Letters and Politics – The Life of Cesar Chavez
Miriam Pawel, author of The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography
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 Politics – April 29, 2014
Greg Grandin, author of The Empire of Necessity. Torange Yeghiazarian author of the play The Fifth String: Ziryab’s Passage to Cordoba.
Letters and Politics – If Corporations are Created by the State, then…
Jeffrey Clements, author of Corporations are Not People.
Letters and Politics – The FCC & Net Neutrality
Craig Aaron of Free Press talks about the FCC’s proposed rule changes for net neutrality. Alex Beam, author of American Crucifixion: The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church.
Letters and Politics – The History of Affirmative Action
Terry Anderson, professor of history at Texas A&M University and author of the book The Pursuit of Fairness: The History of Affirmative Action.
Letters and Politics – Cryptography, the NSA & Cyber-Warfare
Bruce Schneier is a security technologist and cryptographer and a fellow at Harvard University. He’ll join us to talk about what has been learned about the Heartbleed bug, cyber-crime, cyber-warfare the NSA and you. Excerpts from Robert Knight’s The Sweet Science of Racism. Robert Knight died last week at the age of 64.
Letters and Politics – Talking About Eastern Ukraine
Mikhail Beznosov, Head of the governing board of the East-Ukrainian Society for International Studies, Beznosov and associate professor in sociology at Kharkiv National University. Eric Schlosser, author of Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety.