Guest: Tom Mueller is the author of Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil; Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud; and his latest, How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine.
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.
Guest: Hadar Aviram is a Professor of Law at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco. She is the author of several books including her latest, Yesterday’s Monsters: The Manson Family Cases and the Illusion of Parole. Photo credit: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 via … Continued
Guest: Kathryn Cramer Brownell is associate professor of history at Purdue University and the author of Showbiz Politics: Hollywood in American Political Life and her latest, 24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News.
Guest: John Nichols is the national affairs correspondent for The Nation Magazine. He is the author of many books including his latest, It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism, co written with Senator Bernie Sanders. His latest piece in the Nations is Sinéad O’Connor Always Knew That Black Lives Mattered. The singer, who died on Wednesday, … Continued
Guest: Ralph Nader is a consumer advocate, lawyer, host of The Ralph Nader Radio Hour that broadcasts on the Pacifica Radio Network. He is the author of several books including his bestselling first book “Unsafe at Any Speed”, it was responsible for US auto safety standards shown to have saved 3.5 million lives over fifty years. … Continued
Guest: Richard Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a Visiting Professor at The New School University in New York. Richard Wolff is the founder of Democracy at Work and host of the weekly national television and radio program Economic Update. Image (C): Speak Out.
Guest: Jean Pfaelzer is a public historian, commentator, and professor of American studies at the University of Delaware. Her books include Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans; Rebecca Harding Davis: Origins of Social Realism; The Utopian Novel in America; and her latest, California, a Slave State.
Guest: Frank Costigliola is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of The Kennan Diaries, Roosevelt’s Lost Alliances, and his latest, Kennan: A Life between Worlds.
Guest: Kelly Lytle Hernández is the Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History and the director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. She is a 2019 MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient and the author of the award-winning books Migra!, City of Inmates, and her latest, Bad Mexicans Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands winner of the 2023 Bancroft … Continued
Guest: Bart D. Ehrman is a leading authority on the New Testament and the history of early Christianity. He is a Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End.