Letters and Politics – May 19, 2022
A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
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.
Martin Niemöller: The Pastor Who Defied the Nazis
Guest: Matthew D. Hockenos is the Harriet Johnson Toadvine ’56 Professor in 20th- Century History at Skidmore College. The author of A Church Divided: German Protestants Confront the Nazi Past. And his latest Then They Came For Me: Martin Niemöller, the Pastor Who Defied the Nazis.
The Great Replacement Theory
A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
The East India Company
Guest: William Dalrymple.
Letters and Politics – May 12, 2022
A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Richard Wolff On Everything You Need to Know About Inflation
Guest: Richard Wolff is an economist and host of Economic Update. He also teaches at the New School University and is the co-founder of Democracy At Work. www.democracyatwork.info
Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of Journeys to Heaven and Hell: Tours of the Afterlife in the Early Christian Tradition
Letters and Politics – May 9, 2022
A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Guest: Kate Jessica Rafael is a former board member and volunteer of ACCESS Women’s Health Justice and San Francisco Women Against Rape, and a long-time producer of Women’s Magazine here on KPFA. She’s currently based in Seattle. She is the author of The Midwife’s In Town.
Woman: A History of an Idea
Guest: Lillian Faderman is a renowned scholar and widely seen as the founder of lesbian history and literature. She is the author of the book Woman: The American History of an Idea.