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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
With Linda Martin Alcoff, Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and author of the book The Future of Whiteness. And Vincent Brown, Professor of History and Professor of African and African-American Studies at Harvard and Curator of “A Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760-1761,” an animated thematic map that narrates the spatial history of the greatest slave insurrection in the … Continued
With Khatharya Um, political scientist, Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies, and Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Author of the book From the Land of Shadows: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Cambodian Diaspora. And Kris Schreier Lyseggen, journalist, photographer and fine artist. Author of The Women of San … Continued
With Robert Spitzer, professor of history and political science at the State University of New York at Cortland, and author of many books including Guns Across America: Reconciling Gun Rules and Rights (2015) and The Presidency and Public Policy (1983). About the book: In vast swathes of America, the sacredness of the Second Amendment has become a political third … Continued
With Jessica Goad of the Center for Western Priorities and principal author of Going to Extremes: The anti-government extremism behind the growing movement to seize America’s public lands. Then, Jeremy Brecher, author of more than a dozen books on labor and social movements, on his book Strike!. About Going to Extremes: Last week, armed members of … Continued
The Rise of Political Consulting and the Transformation of American Democracy. With Adam Sheingate, Associate Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University and author of Building a Business of Politics: The Rise of Political Consulting and the Transformation of American Democracy. About the book: Political races in the United States rely heavily on highly paid political consultants … Continued
With Jonathan Lyons, author of The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization. He served as editor and foreign correspondent for Reuters for more than twenty years. About the book: For centuries following the fall of Rome, Western Europe was a benighted backwater, a world of subsistence farming, minimal literacy, and violent conflict. Meanwhile … Continued
With Jimena Canales, Professor of History of Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and author of the book The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time. And Gerry Spence, trial lawyer who has been practicing law since 1952 and author of Police State: How America’s Cops Get Away with Murder. … Continued
Annie Jacobsen, The Pentagon’s Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America’s Top-Secret Military Research Agency
Nelson Denis, author of War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America’s Colony About the book: “In 1950, after over fifty years of military occupation and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico staged an unsuccessful armed insurrection against the United States. Violence swept through the island: assassins were sent to kill … Continued
With James E. Strick, Associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Environment and Chair of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Franklin and Marshall College. About the book: Psychoanalyst, political theorist, pioneer of body therapies, prophet of the sexual revolution—all fitting titles, but Wilhelm Reich has never been recognized as a serious laboratory scientist, … Continued
