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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
On today’s show, we hear extended excerpts from the first press conference since Trump’s election, along with commentary from Andrew Bacevich (renowned historian and professor emeritus of international relations and history at Boston University). Source: Flicker, Evan Guest
On today’s show we listen excerpts of Jeff Sessions confirmation hearing with Marjorie Cohn, professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and former president of the National Lawyers Guild and criminal defense attorney. Her latest book is Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral and Geopolitical Issues” will be release in March of this year. Source: … Continued
Richard Nixon conducted a number of acts against his enemies ranging from an assasination attempt agains a journalist and having the IRS go after anti-war activists. We talk about these incidents and the relevance that they may have for us today with historian, journalist and author Rick Perlstein. Perlstein is the author of “Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater … Continued
Today we listen excerpts of the first Senate hearing led by strong Russia critic Senator John McCain. Top US spy chiefs testified on allegations of Russian interference in the US election, as President-elect Donald Trump continued to question intelligence that Moscow was behind the hacking of Democratic party computers. For analysis about the hearing we are joined … Continued
Today we are in conversation with British author and journalist Gordon Corera on the history and future of cyber warfare and espionage. Corera is a Security Correspondent with the BBC news and specializes in computer technology. He is the author of the book “Cyberspies: The Secret History of Surveillance, Hacking, and Digital Espionage.”
Today we talk to John Nichols, Washington correspondent for The Nation about the GOP agenda including such proposals like repealing the Affordable Care Act, tax cuts, immigration reform among other issues. Then The History of Racist Ideas in the United States with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi. Dr Kendi is assistant professor of African American History at the University of … Continued
In this episode we hear an interview with David Kertzer, Professor of Social Science, Anthropology, and Italian Studies at Brown University about his latest book, The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism.
In this episode we hear an interview with Ethan Michaeli, award-winning author, publisher and journalist. He is the author of the book The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America. Michaeli was a copy editor and investigative reporter at The Defender from 1991 to 1996.
In this episode we speak with Tom Standage, the Deputy Editor of the Economist, and author of the new book, Writing on the Wall: Social Media, the First 2000 Years.
In this episode host Mitch Jeserich speaks with Heather Richardson, about the history of the republican party, and how it managed to fuse conservatism and republicanism. Richardson is a Professor of History at Boston College, and the author of the book, To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party.
