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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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A History of Nat Turner’s Slave Revolt

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2025/05/29

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 scholarly programs at the National Humanities Center. An influential scholar of Atlantic slavery and American history, he served as an associate editor

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Lethal Injections & The Hidden Torture of Executions

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2025/05/28

Guest: Corinna Barrett Lain is the S. D. Roberts & Sandra Moore Professor of Law at the University of Richmond School of Law. She is the author of Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection.The post Lethal Injections & The Hidden Torture of Executions appeared first on KPFA.

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Land & Power

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2025/05/27

Guest: Michael Albertus is professor of political science at the University of Chicago. The author of four previous books, his writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, and elsewhere.He is the author of Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn’t, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies. The post Land & Power appeared first on KPFA.

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Letters and Politics – May 26, 2025

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2025/05/26

A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich. The post Letters and Politics – May 26, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

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The Iliad: War, Rage, and Sorrow

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2025/05/22

Host Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts of the Iliad by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson.Emily Wilson is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been named a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in Renaissance and early modern scholarship, a MacArthur Fellow, and a Guggenheim Fellow. In addition to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, she has also published translations of Sophocles, Euripides, and Seneca. Support KPFA!! Ancient Tales 3-Pack $250 The post The Iliad:

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Exploring the Transformative Way of Chuang Tzu

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2025/05/21

Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts from the classic writings The Way of Chuang Tzu translated by Thomas Merton.Thomas Merton composed a series of his own versions of the classic sayings of Chuang Tzu, the most spiritual of Chinese philosophers. Chuang Tzu, who wrote in the fourth and third centuries B.C., is the chief authentic historical spokesperson for Taoism and its founder Lao Tzu (a legendary character known largely through Chuang Tzu’s writings). Indeed it was because of Chuang Tzu and the other

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59:58

Understanding the Psychology of Nazis

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2025/05/20

Guest: Laurence Rees is an award-winning English historian and documentary filmmaker. He has authored several books including The Holocaust: A New History, Hitler and Stalin, Auschwitz: A New History, and his latest, The Nazi Mind: Twelve Warnings from History.The post Understanding the Psychology of Nazis appeared first on KPFA.

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Ariel Dorfman on the Role of Beauty During Times of...

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2025/05/19

Ariel Dorfman is a Chilean-American author, born in Argentina. He is a prominent human rights activist who worked as press and cultural advisor to Salvador Allende in the final months before the 1973 military coup, and later spent many years in exile. He is the Walter Hines Page Emeritus Professor of Literature at Duke University and the author of many books including his latest, Allegro: A Novel. The post Ariel Dorfman on the Role of Beauty During Times of Chaos appeared first on KPFA.

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Resisting Occupation Across the Continent

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2025/05/15

Guests:Tiny (Lisa) Gray-Garcia aka “PovertySkola” is a formerly unhoused, incarcerated, revolutionary journalist, lecturer, poet, visionary, teacher and single mama of Tiburcio, daughter of a houseless, disabled mama Dee, and the co-founder of POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE/PoorNewsNetwork. Victoria Montaño is a Po-scholar, interdisciplinary artist focussing on Indigenous Solidarity across seas and borders, Queer liberation, the Land Back Movement, and reawakening/reclamation of Ancestral Knowledge

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Fall Of Civilizations: A Conversation with Paul Cooper

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2025/05/14

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 Fall Of Civilizations: A Conversation with Paul Cooper appeared first on KPFA.

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What Monsters Tell Us About Us

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2025/05/13

Guest: Natalie Lawrence, author of Enchanted Creatures: Our Monsters and Their Meaning.The post What Monsters Tell Us About Us appeared first on KPFA.

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The Mexican Revolution and The Migrants Who Sparked it

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2025/05/12

Guest: Kelly Lytle Hernández is the Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History and the director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. She is a 2019 MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient and the author of the award-winning books Migra!, City of Inmates, and her latest, Bad Mexicans Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands winner of the 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History. The post The Mexican Revolution and The Migrants Who Sparked it appeared first on KPFA.

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The Life & Works of Frantz Fanon

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2025/05/08

Guest: Adam Shatz is the US editor of the London Review of Books and author of The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon. He is the host of the podcast Myself with Others.The post The Life & Works of Frantz Fanon appeared first on KPFA.

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The Corporate Origins of Colonialism: The East India...

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2025/05/07

Guest: William Dalrymple is the author of The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire.The post The Corporate Origins of Colonialism: The East India Company appeared first on KPFA.

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How Ancient India Changed The World: From Buddhism to...

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2025/05/06

Guest: William Dalrymple is a historian, curator, broadcaster and critic. He is the author of The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World.The post How Ancient India Changed The World: From Buddhism to Math appeared first on KPFA.

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When Science & Magic Intermingled

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2025/05/05

Violet Moller is a critically acclaimed and award-winning historian and author of Inside the Stargazer’s Palace: The Transformation of Science in 16th-Century Europe. The post When Science & Magic Intermingled appeared first on KPFA.

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The Life & Times of Lucy Parsons

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2025/05/01

Guest: Jacqueline Jones is the Ellen C. Temple Chair in Women’s History and the Mastin Gentry White Professorship in Southern History at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the winner of the Bancroft Prize for Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow. Her latest book is Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical.The post The Life & Times of Lucy Parsons appeared first on KPFA.

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When Workers Shot Back

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2025/04/30

Guest: Robert Ovetz is a lecturer in Political Science and Public Administration at San José State University. He writes about the politics of the labor movement, work, and the crisis of capitalism at the turn of the 20th century. He is the author of the book When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921. The post When Workers Shot Back appeared first on KPFA.

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Hitler’s First 100 Days

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2025/04/29

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 Hitler’s First 100 Days appeared first on KPFA.

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America: What’s In A Name?

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2025/04/28

Guest: Greg Grandin is a Professor of History at Yale University and Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, author of many books including The End of the Myth; The Empire of Necessity; Fordlandia; and his latest, América, América: A New History of the New World. The post America: What’s In A Name? appeared first on KPFA.

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