Stuart Kelter interviews Gerald Easter and Mara Vorhees, who are co-authors of two books, The Tsarina's Lost Treasure: Catherine the Great, a Golden Age Masterpiece, and a Legendary Shipwreck, published in 2020 and The Last Stand of the Raven Clan: A Story of Imperial Ambition, Native Resistance, and How the Tlingit-Russian War Shaped a Continent, which was just published a few months ago and is the subject of today’s interview. Gerald Easter is a political science professor at Boston College, focusing on Russia and Eastern Europe. Reconstructing the State, published in 2000, examines the personal networks and informal sources of power than contributed to the expansion of the Soviet control over its multi-ethnic satellite states, as well as to the empire’s later disintegration. His award-winning book, Capital Coercion, and Post-Communist States, published in 2012, explores the disparate outcomes, democratic vs. authoritarian, of post-Soviet satellite states. Mara Vorhees is a travel writer and photographer who has contributed to over forty guidebooks published by Lonely Planet, about such diverse destinations as New England, Central America, and Russia. She also the creator and writer of the blog, Have Twins, Will Travel: Adventures & Misadventures in Family Travel.
This week on the Mesilla Valley Sports Show, our guest is all-time great NMSU women’s basketball player Anita Skipper. Skipper holds every NM State scoring record and is the program’s all-time leader in rebounds and steals. She was also the first Division I college basketball player—man or woman—to achieve at least 2,500 points, 1,000 rebounds, and 300 steals in a college career.
Beyond basketball, Skipper is a strong advocate for women's leadership in business and sports. We’ll discuss her legendary career, leadership, and the celebration of National Girls and Women in Sports Day. Walt and Nancy speak with Donald Neidig, a retired astrophysicist with the USAF Research Lab and National Solar Observatory, and Joel Brown, USDA Senior Science Advisor for the Southwest Climate Hub, Jornada Experimental Range, about their upcoming presentations for the Academy For Learning in Retirement on the topic “Climate Change: History, Impact and Green Energy."
Walt and Nancy speak with Bobbie Green of the Dona Ana County NAACP about black history in Las Cruces and southern New Mexico.
Greg’s guest was Mesilla Valley Community of Hope director and musician, Nicole Martinez. They will be talking about programs helping people who have found themselves without homes and the roles music can play in the work that Nicole does. (Café con Leche is sponsored by Penny Peace and George Ivolin of Mad Hatter Gallery.)
I write most columns from the outside looking in. This one is different.
New state Rep. Sarah Silva, D-Las Cruces, has introduced a bill protecting journalists. And, she’s got a couple of heavyweights backing her. Speaker of the House Javier Martinez and Senate Majority Leader Peter Wirth are both cosponsors. Today's conversation with Keith Whelpley, Jack Turney and Randy Harris explores the new administration's attacks on our Democracy and our cultural values. We address the scrubbing of public information sites, mass firings of government workers, deportation, immigration, Christians, violations of human dignity, abortion, social justice, economics, and more. We discuss avenues of action for personally coping with these increasingly threatening policies, and how to bring our own compassion, kindness, and generosity to those around us who are at greatest risk today.
Stuart Kelter interviews Erik Baker, a historian, writer, and teacher based in Boston, a lecturer in the History of Science department at Harvard University and associate editor of The Drift, a magazine about culture and politics. In addition to articles about labor, politics, and American history, he recently published his first book, Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America, which explores how social scientists and management intellectuals reshaped the American work ethic during the turbulence of twentieth century U.S. capitalism.
Mike's guest this week was NMSU women's basketball coach Jody Adams. Jody has the Aggie women competing in the top half of Conference USA this season. A former player under the legendary Coach Pat Summitt, Adams won a national title and has built an impressive career in basketball.
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