KPFA - Letters and Politics

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.

Guest: Rebecca Wragg Sykes is an archaeologist, author and Honorary Fellow in the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool.  Her new book, KINDRED: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art  won the 2021 PEN Hessell-Tiltman prize for history; awarded Book of the Year by Current Archaeology; selected as one of 2021’s 100 Notable Books by The New York Times.  She is co-founder of the influential TrowelBlazers project, highlighting women in archaeology and the earth sciences. The post The Neanderthal: Love, Art & Culture (Re-broadcast) appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Margaret Burnham set out in 2007 to travel the country to investigate approximately a thousand unsolved racially motivated murders between 1930 and 1954. She has written a book about it called By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners. She and her assistants have also created an on-line archive dedicated to identifying, classifying, and providing factual information and documentation about anti-Black killings in the mid-century South at www.crrjarchive.org The post Uncovering A Thousand Racially Motivated Murders 1930-1954 appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Ed Yong is a Pulitzer Prize journalist with the Atlantic and author of An Immense World: How Animals Senses Reveal The Hidden Realms Around Us. The post The Diversity of Perception in the Animal Kingdom and How Humans Force Creatures Into an Alien World appeared first on KPFA.