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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Coverage of the first Democratic Primary Debate. With Ruth Conniff, Editor of the Progressive Magazine. And Gerald Horne, Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. Then, a conversation with author, activist, and Ken Burns narrator Peter Coyote about his book The Rainman’s Third Cure. About the book: The guiding metaphor … Continued
With John Kay, visiting professor of economics at the London School of Economics, columnist for the Financial Times, and author of the book Other People’s Money: The Real Business of Finance. And Susan Cheever, author of Drinking in America: Our Secret History. Cheever has also written several biographies, five novels, and four memoirs. About Other … Continued
With Susan Weissman, Professor of Politics at Saint Mary’s College of California, award-winning broadcast journalist, and author of the book Victor Serge: A Political Biography. About the book: The first biography to give due weight to the commitment and optimism of this great political thinker Revolutionary novelist, historian, anarchist, Bolshevik and dissident – Victor Serge … Continued
What the ugly history of a 1906 Bronx Zoo exhibit tells us about ourselves today. With Pamela Newkirk, author of Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga. Newkirk is an award-winning journalist and professor of journalism at New York University. And Nathan Ward, author of The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett. Ward was an editor at American Heritage, and … Continued
We’re joined by Vijay Prashad, Professor of South Asian History at Trinity College, Connecticut. He is the author of a number of books, including The Darker Nations: a People’s History of the Third World and Arab Spring, Libyan Winter. His newest book is Letters to Palestine: Writers Respond to War and Occupation. About the book: Impassioned and intimate … Continued
With Annie Jacobsen, author of the book The Pentagon’s Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America’s Top-Secret Military Research Agency. Jacobsen also wrote New York Times bestsellers Area 51 and Operation Paperclip and is a contributing editor at the Los Angeles Times Magazine. About the book: The definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from … Continued
Our fund drive is over, time to jump into what’s been happening. We’re joined by John Nichols, Washington Correspondent for the Nation Magazine, to talk about John Boehner’s resignation, Kevin McCarthy’s run for house speaker, and the presidential field.
Alan Watts, British-born philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Eastern Philosophy for a Western audience. We’ll play excerpts from his show Way Beyond the West. Click Here to Donate to KPFA Today
A speech given by Phyllis Bennis last night (9/29) on her new book Understanding ISIS and The New Global War on Terror. About the book: The US is back at war. A new version of what was once known as George W. Bush’s “global war on terror” has become the central component of American foreign … Continued
With Naomi Oreskes, Professor of the History of Science at Harvard. In 2010, Oreskes co-authored Merchants of Doubt: : How a handful of scientists obscured the truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming and the science fiction work The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future. About the book: The troubling story of how a … Continued
