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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Part I. An Anatomy of a Marine Die-off at the San Francisco Bay. Guest: Damon Tighe (@damontighe) is a Naturalist who documents wildlife in Lake Merritt. Part II. At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth Guest: Madeline Ostrander is a freelance environmental journalist based in Seattle and the author of At … Continued
Guest: Ed Yong is a Pulitzer Prize–winning science writer on the staff of The Atlantic. He is is the author of I Contain Multitudes, and his latest An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us.
Guest: Emily L. Quint Freeman, author of Failure to Appear: Resistance, Identity and Loss. In 1969 in Chicago Emily L Quint Freemen broke into a military draft board office and destroyed 40 thousand draft records–potentially saving the lives of many men who would may have otherwise been drafted to serve in Vietnam. The act forced her an underground life as a … Continued
Guest: Sarah Schulman is a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at College of Staten Island, a Fellow at the New York Institute of Humanities. She is also the cofounder of the MIX New York LGBT Experimental Film and Video Festival, and the co-director of the groundbreaking ACT UP Oral History Project. Professor Schulman is the author of more … Continued
Guest: David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post and a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and was a finalist three other times. Among his bestselling books are biographies of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Roberto Clemente, and Vince Lombardi, Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the … Continued
Guest: Marcello Musto is the author of The Last Years of Karl Marx. He is also a Professor of Sociological Theory at York University where he is the founding director of the Laboratory for Alternative Theories.
Guest: Robin D. G. Kelley is Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is author or co-editor of numerous award-winning books including Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (The Free Press, 2009); Yo’ Mama’s Disfunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America (Beacon Press, 1997); … Continued
Guest: Mike Rothschild is a journalist and author of The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything.
Guests Rone Tempest was a longtime national and foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. In 2004 he was part of a team of reporters to win the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the massive wildfires in Southern California. He is one of the co-founders of WyoFile, an independent, public-interest news service in Wyoming. His … Continued
Guest: Philip Short has written several definitive biographies including Mao: A Life and Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare. He latest biography is called Putin.
