Guest: Martha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University and Co-President of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. She is the author of Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America. The post Who is Inside and Who is Outside of the Circle of Citizenship in …

Guest: Daniel Okrent, author of The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Laws That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America. The post 19th-Century Eugenics Movement and its Relation to Immigration in America appeared first on KPFA.द्वारा KPFA

Guest: Jack Weatherford is an anthropologist and author of the best-selling book Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. He has spent over 25 years exploring Mongolia and its history, and his writing on the Mongol Empire has transformed our understanding of its long legacy. Jack Weatherford is the retired DeWitt Wallace Chair of Anthropolo…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASFH_O4sDo4 Guest: Gary Dorrien is Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Religion at Columbia University. He is the author of more than twenty books and three hundred articles that range across social ethics, philosophy, theology, political economics, social and po…

Guest: Peter Fritzsche, professor of history at the University of Illinois and author of the book Hitler’s First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich. The post How to Dismantle a Republic: The Fall of the Weimar Republic appeared first on KPFA.द्वारा KPFA

Guest: John Nichols is the national affairs correspondent for The Nation Magazine. He is the author of several books including his latest co-written with Senator Bernie Sanders “It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism.” His latest article in the Nation is John Thune Once Objected to Trump. Does He Have the Courage to Do So Now? The post John Nichols o…

Guest: Rafael A. Martínez is an assistant professor in the Southwest Borderlands Initiative at Arizona State University whose work focuses on immigrant rights, mixed-status families, and Latinx cultural and historical productions in the Southwest borderlands. He is the author of Illegalized: Undocumented Youth Movements in the United States and is …

Guest: Arun Gupta is an investigative reporter who has written for The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, The Intercept, The Nation, The Guardian, YES Magazine, and other publications. He is a graduate of the French Culinary Institute in New York and the author of the forthcoming “Apocalypse Chow: A Junk-Food-Loving Chef’s Inquiry into Taste” (The N…

Guest: Richard Wolff is a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a Visiting Professor at the New School in New York. He hosts the weekly program Economic Update and is the author of several books, including Understanding Capitalism. The post Richard Wolff on the Economy After the Election appeared first on …

Guest: Matthew D. Hockenos is the Harriet Johnson Toadvine ’56 Professor in 20th- Century History at Skidmore College. He is the author of A Church Divided: German Protestants Confront the Nazi Past, and his latest, Then They Came For Me: Martin Niemöller, the Pastor Who Defied the Nazis. The post Martin Niemöller: Then They Came For Me appeared fi…

Host Mitch Jeserich in conversation with listeners about elections 2024 and its implications. The post Mitch Jeserich’s Let’s Talk About the Election RESULTS! Part 2 appeared first on KPFA.द्वारा KPFA

From 11am-1pm PST, Mitch Jeserich hosts a 2-hour live national call-in show. All listeners are invited to share their experiences, thoughts, and feelings. Call-in numbers: (510)848-4425 or (800)958-9008 The post Mitch Jeserich’s Let’s Talk About the Election RESULTS! appeared first on KPFA.द्वारा KPFA

Host Mitch Jeserich in conversation with listeners about elections 2024. Photo by Element5 Digital on Unsplash The post Lets Talk About The Election Part 4 appeared first on KPFA.द्वारा KPFA

Host Mitch Jeserich in conversation with listeners about elections 2024. Photo by Phil Hearing on Unsplash. The post Lets Talk About The Election Part 3 appeared first on KPFA.द्वारा KPFA

Host Mitch Jeserich in conversation with listeners about elections 2024. Photo by rawpixel.com The post Lets Talk About The Election Part 2 appeared first on KPFA.द्वारा KPFA

Host Mitch Jeserich in conversation with listeners about elections 2024. Photo by visuals on Unsplash The post Lets Talk About The Election Part 1 appeared first on KPFA.द्वारा KPFA

Guest: Paola Caridi is a journalist, historian, and the author of Hamas: From Resistance To Government (2nd edition, translated to English). The post Hamas & Its Multiple Facets appeared first on KPFA.द्वारा KPFA

