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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: 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 The New Abolition, Breaking White Supremacy, Social Democracy in the Making, and his latest, American Democratic Socialism: History, Politics, Religion, and Theory.
Guest: Ariel Dorfman is a renown Argentinian-Chilean-American writer and a human rights activist. Once a former adviser to Chilean President Salvador Allende in the early 70’s, Ariel Dorfman would go on write countless books, plays and essays. He is the author several books including, How to Read Donald Duck, Homeland Security Ate My Speech (OR … Continued
Guest: Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books, including Recollections of My Nonexistence, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, The Faraway Nearby, A Paradise Built in Hell, River of Shadows, and Wanderlust. She is also the author of Men Explain Things to Me and many essays on feminism, activism and social change, hope, and the climate crisis. Her latest, Orwell’s … Continued
Part I – The Legacy of Colin Powell Guest: Lawrence J. Korb is a senior fellow at American Progress. He is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. Dr. Korb served as assistant secretary of defense from 1981 through 1985. Part II – A Field Guide to White Supremacy Guest: Kathleen Belew is Assistant … Continued
Guest: Zachary D. Carter is a writer in residence at Omidyar Network. He is the author of The Price Of Peace: Money, Democracy, And The Life Of John Maynard Keynes. His latest Opinion piece can be found here. Photo credit: Wikimedia commons.
Guest: Kyle Harper is professor of classics and letters at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire (Princeton); From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity, and his latest, Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the … Continued
Guest: John Nichols is the Washington correspondent for the Nation magazine. His latest piece in the Nation is Trump’s Coup Attempt Is Far From Finished can be found here. Photo credit: Tear Gas outside United States Capitol, January 6, 2021 by Tyler Merbler. Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic
Guest: William Bauer, professor of history at the University of Nevada Las Vegas where he is the Director of American Indian & Indigenous Studies. He is also a citizen of the Round Valley Reservation in northern California. He is the co-author of the book We Are the Land: A History of Native California. Previously he … Continued
Guest: Armand D’Angour is a British classical scholar and classical musician, Associate Professor of Classics at Oxford University, and is a Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Jesus College, Oxford. He authored several books, including The Greeks and the New: Novelty in Ancient Greek Imagination and Experience as well as his latest book Socrates in Love: The Making of … Continued
Guest: Violet Moller is a historian and writer who specializes in intellectual history. She is the author of the book The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found.
