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
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 – 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.
Letters and Politics – Matt Tiabbi
Matt Tiabbi, author of Divide: American Injustice and the Age of the Wealth Gap. Todd Purdum, author of An Idea Whose Time Has Come.
Letters and Politics – DNA Privacy
The Privacy of DNA with Troy Duster, professor emeritus of sociology at NYU & UC Berkeley, and Jeremy Gruber, President of the Council for Responsible Genes.
Letters and Politics – The Heart Bleed Bug
On the Heartbleed Bug with Yan Zhu, Staff Technologist for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Sohail Daulatzai, author of the book Black Star, Crescent Moon: The Muslim International and Black Freedom beyond America.