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Guest: Aviva Chomsky is a professor of history and the coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State University. She is the author of several books including Undocumented; They Take Our Jobs!; and her latest, Is Science Enough?: Forty Critical Questions About Climate Justice.  Aviva Chomsky has been active in the Latin American solidarity and immigrants’ rights movements for over 30 years. The post The Political Economy of Climate Change appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Dr. Devon Price is a social psychologist and professor at Loyola University Chicago’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies. He has autism and he is the author of Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity. The post On Autism appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Gal Beckerman is the senior editor for books at The Atlantic. Formerly an editor at The New York Times Book Review.  He is the author of When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone, which won the National Jewish Book Award and the Sami Rohr Prize and was named a best book of the year by The New Yorker and The Washington Post.  His latest is The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas. On tweeter: @galbeckerman     The post The Ideas That Begin Underground appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Laura Shin is a writer, crypto journalist, and podcaster. A former senior editor at Forbes, host of the podcast Unchained and Unconfirmed and author of the book The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze.   The post The Cryptocurrency Craze with Laura Shin appeared first on KPFA.

Part I. Constance Baker Motley: Civil Rights Queen Guest: Tomiko Brown-Nagin is Dean of Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School, and Professor of History at Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences.  She is the author of Courage to Dissent  that won the Bancroft Prize in 2011, her latest book is Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality. Part II. Geniuses at War Guest: David A. Price is the author of the books, The Pixar Touch, Love and Hate in Jamestown, and his latest, Geniuses at War: Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age. The post Constance Baker Motley: Civil Rights Queen appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Rachel E. Gross is an award-winning science journalist and the author of the latest book Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage. She writes for BBC Future, the New York Times, and Scientific American. The post The Vagina: A History appeared first on KPFA.

Part 1.  What Is A War Crime? Guest: Rebecca Gordon, teaches at the University of San Francisco. She is the author of Mainstreaming Torture, American Nuremberg: The U.S. Officials Who Should Stand Trial for Post-9/11 War Crimes and is currently working on a new book about the history of torture in the United States called The House That Torture Built. She is a regular contributor to TomDispatch.com.   Part 2. How We Remember Wars Elizabeth D. Samet is the author of No Man’s Land: Preparing for War and Peace in Post-9/11 America; Soldier’s Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point; Willing Obedience: Citizens, Soldiers, and the Progress of Consent in America, 1776–1898; and her latest, Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness.  She is a professor of English at West Point. The post What Is A War Crime? & How We Remember Wars appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Andrew Fiala is professor of philosophy and director of the Center for Ethics at California State University, Fresno.  He is the author of a number of books, including a widely used ethics textbook,  Ethics: Theory and Contemporary Issues, 9th edition (co-authored with Barbara MacKinnon). His latest book is Tyranny from Plato to Trump: Fools, Sycophants, and Citizens.     The post The Meaning of Tyranny appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Michael Lewis is the best-selling author of Liar’s Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side, The Big Short, The Undoing Project, The Fifth Risk and his latest, The Premonition: A Pandemic Story.  He is the host of the podcast, Against the Rules.     The post Michael Lewis on Baseball, Financial Capitalism & The Failure of Government appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Moon-Ho Jung is Professor of History at the University of Washington and the author of Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation, and most recently, Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State.  The post Anarchists & Communists In Asia’s Anti-Colonialist Movements appeared first on KPFA.