10:00 AM Pacific Time: Monday - Thursday
Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
On today’s show host Mitch Jeserich is in conversation with Professor Laurel Lucia about the Republican Healthcare Bill. Professor Lucia is director of the Health Care Program at the Center for Labor Research and Education at UC Berkeley. Then, Micth interviews Levi Laub who translated into English Maurice Rajsfus’s book The Vel d’Hiv Raid. Today is the … Continued
On today’s show Mitch Jeserich interviews Ryan Grim about what’s going on in Washington. Ryan Grim is The Intercept D.C. bureau chief. He is also a contributor to the Young Turks Network and author of the book This is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America. Then, he is in … Continued
On today’s show host Mitch Jeserich interviews Stephen Spaulding from the organization Common Cause, about the legal issues around the Russian Investigation. Stephen Spaulding is the Chief of Strategy and External Affairs for Common Cause. Then, he is in conversation with Kim Phillips-Fein about her book Fear City; New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the … Continued
On today’s show host Mitch Jeserich receives Francis Shen, co-author of Battlefield Casualties and Ballot Box Defeat: Did the Bush-Obama Wars Cost Clinton the White-House. This new study shows Clinton lost election because of growing working class opposition to war. Featured Image Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fibonacciblue/5541235223 Then, Mitch is in conversation with James Wright about his book: Enduring Vietnam: An American … Continued
On today’s show, host Mitch Jeserich interviews Boston University Professor Andrew Bacevich about his latest book “America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History.” The book reassesses U.S. military policy in the Middle East over the past four decades in an effort to understand the consequences of America’s costly military exertions. Then he interviews historian Michael … Continued
On today’s show, guest host Kate Raphael interviews University of Nevada history and gender studies professor Emily K. Hobson, author of “Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left.” Hobson unearths the little-known history of the Gay and Lesbian left in the Bay Area and beyond.
Mitch Jeserich in conversation with British mathematician Andrew Hodges. He is author of the book Alan Turing: The Enigma. The 2014 movie, The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, is based on Hodges’ book. About the book: It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, … Continued
Today host Mitch Jeserich interviews historian Peniel E. Joseph, founder of the “Black Power Studies” subfield of American History and author of “Stokely: A Life,” a biography of the charismatic and controversial black activist Stokely Carmichael. Jeserich and Joseph discuss the origins of the Black Power movement, as well as the life and times of Carmichael.
On today’s show, host Mitch Jeserich interviews Stephen Kinzer, national cultural correspondent for the New York Times, about his book “The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War.” The brothers controlled both the overt and covert operations of U.S. foreign policy in the 50’s: one was Secretary of State and one was the … Continued
On today’s show host Mitch Jeserich is in conversation with Thomas Ricks about the lives of George Orwell and Winston Churchill, two men who fought against totalitarianism during the 20th century. Thomas E. Ricks is the adviser on national security at the New America think tank, a member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams, and the … Continued
