KPFA - Letters and Politics

Guest: Catherine Nixey is a journalist and a classicist. She is the author of The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World.  She is the winner of a Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award. The post KPFA Special – The Birth of Christianity and the Destruction of the Classical World appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Douglas W. Tallamy is  is the TA Baker Professor of Agriculture and Natural Resources in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware. He is the author of several books including Bringing Nature Home which was awarded the 2008 Silver Medal by the Garden Writers’ Association; the New York Times bestseller, Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard and his latest, The Nature of Oaks.   The post KPFA Special – Nature’s Best Hope appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: David Graeber, renown anthropologist, one of the original Occupy Wall St activists and author of the books Debt: The First 5,000 Years. Feature photo: Wikimedia commons.   The post KPFA Special – 5,000 Year History of Debt appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Jack Weatherford is the author of the book The History of Money.  He is also the New York Times bestselling author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World, The Secret History of the Mongol Queens, and The History of Money, among other acclaimed books,. The post KPFA Special – The History of Money appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Reza Zarghamee is and environmental lawyer and history author. He is the author of acclaimed book Discovering Cyrus: The Persian Conqueror Astride the Ancient World (Iran’s Age of Empire).   Feature image: Cyrus the Great, the founder and first king of the Persian Empire on Wikimedia commons The post KPFA Special – Cyrus the Great and the Persian Empire appeared first on KPFA.

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 the English language. The post KPFA Special – The Odyssey, Why it Matters Today appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Kent H. Dixon is a translator, a writer, and Emeritus Professor of English at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. Translated into English and presented as a graphic novel, this version of The EPIC OF GILGAMESH is a father/son project by scholar and translator Kent H. Dixon and his son, the comix artist Kevin H. Dixon, who bring a fresh take on this great work. The post KPFA Special – The Epic of Gilgamesh appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: James C. Scott is Sterling Professor of Political Science and co-director of the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University.  He is the author of the book Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States.   Photo credit: Bluemoose – CC BY-SA 3.0, on Wikimedia commons The post KPFA Special -A Deep History of the Earliest States appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Dave Zirin is the sports editor at the Nation and author of the book THE KAEPERNICK EFFECT: Taking a Knee, Changing the World. The post KPFA Special- Dave Zirin: The Kaepernick Effect appeared first on KPFA.

  Occupy Wall Street’s 10th Anniversary Guest: Arun Gupta is a founding editor of the Indypendent magazine and was a founding editor of the Occupy Wall Street Journal. He wrote the piece Occupy Wall Street Trained a Generation in Class War.  He is also a graduate of the French Culinary Institute in New York and author of the upcoming “Bacon as a Weapon of Mass Destruction: A Junk Food-Loving Chef’s Inquiry Into Taste” by The New Press.   Photo credit Occupy.com The post How Occupy Wall St. Shaped a Generation appeared first on KPFA.