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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 we hear excerpts from an interview with Robert O. Paxton, Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University and author of The Anatomy of Fascism. In the book, Paxton shows clearly why fascists came to power in some countries and not others, and explores whether fascism could exist outside the early-twentieth-century European setting in … Continued
In this episode we speak with Anthony D’Agostino, Professor of History at San Francisco State University, and author of many books on Russian history, about the future of US-Russia relations and the potential of Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State. We are in a fundraising drive at the moment. If you feel compelled to donate to help … Continued
High profile senators called for an investigation into American intelligence agencies about Russian hacking to help Donald Trump defeat Hillary Clinton in the presidential elections. To find out more about this issue, Mitch Jeserich spoke to Dr. Stephen Zunes, professor of Politics and chair of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco. And Bernie Sanders on “Our … Continued
Our guest for this episode is Peter Irons, an American political activist, civil rights attorney, legal scholar, former prisoner of conscious for three years, and 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 Have … Continued
In this episode we listen to an interview with David Cay Johnston, journalist and author of The Making of Donald Trump, about the great farce, criminal, and pop culture phenomenon that is Donald J. Trump. In the interview Johnston reveals Donald’s ties to the mob and more. As a part of our fundraising drive, we are … Continued
Our guest on this episode is Peter Linebaugh, an American Marxist historian who specializes in British history, Irish history, labor history, and the history of the colonial Atlantic. He is the author of the pamphlet Ned Ludd & Queen Mab: Machine-Breaking, Romanticism, and the Several Commons of 1811-12. As a part of our fundraising drive, we … Continued
With Eileen Markey, investigative journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, The Village Voice and America Magazine, among others. She is author of the new book: A Radical Faith: The Assassination of Sister Maura. About the book: The 1980 rape and murder of four American women – three of them Catholic nuns … Continued
with Bernadine Dohrn, former Professor of Law at Northwestern University and Bill Ayers, an American elementary education theorist and former Professor of Education at University of Illinois Chicago . They were both involved with the Weather Underground Organization, an American militant, radical left-wing organization founded on the Ann Arbor campus of the University of Michigan in 1969. The … Continued
with Nomi Prins, a journalist, and Senior Fellow at Demos. She has worked as a managing director at Goldman-Sachs and as a Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns, as well as having worked as a senior strategist at Lehman Brothers and analyst at the Chase Manhattan Bank. and with Dr. Hatim Bazian, co-founder and Professor of Islamic Law … Continued
with Aviva Chomsky, Professor of History at Salem State University and author of the book A History of the Cuban Revolution. and Samuel Farber, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, and the author of the book Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered.
