KPFA - Letters and Politics

Guest: Emily Wilson is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania.  She is the first woman who translated the ancient Greek epic story, the Odyssey by Homer, into English language. The post KPFA Special: The Odyssey, Why It Still Matters Today appeared first on KPFA.

Guest:  Reza Aslan, Iranian-American writer, scholar of religions, and a tenured Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside.  He is the author of Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth.  The book relates the life of Jesus Christ, who according to Aslan, he was not only a spiritual leader but also a revolutionary at the time of Roman occupation of Palestine.  Reza Aslan’s latest book is God: A Human History.   The post KPFA Special: The Politics of Jesus During the Roman Occupation of Palestine appeared first on KPFA.

Guest:  Richard Wolff is professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University in New York City. His latest book is The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself. The post KPFA Special: Demystifying Inflation with Richard Wolff appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: William Bauer is professor of history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he is the Director of American Indian & Indigenous Studies. He is also a citizen of the Round Valley Reservation in northern California. He is the co-author of the book We Are the Land: A History of Native California. The post KPFA Special: Slavery in California By Any Other Name: A History of the Indigenous People of California appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Caleb McDaniel is professor of history at Rice University in Houston and the author of Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America. The post KPFA Special: The Legacy of Henrietta Wood and her Case for Reparations appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Ariel Dorfman is a renown Argentinian-Chilean-American writer and a human rights activist. Once a former adviser to Chilean President Salvador Allende in the early 70’s, Ariel Dorfman would go on write countless books, plays and essays. He is the author several books including, How to Read Donald Duck, Homeland Security Ate My Speech (OR Books), and his latest, The Compensation Bureau (also by OR Books) is a sci-fi novel that tackles the complexities of a forthcoming apocalypse. Ariel Dorfman is also a Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Literature at Duke University. The post KPFA Special: Ariel Dorfman on The Coming Apocalypse appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books, including Recollections of My Nonexistence, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, The Faraway Nearby, A Paradise Built in Hell, River of Shadows, and Wanderlust. She is also the author of Men Explain Things to Me and many essays on feminism, activism and social change, hope, and the climate crisis. Her latest, Orwell’s Roses. The post KPFA Special: The Other Side of George Orwell with Rebecca Solnit appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Patrick Blanchfield is a writer and journalist who writes about gun violence, trauma, and masculinity. He is also an associate faculty member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. His new book, Gunpower: The Structure of American Violence, will be released in the new year.   Photo by Colin Lloyd on Unsplash The post The Structure of Violence in America appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Joshua Prager is a journalist and the author of The Echoing Green, 100 Years (with Milton Glaser), and his latest, The Family Roe: An American Story.    The post The Women Behind Roe: Norma McCorvey and Her Daughter appeared first on KPFA.

Guests: Linda C. McClain is Robert Kent Professor of Law at Boston University at Boston University School of Law. Maya Manian is Visiting Professor at American University Washington College of Law.   The post Roe v. Wade and the Mississippi Abortion Case appeared first on KPFA.