Guest: Edward J. Watts, the Alkiviadis Vassiliadis Endowed Chair and Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of The Final Pagan Generation: Rome’s Unexpected Path to Christianity. PHOTO: Arturo Rey
Letters and Politics
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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
When President Theodore Roosevelt took on the biggest corporate interest of the day. Guest: Susan Berfield, award-winning investigative reporter for Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg News. She is the author of the book The Hour of Fate: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism. Photo by Library of Congress on Usplash
Guest: Rick Perlstein is a historian and the author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, Nixoland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, The Invisible Bridge, and his latest Reaganland: America’s Right Turn 1976-1980.
Guest: Sonia Shah is a science journalist and contributor to the Nation Magazine. She is the author of PANDEMIC: Tracking Contagion from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond, and most recently, The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move. Her latest article in the Nation is First Came the Hurricane, Then Came the Campaign of Terror. Photo by Edwin … Continued
Guest: Sanford Levinson, professor at the University of Texas Law School and the University of Texas at Austin Department of Government. The author of many books on the U.S. Constitution and co-author of Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Graphic Novel
Guest: Richard Kreitner is a contributing writer to the Nation magazine. He is the author of the new book Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America’s Imperfect Union.
Guest: Steven Rosenfeld is the Editor and Chief Correspondent for Voting Booth, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Photo by Elliott Stallion on Unsplash
Guest: David Cay Johnston is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and editor-in-chief of DC Report and author o the book The Making of Donald Trump.
Guest: Peter Irons is a political scientist, constitutional historian, civil rights attorney, and former prisoner of conscious, as well as professor emeritus of political science at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of several books including A People’s History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Case and Decisions Have Shaped … Continued
Part 1: What the Senate confirmation process looks like and the parliamentary tactics available to democrats to try to delay the confirmation until after elections. Guest: Caren Morrison is Associate Professor of Law, Georgia State University. She wrote the piece Can Trump and McConnell get through the 4 steps to seat a Supreme Court justice … Continued