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: Hatem Bazian is a professor of Islamic law and theology at Zaytuna College. He is also a lecturer in the departments of Near Eastern and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Most lately, he is the author of Erasing The Human: Collapse of The Postcolonial World and Refugee Immigration Crisis.
Guest: Zusha Elinson is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, where he covers America’s gun culture and industry. He is the co-author with journalist Cameron McWhirter of the new book American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15.
Guest: Stephen Zunes is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco where he chairs the program in Middle Eastern Studies. He is the author of “Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism”, and the co-author of “Western Sahara: War, Nationalism, and Conflict Irresolution.” Photo by Mohammed Ibrahim on Unsplash
Guest: Dr. Penny Rosenwasser is a white queer Ashkenazi Jewish educator and activist. She is the author most recently of the award-winning book “Hope into Practice: Jewish Women Choosing Justice Despite Our Fears.” She co-teaches a class on Antisemitism / Anti-Arabism with a Palestinian colleague at City College of San Francisco. She is a founding … Continued
Guest: Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies. He is author of several books including his most recent, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917- 2017. Photo by Mohammed Ibrahim on Unsplash
Guest: Heather Cox Richardson is a professor of history at Boston College and an expert on American political and economic history. She is the author of several books, including the award-winning How the South Won the Civil War and her latest, Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America. She is also the author of … Continued
Guest: Bart D. Ehrman is a leading authority on the New Testament and the history of early Christianity. He is a Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of several books including, Misquoting Jesus, How Jesus Became God, The Triumph of Christianity, Heaven and Hell, … Continued
Guest: Tim Redmond is a political and investigative reporter in San Francisco for more than 30 years now. He spent much of that time as executive editor of the Bay Guardian. He is the founder and editor of the independent news and culture website 48hills. Photo credit: Dianne Feinstein in November 2014 – Wikimedia Commons
Guest: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma in a tenant farming family. She has been active in the international Indigenous movement for more than 4 decades and is known for her lifelong commitment to national and international social justice issues. Dunbar-Ortiz is the winner of the 2017 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize, she is the author … Continued
The Reconstruction Amendments and How They’ve Created Our Political World Today Guest: Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. He is the author of several books including, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men; The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery which won the Pulitzer; and The Second Founding : How the Civil War and … Continued
