KPFA - Letters and Politics

Guest: Richard Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a Visiting Professor at The New School University in New York.  Richard Wolff is the founder of Democracy at Work and host of the weekly national television and radio program Economic Update. Image (C): Speak Out.   The post KPFA Special – Richard Wolff on The Economy and the Current Political Landscape appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Jean Pfaelzer is a public historian, commentator, and professor of American studies at the University of Delaware. Her books include Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans; Rebecca Harding Davis: Origins of Social Realism; The Utopian Novel in America; and her latest, California, a Slave State. The post KPFA Special – The Story of T’tc-Tsa and California Slavery appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Frank Costigliola is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of The Kennan Diaries, Roosevelt’s Lost Alliances, and his latest, Kennan: A Life between Worlds. The post KPFA Special – George Kennan: The Architect of the Cold War Who Opposed the War appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Kelly Lytle Hernández is the Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History and the director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA.  She is a 2019 MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient and the author of the award-winning books Migra!, City of Inmates, and her latest, Bad Mexicans Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands winner of the 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History. The post KPFA Special – The Mexican Revolution and The Migrants Who Sparked it appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Bart D. Ehrman is a leading authority on the New Testament and the history of early Christianity.  He is a Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End.     The post KPFA Special – The Biblical Apocalypse & Its Real World Consequences appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Glory Liu is a lecturer in social studies at Harvard University. She is the author of Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism.   The post KPFA Special – How Adam Smith Became A Capitalist Icon appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Jeff Goodell is the author of several books focusing on energy and environmental issues. He is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow and a contributing editor at Rolling Stone.  His latest book is The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet.   The post How a Hotter Planet Affects Life appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: J. C. Hallman is the author of several books including his latest, Say Anarcha: A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women’s Health.   The post The Founder of Modern Gynecology & The Enslaved Woman He Experimented On appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Gary Dorrien is the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and professor of religion at Columbia University. His previous books include The New Abolition, Breaking White Supremacy, Social Democracy in the Making, and American Democratic Socialism. The post A History of Democratic Socialism in America appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Simon Johnson is the Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Sloan School at MIT, where he is also head of the Global Economics and Management group. Previously chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, he has worked on global economic crises and recoveries for thirty years.  He is the author of several books and publications including his latest, Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity co-authored with Daron Acemoglu. The post A History of How Technological Innovation Has Led to Inequality appeared first on KPFA.