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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Late on Sunday the Greek government ordered a six-day shutdown for banks and the stock exchange to avoid a panic-fueled collapse. If Greece is unable to renegotiate a payment of its debts, it may be forced to leave the Euro zone. Costas Panayotakis, professor of Sociology at City University of New York and author of … Continued
With Anthony Wright, Executive Director of Health Access CA, the statewide health care consumer advocacy coalition. And Kenji Yoshino, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law. A graduate of Yale Law School, where he taught from 1998 to 2008, and the author of Speak Now: Marriage Equality … Continued
With Sandra Blair, Associate Minister at the St. Paul A.M.E. Church in Berkeley, California and adjunct faculty at the Pacific School of Religion. A week after 9 were killed at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, Carolina, we talk about the origins and history of the AME church. From the AME website: … Continued
Nikki Jones is an associate professor in the Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also a faculty affiliate with the Center for the Study of Law and Society. Her areas of expertise include urban ethnography, race and ethnic relations and criminology and criminal justice, with a special emphasis … Continued
With Dr. Janet Hudson, Associate Professor of History at the University of South Carolina Palmetto College and author of the book Entangled by White Supremacy: Reform in World War I-era South Carolina. About the book: In Entangled by White Supremacy, Hudson explains why white southerners failed to construct a progressive society while maintaining a racially segregated one. Even … Continued
With Heather Cox Richardson, professor of history at Boston College and author of the book To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party. About the book: A distinguished American historian traces the paradoxical evolution of the Republican Party—founded to give the poor equal opportunity, but too often aligned with the country’s elites. When … Continued
We talk to Amanda Hollis-Brusky, Professor of Politics at Pomona College and author of the book Ideas with Consequences: The Federalist Society and the Conservative Counterrevolution. About the book: There are few intellectual movements in modern American political history more successful than the Federalist Society. Created in 1982 to counterbalance what its founders considered a … Continued
With Gerard Russell, former British and United Nations diplomat, Senior Fellow with the New America Foundation’s International Security Program and the Foreign Policy Center in London, and author of the book Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East. About the book: Despite its reputation for religious intolerance, the Middle … Continued
As the face and character of cities across the nation changes through a wave of gentrification there is one neighborhood that has maintained it’s character and it’s low income residents right in the middle of San Francisco, one of the most expensive cities to live in. It’s called the Tenderloin, and we’ll talk about it … Continued
Before there was Charlton Heston and Ronald Reagan, there was Louis B Mayer, founder of MGM Studios, who used the power of the film industry for conservative political aims. Today we talk about that history with historian Steven Ross, author of the book Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics. About the … Continued
