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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, Mitch Jeserich is in conversation with Sunaina Maira, Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis, and author of the book Boycott!: The Academy and Justice for Palestine. She explains the whys and the wherefores of the boycott movement against Israel, and other historic boycotts as the one against South Africa and the one … Continued
On today’s show, we are in conversation with Bart D. Ehrman, renowned religious scholar and author of the book The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World, about the spread of Christianity throughout the Western world. He relates the history of how the Roman Empire went from being a polytheistic pagan society, that now and … Continued
Today we are in conversation with Ganesh Sitaraman about the history of wealth inequality and how it threatens our government institutions. He is a professor of law at Vanderbilt Law School and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. He has been a longtime advisor to Senator Elizabeth Warren, serving as her policy director and … Continued
On today’s show, we are in conversation with David Cay Johnston, journalist investigator who has been covering the business transactions of Donald Trump for almost 30 years. In his latest book, It’s Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America, he highlights what the White House is doing and how … Continued
On today’s show, host Mitch Jeserich is in conversation with Loch K. Johnson about the history of US intelligence agencies and America’s struggle to balance liberty and security. Professor Johnson is one of America’s leading experts on the nation’s intelligence organizations. He is the Regent Professor of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia and served … Continued
In the first part of today’s show, host Mitch Jeserich talks to Dean Baker about the turmoil that is occurring in the global market. Dean Baker is the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. Then, we are in conversation with radical and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz about the connection of … Continued
Late last week, Republican Devin Nunes memo has been declassified. Today, The House Intelligence Committee vote on whether to release an opposing-Democratic memo. In today’s show, we take a step back and talk about these FISA courts, what they are and what their history is. Our guest is Mel Goodman, former CIA analyst and director and the … Continued
On today’s show, we are in conversation with Daniel Ellsberg, best known as a Top Defense analyst who leaked the so-called Pentagon Papers in 1971, revealing that the US government was lying to the public about the Vietnam War. With the book The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, he reveals more information about America’s nuclear … Continued
During the State of the Union address, last night, President Donald Trump talked about the success of the economy. On today’s show, we are in conversation about the dynamics of employment and government policies with labor economist Sylvia Allegretto, co-chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at the University of California, Berkeley. And, then, in … Continued
On today’s show, Mitch Jeserich is telling us a short story about Austrian Nobel Prize-winning author Stefan Zweig. He witnessed the fascist take-over of Vienna, which was the cultural and intellectual European capital for the two previous centuries. Next, we are in conversation with Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter and author of a … Continued
