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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Guest: Mark A. Graber is the University System of Maryland Regents Professor at Maryland Carey Law. Professor Graber is a leading scholar on constitutional law and politics. He is the author of A New Introduction to American Constitutionalism (2013), Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil (2006); and his latest, Punish Treason, Reward Loyalty: The … Continued
Part 1: Dismissal of the Palestine v. Biden case in Federal Court Guest: Marc Van Der Hout is a practicing attorney and the founding member of Van Der Hout, LLP. He is a Co-Counsel in the case Defense for Children International – Palestine v. Biden. The court denied the plaintiffs’ preliminary injunction motion and granted … Continued
Jefferson Cowie holds the James G. Stahlman chair in history at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of several books, including Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class, and his latest, Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History, 2023).
Genocide: Meaning & History Guest: Barry Trachtenberg is the Michael H. and Deborah K. Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History at Wake Forest University, NC. He is the author of The Revolutionary Roots of Modern Yiddish, The United States and the Nazi Holocaust: Race, Refuge, and Remembrance (Perspectives on the Holocaust); and The Holocaust & the Exile of … Continued
Guest: Marc Van Der Hout is Counsel in the case Defense for Children International – Palestine v. Biden. Mr. Van Der Hout is a practicing attorney and the founding member of Van Der Hout, LLP. The Case Palestinian human rights organizations, together with Palestinians in Gaza and the U.S., filed a lawsuit in U.S. federal … Continued
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 … Continued
Part I. (LIVE) Protest at L3Harris in San Leandro, California. L3Harris is a local manufacturer responsible for developing weapons technology that has targeted medical workers and infrastructure in Gaza. Guest: Dr. Jess Ghannam is a Professor of Psychiatry and Global Health at the University of California, San Francisco. He has worked in Gaza and the … Continued
Guests: Nicholas F. Jacobs is a professor of government at Colby College. He is co-author of “What Happened to the Vital Center? Presidentialism, Populist Revolt, and the Fracturing of America” and his latest, “The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America” co-authored with Daniel M. Shea. Daniel M. Shea is professor … Continued
Guest: Shireen Al-Adeimi is a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute and assistant professor of language and literacy at Michigan State University’s College of Education. Photo credit: Bab-el-Mandeb Strait on Wikimedia. The Bab-el-Mandeb, meaning “Gate of Tears” in Arabic, is a strait between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula, Djibouti and Eritrea, north of Somalia, in the Horn of Africa, and connecting the Red Sea to the Guardafui Channel and Gulf of Aden. … Continued
A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
