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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Part I. Ukraine and the U.S. Military Budget Guest: William Hartung is an expert on national security/foreign policy at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. His work focuses on the arms industry and U.S. military budget. He is the author of Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex (2011). Part II. The Third … Continued
Guest: Serhii Plokhy is Mykhailo S. Hrushevs’kyi Professor of Ukrainian History and director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. He is the author of several books including, Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis (2021) and most recently, Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters (2022).
Guest: Peter Kuznick is a professor of history and director of the award-winning Nuclear Studies Institute at American University. He has written extensively about science and politics, nuclear history, and Cold War culture. He is the author of Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists as Political Activists in 1930s America (2019); the co-author of Rethinking the Atomic Bombings of … Continued
Guest: Kai Bird is an award-winning historian and journalist. Executive Director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography, he is the acclaimed author of biographies of John J. McCloy and of McGeorge and William Bundy. He won the Pulitzer Prize for American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (co-authored with Martin J. … Continued
Guest: Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has written or edited thirty-three books, including Misquoting Jesus, How Jesus Became God, The Triumph of Christianity, and Heaven and Hell.
Guest: William Dalrymple is the author of The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire.
Guest: Noam Chomsky is a world-renowned linguist and political activist and institute professor (emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and laureate professor of linguistics and chair in the program in environment and social justice at the University of Arizona. He, along with Vijay Prashad, is the author The Withdrawal: Iraq, … Continued
Guest: Gary Dorrien is the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Religion at Columbia University. He is the author of a number of books including The New Abolition, Breaking White Supremacy, Economy, Difference, Empire, Social Democracy in the Making: Political and Religious Roots of European Socialism; and his latest, … Continued
Guest: Reza Aslan is an internationally acclaimed writer, producer, and scholar of religions. He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Zealot, and editor of Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East. His latest book is An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville.
Guest: Laura Dassow Walls, author of the book Henry David Thoreau: A Life, a biography of the naturalist, inventor and activist. He left behind a monumental legacy in addition to his essay Civil Disobedience, a paean to human freedom. Two hundred years after his birth, Walls restores Henry David Thoreau to us in all his profound, inspiring complexity.
