KPFA - Letters and Politics

Guest: Yanis Varoufakis is the co-founder of DiEM25 (Democracy in Europe Movement), former finance minister of Greece and 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: A Brief History of Capitalism.  He is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Athens. On Twitter @yanisvaroufakis The post Yanis Varoufakis: Today’s Economic Crisis Is Rooted In History appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Elizabeth Hinton is associate professor of history and African American studies at Yale University and a professor of law at Yale Law School. The author of From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime, and her latest, America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s. The post An Era of Rebellion: Urban Uprisings 1964-1972 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 – July 4, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Vijay Prashad, director of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. www.thetricontinental.org He is the author of the book The Struggle Makes Us Human: Learning from Movements for Socialism. He is the editor of Selected Ho Chi Minh. Previously he authored the renown book The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World. The post Ho Chi Minh appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Vijay Prashad, is director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He is the author of the book The Struggle Makes Us Human: Learning from Movements for Socialism. He is the editor of Selected Ho Chi Minh. Previously he authored the renown book The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World.     The post Vijay Prashad: History Is A Series Of Experiments (Part 1) appeared first on KPFA.

  Guest: Geoffrey R. Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He is the author and co-author of many books on constitutional law, including Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America’s Origins to the Twenty-First Century.  His new book Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of our Democracy, coauthored with Lee C. Bollinger will be publisher in August this year. The post The Founders Kept Abortion Legal: A History of Abortion in America appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Lillian Faderman is the author of such acclaimed works as To Believe in Woman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers, Surpassing the Love of Men, The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle.  Her memoir Naked in the Promise Land has been re-published.  Among her many honors are Yale University’s James Brudner Award for exemplary scholarship in lesbian and gay studies, three Lambda Literary Awards, two American Library Association awards, the Monette-Horwitz Award, the American Association of University Women’s National Distinguished Scholar Award. She teaches literature and creative writing at California State University at Fresno. The post Homophobia and the Red Scare appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. The author of Pulitzer Prize–winning The Hemingses of Monticello and her latest, On Juneteenth. The post The Meaning of Juneteenth and the Black Experience in Texas appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Steven S. Smith is the Kate M. Gregg Distinguished Professor of Social Science and Director of the Weidenbaum Center at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author or coauthor of numerous  books and articles, including Party Influence in Congress, The Senate Syndrome: The Evolution of Procedural Warfare in the Modern U.S. Senate, and Politics Over Process: Partisan Conflict and Post-Passage Processes in the U.S. Congress. The post The Politics and Process of the January 6th Investigation appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Marc Stein is the Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Professor of History at San Francisco State University. He is the author of several books including, Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement (2012), Sexual Injustice: Supreme Court Decisions from Griswold to Roe (2010), and The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History (2019). The post A History of The Stonewall Riots appeared first on KPFA.