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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: M. Leona Godin is a writer, performer, and educator who is blind. She is the author of the book There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times; Playboy; O, The Oprah Magazine; and Catapult, where she writes the column “A Blind Writer’s Notebook.” She was a … Continued
Guest: Robert Ovetz discusses his new book, When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921, and covers insurrectionary labor history from the Great Upheaval to the Redneck War. [Rebroadcast]
Guest: Joanna Scutts is a literary critic, historian, and author of The Extra Woman and her latest, Hotbed: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism. Her writing appear in several outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, and the Paris Review series Feminize Your Canon.
Guest: Ronald Suny is the William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. He is the author of several books including, Red Flag Wounded: Stalinism and the Fate of the Soviet Experiment, Stalin: Passage to Revolution, and They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else: A … Continued
Part I. An Anatomy of a Marine Die-off at the San Francisco Bay. Guest: Damon Tighe (@damontighe) is a Naturalist who documents wildlife in Lake Merritt. Part II. At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth Guest: Madeline Ostrander is a freelance environmental journalist based in Seattle and the author of At … Continued
Guest: Ed Yong is a Pulitzer Prize–winning science writer on the staff of The Atlantic. He is is the author of I Contain Multitudes, and his latest An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us.
Guest: Emily L. Quint Freeman, author of Failure to Appear: Resistance, Identity and Loss. In 1969 in Chicago Emily L Quint Freemen broke into a military draft board office and destroyed 40 thousand draft records–potentially saving the lives of many men who would may have otherwise been drafted to serve in Vietnam. The act forced her an underground life as a … Continued
Guest: Sarah Schulman is a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at College of Staten Island, a Fellow at the New York Institute of Humanities. She is also the cofounder of the MIX New York LGBT Experimental Film and Video Festival, and the co-director of the groundbreaking ACT UP Oral History Project. Professor Schulman is the author of more … Continued
Guest: David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post and a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and was a finalist three other times. Among his bestselling books are biographies of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Roberto Clemente, and Vince Lombardi, Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the … Continued
Guest: Marcello Musto is the author of The Last Years of Karl Marx. He is also a Professor of Sociological Theory at York University where he is the founding director of the Laboratory for Alternative Theories.
