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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
With David Talbot, author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years and the acclaimed national bestseller Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love. He is the founder and former editor in chief of Salon, and was a senior editor at Mother Jones … Continued
With Laurence Shoup, author of several books, including Imperial Brain Trust (with William Minter) and Rulers and Rebels: A People’s History of Early California, 1769-1901. His most recent is Wall Street’s Think Tank: The Council on Foreign Relations and the Empire of Neoliberal Geopolitics, 1976-2014. About the book: The Council on Foreign Relations is the most influential … Continued
In conversation with retired Army Colonel and historian Andrew Bacevich about the War in Afghanistan and historical parallels to Vietnam. Bacevich is a Professor Emeritus at Boston University. Then, Leroy Moore, race and disability social justice activist on his new film Where Is Hope: The Art of Murder about people with disabilities and police violence.
Religious thinker Karen Armstrong has written more than 20 books on faith and the major religions, studying what Islam, Judaism and Christianity have in common, and how our faiths shaped world history and drive current events. Her most recent, Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence, just came out in paperback. A former … Continued
Coverage of the first Democratic Primary Debate. With Ruth Conniff, Editor of the Progressive Magazine. And Gerald Horne, Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. Then, a conversation with author, activist, and Ken Burns narrator Peter Coyote about his book The Rainman’s Third Cure. About the book: The guiding metaphor … Continued
With John Kay, visiting professor of economics at the London School of Economics, columnist for the Financial Times, and author of the book Other People’s Money: The Real Business of Finance. And Susan Cheever, author of Drinking in America: Our Secret History. Cheever has also written several biographies, five novels, and four memoirs. About Other … Continued
With Susan Weissman, Professor of Politics at Saint Mary’s College of California, award-winning broadcast journalist, and author of the book Victor Serge: A Political Biography. About the book: The first biography to give due weight to the commitment and optimism of this great political thinker Revolutionary novelist, historian, anarchist, Bolshevik and dissident – Victor Serge … Continued
What the ugly history of a 1906 Bronx Zoo exhibit tells us about ourselves today. With Pamela Newkirk, author of Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga. Newkirk is an award-winning journalist and professor of journalism at New York University. And Nathan Ward, author of The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett. Ward was an editor at American Heritage, and … Continued
We’re joined by Vijay Prashad, Professor of South Asian History at Trinity College, Connecticut. He is the author of a number of books, including The Darker Nations: a People’s History of the Third World and Arab Spring, Libyan Winter. His newest book is Letters to Palestine: Writers Respond to War and Occupation. About the book: Impassioned and intimate … Continued
With Annie Jacobsen, author of the book The Pentagon’s Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America’s Top-Secret Military Research Agency. Jacobsen also wrote New York Times bestsellers Area 51 and Operation Paperclip and is a contributing editor at the Los Angeles Times Magazine. About the book: The definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from … Continued
