Guest: Greg Grandin is professor of history at Yale University. He won the Pulitzer Prize in Non-Fiction in 2020 for his book The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America. He has also republished his book from 2006 Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and … Continued
Guest: Eduardo Lopez, co-director of the documentary film Harvest of Empire.
Guest: Aviva Chomsky is a professor of history and the coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State University. She is the author of several books, including Undocumented, They Take Our Jobs!, and most recently, Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
In this episode, we bring you Part 2 of our series on how the pandemic is impacting the struggle for a socially just and liberating education. In today’s program we’ll hear from visionary activists in the U.S., Nicaragua, and Cuba who challenge us to free our minds and expand our imaginations for what the future … Continued
Guest: Dana Frank is Professor of History Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America. Her latest is The Long Honduran Night.
Guest: Grace Livingstone, author of America’s Backyard: The United States and Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to the War on Terror
Playwright Lauren Gunderson, author of “The Catastrophist,” now streaming at the Marin Theatre website, and co-author of “The Flats” at Aurora Theatre’s website, and America’s most produced living playwright, is interviewed about her work and career by host Richard Wolinsky.
Don DeLillo, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded on tour for the novel “Cosmopolis” on April 2, 2003. One of America’s most revered novelists, Don DeLillo is the author of “White Noise”, which won the National Book Award for fiction in 1985, was a Pulitzer finalist for “Mao II” and “Underworld,” and won the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in 2013.
Guest: Doug J. Swanson is a veteran reporter and editor, he spent much of his carrier at the Dallas Morning News. Currently he is a research assistant professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Cult Of Glory: The Bold And Brutal History Of The Texas Rangers.
Guest: Dr. Jeremy Brown is an emergency physician and the author of Influenza: The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History. He is the director of the Office of Emergency Care Research at the National Institutes of Health. He has a recent piece in the Atlantic called The Coronavirus Is No 1918 Pandemic.
