10:00 AM Pacific Time: Monday-Thursday
Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Guest: Joan Biskupic is a journalist, lawyer, and author. She has covered the Supreme Court since 1989. Currently she is CNN’s senior Supreme Court analyst and is the author of several books including biographies on John Roberts, Sandra Day O’Connor, Antonin Scalia, and Sonia Sotomayor. Her latest is Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court’s Drive … Continued
Guest: Clara E. Mattei is assistant professor of economics at the New School for Social Research in New York City. She is the author of The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism.
Guest: Elizabeth Williamson is a feature writer for the New York Times and is the author of Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth.
Guest: Timothy Egan is a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter and the author of many books, his latest is A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them. Photo(c): WikimediaCommons. Euskara: A Ku Klux Klan gathering in Muncie Indiana in 1922.
Guest: Susan J. Wolfson is professor of English at Princeton University. She is an expert on the British Romantic era, her books include A Greeting of the Spirit (2022), Romantic Shades and Shadows (2018), and Reading John Keats (2015), as well as annotated editions of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (2012), Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey (2014), and her latest, On Mary Wollstonecraft‘s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
Guest: Glory Liu is a lecturer in social studies at Harvard University. She is the author of Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism.
Guest: Beverly Gage is professor of history at Yale. She is the author of The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror, and her latest, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century. G-Man is Winner of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography and the 2023 … Continued
Guest 1: Alan Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Emeritus at Harvard Law School. He is the author of several books including Get Trump: The Threat to Civil Liberties, Due Process, and Our Constitutional Rule of Law. Guest 2: John Nichols is the national affairs correspondent for The Nation Magazine. He is the … Continued
Guest: Chad L. Williams is the Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Professor of History and African and African American Studies at Brandeis University. He is the author of the award-winning book Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era and his latest, The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War.
Guest: Frank Smyth (@SmythFrank) is an independent, award-winning investigative journalist specializing in armed conflicts, organized crime and human rights overseas, and on the gun movement and its influence at home. He is a former arms trafficking investigator for Human Rights Watch breaking the role of France in arming Rwanda before its genocide and has testified … Continued
