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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: 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 … Continued
Guest: Adam Jentleson is the Executive Director of Battle Born Collective and a former deputy chief of staff to Senator Harry Reid. He is a columnist for GQ and the author of Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy.
Today, host Max Pringle is filling in for Mitch Jeserich. Part I – The January 6 Attack and the Fracture of Democracy Guest: Talia Lavin author of Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy Part II – A History of The Silk Road Guest: Valerie Hansen is Stanley Woodward Professor of … Continued
Guest: Timothy Brennan is the author of several books, including At Home in the World: Cosmopolitanism Now; Borrowed Light: Vico, Hegel, and the Colonies; and Salman Rushdie and the Third World: Myths of the Nation, and his latest, Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said. Professor Brennan teaches in the humanities at the University of Minnesota.
Guest: Robert Elder, professor of history at Baylor University. Author of the book Calhoun: American Heretic.
A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Guest: David M. Henkin is the Margaret Byrne Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley and author of The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are.
Guest: Heather Cox Richardson is Professor of History at Boston College and author of Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre
Guest: Andrew Roberts, author of The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III.
Gerald Horne holds the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston.
