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.
Letters and Politics – SCOTUS, McCutheon & the Midterms
Craig Holman of Public Citizen on political money in this year’s midterm elections. Rickey Vincent on the Lumpen.
Letters and Politics – 1988 US Navy Shoot Down of Iranian Flight 655
1988 US Navy Shoot Down of Iranian Flight 655 with Cyrus Safdari, analyst with iranaffairs.com. Historian Frederick Taylor on Germany in the 1920s.
Letters and Politics – Gaza, Ukraine, Syria & the Global Arms Trade
Andrew Feinstein, author of the book The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade.
Letters and Politics – A History of Palestine
Beshara Doumani, professor of Middle East History at Brown University.
Letters and Politics – July 17, 2014
Jared Bernstein with the Center on Budget Policy & Priorities. Steven Shatz professor of law at the University of San Francisco.
Letters and Politics – July 16, 2014
Judy Heumann, pioneering disability rights activist and international advisory on disability, on the history of the disability rights movement.
Letters and Politics – July 15, 2014
Hatem Bazian, lecturer of Near East Studies at UC Berkeley. The historic fight over contraception with Carole Jaffe, professor at the University of San Francisco.
Letters and Politics – July 10, 2014
Naomi Oreskes, Science Historian at Harvard & author of The Collapse of Western Civilization.