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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: Tina Gerhardt is an environmental journalist who has covered the annual climate negotiations over a decade. She is covering the current talks for The Nation and Sierra Magazine. She is also the Barron Professor of Environment at the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University. Follow her on Twitter at @TinaGerhardtEJ Her latest piece … Continued
Guest: Michael Woo is an urban planner and was the first Asian American elected to the Los Angeles City Council. Mr. Woo represents the third generation of his family involved in L.A.’s Chinese community. His article After 150 Years, Is L.A. Ready to Remember the Chinese Massacre? can be found here. Mr. Woo is the … Continued
Guest: Beth Shapiro is a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where her work has centered on the analysis of ancient DNA. She is the author of How to Clone a Mammoth, which won the AAAS science writing award, and her latest, Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years … Continued
Guest: Marc David Baer is professor of international history at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of several books, including Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe, which won the Albert Hourani Prize and his latest, The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs.
Guest: Gary Dorrien is the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Religion at Columbia University. He is the author of The New Abolition, Breaking White Supremacy, Social Democracy in the Making, and his latest, American Democratic Socialism: History, Politics, Religion, and Theory.
Guest: Ariel Dorfman is a renown Argentinian-Chilean-American writer and a human rights activist. Once a former adviser to Chilean President Salvador Allende in the early 70’s, Ariel Dorfman would go on write countless books, plays and essays. He is the author several books including, How to Read Donald Duck, Homeland Security Ate My Speech (OR … Continued
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 … Continued
Part I – The Legacy of Colin Powell Guest: Lawrence J. Korb is a senior fellow at American Progress. He is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. Dr. Korb served as assistant secretary of defense from 1981 through 1985. Part II – A Field Guide to White Supremacy Guest: Kathleen Belew is Assistant … Continued
Guest: Zachary D. Carter is a writer in residence at Omidyar Network. He is the author of The Price Of Peace: Money, Democracy, And The Life Of John Maynard Keynes. His latest Opinion piece can be found here. Photo credit: Wikimedia commons.
Guest: Kyle Harper is professor of classics and letters at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire (Princeton); From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity, and his latest, Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the … Continued
