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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: Sonali Kolhatkar is the host and producer of Rising Up with Sonali, a weekly television and radio program that airs on Free Speech TV and on Pacifica Radio station affiliates around the United States. Winner of numerous awards, including Best TV Anchor and Best National Political Commentary from the LA Press Club, she is currently the … Continued
Daniel Ellsberg (April 7, 1931 – June 16, 2023) was an American political activist, economist, and United States military analyst. While employed by the RAND Corporation, he precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other newspapers. In January … Continued
Guest: James D. Tabor is a Biblical scholar, a retired Professor of Christian Origins and Ancient Judaism in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the author and co-author of many books including, The Jesus Dynasty: The Hidden History of Jesus, His Royal Family, and the Birth of Christianity; Paul and Jesus: How … Continued
Guest: Greg King is an award-winning journalist and activist credited with spearheading the movement to protect Headwaters Forest, in Humboldt County, California. King initiated the “redwood wars” following the notorious 1985 takeover of the venerable Pacific Lumber Company by the Houston energy and real estate conglomerate Maxxam. Greg King has spent decades researching redwood logging … Continued
Guest: W. Caleb McDaniel is associate professor of history at Rice University in Houston. He won the Pulitzer price in History in 2020 for his book, Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America.
Guest: Kit Heyam is a university lecturer, a queer history activist, and a trans awareness trainer and author of Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender.
Guest: Norman Solomon is co-founder of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. He is the author of War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine.
Part I: Trump’s Handling of Classified Documents Guest: Mel Goodman is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and a professor of government at Johns Hopkins University. He was an analyst at the CIA for 24 years. Part II: The Rising Ocean Guest: Christina Gerhardt is Associate Professor and Founder of the Environmental … Continued
Trump Federal Indictment & The History of the Espionage Act of 1917 Part I: Trump Indictment Guest: Mitch Perry is the senior political reporter for the Florida Phoenix. Part II: The History of the Espionage Act (Repeat) Guest: Geoffrey R. Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago.
Guest: William A. Darity Jr. is Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics and founding director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University. With A. Kirsten Mullen, he is author of From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century. … Continued
