KPFA - Letters and Politics

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.

Guest: Francesca Lessa is a lecturer in Latin American studies and development University of Oxford. She is the author of Memory and Transitional Justice in Argentina and Uruguay (2013) and The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America (2022). She is the honorary president of the Observatorio Luz Ibarburu (Uruguay).   Foto credit: Entrevista Kissinger-Pinochet. Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Chile, 1976 on Wikimedia. The post Operation Condor: A History of a Dirty War in Latin America appeared first on KPFA.

Part 1. Stephen Hawking and his Theory on the Origin of Time Guest: Thomas Hertog is an internationally renowned cosmologist who was for many years a close collaborator of the late Stephen Hawking. He is  professor of theoretical physics at the University of Leuven, where he studies the quantum nature of the big bang. He is the author of On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory.       Part 2. Raj Patel on The Ants & the Grasshopper Film Guest: Raj Patel Raj Patel is an award-winning author, filmmaker and academic. He is a research professor in the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin.  He is the author of Stuffed and Starved, co-author of Inflamed, and co-director of The Ants & The Grasshopper now streaming online. The post Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory. Then, Raj Patel on The Ants & the Grasshopper Film appeared first on KPFA.