KPFA - Letters and Politics

Guest: Andrew Bacevich is a retired army colonel of the US Army, currently, he is a professor emeritus of history and international relations at Boston University and founder and president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a Washington think tank dedicated to foreign policy.  He is the author of The Limits of Power, Washington Rules, The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory, and his latest, After the Apocalypse: America’s Role in a World Transformed. The post Afghanistan and America’s Role in a World Transformed appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Emma Marris is an award-winning journalist. She is the author of several books including Rambunctious Garden, and her latest, Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World. The post The Fate of Wildlife in a Modern World appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Douglas W. Tallamy is a professor in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware. His book Bringing Nature Home was awarded the 2008 Silver Medal by the Garden Writers’ Association. He is also the author of two New York Times bestsellers: The Living Landscape and Nature’s Best Hope.  His latest book is The Nature of Oaks. The post Recreating Nature & Saving the Planet at Home 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, 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.

Part I. Analysis on the infrastructure bill  Guest: John Nichols is the Washington Correspondent for the Nation Magazine.  He is the author of several books including his latest, “The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party: The Enduring Legacy of Henry Wallace’s Anti-Fascist, Anti-Racist Politics”.  His latest pieces can be found in The Nation.com   Part II. The Nature of Fires  Guest: David Carle is President of the California State Park Rangers Association, a retired park ranger, and the author of thirteen nonfiction books, including introductions to California’s water; air; earth, soil, and land; and fire. The second edition of his book Introduction to Fire in California is out this month. The post The Infrastructure Bill & The Nature of Fires appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Sarah Schulman is a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at College of Staten Island, a Fellow at the New York Institute of Humanities. She is also the cofounder of the MIX New York LGBT Experimental Film and Video Festival, and the co-director of the groundbreaking ACT UP Oral History Project. Professor Schulman is the author of more than twenty books including her latest, Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993.  She is a longtime activist for queer rights and female empowerment, and serves on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace. The post ACT UP NY: A History 1987-1993 appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Geoff Manaugh is a regular contributor for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Wired, and other publications.  He is the coauthor, with Nicola Twilley, of Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine.    Featured photo by Nicola Twilley. In the photo, Geoff Manaugh and Dr. Luigi Bertinato wearing plague gear from different eras:  Manaugh in twenty-first-century personal protective equipment and Dr. Bertinato in the costume of a Black Death-era physician. The post The Strange and Interesting History of Quarantine appeared first on KPFA.

Part I – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Sexual Harassment Investigation Guest: Ross Barkan is a award-winning journalist, a columnist for the Guardian and Jacobin and a contributor for the Nation Magazine.  He is the author the book The Prince: Andrew Cuomo, Coronavirus, and the Fall of New York.   Part II – The Remarkable Fight for Freedom of Enslaved Women and in Revolutionary America. Guest: Karen Cook Bell is Associate Professor of History at Bowie State University. She is the author of Claiming Freedom: Race, Kinship, and Land in Nineteenth-Century Georgia, which won the Georgia Board of Regents Excellence in Research Award. Her latest book is Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America. Professor Cook Bell specializes in the studies of slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and women’s history. The post Cuomo’s Sexual Harassment Investigation & The Fight for Freedom of Enslaved Women in Revolutionary America appeared first on KPFA.

Part I – The Politics of the Eviction Moratorium and Infrastructure Bill Guest: David Dayen is the executive editor of The American Prospect. He is the author of the latest book Monopolized: Life in an Age of Corporate Power and Chain of Title, winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize for a first book in the public interest (both from The New Press).   Part II – The Ho Chi Minh Trail Guest: Sherry Buchanan is a publisher, editor, and author. Before she created Asia Ink, she worked for the Wall Street Journal and The International Herald Tribune in Brussels, Paris, London, and Hong Kong. She is the author of the book On The Ho Chi Minh Trail: The Blood Road, The Women Who Defended It, The Legacy. The post The Politics of the Eviction Moratorium and Infrastructure Bill & The Ho Chi Minh Trail appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Laura Dassow Walls is the author of the book Henry David Thoreau: A Life, a biography of the naturalist, inventor and activist. He left behind a monumental legacy in addition to his essay Civil Disobedience, a paean to human freedom. Two hundred years after his birth, Walls restores Henry David Thoreau to us in all his profound, inspiring complexity. SUPPORT KPFA! Donate TODAY The post The Inspiring Life of Henry David Thoreau appeared first on KPFA.