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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
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.
Guest: Robert Ovetz is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science at San José State University, US. He is the author of When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921, and the editor of Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggle. His latest book is We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few.
Guest: Adam Hochschild is the author of eleven books, including the contemporary classics King Leopold’s Ghost and To End All Wars (both finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award), Spain in Our Hearts (a New York Times bestseller), and Bury the Chains (a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Los … Continued
