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.
With Michael Backes, specialist in cannabis science and policy issues at a southern California consultancy. He previously founded the first evidence-based medical cannabis dispensary. He’s author of the book Cannabis Pharmacy: The Practical Guide to Medical Marijuana. About the book: There are currently 4.2 million medical cannabis patients in the United States, and there are 20 states … Continued
Excerpts from the film The Untold History of the United States and a Q&A with Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznik. About the series: There is a classified America we were never meant to see. From Academy Award-winning writer/director Oliver Stone, this ten-part documentary series looks back at human events that at the time went under … Continued
With Bertrand M. Patenaude, lecturer at Stanford University, research fellow at the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, and author of the book Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary. About the book: Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused as much passion, controversy, and curiosity as Leon Trotsky. His role in history—his epic rise and fall, … Continued
With Laleh Khalili, author of the book Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies, on the film The Battle of Algiers. About the film: is a 1966 war film based on occurrences during the Algerian War (1954–62) against the French government in North Africa, the most prominent being the titular Battle of Algiers. An Italo-Algerian production, it was directed by … Continued
With Michael Backes, specialist in cannabis science and policy issues at a southern California consultancy. He previously founded the first evidence-based medical cannabis dispensary. He’s author of the book Cannabis Pharmacy: The Practical Guide to Medical Marijuana. About the book: There are currently 4.2 million medical cannabis patients in the United States, and there are 20 states … Continued
Peniel E. Joseph is Professor of History at Tufts University and the author of Stokely: A Life. About the book: Stokely Carmichael, the charismatic and controversial black activist, stepped onto the pages of history when he called for “Black Power” during a speech one Mississippi night in 1966. A firebrand who straddled both the American … Continued
With Nicholas Wapshott, author of Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics and Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher: A Political Marriage. A former senior editor at the LondonTimes and the New York Sun, he is now international editor at Newsweek. About the book: As the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men … Continued
With Ernest Freeberg, Professor of History at the University of Tennessee and author of the book Democracy’s Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, The Great War, and the Right to Dissent. About the book: In 1920, socialist leader Eugene V. Debs ran for president while serving a ten-year jail term for speaking against America’s role in World War … Continued
Dr. Candace Falk, director of the Emma Goldman Papers at UC Berkeley. Emma Goldman (1869–1940) stands as a major figure in the history of American radicalism and feminism. An influential and well-known anarchist of her day, Goldman was an early advocate of free speech, birth control, women’s equality and independence, and union organization. Her criticism of mandatory conscription … Continued
Rebecca Herzig is professor of women and gender studies at Bates College and the author of the book Plucked: A History of Hair Removal. About the book: From the clamshell razors and homemade lye depilatories used in colonial America to the diode lasers and prescription pharmaceuticals available today, Americans have used a staggering array of … Continued
