In the seventh century A.D. the Roman and the Sasanian Empire in Persia were locked to a long struggle throughout the Middle East. This is the world that the Muslin prophet Mohammed was born into. Eventually both empires were conquered by Islam. Many observers stereotype Islam and its scripture as inherently extreme or violent, a narrative … Continued
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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Adam Smith today is mostly remember for his ideas about free market capitalism and his book The Wealth of Nations. But during his time, he was mostly known as a moral philosopher who studied the interactions between people. We are in conversation today about the life and times of Adam Smith with guest Jesse Norman. … Continued
Frederick Douglass, the man who escaped slave and became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era. A conversation about the life and words of Frederick Douglass, the perils and possibilities of our national history through a rich and humane portrait of a man and his times with … Continued
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Letters and Politics is offering the 5 best books we have reviewed in 2018 Pack for $500. Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics by Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University professor, and a world-renowned Shakespeare scholar. Stephen Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power and the catastrophic consequences of its execution. In his … Continued
The Epic of Gilgamesh is the Ur-epic inscribed onto damp clay tablets several millennia before Odysseus or the priest of Ecclesiastes found their voices. The Sumerian versions date back almost 5000 years. Scholar Kent H. Dixon explains what’s the Epic story of Gilgamesh, and how Bildungsroman of a bad king learning to become a proper human being … Continued
We are in conversation about the history of the U.S. involvement in Honduras and how that history helps explain why Hondurans are fleeing their country and seeking asylum in United States. We talk about how the U.S. has spend more than a century using the Honduran territory to exploit its land and people in the Banana … Continued
History is a weapon. The powerful have their version of events, the people have another. And if we understand how the past was forged, we arm ourselves to change the future tells us historian Neil Faulkner. He argues that who controls the surplus created by society calls the shots, a history that has repeated in … Continued