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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
In this episode host Mitch Jeserich speaks with Hyun Lee, a researcher and reporter for Global Research Centre for Research on Globalization. Her latest piece is North Korea: Trump’s First Foreign Policy Test in Asia. Then and interview with Alasdair Roberts, Professor of Public Affairs, Harry S. Truman School of Public Affairs, University of Missouri. His … Continued
In this episode we hear a recent speech by Chris Hedges, Pulitzer prize winning journalist and political activist, given at St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church in Vancouver, CA on March 3rd.
Lynne Stewart died yesterday March the 7th 2017, she was an attorney known for defending those who challenged the system and she herself spent years in jail for representing Omar Abdel-Rhaman. Then, we talk to Edwin Park about the Republican Healthcare proposal. Edwin Park is Vice President for Health Policy at the Center on Budget and … Continued
On today’s show host Mitch Jeserich speaks to Rose Cuison Villazor about the new Muslim Travel Ban. Rose Cuison Villazor is a Professor of Law and Martin Luther King Jr. Hall Research Scholar University of California at Davis School of Law. Then, we hear clips from the audio book of 1984.
In this episode host Mitch Jeserich speaks with Sally Parry, Executive Director of the Sinclair Lewis Society, about the legacy of Sinclair Lewis’ 1935 novel It Can’t Happen Here, which prophesied an authoritarian takeover in the US.
In this episode host Mitch Jeserich speaks with Peter Irons, a constitutional historian, civil rights attorney, and former prisoner of conscious, as well as professor emeritus of political science at the University of California, San Diego. His latest book is A People’s History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Case and Decisions … Continued
In this episode we focus on George Orwell’s 1984. Our guests are Tim Crook, a professor of Media Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London and the Officer of Education at the Orwell Society, and Jean Seaton, the Director of the Orwell Prize which offers yearly prizes in journalism and literature, as well as hosts events and … Continued
In this episode, host Mitch Jeserich speaks with historian David Kertzer, a prominent intellectual voice on the political, demographic, and religious history of Italy. He is Paul Dupee, Jr. University Professor of Social Science, Professor of Anthropology, and Professor of Italian Studies at Brown University. His latest book is, The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History … Continued
In this episode, host Mitch Jeserich speaks with Stephen Kinzer, an award-winning foreign correspondent. He served as The New York Times’s bureau chief in Turkey, Germany, and Nicaragua and as The Boston Globe’s Latin America correspondent. He is a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University and writes a column on world affairs … Continued
Mitch Jeserich interviews Francisco Ugarte, from the San Francisco Office of the Public Defender, to discuss the current Immigration Laws. The memos from the Department of Homeland Security are at the core of this discussion about undocumented immigrants and their defense in the US. Source : Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grape_workers.jpg
