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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: Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books, including Recollections of My Nonexistence, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, The Faraway Nearby, A Paradise Built in Hell, River of Shadows, and Wanderlust. She is also the author of Men Explain Things to Me and many essays on feminism, activism and social change, hope, and the climate crisis. Her latest, Orwell’s Roses.
Guest: Patrick Blanchfield is a writer and journalist who writes about gun violence, trauma, and masculinity. He is also an associate faculty member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. His new book, Gunpower: The Structure of American Violence, will be released in the new year. Photo by Colin Lloyd on Unsplash
Guest: Joshua Prager is a journalist and the author of The Echoing Green, 100 Years (with Milton Glaser), and his latest, The Family Roe: An American Story.
Guests: Linda C. McClain is Robert Kent Professor of Law at Boston University at Boston University School of Law. Maya Manian is Visiting Professor at American University Washington College of Law.
Guest: Dr. Chris Beyrer is Desmond M. Tutu Professor in Public Health and Human Rights. Professor of Epidemiology, Nursing and Medicine at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is Senior Scientific Liaison of the COVID Vaccine Prevention Network. Photo by CDC on Unsplash
Guest: Mark A. Bradley, author of the book Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America. Mark Bradley currently is the director of the Information Security Oversight Office of the National Archives and Records Administration. He is also a former Justice Department Lawyer and CIA officer.
Guest: Claudio Saunt is Richard B. Russell Professor in American History and Co-Director of the Center for Virtual History at the University of Georgia. He is the author of four books, including West of the Revolution (2014), Black, White, and Indian (2005), and A New Order of Things (1999). His most recent book, Unworthy Republic (2020), was awarded the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the National … Continued
Guest: Carolyn Forché is a poet, editor, translator, and activist and a professor at Georgetown University. She is the author of What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance.
Guest: Sudhir Hazareesingh is a British-Mauritian historian. He is a Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Balliol College, Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has written extensively about French intellectual and cultural history, among his books are The Legend of Napoleon, In the Shadow of the General and How the French Think. He won the Prix du … Continued
Guest: Joanne B. Freeman is a professor of history and American studies at Yale University. She is a leading authority on early national politics and political culture. Author of the award-winning Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic and editor of The Essential Hamilton and Alexander Hamilton: Writings, and her latest, The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to … Continued
