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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Part 1 – The Current Inflation Guest: Robert Pollin is Distinguished 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 Noam Chomsky. … Continued
Guest: Elizabeth Hinton is associate professor of history and African American studies at Yale University and a professor of law at Yale Law School. The author of From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime, and her latest, America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s.
Guest: Sudhir Hazareesingh is a British-Mauritian historian. He is a Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Balliol College, Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has written extensively about French intellectual and cultural history, among his books are The Legend of Napoleon, In the Shadow of the General and How the French Think. He won the … Continued
Guest: Adam Jentleson is the Executive Director of Battle Born Collective and a former deputy chief of staff to Senator Harry Reid. He is a columnist for GQ and the author of Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy.
Guest: Rosalind Rosenberg is Professor of History Emerita at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of several books including Beyond Separate Spheres: Intellectual Roots of Modern Feminism, and her latest, Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray. Pauli Murray was the first African American to earn a JSD from Yale Law School and her legal … Continued
Guest: Adam Winkler, author of We The Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights. Adam Winkler is a historian and law professor, specializing in American Constitutional Law. Thank You KPFA!!! Donate Here
Guest: Eric Foner is the DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. His book The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer. His latest book is called The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution. Thank you KPFA for your Dedication!!!
Guest: Bruce Levine is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Illinois. He is the bestselling author of several books on the Civil War era, including The Fall of the House of Dixie and Confederate Emancipation, and his latest, Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice. Thank You, KPFA!!!
Guest: H. W. BRANDS holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of many books, two of which, The First American and Traitor to His Class, were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. His latest is The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and … Continued
Guest: Joanne B. Freeman is a professor of history and American studies at Yale University. She is a leading authority on early national politics and political culture. Author of the award-winning Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic and editor of The Essential Hamilton and Alexander Hamilton: Writings, and her latest, The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and … Continued
