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 – When Government Breaks Down
Julian E. Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of Governing America: The Revival of Political History.
Letters and Politics – What History Says about the GOP’s Shutdown
Geoffrey Kabaservice author of “Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party.” Jo Comerford, executive director of the National Priorities Project.
Letters and Politics – Robert Pollin on the Economic Impacts of A Government Shutdown
Robert Pollin is the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) co-director and professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Letters and Politics – The Life & Ideas of Edward Said
Guest: Vijay Prashad, the Edward Said chair at American University in Beirut.
Letters and Politics – September 24, 2013
Zahra Billoo, executive director of CAIR-SF, on CAIR’s new report Legislating Fear.
Letters and Politics – Al Shabab and the geopolitics of the Horn of Africa
Today we’ll be in conversation about Al Shabab and the geopolitical dynamics of the Horn of Africa with Abdi Samatar, President of the African Studies Association of North America.
Letters and Politics – The Fed & Quantitative Easing
Guests include Guardian’s financial correspondent Dominic Rushe and economist Max Fraad Wolff, instructor at the Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School University. We also speak to Leroy Moore and police abuse and people with disabilities.
Letters and Politics – The War on Poverty & WWI
Stephen Pimpare, author of the book A People’s History of Poverty in America. Sean McMeekin, author of the new book July 1914: Countdown to War.