Guest: Martha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and professor of history at Johns Hopkins University and author of the book VANGUARD: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All.
Letters and Politics
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.
David Graeber is well known for his role in jump-starting the 2011 Occupy Wall St. and “the 99% percent” movement. He died at the age of 59 on September, 2nd. He was a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics, an anarchist activist, and the author of Debt: The First 5000 Years, and … Continued
Guest: John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. He has written widely on political economy and is an expert on environmental sociology. He is the author of several books including Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature (2000), The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences (with Fred Magdoff, 2009), The Ecological … Continued
Guest: Historian Rick Perlstein is 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 book is Reaganland: America’s Right Turn 1976-1980.
Guest: John R. Hibbing is the Foundation Regents Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of The Securitarian Personality: What Really Motivates Trump’s Base and Why It Matters for the Post-Trump Era.
Guest: Max Elbaum has been involved a peace and anti-racist movements since joining Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in Madison, Wisconsin in the 1960s. Through the 1970s and 1980s he participated in campaigns defending affirmative action and opposing U.S. military interventions in the Third World while writing extensively for the radical press and taking … Continued
Part 1. RNC Day 3, Kenosha, and Hurricane Laura Guest: Mitch Jeserich is the host of Pacifica’s Letters and Politics show and former Capitol Hill correspondent. Part 2. The Latest Developments in Belarus Guest: Sasha Razor is from Belarus, she is a scholar of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Languages and Cultures at UCLA. She … Continued
Part 1. The RNC Day 2 Guest: Mitch Jeserich is the host of Pacifica’s Letters and Politics show and former Capitol Hill correspondent. Part 2. Inside Bannon’s Far-Right Circle Guest: Benjamin R. Teitelbaum is an award-winning expert on the radical right and a professor of ethnomusicology and international affairs at the University of Colorado Boulder. … Continued
Part 1 On The RNC Day 1 Trump is nominated. What’s next? Guest: Mitch Jeserich is the host of Pacifica’s Letters and Politics show and former Capitol Hill correspondent. Part 2. Transforming Our Immigration Policy: A 2021 Action Plan Guest: Sarnata Reynolds is the Director of Policy for The Immigration Hub. The Immigration Hub is … Continued
Part 1. A Recap of the DNC and the RNC begins tonight, what to expect… Guest: Mitch Jeserich is the host of Pacifica’s Letters and Politics show and former Capitol Hill correspondent. Part 2. Climate Change and Wildfires in California Guest: Mark Schwartz is Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California, … Continued