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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
On today’s show, Mitch Jeserich is in conversation with British philosopher A. C. Grayling about the limits of the democratic system. He highlights what he calls the ‘dilemma of democracy’: the power belongs to the people but, at the same time, the power needs to be stable to be efficient. A. C. Grayling is Professor of Philosophy … Continued
Today host Mitch Jeserich talks to Richard Rothstein about the history of housing law in the Twenty century. How it meant to segregate beyond the South and how this led to wealth inequality today. Richard Rothstein is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute and a fellow at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP … Continued
Host Mitch Jeserich talks to Catherine Tactaquin, Executive Director and Co-founder of the National Network for Immigrants and Refugee Rights about the controversial debate on immigration. The controversy seems to be part of the deteriorating negotiations over how to handle the potential expiration of deportation protections for the so-called Dreamers. All this comes as the … Continued
Today host Mitch Jeserich is in conversation with Anna Feigenbaum, author of Tear Gas: From the Battlefields of WWI to the Streets of Today, about the history of this chemical weapon. She shows how its use has evolved for one hundred years, from the hands of French soldiers in the trenches to the ones of police officers in the streets. … Continued
On this MLK Day, Mitch Jeserich is in conversation with Civil Rights activist of the 1960s Colia Lafayette Clark.
On the first part of today’s show, Mitch Jeserich talks with Linda Gordon, Professor of History at New York University and author of The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition. She examines the history of a revived Klan in the 1920s, their organization, and … Continued
On today’s show, Mitch Jeserich is in conversation with lawyer Peter Afrasiabi, author of the book Burning Bridges: America’s 20-Year Crusade To Deport Labor Leader Harry Bridges. He has traced the twenty-year legal campaign waged by government lawyers to deport Harry Bridges because of his ideology. Peter Afrasiabi is an Intellectual Property and Entertainment lawyer and a Faculty … Continued
Today Mitch Jeserich is in conversation with Thomas Mann, resident scholar at the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and co-author of One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported. He addresses Trump’s rise, the danger he represents, and how to counter it.
Today, Mitch Jeserich is in conversation with Mike Duncan, creator of the award-winning podcast series The History of Rome and Revolutions, about his new book The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic. He explains how the accumulation of inequalities, social prejudice and corruption led the Roman Republic to its fall.
Today host Mitch Jeserich talks with Robbin Légère Henderson, granddaughter of Matilda Rabinowitz and illustrator of her memoir, about the life of this immigrant girl of the early 20th century who became a radical woman fighting for her rights. The life of Matilda Rabinowitz is related in an illustrated memoir, Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman: A Memoir from the Early … Continued
