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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: Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian and journalist. He is the author of thirty books, including Washington Bullets, Red Star Over the Third World, The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World and The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South. He is the Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for … Continued
Guest: Raj Patel is an award-winning writer, activist, and academic. He is Research Professor in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin and Senior Research Associate at the Unit for the Humanities at Rhodes University. He is the author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World … Continued
Guest: Nobel Prize winning Economist, Joseph Stiglitz is University Professor at Columbia University, and chief economist of the Roosevelt Institute. He is a former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank and is a former member and chairman of the (US president’s) Council of Economic Advisers. His most recent book is People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for … Continued
Live Broadcast of the U.S. Health Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing: “Protecting Scientific Integrity in the COVID-19 Response (Panel I). Witnesses Richard A. Bright, Ph.D. Senior Advisor National Institutes of Health –Testimony Hosts: Mitch Jeserich, Cat Brooks, and Brian Edwards-Tiekert. Guests: Zain Rizvi, Law and Policy Researcher with Public Citizen. He … Continued
Guest: Karen Armstrong is a religious scholar and a former catholic nun. She wrote several books on the history of religion. Her last book is The Lost Art of Scripture.
Live broadcast of the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions hearing on COVID-19: Safely Getting Back to Work and Back to School. Witnesses: Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health; Dr. Robert Redfield, Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; ADM Brett Giroir … Continued
When President Theodore Roosevelt took on the biggest corporate interest of the day with Guest: Susan Berfield, award-winning investigative reporter for Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg News. She is the author of the book The Hour of Fate: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism.
Guest: Laura Dassow Walls, author of the book Henry David Thoreau: A Life, a biography of the naturalist, inventor and activist. He left behind a monumental legacy in addition to his essay Civil Disobedience, a paean to human freedom. Two hundred years after his birth, Walls restores Henry David Thoreau to us in all his profound, inspiring complexity. … Continued
Part III: The Reconstruction Amendments and How They’ve Created Our Political World Today. Guest: Eric Foner, the DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. His book, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer Prize. His latest book is The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the … Continued
Part II: Abraham Lincoln, the Radical Republicans & Andrew Johnson. Guest: Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. His book The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer. His latest book is called The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.
