KPFA - Letters and Politics

Guest: Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has written or edited thirty-three books, including Misquoting Jesus, How Jesus Became God, The Triumph of Christianity, and Heaven and Hell.   The post KPFA Special – Bart Ehrman on Early Christian Texts & The Making of Hell appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: William Dalrymple is the author of The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire. The post KPFA Special – The Corporate Origins of Colonialism: The East India Company appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Noam Chomsky is a world-renowned linguist and political activist and institute professor (emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and laureate professor of linguistics and chair in the program in environment and social justice at the University of Arizona. He, along with Vijay Prashad, is the author The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of US Power. The post KPFA Special – A Brief History of U.S. Imperialism with Noam Chomsky 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 a number of books including The New Abolition, Breaking White Supremacy,  Economy, Difference, Empire, Social Democracy in the Making: Political and Religious Roots of European Socialism; and his latest, American Democratic Socialism: History, Politics, Religion, and Theory. The post KPFA Special – A History of Democratic Socialism in Europe and the US appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Reza Aslan is an internationally acclaimed writer, producer, and scholar of religions. He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Zealot, and editor of Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East.  His latest book is An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville. The post KPFA Special: Reza Aslan on Howard Baskerville & The Persian Revolution of 1906 appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Laura Dassow Walls, author of the book Henry David Thoreau: A Life, a biography of the naturalist, inventor and activist. He left behind a monumental legacy in addition to his essay Civil Disobedience, a paean to human freedom. Two hundred years after his birth, Walls restores Henry David Thoreau to us in all his profound, inspiring complexity. The post KPFA Special: The Inspiring Life of Henry David Thoreau appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Robert Ovetz is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science at San José State University, US. He is the author of When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921, and the editor of Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggle. His latest book is We the Elites:  Why the US Constitution Serves the Few. The post KPFA Special: We The Elites: The Making of the US Constitution appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Adam Hochschild is the author of eleven books, including the contemporary classics King Leopold’s Ghost and To End All Wars (both finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award), Spain in Our Hearts (a New York Times bestseller), and Bury the Chains (a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and PEN USA Literary Award). His latest is AMERICAN MIDNIGHT: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis.   The post KPFA Special: Adam Hochschild: WWI, The Red Scare and The Threat to Democracy appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Yanis Varoufakis is the former finance minister of Greece, the co-founder of DiEM25 (Democracy in Europe Movement), and the author of several books including The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the World Economy, Adults In the Room: My Battle with Europe’s Deep Establishment, Talking To My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism, and his latest, Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present.   The post KPFA Special: Yanis Varoufakis on Inflation and the Economic Imbalances of the World appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Damien Lewis is an award-winning writer who spent twenty years reporting from war, disaster, and conflict zones for the BBC and other global news organizations. He is the bestselling author of more than twenty books, many of which are being adapted into films or television series; his latest is  Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy. The post KPFA Special: Josephine Baker: Anti-Fascist Spy appeared first on KPFA.