KPFA - Letters and Politics

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 The New Abolition, Breaking White Supremacy, Social Democracy in the Making, and his latest, American Democratic Socialism: History, Politics, Religion, and Theory.   The post A History of Democratic Socialism In America with Gary Dorrien 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 On The Coming Apocalypse with Ariel Dorfman 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 George Orwell & His Roses appeared first on KPFA.

Part I – The Legacy of Colin Powell Guest: Lawrence J. Korb is a senior fellow at American Progress. He is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University.  Dr. Korb served as assistant secretary of defense from 1981 through 1985.   Part II –  A Field Guide to White Supremacy Guest: Kathleen Belew is Assistant Professor of US History at the University of Chicago University and leading expert on the white power movement, vigilante violence, and political extremism.  She is the author of Bring the War Home. Her latest book, A Field Guide to White Supremacy is co-edited with professor Ramón A. Gutiérrez. The post The Legacy of Colin Powell & A Field Guide to White Supremacy appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Zachary D. Carter is a writer in residence at Omidyar Network. He is the author of The Price Of Peace: Money, Democracy, And The Life Of John Maynard Keynes.  His latest Opinion piece can be found here. Photo credit: Wikimedia commons. The post Zachary D Carter on Keynes’ Open Letter to FDR and the Struggle to Pass The Build Back Better Plan appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Kyle Harper is professor of classics and letters at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire (Princeton); From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity, and his latest, Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History (Princeton).  The post How Disease Shaped the Modern World appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: John Nichols is the Washington correspondent for the Nation magazine. His latest piece in the Nation is Trump’s Coup Attempt Is Far From Finished can be found here.   Photo credit: Tear Gas outside United States Capitol, January 6, 2021 by Tyler Merbler. Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic The post Former Top DOJ Officials Threatened to Resign En Masse During Last Weeks of Trump Presidency appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: William Bauer, 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. Previously he also wrote such books as California Through Native Eyes: Reclaiming History (University of Washington Press, 2016) and “We Were All Like Migrant Workers Here”: Work, Community and Memory on California’s Round Valley Reservation, 1850-1941. The post Slavery in California By Any Other Name: A History of the Indigenous People of California appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Armand D’Angour is a British classical scholar and classical musician, Associate Professor of Classics at Oxford University, and is a Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Jesus College, Oxford. He authored several books, including The Greeks and the New: Novelty in Ancient Greek Imagination and Experience as well as his latest book Socrates in Love: The Making of a Philosopher. The post KPFA Special – A Biographical Life of Socrates appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Violet Moller  is a historian and writer who specializes in intellectual history.  She is the author of the book The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found. The post KPFA Special – The Map of Knowledge appeared first on KPFA.