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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Paul Robeson was an American singer, actor, and Civil Rights activist. He became politically involved in response to the Spanish Civil War, fascism, and social injustices. His advocacy of anti-imperialism, affiliation with communism, and criticism of the United States government caused him to be blacklisted during the McCarthy era.
With John Tuman, Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. He teaches courses on comparative politics, Latin American politics, and international relations. Then, excerpts from a new six-part documentary on the history of Capitalism. We’ll hear from Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, and Friedrich Hayek.
In 1972, George McGovern was seen as a progressive long-shot to win the Democratic Presidential nomination. He did win, but then labor and traditional elements of the Democratic Party establishment turned against him, helping Nixon win in one of the most lopsided American Presidential races in history. We’ll be in conversation about that history and … Continued
With Greg Grandin, professor of history at New York University and author of Kissinger’s Shadow: The Long Reach of America’s Most Controversial Statesman. And Kate Jessica Raphael, San Francisco Bay Area writer, activist, journalist, and clerical worker. She spent eighteen months as a peace worker in Palestine and spent six weeks in Israeli immigration prison because of … Continued
With Marjorie Cohn, Professor of Law at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, on Supreme Court votes with eight justices. Then, Amanda Hollis Brusky on the Federalist Society.
With Peter Ross Range, world-traveled journalist who has covered war, politics and international affairs. A specialist in Germany, his latest book is 1924: The Year That Made Hitler. And Noah Strycker. Noah Strycker, 29, is living an adventurous life of birds. In 2015, he set a new world big year record by seeing 6,042 bird species … Continued
With Steve Phillips, author of the book Brown is the New White How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority. He is also a civil rights lawyer, a fellow at the Center for American Progress, and founder and chairperson of PowerPAC Plus. And John Nichols, political correspondent at the Nation Magazine. Then, a conversation … Continued
With David Moore, professor of Political Science at the University of New Hampshire and Founding Director of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center. Former senior editor of the Gallup Poll, where he worked for thirteen years. Associate editor of the new online journal Survey Practice, sponsored by the American Association for Public Opinion Research. He is … Continued
With Geoffrey Cowan, Professor at the University of Southern California and author of the book Let the People Rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary. About the book: Let the People Rule tells the exhilarating story of the four-month campaign that changed American politics forever. In 1912 Theodore Roosevelt came out of … Continued
With Dayna Bowen Matthew, Professor at University of Colorado Law School and the Colorado School of Public Health. She serves on the faculty of the University of Colorado Center for Bioethics and Humanities, and she is co-founder of the Colorado Health Equity Project, a medical legal partnership whose mission is to remove barriers to good health … Continued
