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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
A conversation about how corporations have used the courts to win rights that were made for people and not for businesses. Guest: Adam Winkler, is a historian and law professor, specializing in American Constitutional Law. He us the author of We The Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights. Support your radio station, donate … Continued
The Epic of Gilgamesh is the Ur-epic inscribed onto damp clay tablets several millennia before Odysseus or the priest of Ecclesiastes found their voices. The Sumerian versions date back almost 5000 years. Scholar Kent H. Dixon explains what’s the Epic story of Gilgamesh, and how Bildungsroman of a bad king learning to become a proper human being … Continued
A conversation with Professor Mark Lause who offers a fascinating insights of the historical background of the rise of radicalism in the United States today. Asserting how class solidarity and consciousness became more important to a generation of workers than notions of American citizenship. Guest: Mark Lause is professor of history at the University of Cincinnati and the … Continued
According to Professor Michael Klarman “it is important to tell the story of the Constitution’s origins in a way that demystifies it. Impressive as they were, the men who wrote the Constitution were not demigods; they had interests, prejudices, and moral blind spots.” Invocations of divine inspiration for the Constitution by supporters of ratification were, … Continued
A conversation with Heather Cox Richardson about the history of the shifting ideology of the Republican Party from the antebellum era to the Great Recession. We talk about how Republicans’ ideological vacillations have had terrible repercussions for minorities, the middle class, and America at large. Guest: Heather Cox Richardson is professor of history at Boston College. She is … Continued
Today protesters opposing Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court demonstrated in hallways outside the offices of Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and other lawmakers. Many were arrested. Meanwhile, women across the country have organized walkouts protesting the nomination. Guest: Adele Stan is a columnist for The American Prospect, and the editor … Continued
A conversation with Joanne B. Freeman about the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress, and how legislative sessions were often punctuated by mortal threats, caning, flipped desks, punches and all-out slugfests during the decades before the Civil War. Guest: Joanne B. Freeman, is a professor of history and American studies … Continued
A conversation with Professor Jason Stanley on how American racism is the United States own form of fascism. Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He is the author of several books including his latest How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them. Please helps us reach our goal! Click here … Continued
Allegations of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh have emerged putting the confirmation vote in question. Democrats, along with several GOP senators are calling for a hold on the vote while the Senate investigates the case. For analysis on this issue we are joined by journalists and analysts Ruth Conniff and Antonia Juhasz. Then, … Continued
It has been a decade since the global recession began, with a banking system on the edge of collapse to people loosing their savings, retirements, and homes, and unemployment rates as low as the ones during the great depression of the 1930’s, and the largest transfer of wealth from the middle class to the very … Continued
