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KPFA - Letters and Politics

Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.

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32:26

The German Peasants’ Revolt

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2025/08/07

Guest: Lyndal Roper is Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxford. She is the author of several books including, Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet; Witch Craze, and her latest, Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War. The post The German Peasants’ Revolt appeared first on KPFA.

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19:26

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2025/08/06

Guest: Juan Cole is a public intellectual, prominent blogger and essayist, and the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is the translator of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam: A New Translation from the Persian The post The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam appeared first on KPFA.

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11:01

The America First Committee: A History

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2025/08/05

Guest: H. W. Brands is the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of many books, including American Colossus, The General vs. the President, The First American and Traitor to His Class, and his latest, America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War. The post The America First Committee: A History appeared first on KPFA.

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59:58

The Life & Times of Sigmund Freud

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2025/08/04

Guest: Dr. Frank Tallis is a writer and clinical psychologist and author of Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna, and the Birth of the Modern Mind. The post The Life & Times of Sigmund Freud appeared first on KPFA.

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38:07

Letters and Politics – July 31, 2025

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2025/07/31

A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich. The post Letters and Politics – July 31, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

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5:08

The Story Behind the Grimm Brothers’ Tales

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2025/07/30

Guest: Ann Schmiesing is professor of German and Scandinavian studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is the author of Disability, Deformity, and Disease in the Grimms’ Fairy Tales and most lately, The Brothers Grimm: A Biography.The post The Story Behind the Grimm Brothers’ Tales appeared first on KPFA.

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59:58

Women in Ancient History: Penelope’s Bones

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2025/07/29

Guest: Emily Hauser is a senior lecturer in classics and ancient history at the University of Exeter, UK. She is the author of three novels reimagining the women of Greek myth: For the Most Beautiful, For the Winner, and For the Immortal. She is also the author of How Women Became Poets, and most recently, of Penelope’s Bones: A New History of Homer’s World through the Women Written Out of It.The post Women in Ancient History: Penelope’s Bones appeared first on KPFA.

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59:58

The Origins of the Proto-Indo-Europeans

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2025/07/28

Guest: Laura Spinney is a science journalist and the author of Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World and most recently, Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global. The post The Origins of the Proto-Indo-Europeans appeared first on KPFA.

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59:59

Understanding the Psychology of Nazis

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2025/07/24

Guest: Laurence Rees is an award-winning English historian and documentary filmmaker. He has authored several books including The Holocaust: A New History, Hitler and Stalin, Auschwitz: A New History, and his latest, The Nazi Mind: Twelve Warnings from History.The post Understanding the Psychology of Nazis appeared first on KPFA.

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59:59

Karl Marx in America

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2025/07/23

Guest: Andrew Hartman is professor of history at Illinois State University. He is the author of A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars, Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School, and his latest, Karl Marx in America. The post Karl Marx in America appeared first on KPFA.

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11:34

Red Scare: The Early Years

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2025/07/22

Guest: Clay Risen is a historian and a reporter and editor at The New York Times. He is the author of several books including The Crowded Hour, a New York Times Notable Book of 2019, and his latest, Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America. The post Red Scare: The Early Years appeared first on KPFA.

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59:58

The Pornography Wars

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2025/07/21

Guest: Kelsy Burke is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the author of The Pornography Wars: The Past, Present, and Future of America’s Obscene Obsession. The post The Pornography Wars appeared first on KPFA.

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The Century Long PR Campaign Linking Capitalism to...

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2025/07/17

Guest: Naomi Oreskes is professor of the history of science at Harvard University. Her books include, The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, and her latest with historian of science and technology Erik Conway, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market.The post The Century Long PR Campaign Linking Capitalism to

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George Monbiot on The Secret History of Neoliberalism

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2025/07/16

Guest: George Monbiot is an author, journalist, and environmental campaigner. His books include Feral, Heat, Regenesis, and his latest, Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism co-authored with Peter Hutchison.George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison also co-produced the film Invisible Doctrine. The post George Monbiot on The Secret History of Neoliberalism appeared first on KPFA.

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6:46

The Fall of Roman Societies

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2025/07/15

Guest: Michael Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET) and a Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. He is the author of several books including Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire, ...and forgive them their debts, and The Collapse of Antiquity.The post The Fall of Roman Societies appeared first on KPFA.

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42:09

The Fugitive Slave Act

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2025/07/14

Guest: Andrew Delbanco author of The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War. The post The Fugitive Slave Act appeared first on KPFA.

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44:53

The Power of Agricultural Industry

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2025/07/10

Guest: Will Potter is an award-winning investigative journalist who focuses on social justice and environmental movements, and attacks on civil liberties post-9/11. He is the author of Green Is the New Red: An Insider’s Account of a Social Movement Under Siege and his latest, Little Red Barns: Hiding the Truth, from Farm to Fable.The post The Power of Agricultural Industry appeared first on KPFA.

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59:58

The Proto-Indo-Europeans

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2025/07/09

Guest: Laura Spinney is a science journalist and the author of Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World and most recently, Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global. The post The Proto-Indo-Europeans appeared first on KPFA.

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59:58

What it Means for Israel To Be a Jewish State

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2025/07/08

Guest: Yaacov Yadgar is the Stanley Lewis Professor of Israel Studies at the University of Oxford and the author of several books including Israel’s Jewish Identity Crisis: State and Politics in the Middle East, and his latest To Be a Jewish State: Zionism as the New Judaism.The post What it Means for Israel To Be a Jewish State appeared first on KPFA.

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59:58

The Nature of Imperial Power with Mary Beard

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2025/07/07

Guest: Mary Beard is a renown classist and the author of the best-selling The Fires of Vesuvius, SPQR, and most lately, Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World. The post The Nature of Imperial Power with Mary Beard appeared first on KPFA.

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