KPFA - Letters and Politics

Guest: Nathan J. Robinson is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Current Affairs magazine. He is the author of Why You Should Be a Socialist, Responding to the Right, and his latest, The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World co-authored with Noam Chomsky, Professor Emeritus at MIT and Laureate Professor at the University of Arizona. The post Nathan Robinson on The Elections and U.S. Foreign Policy appeared first on KPFA.

Part 1. Fascism, History, and Education Guest: Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He is the author of many books, including How Fascism Works; How Propaganda Works; and his latest, Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future.   Part 2. Silicon Valley’s Techno-Feudalism  Guest: Cédric Durand is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Geneva and a member of the Centre d’économie Paris Nord. He is the author of Fictitious Capital: How Finance Appropriates Our Future, and his latest, How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-Feudalism: The Making of the Digital Economy.  He is a regular contributor to the online journal Contretemps and to Sidecar, the blog of the New Left Review. The post Fascism, History, and Education. Then, Silicon Valley’s Techno-Feudalism appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Eric Schickler is the Jeffrey & Ashley McDermott Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author or co-author of several books, including Racial Realignment, Investigating the President, and Filibuster. His latest is Partisan Nation: The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era coauthored with Paul Pierson. Guest: Paul Pierson is the John Gross Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and director of the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative. He is the author or co-author of many books, including Winner-Take-All Politics, Let Them Eat Tweets and Politics in Time.  His latest, Partisan Nation: The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era coauthored with Eric Schickler. The post Polarization in the US: Past and Present appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Nemonte Nenquimo is a leader of the Waorani people, cofounder of the Ceibo Alliance, and an internationally acclaimed activist. Born in the Amazon region of Ecuador in 1985, she is a winner of the 2020 Goldman Environmental Prize and was named to TIME’s 100 Most Influential People of 2020 list (lauded by Leonardo DiCaprio).  She is the author of the book We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People co-authored with Mitch Anderson. Guest: Mitch Anderson is the founder and executive director of Amazon Frontlines, which supports the struggles of Indigenous peoples to defend their rights to land, life, and cultural survival in the Amazon rainforest. The post Waorani Leader Nemonte Nenquimo’s Fight to Save the Amazon Rainforest appeared first on KPFA.

Guest:  Benjamin Carter Hett is a Professor of History at  Hunter College and the Graduate Center at City University of New York. He is the author of several books including, The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic.   Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons The post The Weimar Republic appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Rebecca Nagle is an award-winning journalist and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She is the writer and host of the podcast This Land. She is a Peabody Award nominee and the recipient of the American Mosaic Journalism Prize, and the Women’s Media Center’s Exceptional Journalism Award. She is the author of the book By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land.  Rebecca Nagle is also the host of the podcast This Land. The post How Native Nations Reclaimed Oklahoma appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Norman Solomon is co-founder of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy.  He is the author of War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine. His latest article “Escalation dominance” and the new nuclear threat: We face more than 1,000 Holocausts can be found on Salon.com   The post Norman Solomon on Gaza, the Middle East, the Media, and the Democratic Party appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Dr. Hatem Baziam is a Professor of Islamic law and theology at Zaytuna College. He is also a Senior Lecturer at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.  He is the author of several books including Palestine: …it is Something Colonial and Erasing The Human: Collapse of The Postcolonial World and Refugee Immigration Crisis.     The post A Settler Colonial Project & the Meaning of the October 7 Attack appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Randol Contreras is an Associate Professor of Sociology, Media, and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside. His research focuses on the intersection of history, social structure, and biography, which sheds light on how crime emerges and influences the behavior and meanings of people.  He is the author of the award-winning book The Stickup Kids: Race, Drugs, Violence, and the American Dream; and his most recent, The Marvelous Ones: Drugs, Gang Violence, and Resistance in East Los Angeles. The post A History of the Gang Wars in East Los Angeles appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Ruth Conniff is Editor-in-chief of the Wisconsin Examiner. She is the author of  Milked: How an American Crisis Brought Together Midwestern Dairy Farmers and Mexican Workers which won the 2022 Studs and Ida Terkel award from The New Press. The post Vance-Waltz & the Elusive K.O. Punch appeared first on KPFA.