Death of a Demagogue

In the final part of the story about Jack Kershaw, we'll talk about his legal career. Before he represented MLK's assassin, before he sculpted a gigantic racist statue out of old bathtubs, he got a law degree from a part time night school program at the YMCA so he could do his pa ...  Show more

Police in New Jersey arrested a woman found sleeping in her car in a strip mall parking lot after the plates came back registered to a stolen vehicle. Her lawyer, Tennessee segregationist Jack Kershaw, insisted that his client was not only innocent, but said she was telling the t ...  Show more

Hi friends, happy Wednesday!There are some things from history class that just stick in my brain. Mostly… the murders. I’m sure this isn’t surprising to anyone. Like JFK getting shot in his car. Or… Julius Caesar getting stabbed in the back. And, for some reason I always remember ...  Show more

Philip Dodd along with Dr Tim Stanley and Paul Glastris review the American version of the political thriller House of Cards. Deborah Cohen, Mark Vernon and Charlotte Blease discuss shame and guilt amongst the British family from the Victorian era to the present day. Rufus Norris ...  Show more

Hamamoto on YouTube: / @professorhamamoto Watch part 5 here: https://youtube.com/live/TaF8EMyS4V4Watch Prof Hamamoto Part 4 https://youtube.com/live/TkUr4CanA_kWatch Prof Hamamoto Part 3 https://youtube.com/live/qUHdKtabgNoProf. Darrell Hamamoto, who is an American writer, academ ...  Show more

The economist and social critic Glenn Loury has led a remarkably turbulent life, both professionally and personally. In a new memoir, he has chosen to reveal just about everything. Why?