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Guest: Michio Kaku is a professor of physics at the City University of New York, cofounder of string field theory, and the author of several widely acclaimed science books, including Hyperspace, Beyond Einstein, Physics of the Impossible, Physics of the Future, and his latest, Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything.   The post Michio Kaku on The Future of Quantum Computers appeared first on KPFA.

Part 1. The Debt Ceiling Deal  Guest: 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.  His latest piece in The Nation is The Revolutionary Fight to “Begin the World Over Again” Did Not End in 1776. Part 2. The Rediscovery of America  Guest: Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone) is the Howard R. Lamar Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University, where he is the faculty coordinator for the Yale Group for the Study of Native America. He is the author of Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West and his latest, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History. The post The Debt Ceiling Deal & The Rediscovery of America appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post and a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and was a finalist three other times.  Among his bestselling books are biographies of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Roberto Clemente, and Vince Lombardi, Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World, They Marched into Sunlight (winner of the J. Anthony Lucas Prize and Pulitzer Finalist in History), and his latest, Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe. The post Jim Thorpe: From Boarding School to Champion appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Naomi Oreskes is Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. She is the co-author of The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us To Loathe Government and Love The Free Market. The post KPFA Special – How Big Business Linked Capitalism to Democracy appeared first on KPFA.

The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura (1863—1919)–scholar, well-known art critic, and curator of the Chinese and Japanese art collection at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts–devoted his life to the preservation and reawakening of traditional Japanese culture. Tea was first used as a medicine and an alchemical elixir by the ancient Chinese Taoists, who praised its spiritual powers. Buddhist monks made drinking tea part of a tradition honoring the founder of Zen; this ritual was later refined in the performance of the Japanese tea ceremony as a meditative practice. The Book of Tea describes the rich aesthetic of Asian culture through the history, philosophy, and practice of brewing and drinking tea. The post KPFA Special – The Book of Tea, Multiculturalism, and a Response to the Western Military Domination of Asia (Part III) appeared first on KPFA.

The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura (1863—1919)–scholar, well-known art critic, and curator of the Chinese and Japanese art collection at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts–devoted his life to the preservation and reawakening of traditional Japanese culture. Tea was first used as a medicine and an alchemical elixir by the ancient Chinese Taoists, who praised its spiritual powers. Buddhist monks made drinking tea part of a tradition honoring the founder of Zen; this ritual was later refined in the performance of the Japanese tea ceremony as a meditative practice. The Book of Tea describes the rich aesthetic of Asian culture through the history, philosophy, and practice of brewing and drinking tea. The post KPFA Special – The Book of Tea, Multiculturalism, and a Response to the Western Military Domination of Asia (Part II) appeared first on KPFA.

The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura (1863—1919)–scholar, well-known art critic, and curator of the Chinese and Japanese art collection at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts–devoted his life to the preservation and reawakening of traditional Japanese culture. Tea was first used as a medicine and an alchemical elixir by the ancient Chinese Taoists, who praised its spiritual powers. Buddhist monks made drinking tea part of a tradition honoring the founder of Zen; this ritual was later refined in the performance of the Japanese tea ceremony as a meditative practice. The Book of Tea describes the rich aesthetic of Asian culture through the history, philosophy, and practice of brewing and drinking tea.   The post KPFA Special – The Book of Tea, Multiculturalism, and a Response to the Western Military Domination of Asia (Part I) appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Violet Moller  is a historian and writer who specializes in intellectual history.  She is the author of the book The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found. The post KPFA Special – The Map of Knowledge appeared first on KPFA.

Host Mitch Jeserich tells the story of the oldest democracy we have account of, how it started and evolved 500 thousand years ago in ancient Athens. KPFA is offering a limited edition of The Trial of Socrates by I.F. Stone In unraveling the long-hidden issues of the most famous free speech case of all time, noted author I.F. Stone ranges far and wide over Roman as well as Greek history to present an engaging and rewarding introduction to classical antiquity and its relevance to society today. The post KPFA Special – A History of the Athenian Democracy (Part 3): Decline and Fall of the Empire appeared first on KPFA.

Host Mitch Jeserich tells the story of the oldest democracy we have account of, how it started and evolved 500 thousand years ago in ancient Athens. KPFA is offering The Trial of Socrates by I.F. Stone (limited edition) In unraveling the long-hidden issues of the most famous free speech case of all time, noted author I.F. Stone ranges far and wide over Roman as well as Greek history to present an engaging and rewarding introduction to classical antiquity and its relevance to society today. The post KPFA Special – A History of the Athenian Democracy (Part 2): Demagogues, Tyrants, and the People appeared first on KPFA.