KPFA - Letters and Politics

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.

Guest: Frank Smyth (@SmythFrank) is an independent, award-winning investigative journalist specializing in armed conflicts, organized crime and human rights overseas, and on the gun movement and its influence at home. He is a former arms trafficking investigator for Human Rights Watch breaking the role of France in arming Rwanda before its genocide and has testified to Congress and member states of several multilateral organizations.  He is founder and CEO of the leading U.S.-based hostile environments training firm GJS and the author of the book The NRA: The Unauthorized History. The post The History of the NRA 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.