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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 our host Mitch Jeserich speaks with Ken Whyte, author of the new biography Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times, which details the life and times of Herbert Hoover, the 31st President of the United States. Ken Whyte is a Canadian journalist and Chairman of the Board at Donner Canada Foundation.
Today our host Mitch Jeserich speaks with Nii Akuetteh, the founder of the Democracy and Conflict Research Institute based in Ghana and a current a policy analyst at the Advocacy Network for Africa (ADNA). We discuss both the history of Zimbabwe and the recent developments taking place in the country regarding the house arrest of … Continued
Today, Mitch Jeserich is in conversation with Toby Craig Jones, associate professor of History at Rutgers University, about the main role of oil and water management in Saudi political system. In his book Desert Kingdom: How Oil and Water Forged Modern Saudi Arabia, he shows how Modern Saudi Arabian authoritarianism has its origins in the control of a … Continued
Today our host Mitch Jeserich speaks with Dr. Jeffery Edleson, the dean of the School of Social Welfare at UC Berkeley. We discuss the relationship between men and violence from spaces of domestic and sexual violence all the way to public mass shootings. Much of masculine violence is part of a larger continuum of coercion … Continued
Today our host Mitch Jeserich speaks with Eric Toder, co-director of Tax Policy Center at the Urban Institute, about the history and the potential developments in American tax policy. We delve into the history of American tax reform and discuss the ways in which Trump is seeking to modify the existing tax code. Mr. Toder is … Continued
Today, our host Mitch Jeserich is in conversation with Pamela Haag, author of the book The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture. In light of yet another mass shooting this past week in Sutherland Springs, Texas, we discuss the history of American gun culture and how it has grown not only … Continued
Today, our host Mitch Jeserich is in conversation with Madeleine O’Dea about her new book The Phoenix Years: Art, Resistance and the Making of Modern China, which discusses the history of China since the death of Mao in 1976 in terms of the political and artistic movements that reinforced one another. O’Dea is a veteran journalist who has … Continued
On today’s show, our host Mitch Jeserich speaks with Kurt Wagner, Senior Editor of Recode, who specializes in business and tech-related stories, about the relationship between the Russian government and American social media in terms of the 2016 election. We then discuss the recent Manhattan terror attack with Karen J. Greenberg, Director of the Center on National Security … Continued
On today’s show, Mitch Jeserich is in conversation with Harry Franqui-Rivera, Associate Professor of History at Bloomfield College and author of the book Soldiers of the Nation: Military Service and Modern Puerto Rico, 1868-1952. After an economic crisis and a devastating hurricane, the island is struggling to recover. To understand the whole situation, we are … Continued
Today Mitch Jeserich is in conversation with Jeremy Stahl and Ryan Grim about the latest Robert Mueller indictments news. Jeremy Stahl is a senior editor for Slate, he wrote yesterday the article “The Potential Bombshell Hidden in the Mueller Indictments”. Ryan Grim is The Intercept’s Washington D.C. bureau chief. Then we are talking with historian Robert … Continued
