KPFA - Letters and Politics

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: Philip Short has written several definitive biographies including Mao: A Life and Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare. He latest biography is called Putin. The post Putin: A Biography 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. He is the author of eighteen books that range across the fields of ethics, social theory, theology, philosophy, politics, and history. His most recent book is Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel.   The post Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: David Bromwich is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University. His books include The Intellectual Career of Edmund Burke and American Breakdown: The Trump Years and How They Befell Us. Professor Bromwich wrote an introduction for two landmark essays by the legendary political theorist Hannah Arendt on the greatest threat to democracy. The post Hannah Arendt’s and Today’s Relevance of Lying in Politics appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Daniel Akst is the author of War by Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance. The post The Pacifists & The Good War appeared first on KPFA.

Part I. Mickey Huff is professor of social science and history at Diablo Valley College in the San Francisco Bay Area and the author of Let’s Agree to Disagree: A Critical Thinking Guide to Communication, Conflict Management, and Critical Media Literacy.  He is also the director of Project Censored and the co-editor of the Project’s yearbook, including most recently State of the Free Press 2023: The News That Didn’t Make the News.   Part II. Nicole Eustace is professor of history at New York University.  She is the author 1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism; Passion Is the Gale: Emotion, Power, and the Coming of the American Revolution; and her latest Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America. The post Censorship and Big Tech & Indigenous Justice in Early America 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.   The post J. Edgar Hoover: From Progressive Icon To Villain appeared first on KPFA.

A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich. The post Letters and Politics – January 5, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

Part 1: The History of the Speaker Guest: Steven S. Smith is the Kate M. Gregg Distinguished Professor of Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science at Washington University. He is the author of such books as Politics over Process: Partisan Conflict and Post-Passage Processes in the U.S. Congress and The Senate Syndrome: The Evolution of Procedural Warfare in the Modern U.S. Senate. Part 2:Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations Guest:Robin Waterfield is a British classical scholar, translator, and editor, specializing in Ancient Greek who has tranlator of the recently published Meditations: The Annotated Edition. The post The History of The Speaker and Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: John Nichols of The Nation The post Electing A Speaker appeared first on KPFA.