Guests: Charles Derber is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. He has written several books on politics, democracy, fascism, corporations, capitalism, climate change, war, the culture wars, and social change, most recently, he is the co-author with Yale Magrass of Who Owns Democracy? The Real Deep State and the Struggle Over Class and Caste in…

Guest: Gideon Levy is an Israeli journalist and author. He writes regularly for Haaretz with a focus on the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. Most recently, he is the author of The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe. He has won a number of humanitarian awards for his work on the Israel/Palestine conflict including the Olaf Palme…

Guest: Corey Brettschneider is a professor of constitutional law and politics at Brown University. He is the author of The Oath and the Office and his latest, The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It. The post When President John Adams Tried to Overthrow Democracy appeared first o…

Guest: Barry C. Lynn is the executive director of the Open Market Institute, the author of Liberty from All Masters, and a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine. His latest article THE ANTITRUST REVOLUTION: Liberal Democracy’s last stand against Big Tech can be found here. Featured image: Harper’s Magazine Cover Story, October, 2024 The post How…

Guest: Zinga A. Fraser is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at Brooklyn College and Director of the Shirley Chisholm Project on Brooklyn Women’s Activism. She is the author of Shirley Chisholm in Her Own Words: Speeches and Writings. The post Shirley Chisholm, A Revolutionary Thinker appeared first on KPFA.…

Guest: Nathan J. Robinson is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Current Affairs magazine. He is the author of Why You Should Be a Socialist, Responding to the Right, and his latest, The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World co-authored with Noam Chomsky, Professor Emeritus at MIT and Laureate Professor at the Uni…

Part 1. Fascism, History, and Education Guest: Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He is the author of many books, including How Fascism Works; How Propaganda Works; and his latest, Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future. Part 2. Silicon Valley’s Techno-Feudalism Guest: Cédric…

Guest: Eric Schickler is the Jeffrey & Ashley McDermott Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author or co-author of several books, including Racial Realignment, Investigating the President, and Filibuster. His latest is Partisan Nation: The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era…

Guest: Nemonte Nenquimo is a leader of the Waorani people, cofounder of the Ceibo Alliance, and an internationally acclaimed activist. Born in the Amazon region of Ecuador in 1985, she is a winner of the 2020 Goldman Environmental Prize and was named to TIME’s 100 Most Influential People of 2020 list (lauded by Leonardo DiCaprio). She is the author…

Guest: Benjamin Carter Hett is a Professor of History at Hunter College and the Graduate Center at City University of New York. He is the author of several books including, The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons The post The Weimar Republic appeared first on KPFA.…

Guest: Rebecca Nagle is an award-winning journalist and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She is the writer and host of the podcast This Land. She is a Peabody Award nominee and the recipient of the American Mosaic Journalism Prize, and the Women’s Media Center’s Exceptional Journalism Award. She is the author of the book By the Fire We Carry: The …

Guest: Norman Solomon is co-founder of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. He is the author of War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine. His latest article “Escalation dominance” and the new nuclear threat: We face more than 1,000 Holocausts can be found on Salon.com The p…

Guest: Dr. Hatem Baziam is a Professor of Islamic law and theology at Zaytuna College. He is also a Senior Lecturer at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of several books including Palestine: …it is Something Colonial and Erasing The Human: Collapse of The Postcolonial World and Refugee…

Guest: Randol Contreras is an Associate Professor of Sociology, Media, and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside. His research focuses on the intersection of history, social structure, and biography, which sheds light on how crime emerges and influences the behavior and meanings of people. He is the author of the award-winning…

Guest: Ruth Conniff is Editor-in-chief of the Wisconsin Examiner. She is the author of Milked: How an American Crisis Brought Together Midwestern Dairy Farmers and Mexican Workers which won the 2022 Studs and Ida Terkel award from The New Press. The post Vance-Waltz & the Elusive K.O. Punch appeared first on KPFA.…

Guest: Brenda Wineapple is an award-winning author of several books including ‘The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation and her latest, Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation. The post The Scopes Monkey Trial: A Battle About Science, Religion, Truth, and Freedom of Thought appeared f…

Guest: Helena Cobban is a writer and researcher on international affairs with a special interest in the Middle East. She is the author of several books including her latest “Understanding Hamas and Why That Matters” co-authored with Rami Khouri. Her writing can be found at Globalities.org. Book Events – Helena Cobban in the Bay Area: October 8, 6:3…

