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.
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
Guest: Richard White is Margaret Byrne Professor of American History, Emeritus, at Stanford University. He is the author of Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University.
Guest: James T. Costa is professor of biology and executive director of the Highlands Biological Station at Western Carolina University. He is the author of Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace.
Guest: Geoffrey R. Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He is the author and co-author of several books including his latest A Legacy of Discrimination: The Essential Constitutionality of Affirmative Action co-authored with Lee C. Bollinger
Guest: Kelsy Burke is an award-winning sociologist of religion, gender, sexuality, and politics in the United States. Her research has examined a wide range of topics, including debates over pornography, religious freedom laws and LGBT rights, evangelical women’s ministries, and the Christian sex advice industry. She is the author of Christians Under Covers: Evangelicals and Sexual … Continued
Guest: Michio Kaku is a professor of physics at the City University of New York, cofounder of string field theory, and the author of several widely acclaimed science books, including Hyperspace, Beyond Einstein, Physics of the Impossible, Physics of the Future, and his latest, Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything.
Part 1. The Debt Ceiling Deal Guest: John Nichols is the national affairs correspondent for The Nation Magazine. He is the author of the book Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers: Accountability for those who Caused the Crisis. His latest piece in The Nation is The Revolutionary Fight to “Begin the World Over Again” Did Not … 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 World, They Marched into … Continued
