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KPFA - Letters and Politics

Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.

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The Impact of the Opium Trade on Global History

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2024/04/02

Guest: Amitav Ghosh is the author of several bestselling books including, Ibis Trilogy, composed of Sea of Poppies (shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize), River of Smoke, and Flood of Fire. His other novels include The Circle of Reason, which won the Prix Médicis étranger, and The Glass Palace. He is the author of many works of nonfiction, including The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable and The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis. Mr. Gosh has received two-lifetime

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The Story of T’tc-Tsa and California Slavery

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2024/04/01

Guest: Jean Pfaelzer is a public historian, commentator, and professor of American studies at the University of Delaware. Her books include Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans; Rebecca Harding Davis: Origins of Social Realism; The Utopian Novel in America; and her latest, California, a Slave State. The post The Story of T’tc-Tsa and California Slavery appeared first on KPFA.

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59:57

The Pornography Wars

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2024/03/28

Guest: Kelsy Burke is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the author of The Pornography Wars: The Past, Present, and Future of America’s Obscene Obsession. The post The Pornography Wars appeared first on KPFA.

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59:59

The Black Women in The Communist Party 1919-1956

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2024/03/27

Guest: Charisse Burden-Stelly is associate Professor of African American studies at Wayne state. and a member of the Black Alliance for Peace Research and Political Education Team. She is the c-editor, along with Jodi Dean, of the book ORGANIZE, FIGHT, WIN: Black Communist Women’s Political Writing. The post The Black Women in The Communist Party 1919-1956 appeared first on KPFA.

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59:58

The Houthis & Yemen: A History

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2024/03/26

Guest: Shireen Al-Adeimi is a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and assistant professor of language and literacy at Michigan State University’s College of Education. The post The Houthis & Yemen: A History appeared first on KPFA.

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59:58

The Murder of Regina Martinez Perez

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2024/03/25

Guest: Katherine Corcoran is a former Associated Press bureau chief for Mexico and Central America and is currently co-coordinator of MasterLAB, an investigative editor training program in Mexico City. She is the author of In The Mouth Of The Wolf: A Murder, A Cover-up, and The True Cost Of Silencing The Press. The post The Murder of Regina Martinez Perez appeared first on KPFA.

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The Pursuit of Happiness, The Founders, and America...

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2024/03/21

Guest: Jeffrey Rosen is President and CEO of the National Constitution Center, where he hosts We the People, a weekly podcast of constitutional debate. He is also a professor of law at the George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. His latest book is, The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America.The post The Pursuit of Happiness, The Founders, and America Today appeared first on KPFA.

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59:58

The Roots and Legacy of the Qur’an

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2024/03/20

Guest: Mohamad Jebara is a scriptural philologist and prominent exegetist. A semanticist and historian of Semitic cultures, he has served as Chief Imam as well as headmaster of several Qur’anic and Arabic language academies. He is the author of Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait, and his latest, The Life of the Qur’an: From Eternal Roots to Enduring Legacy. The post The Roots and Legacy of the Qur’an appeared first on KPFA.

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The Axis of Resistance: Palestine & West Asia Fight...

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2024/03/19

Guest: Ibrahim Aoude is a Professor Emeritus of Ethnic Studies at the University of Hawaii-Manoa. He is the editor of the journal Arab Studies Quarterly (which was founded by Edward Said in 1979). Professor Aoude is an expert on Hawai‘i Political Economy and Middle East politics. The post The Axis of Resistance: Palestine & West Asia Fight Against Imperialism appeared first on KPFA.

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The Balfour Declaration: How the British Empire Broke...

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2024/03/18

Guest: Peter Shambrook is an independent scholar and historical consultant to the Balfour Project, which works to advance equal rights for all in Palestine/Israel. He is the author of French Imperialism in Syria, 1927–1936, and his latest, Policy of Deceit: Britain and Palestine, 1914-1939. The post The Balfour Declaration: How the British Empire Broke Its promises to the People of Palestine appeared first on KPFA.

