Hope in the Dark, Untold Stories, Wild Possibilities When the first edition of Hope in the Dark was published in mid-2004 it gained an instant audience among serious students and progressives. This new, significantly expanded edition covers, among other things, the political territory of America and the world in recent history. Rebecca Solnit draws on her life as a writer and activist, on … Continued
The Dark Shadow of Tech on the S.F. Bay Area. Richard A. Walker is professor emeritus of geography at the University of California, Berkeley where he taught from 1975 to 2012. He has written on a diverse range of topics in economic, urban, and environmental geography, with scores of published articles to his credit. He is … Continued
The Life and Ideas of John Maynard Keynes Zachary D. Carter is a senior reporter at HuffPost, where he covers Congress, the White House, and economic policy. He is the author of the book The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes.
Vijay Prashad joins Law & Disorder with host Jesse Strauss, to talk about the colonial impact of the British monarchy since Elizabeth was appointed Queen in 1952. It’s a world tour of decolonization movements since that time, as well as analysis of the Queen’s death and speculation about what’s to come in the transition of … Continued
Peter Linebaugh, best known for tracing the history of the commons and of commoning practices, calls Thomas Paine “a planetary revolutionary.” He has found in Paine’s lesser-known works radical critiques of inequality and authoritarianism and even the system of money wages. Many lessons for our time, Linebaugh argues, can be drawn from Paine’s writings and … Continued
The History of Civilization, Science, and the Coronavirus. History can teach us about the causes of the COVID-19 pandemic and its possible consequences. Kyle Harper is a professor of classics and letters and senior vice president and provost at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End … Continued
Playwright Terry Baum, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded in December 2014, just prior to her solo show, HICK: A Love Story, The Romance of Lorena Hickok and Eleanor Roosevelt, co writtten by Pat Bond, played at the Berkeley City Club the following month
Historian Heather Cox Richardson discusses her book, “How the South Won the Civil War,” her Facebook column, “Letters from an American,” her origins as an historian, and current events. She is interviewed by Richard Wolinsky.
Octavia Butler died at the age of 58 in 2006. At the time of her death, she’d published 16 books, with another volume of uncollected stories published posthumously. Her reputation since her death has only grown, and after fourteen years, in 2020, her book “Parable of the Sower” made the New York Times bestseller list (trade paperback fiction) for the first time. This encore podcast was first posted on December 2, 2018.
Hershey Felder has made a career of portraying different composers in his one-man shows. His first show, “George Gershwin Alone,” will be presented live from Florence on September 13, 2020 at 5 pm through the auspices of Berkeley Rep and TheatreWorks. He discusses his career and this particular show with Richard Wolinsky in an interview recorded in April, 2013 during the Berkeley Rep run.
