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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: Robin D. G. Kelley is Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is author or co-editor of numerous award-winning books including Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (The Free Press, 2009); Yo’ Mama’s Disfunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America (Beacon Press, 1997); … Continued
Guest: Mike Rothschild is a journalist and author of The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything.
Guests Rone Tempest was a longtime national and foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. In 2004 he was part of a team of reporters to win the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the massive wildfires in Southern California. He is one of the co-founders of WyoFile, an independent, public-interest news service in Wyoming. His … Continued
Guest: Philip Short has written several definitive biographies including Mao: A Life and Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare. He latest biography is called Putin.
Guest: Christian A. Smith was an independent researcher and the author of the book Shakespeare’s Influence on Karl Marx: The Shakespearean Roots of Marxism. Feature photo: Wikimedia
Part I. The Inflation Reduction Act Guest: Robert Pollin is Distinguished University Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He is author of several books including his latest, Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet, co-authored with … Continued
Guests Marcy Wheeler is an independent journalist specializing in national security and civil liberties. Her writings can be found at emptywheel.net John Nichols is national affairs correspondent for The Nation Magazine. Image feature: Wikimedia Commons
Guest: Andrew Roberts is the author of many books including his latest, The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III. He is the Roger and Martha Mertz Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, chair of the judges of the Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize, and a visiting professor in … Continued
Part I. People’s Park Guest: Harvey Smith is a public historian, educator, and part of the People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group. He is also the author of Berkeley and the New Deal. Part II. A History of Taiwan and China Guest: Valerie Hansen is the Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University, where she … Continued
Guest: Moustafa Bayoumi is a writer, journalist, and a professor at Brooklyn College. He is the author of How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America, and a co-editor of The Edward Said Reader. His latest piece in the Nation is Journey to Guantánamo: A Week in America’s Notorious Penal Colony. Feature … Continued
