Guest: Bertrand M. Patenaude is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is also a lecturer in history and international relations at Stanford University author of the book Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary.
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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
In memorian of Neil Faulkner who died on February 4th 2022 at the age of 64. This was an interview with Neil Faulkner recorded for radio in 2017 about his book A People’s History of the Russian Revolution. Thank you for Supporting KPFA!!
Guest: Dr. Keisha N. Blain is an award-winning historian of the 20th century United States with broad interests in African American History, the modern African Diaspora, and Women’s and Gender Studies. She is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh and the president of the African American Intellectual History Society. She is the author of … Continued
Guest: Carola Dietze is Professor for Modern History (Chair) at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. She is the author of the book, The Invention of Terrorism in Europe, Russia, and the United States.
Part I. The U.S. Media Coverage of the Ukraine-Russia Crisis Guest: Norman Solomon is the national director of RootsAction.org and founding director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. His books include “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death” and “Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America’s Warfare State” (just … Continued
Guest: Joshua Myers is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies in the Department of Afro-American Studies at Howard University. He is the author of We Are Worth Fighting For: A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989 (2019) and his latest, Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition (2021), as well … Continued
Guest: Peter Richardson is a writer who has written critically acclaimed books about the Grateful Dead, the iconic rock band; Ramparts magazine, the legendary San Francisco muckraker; and Carey McWilliams, the radical author, journalist, and editor of The Nation magazine. His latest book is Savage Journey: Hunter S. Thompson and the Weird Road to Gonzo.
Guest: Gerald Horne is Moores Professor of History & African American Studies at the University of Houston. He is the author of more than three dozen books including White Supremacy Confronted: US Imperialism & Anticommunism vs the Liberation of Southern Africa from Rhodes to Mandela, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, and White Supremacy … Continued
Part I. Guest: Chris Hedges is the former Middle East bureau chief of the New York Times, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and a columnist at ScheerPost. He is the author of several books, including America: The Farewell Tour, American Fascists and War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. His latest piece Heeding the lessons … Continued
Guest: Edward H. Miller is associate teaching professor at Northeastern University. He is the author of Nut Country: Right-Wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy (2015), and his latest, A Conspiratorial Life: Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the Revolution of American Conservatism (2022).