In this episode host Mitch Jeserich speaks with Sally Parry, Executive Director of the Sinclair Lewis Society, about the legacy of Sinclair Lewis’ 1935 novel It Can’t Happen Here, which prophesied an authoritarian takeover in the US.
Letters and Politics
10:00 AM Pacific Time: Monday - Thursday
Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
In this episode host Mitch Jeserich speaks with Peter Irons, a constitutional historian, civil rights attorney, and former prisoner of conscious, as well as professor emeritus of political science at the University of California, San Diego. His latest book is A People’s History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Case and Decisions … Continued
In this episode we focus on George Orwell’s 1984. Our guests are Tim Crook, a professor of Media Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London and the Officer of Education at the Orwell Society, and Jean Seaton, the Director of the Orwell Prize which offers yearly prizes in journalism and literature, as well as hosts events and … Continued
In this episode, host Mitch Jeserich speaks with historian David Kertzer, a prominent intellectual voice on the political, demographic, and religious history of Italy. He is Paul Dupee, Jr. University Professor of Social Science, Professor of Anthropology, and Professor of Italian Studies at Brown University. His latest book is, The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History … Continued
In this episode, host Mitch Jeserich speaks with Stephen Kinzer, an award-winning foreign correspondent. He served as The New York Times’s bureau chief in Turkey, Germany, and Nicaragua and as The Boston Globe’s Latin America correspondent. He is a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University and writes a column on world affairs … Continued
Mitch Jeserich interviews Francisco Ugarte, from the San Francisco Office of the Public Defender, to discuss the current Immigration Laws. The memos from the Department of Homeland Security are at the core of this discussion about undocumented immigrants and their defense in the US. Source : Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grape_workers.jpg
In this episode, host Mitch Jeserich speaks with Professor of Economics from Columbia University Richard D. Wolff about the current state of the globalized capitalist system and more.
In this episode, host Mitch Jeserich speaks with renowned UC Berkeley Linguistics Professor George Lakoff, about the effectiveness of Trump’s political language, and the neuroscience of how to combat it.
In this episode, host Mitch Jeserich speaks with A. Brad Schwartz, author of Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News, about the original fake news broadcast. We also play clips of the 1938 War of the World’s broadcast.
In this episode host Mitch Jeserich speaks with John Nichols of the Nation Magazine about Trump’s new nominee for Secretary of Labor, Alexander Acosta after Andrew Puzder withdrew his nomination.