton: Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder, (Verso, 2020); Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence, (Nation Books, 2011); The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq, (The New Press, 2004); The Soft Cage: Surveillance from Slavery to the War on Terror, (Basic Books, 2003); and Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis (1999/2008, Verso). Previously, as a journalist, he reported extensively from Afghanistan, Iraq, and various parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America for The Nation, Fortune, The London Review Books, The New York Times, and other publications. Follow us at: @JackmanRadioBecome a Patron:  www.patreon.com/JackmanRadioFor $ tips if you enjoy our work:  Venmo Eric: SenatorJackman86Venmo Mike: MikeJackman1986

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