Guest: Lawrence Goldstone author of “Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court, 1865-1903”
Film critic and historian David Thomson discusses his latest book, “A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors” with host Richard Wolinsky. The discussion also includes looks at several directors, and an examination of how our film watching experience has changed in the past year.
Guest: Adam Winkler, is a historian and law professor, specializing in American Constitutional Law. He us the author of We The Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
Guest: Gordon H. Chang is the Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities and Professor of History at Stanford University, where he also serves as Director of the Center for East Asian Studies and co director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project. He is the author of Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story … Continued
Guest: Jack Kelly is a journalist, novelist, and historian, whose books include Band of Giants, which received the DAR’s History Award Medal, Heaven’s Ditch and his latest that we are in conversation about, The Edge of Anarchy: The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America
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 … Continued
Cherilyn Parsons, founder and Executive Director of the Bay Area Book Festival, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. The seventh annual festival takes place digitally from May 1 through May 9, 2021.
Actor Annette O’Toole discusses her work on stage and in film and television with host Richard Wolinsky, recorded in May, 2019.
In March, the Washington Post reported that at least 250 new voter restriction bills were proposed in 43 states across the country. Now in April, the ACLU reports the number of bills has increased. Today over 350 voter restriction bills are in consideration. This wave of legislative action by the GOP follows in the wake … Continued
Part I of this newly digitized event recorded by KPFA on February 13th, 2000, in support of Leonard Peltier including: Winona LaDuke, Mumia Abu Jamal, Lawrence Ferlinghetti reading a selection from Ramsey Clark‘s preface to Leonard’s book, Prison Writings, Peter Coyote also reading from Prison Writings, Joy Harjo, Bobbie Castilo, Bear Lincoln, Agnus Patak, Brian Tripp, Gerald … Continued