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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
This week the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a new report that we are set to see significant changes caused by the earth warming in the next two decades. We discussed the report with professor Kristie L. Ebi co-author of the report. Guest: Kristie L. Ebi is professor of Public Health Sciences and Director of the … Continued
A conversation about the use and abuse of social media and how it affects our democratic principles with author Siva Vaidhyanathan. Guest: Siva Vaidhyanathan is the Robertson Professor of Media Studies and the Director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia. He is the author of many books on technology, law, and society, including his … Continued
A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Fascist politics are running rampant in America today and spreading around the world. Yale professor Jason Stanley talks about the ten pillars of fascist politics, and the history of how it rises. Guest: Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He is the author of several books including his latest How Fascism … Continued
A conversation about how corporations have used the courts to win rights that were made for people and not for businesses. Guest: Adam Winkler, is a historian and law professor, specializing in American Constitutional Law. He us the author of We The Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights. Support your radio station, donate … Continued
The Epic of Gilgamesh is the Ur-epic inscribed onto damp clay tablets several millennia before Odysseus or the priest of Ecclesiastes found their voices. The Sumerian versions date back almost 5000 years. Scholar Kent H. Dixon explains what’s the Epic story of Gilgamesh, and how Bildungsroman of a bad king learning to become a proper human being … Continued
A conversation with Professor Mark Lause who offers a fascinating insights of the historical background of the rise of radicalism in the United States today. Asserting how class solidarity and consciousness became more important to a generation of workers than notions of American citizenship. Guest: Mark Lause is professor of history at the University of Cincinnati and the … Continued
According to Professor Michael Klarman “it is important to tell the story of the Constitution’s origins in a way that demystifies it. Impressive as they were, the men who wrote the Constitution were not demigods; they had interests, prejudices, and moral blind spots.” Invocations of divine inspiration for the Constitution by supporters of ratification were, … Continued
A conversation with Heather Cox Richardson about the history of the shifting ideology of the Republican Party from the antebellum era to the Great Recession. We talk about how Republicans’ ideological vacillations have had terrible repercussions for minorities, the middle class, and America at large. Guest: Heather Cox Richardson is professor of history at Boston College. She is … Continued
Today protesters opposing Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court demonstrated in hallways outside the offices of Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and other lawmakers. Many were arrested. Meanwhile, women across the country have organized walkouts protesting the nomination. Guest: Adele Stan is a columnist for The American Prospect, and the editor … Continued
