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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: Jacob Mchangama is the founder and executive director of the Danish think tank Justitia and the host of the podcast Clear and Present Danger: A History of Free Speech. He is the author of the book Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media. Front page Image: The Death of Socrates … Continued
Guest: Barry Strauss is a professor of history and classics at Cornell University, The Corliss Page Dean Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a leading expert on ancient military history. He has written or edited several books, including The Battle of Salamis, The Trojan War, The Spartacus War, Masters of Command, The Death of Caesar, Ten Caesars, and his latest, The … Continued
Guest: Aviva Chomsky is a professor of history and the coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State University. She is the author of several books including Undocumented; They Take Our Jobs!; and her latest, Is Science Enough?: Forty Critical Questions About Climate Justice. Aviva Chomsky has been active in the Latin American solidarity and immigrants’ … Continued
Guest: Dr. Devon Price is a social psychologist and professor at Loyola University Chicago’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies. He has autism and he is the author of Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity.
Guest: Gal Beckerman is the senior editor for books at The Atlantic. Formerly an editor at The New York Times Book Review. He is the author of When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone, which won the National Jewish Book Award and the Sami Rohr Prize and was named a best book of the year by The New Yorker and The … Continued
Guest: Laura Shin is a writer, crypto journalist, and podcaster. A former senior editor at Forbes, host of the podcast Unchained and Unconfirmed and author of the book The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze.
Part I. Constance Baker Motley: Civil Rights Queen Guest: Tomiko Brown-Nagin is Dean of Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School, and Professor of History at Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She is the author of Courage to Dissent that won the … Continued
Guest: Rachel E. Gross is an award-winning science journalist and the author of the latest book Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage. She writes for BBC Future, the New York Times, and Scientific American.
Part 1. What Is A War Crime? Guest: Rebecca Gordon, teaches at the University of San Francisco. She is the author of Mainstreaming Torture, American Nuremberg: The U.S. Officials Who Should Stand Trial for Post-9/11 War Crimes and is currently working on a new book about the history of torture in the United States called The House That … Continued
Guest: Andrew Fiala is professor of philosophy and director of the Center for Ethics at California State University, Fresno. He is the author of a number of books, including a widely used ethics textbook, Ethics: Theory and Contemporary Issues, 9th edition (co-authored with Barbara MacKinnon). His latest book is Tyranny from Plato to Trump: Fools, Sycophants, … Continued
