Letters and Politics – October 14, 2024
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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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Guest: Benjamin Carter Hett is a Professor of History at Hunter College and the Graduate Center at City University of New York. He is the author of several books including, The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons
Guest: Rebecca Nagle is an award-winning journalist and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She is the writer and host of the podcast This Land. She is a Peabody Award nominee and the recipient of the American Mosaic Journalism Prize, and the Women’s Media Center’s Exceptional Journalism Award. She is the author of the book By the … Continued
Guest: Norman Solomon is co-founder of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. He is the author of War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine. His latest article “Escalation dominance” and the new nuclear threat: We face more than 1,000 Holocausts can be found on Salon.com … Continued
Guest: Dr. Hatem Baziam is a Professor of Islamic law and theology at Zaytuna College. He is also a Senior Lecturer at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of several books including Palestine: …it is Something Colonial and Erasing The Human: Collapse of The Postcolonial … Continued
Guest: Randol Contreras is an Associate Professor of Sociology, Media, and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside. His research focuses on the intersection of history, social structure, and biography, which sheds light on how crime emerges and influences the behavior and meanings of people. He is the author of the award-winning book The Stickup Kids: … Continued
Guest: Ruth Conniff is Editor-in-chief of the Wisconsin Examiner. She is the author of Milked: How an American Crisis Brought Together Midwestern Dairy Farmers and Mexican Workers which won the 2022 Studs and Ida Terkel award from The New Press.
Guest: Brenda Wineapple is an award-winning author of several books including ‘The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation and her latest, Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation.
Guest: Helena Cobban is a writer and researcher on international affairs with a special interest in the Middle East. She is the author of several books including her latest “Understanding Hamas and Why That Matters” co-authored with Rami Khouri. Her writing can be found at Globalities.org. Book Events – Helena Cobban in the Bay Area: … Continued
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.
Guest: Alexis Pauline Gumbs is the author of several works of poetry and of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Animals, which won a Whiting Writers’ Award in 2022. In 2023, she won a Windham Campbell Prize for her poetry. Her latest book is Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde.