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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Today we are in conversation with feminist scholar Brittney Cooper about the challenges in movement building and about the African-American intellectual pioneers of the 19th century. Brittney Cooper is the author of Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women. Her latest book is Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower.
Continuing our series on the anniversary of the US invasion in Iraq, Mitch Jeserich is in conversation about how fifteen years at war have changed things here at home with guest Bernard E. Harcourt. He is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and the author of … Continued
Marking the Fifteen Anniversary of the unwarranted invasion of Iraq in 2003, Mitch Jeserich is in conversation with guest Rebecca Gordon to talk about how to this day, none of the architects of the war in Iraq or any of the administrators who oversaw it haven’t been accountable for the crimes committed there. In fact, Gina Haspel … Continued
Mitch Jeserich talks to Yasha Levine about the secret origins of the internet, tracing it back to a Pentagon counterinsurgency surveillance project. Yasha Levine is an investigative journalist for Pando Daily, a San Francisco-based news magazine focused on covering the politics and power of big tech. He is the author of the book Surveillance Valley: The Secret … Continued
Mitch Jeserich talks to legal scholar Peter Afrasiabi about the history of the agency that is tasked with capturing, detaining, and deporting people, the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and how immigration went from a labor issue to a national security one. Peter Afrasiabi is a federal court litigation lawyer at One LLP, he founded and directs the Federal Appellate Litigation Clinic … Continued
Today Mitch Jeserich is in conversation with National Security Analysts Melvin Goodman and Lawrence Korb to talk about the ousting of Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State and the nomination of CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace him. Guest: Melvin A. Goodman, served as a senior analyst and Division Chief at the CIA from 1966 to 1990. … Continued
Today we are in conversation with Vegas Tenold. He embedded himself with members of three of America’s most ideologically extreme white nationalist groups-the KKK, the National Socialist Movement, and the Traditionalist Workers Party. Vegas Tenold is an award-winning journalist. He has covered the far right in America for years, as well as human rights in Russia, conflict … Continued
On this International Women’s Day, we dive into the story of twenty’s century American anarchist and radical Emma Goldman who FBI’s director J. Edgar Hoover called her the most dangerous woman in America. We bring a conversation with Candace Falk, who is an Emma Goldman scholar, Director of the Emma Goldman Papers, and author of several books … Continued
We talk to Professor Rose Cuison-Villazor about the Trump administration filing a lawsuit against California’s sanctuary laws alleging obstruction of federal immigration law and violation of the Constitution. Rose Cuison-Villazor is a professor of Law and Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall Research Scholar at UC Davis School of Law. Then, excerpts from the film Paul Robeson: Portraits of … Continued
Today, Mitch Jeserich is in conversation with Mike Duncan, creator of the award-winning podcast series The History of Rome and Revolutions, about his new book The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic. He explains how the accumulation of inequalities, social prejudice, and corruption led the Roman Republic to … Continued
