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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
A conversation with veteran journalist Darh Jamail, former war correspondent who has now traveled the world including some of this planet’s most remote places covering the consequences to nature and to humans of the loss of ice. We talk about his findings in Alaska, the Amazon rainforest, and Australia’s Great Barrier Reef and everywhere in between. He is … Continued
Journalist Jason Rezaian, Washington Post Tehran bureau chief was arrested and held hostage between 2014 and 2016 by Iranian police, accusing him of spying for America. We’ll talk about his experience and reflections two years later and current Iran-U.S. relations. Guest: Jason Rezaian served as Tehran bureau chief for the Washington Post and is now an opinion writer for the paper … Continued
Sanctuary cities in United States are not new, in fact it can be argued that they existed during the era of slavery. Today we will be in conversation with historian Andrew Delbanco, author of the book The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil … Continued
Today we are in with conversation with one of the most radical activist and voices in the country, Rosa Clemente is a community organizer, independent journalist, and hip-hop activist. She was the vice presidential running mate of 2008 Green Party Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney in the 2008 U.S.
Today Chris McGreal helps understand how the opioid addiction became a catastrophic and deadly epidemic in America. He argues that the epidemic was born of Congressional neglect, amplified by corporate greed, and brutally exploited by illegal drug cartels. Guest: Chris McGreal is a senior writer at the Guardian and former journalist for BBC. He has published several articles on … Continued
We talk to Ralph Nader about the government shutdown -in its 32nd day already, and about his book To the Ramparts: How Bush And Obama Paved The Way For The Trump Presidency, And Why Ii Isn’t Too Late To Reverse Course. Ralph Nader has spent his lifetime challenging corporations and government agencies to be more accountable to … Continued
We are in conversation with professor Gary Dorrien talking about the history of the black social gospel tradition that included socialism and humanism and that heavily influenced Martin Luther King Jr. views of Christianity. Guest: Gary Dorrien is the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Religion at Columbia University. He is the author of eighteen books … Continued
A conversation on eighteenth-century philosopher Denis Diderot and the battle over his encyclopedia which was considered to be full of subversive stuff. Diderot challenged virtually all of his century’s accepted truths, from the sanctity of monarchy, to the racial justification of the slave trade, to the norms of human sexuality. He is considered a prophetic philosopher … Continued
The government shutdown is today in its 26th day. The longest shutdown in US history and it will likely go longer. Shutdown the government is a tactic that has been used to obtain a political end in times and places since ancient Greece. Today we talk explore the question of what does it mean for a … Continued
The Senate Judiciary Committee began the confirmation hearing for William Barr to become the next Attorney General. Today we are in conversation about the historic role of an attorney general and the long standing controversial issue over executive power. Guest: Peter M. Shane is the Jacob E. Davis and Jacob E. Davis II Chair in Law … Continued