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59:58

How The Female Body Drives Evolution

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2024/03/14

Guest: Guest: Cat Bohannon is a researcher specialized in the evolution of narrative and cognition. She is the author of Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon.The post How The Female Body Drives Evolution appeared first on KPFA.

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Palestinian Resistance: Culture, Exile, and National...

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2024/03/13

Guest: Tahrir Hamdi is a Professor of Decolonial Studies at Arab Open University, Jordan. She is the author of the book Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity. She has published widely about resistance literature in several prestigious journals.The post Palestinian Resistance: Culture, Exile, and National Identity appeared first on KPFA.

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59:58

Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan.

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2024/03/12

Guest: Ruby Lal is a professor at Emory University, and the author of three books and numerous essays, op-eds, and literary pieces. She is the author of Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan, and her latest, Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan. The post Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan. appeared first on KPFA.

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59:58

Genocide, the Holocaust, and the Nakba

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2024/03/11

Guest: Omer Bartov is the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. Bartov is a historian of the Holocaust and is considered one of the world’s leading authorities on genocide. He is the author of numerous books, including Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine (2007), Israel-Palestine: Lands and Peoples (2011) Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (2018), and his latest, Genocide, the Holocaust and

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KPFA Special: Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh (Part IV)

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2024/03/07

Host Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts from Stephen Mitchell’s Gilgamesh: A New Version. Gilgamesh is considered the oldest epic in the world and a masterpiece of literature. Gilgamesh is the story of a historical king of Uruk in Babylonia and his journey of self-discovery. Along the way, Gilgamesh discovers that friendship can bring peace to a whole city and that wisdom can be found only when the quest for it is abandoned. Get the Ancient Tales Library $550. Includes: – Gilgamesh by Stephen

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KPFA Special: Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh (Part III)

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2024/03/06

Host Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts from Stephen Mitchell’s Gilgamesh: A New Version. Gilgamesh is considered the oldest epic in the world and a masterpiece of literature. Gilgamesh is the story of a historical king of Uruk in Babylonia and his journey of self-discovery. Along the way, Gilgamesh discovers that friendship can bring peace to a whole city and that wisdom can be found only when the quest for it is abandoned. Get the Ancient Tales Library $550. Includes: – Gilgamesh by Stephen

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KPFA Special: Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh (Part II)

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2024/03/05

Host Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts from Stephen Mitchell’s Gilgamesh: A New Version. Gilgamesh is considered the oldest epic in the world and a masterpiece of literature. Gilgamesh is the story of a historical king of Uruk in Babylonia, and his journey of self-discovery. Along the way, Gilgamesh discovers that friendship can bring peace to a whole city and that wisdom can be found only when the quest for it is abandoned. Get the Ancient Tales Library $550. Includes: – Gilgamesh by Stephen

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KPFA Special: Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh (Part I)

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2024/03/04

Host Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts from Stephen Mitchell’s Gilgamesh: A New Version. Gilgamesh is considered the oldest epic in the world and and a masterpieces of literature. It is the story of a historical king of Uruk in Babylonia, and his journey of self-discovery. Along the way, Gilgamesh discovers that friendship can bring peace to a whole city and that wisdom can be found only when the quest for it is abandoned. Get the Ancient Tales Library $550. Includes: – Gilgamesh by Stephen

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KPFA Special – Allen Ginsberg: The Great American...

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2024/02/29

Guest: Pat Thomas is a counterculture historian and archival music producer. He is the author of such books as Listen, Whitey!: The Sights & Sounds of Black Power 1965–1975, Did It! Jerry Rubin: An American Revolutionary; and his latest Material Wealth: Mining the Personal Archive of Allen Ginsberg.KPFA Special Combo $450. Includes: “Allen Ginsberg Material Wealth” (Book and CD) by Pat Thomas Plus “Voices that Change the World” by the Pacifica Radio Archives. + + The post KPFA

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