KPFA - Letters and Politics

Guest: Peter Cole is a professor of history at Western Illinois University in Macomb and a research associate in the Society, Work and Development Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.  He is the author of the award-winning Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area and Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia.  He coedited Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW. He is the founder and codirector of the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project.  His latest book is Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly. The post The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly: Ben Fletcher appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Joan Biskupic is a journalist, lawyer, and author.  She has covered the Supreme Court since 1989.  Currently she is CNN’s senior Supreme Court analyst and is the author of several books including biographies on John Roberts, Sandra Day O’Connor, Antonin Scalia, and Sonia Sotomayor.  Her latest is Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court’s Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences. The post Inside the Supreme Court’s Ruling to Overturn Roe v Wade appeared first on KPFA.

Guest:  Clara E. Mattei is assistant professor of economics at the New School for Social Research in New York City.  She is the author of The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism. The post The Invention of Austerity and the Road to Fascism appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Elizabeth Williamson is a feature writer for the New York Times and is the author of Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth. The post The Sandy Hook Massacre & Conspiracy Theories appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Timothy Egan is a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter and the author of many books, his latest is A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them. Photo(c): WikimediaCommons. Euskara: A Ku Klux Klan gathering in Muncie Indiana in 1922. The post The Rise & Fall of the KKK in the 1920’s appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Susan J. Wolfson is professor of English at Princeton University. She is an expert on the British Romantic era, her books include A Greeting of the Spirit (2022), Romantic Shades and Shadows (2018), and Reading John Keats (2015), as well as annotated editions of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (2012), Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey (2014), and her latest, On Mary Wollstonecraft‘s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. The post Mary Wollstonecraft, The French Revolution and the Tyranny of Men 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 How Adam Smith Became A Capitalist Icon appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Beverly Gage is professor of history at Yale. She is the author of The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror, and her latest, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century. G-Man is Winner of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography and the 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy and Finalist for the 2023 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography The post J. Edgar Hoover: From Progressive Icon To Villain appeared first on KPFA.

Guest 1: Alan Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Emeritus at Harvard Law School.  He is the author of several books including Get Trump: The Threat to Civil Liberties, Due Process, and Our Constitutional Rule of Law. Guest 2: John Nichols is the national affairs correspondent for The Nation Magazine. He is the author of the book Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers:  Accountability for those who Caused the Crisis. The post Is The Government Unconstitutionally Targeting Trump and His Supporters? appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Chad L. Williams is the Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Professor of History and African and African American Studies at Brandeis University.  He is the author of the award-winning book Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era and his latest, The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War. The post W.E.B. Du Bois’s Lost Book: The Great War and the Black Experience appeared first on KPFA.