Guest: Amitav Ghosh is the author of several bestselling books including, Ibis Trilogy; his latest is Smoke and Ashes: Opiums Hidden Histories.
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.
Guest: Benjamin Balthaser is associate professor of multi-ethnic US literature at Indiana University, South Bend. He is the author of Anti-Imperialism Modernism: Race and Transnational Radical Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War, and Dedication, a personal history of growing up in a Jewish “red diaper” family. His forthcoming book from Verso, Citizens … Continued
Guest: Susan J. Wolfson is a professor of English at Princeton University and author of On Mary Wollstonecrafts A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: The First of a New Genus.
(Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzeCOZfd7WM&t=3s Guest: Asaf Elia-Shalev is an Israeli-American journalist based in Los Angeles. He is a staff writer for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and the author of Israel’s Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation’s Founding Myth.
Letters and Politics – December 26, 2024
A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Letters and Politics – December 25, 2024
A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
A Reading of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol: Part II
A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Guest: Bart D. Ehrman is a leading authority on the New Testament and the history of early Christianity. He is a Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End. Find Bart Ehrman online: www.ehrmanblog.org www.bartehrman.com
Guest: Adam Shatz is the US editor of the London Review of Books and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and other publications. He is the author of Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination and The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon. He is the host of the podcast Myself with Others.