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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
In the context of the Congress hearing on the authorization to use military force against ISIS: Shoon Murray, associate professor of Foreign Policy at American University and author of the book Terror Authorization. A conversation with the long time Civil Rights Attorney, Burt Neuborne, author of Madison’s Music.
A conversation on the Obama presidency with David Axelrod, Chief strategist for Barack Obama’s campaigns.
The economist Richard Wolff has been following the Greek economic crisis for years and Mitch Jeserich talks with him about what it means for the world. They are joined by the mental health counselor Harriet Fraad to talk about the toll of economics on personal health.
Andrew Mumford, Assistant Professor at the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham, author of Proxy Warfare, discusses past present and future proxy wars with host Mitch Jeserich.
Dolores Ines Casillas, author of the book Sounds of Belonging: U.S. Spanish-Language Radio and Public Advocacy, speaks with Mitch Jeserich about the history of Spanish speaking media in the US and their advocacy for Latino migrants.
Lena Khatib of the Carnegie Endowment’s Middle East Center in Beirut on ISIS tactics. Adam Zamoysky, author of Phantom Terror: Political Paranoia and the Creation of the Modern State, 1789-1848 on how governments use occult threats to justify repression. About the book: The French Revolution and the blood-curdling violence it engendered terrified the ruling and … Continued
The political and Human Rights Crisis in Mexico. Anabel Hernández, author of Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and their Godfathers.
Today Laleh Khalili, Professor of Middle East Politics at the University of London discusses The Battle of Algier with host Mitch Jeserich. The Battle of Algier is a 1966 movie by Gillo Pontecorvo about guerilla between Algeria and France and how guerilla wars happen and end.
Today’s show is consecrated to Gunnar Myrdal who wrote An American Dilemna: The Negro Problem and American Democracy, in 1944. Mitch Jeserich speaks to Llewellyn Smith and Kelly Thomson, the filmmakers of American Denial that exposes Gunnar Myrdal life and work about how Gunnar Myrdal’s work is still relevant today.
Conservatives evangelical Christians have been some of the fiercest supporters of Israel in the hope of the second come of Christ. Porter Speakman son of an evangelical pastor has created a critical film looking between the connections between zionism, evangelicals, and the theological debate about the place of the Palestinians called With God on Our Side.