Guest: Brian Merchant is a journalist focusing on technology and the future of work. He is the author of The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone, and his latest, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech. He is also a founder of Terraform, Vice’s science fiction outlet. The post The Luddites & the Origins of the R…

Guest: Alexis Pauline Gumbs is the author of several works of poetry and of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Animals, which won a Whiting Writers’ Award in 2022. In 2023, she won a Windham Campbell Prize for her poetry. Her latest book is Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. The post The Life of Audre Lorde appeared …

Guest: Paco Ignacio Taibo II He is a tireless social activist, historian, and writer. He is the author of several books including the biography of Che Guevara, ’68: The Mexican Autumn of the Tlatelolco Massacre, and his latest, Pancho: Villa: A Revolutionary Life, translated by Todd Chretien . The post KPFA Special – The Life & Times of Pancho Vill…

Guest: Medea Benjamin is co-founder of CODEPINK and the fair trade group Global Exchange. She is the author of many books including Drone Warfare, Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S. — Saudi Connection, Inside Iran, and her latest co-authored with David Swanson, NATO: What You Need To Know. The post KPFA Special: Medea Benjamin on the U.S. Role …

Guest: Gregory P. Downs is a history professor at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of several books including his latest, in collaboration with Anthony E. Kaye (1962-2017), Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History. Anthony E. Kaye (1962–2017) taught history at Pennsylvania State University and was the vice president of sc…

Guest: Richard Wolff is professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a Visiting Professor at the New School in New York. He is the host of the weekly program, Economic Update and is the author of several books including Understanding Capitalism. The post KPFA Special – Richard Wolff on Harris, Trump, & the Econom…

Guest: Ilan Pappe is Professor of History at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies and Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter. He is the author of several books, including the bestselling The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine; A History of Modern Palestine; and his latest, Lobbying for Zionism on Both Side…

Guest: Arlie Russell Hochschild is a Professor Emerita of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of many books, including Strangers in Their Own Land, and her latest, Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right. The post KPFA Special – Arlie Hochschild on the Pride Paradox & the Rise of the New Right appeared f…

Guest: Paul Cooper is a podcaster, a historian, and the author of Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline. He writes, produces, and hosts the Fall of Civilizations podcast which explores the collapse of different societies through history. The post KPFA Special – In Conversation with Paul Cooper of Fall Of Civilizations appeared fir…

Guest: Richard Wolff is professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a Visiting Professor at the New School in New York. He is the host of the weekly program, Economic Update and is the author of several books including Understanding Capitalism. The post KPFA Special – Richard Wolff on Harris, Trump, & the Econom…

Guest: Kathleen DuVal is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she teaches early American and American Indian history. Her previous work includes Independence Lost, a finalist for the George Washington Prize, and The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent. She is a co-author of …

Guest: Haim Bresheeth-Zabner is a Professor of film studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. He is the author of An Army Like No Other: How the Israeli Defense Force Made a Nation. The post IDF: A History of Israel’s Army of Occupation appeared first on KPFA.द्वारा KPFA

Guest: Darwin BondGraham is the Oaklandside’s Senior News Editor. He is the co-author of The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-up in Oakland. He has been covering the recalls of Oakland Mayor Shen Thao and of Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price. Photo credit: Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao by Amir Aziz, Oaklandside. & D…

Guest: Derek Hyra is a Professor of Public Administration and Policy and founding director of the Metropolitan Policy Center at American University. He is the author of Slow and Sudden Violence: Why and When Uprisings Occur. The post Racialized Housing Policy, Police Violence & Social Unrest appeared first on KPFA.…

Daniel Schlozman is associate professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of When Movements Anchor Parties: Electoral Alignments in American History; and coauthor of The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics. Sam Rosenfeld is associate professor of political science at Colg…

Guest: Daniela Cammack is Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley. Her research and teaching focus on the history of democracy and constitutionalism. She is currently working on a book on ancient Greek democracy. The post How Class Struggle Birthed Democracy in the Ancient World appeared first on KPFA.द्वारा KPFA