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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Guest: Jason De León is an anthropologist who spent nearly seven years following and interviewing human smugglers in Mexico. He is a professor of Anthropology and Chicana/o Studies and director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also executive director of the Undocumented Migration Project and the … Continued
Guest: Frank Costigliola is the author of Kennan: A Life between Worlds. He is also a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Connecticut.
Host Philip Maldari is joined by national affairs correspondent for The Nation Magazine, John Nichols, to debunk the politics of the first presidential debate and the Supreme Court’s decisions. Photo credit: Wikimedia commons
Guest: Aaron S. Lecklider is Professor of American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston and author of Love’s Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture.
Guest: Ryan Grim is The Intercept’s D.C. Bureau Chief and the host of the podcast Deconstructed. He authors the newsletter Bad News. He is the author of the books “This Is Your Country on Drugs” and “We’ve Got People;” and his latest The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution.
Guest: Ussama Makdisi is Professor of History and Chancellor’s Chair at the University of California Berkeley. He is the author of the Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World.
Guest: Benjamin Balthaser is associate professor of multi-ethnic US literature at Indiana University, South Bend. He is the author of Anti-Imperialism Modernism: Race and Transnational Radical Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War, and Dedication, a personal history of growing up in a Jewish “red diaper” family. His forthcoming book from Verso, Citizens … Continued
Guest: Dr. Keisha N. Blain is an award-winning historian of the 20th century United States with broad interests in African American History, the modern African Diaspora, and Women’s and Gender Studies. She is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh and the president of the African American Intellectual History Society. She is the author of … Continued
Guest: Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. The author of Pulitzer Prize–winning The Hemingses of Monticello and her latest, On Juneteenth. Feature Photo by Oladimeji Odunsi on Unsplash
Guest: Robert Elder, professor of history at Baylor University. Author of the book Calhoun: American Heretic.
