KPFA - Letters and Politics

Guest: Chris Hedges was a war correspondent for two decades in Central America, the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans, fifteen of them with The New York Times, where he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.  He is the author of many books, including War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, What Every Person Should Know About War, and his latest, The Greatest Evil is War.  He writes a column every Monday for ScheerPost and has a show, The Chris Hedges Report, on The Real News. You can find him at chrishedges.substack.com. The post KPFA Special: Chris Hedges on The Greatest Evil is War appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: James M. Scott is the author of several books including Rampage, Target Tokyo, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and his latest is Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb.   The post The Firebombing of Tokyo and the Road to the Atomic Bomb appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Talya Husbands-Hankin is an activist working at Wood St. encampment and the founder of Love and Justice in the Streets. Special thanks to reporters Lucy Kang from Making Contact and Ellie Prickett-Morgan from KPFA News Department for providing their work. Photo credit: Eviction at the Wood Street encampment on Monday, September 12, 2022 by Talya Husbands-Hankin. The post The Eviction of an Encampment appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Catherine Ceniza Choy is professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Empire of Care and Global Families and the co-editor of the anthology Gendering the Trans-Pacific World. And her latest Asian American Histories of the United States. The post The Radical History of Asian Americans appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Kit Heyam is a university lecturer, a queer history activist, and a trans awareness trainer and author of Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender. The post Before We Were Trans: A 3,500 Year History appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Joseph Crespino, the Jimmy Carter professor of history at Emory University and author of Atticus Finch The Biography: Harper Lee, Her Father, and the Making of an American Icon. The post The 2 Sides of Atticus Finch appeared first on KPFA.

Combating Anti-Asian Hate Guest: Annie Lee, Director of Policy for Chinese for Affirmative Action and member of The Stop AAPI Hate Coalition.   A Conversation on Originalism Guest: Erwin Chemerinsky is dean of the University of California at Berkeley School of Law and author of the forthcoming book Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism. The post Combating Anti-Asian Hate & A Conversation on Originalism appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Dipo Faloyin (@DipoFaloyin) is a senior editor at VICE, where he focuses on race, culture, and identity around the world. He is the author of the book Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent. The post Dipo Faloyin on The Diversity of Africa appeared first on KPFA.

Guest:  M. Leona Godin is a writer, performer, and educator who is blind. She is the author of the book There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness.   Her writing has appeared in The New York Times; Playboy; O, The Oprah Magazine; and Catapult, where she writes the column “A Blind Writer’s Notebook.”  She was a 2019 Logan Nonfiction Fellow and has written and produced two theatrical productions: The Star of Happiness, based on Helen Keller’s time performing in vaudeville, and The Spectator and the Blind Man, about the invention of braille.  Aromatica Poetica is her online magazine dedicated to the Arts & Sciences of Smell & taste.   The post A History of Blindness: From Homer to Hellen Keller to Ray Charles appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Robert Ovetz discusses his new book, When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921, and covers insurrectionary labor history from the Great Upheaval to the Redneck War. [Rebroadcast] The post An Insurrectionist History of US Labor appeared first on KPFA.