Letters and Politics
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.
Letters and Poltics – The Dream & Nightmare of the Islamic State
John Nichols of the Nation Magazine on Congress’s agenda as it returns from recess. Deepa Kumar, professor of media and middle eastern studies at Rutgers University and author of Islamaphobia and the Politics of Empire, on the Dream and Nightmare of ISIS.
Letters and Poltics – September 4, 2014
Raed Jarrar of the American Friends Services Committee, on Iraq. Jack Shuler, author of The Thirteenth Turn: A History of the Noose.
Letters and Poltics – Somalia, Al Shabab & 20th Century Colonialism
Conn Halinan, Foreign Policy in Focus, on Obama and ISIS and Ukraine. On Somalia with Abdti Samar, Professor & Chair Department of Geography, Environment & Society University of Minnesota.
Letters and Poltics – Policing Roundtable
Legal Scholar Erwin Chemerinsky on Supreme Court Ruling that effect policing. Community activists & policing roundtable with Ali Oakbaba, Kat Brooks, Leroy Moore and Andrea Prichett. Nick Adams of UC Berkeley on data concerning police, protesters and violence.
Letters and Poltics – The Life & Times of Gavrilo Princip with Andrej Grubacic.
The Life & Times of Gavrilo Princip with Andrej Grubacic.
Letters and Poltics – When the Caliphate Advanced the World
Jonathan Lyons, independent scholar and author of the book The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization. http://www.jonathanlyonsportfolio.com/
Letters and Poltics – Silicon Valley & Israel
Darwin Bond Graham on the intertwined economies of Israel and Silicon Valley. Diana Preston on the first Anglo Afghan War.